Ep 524: 80 and Fitter than Ever – Meet Ron Beckenfeld

Ron Beckenfeld is an inspiring 80-year-old fitness enthusiast who defies aging with a lifestyle centered on fitness, nutrition, and supplements. From a high school teen weighing just 103 pounds, dubbed “Bony Beck,” to building a muscular physique over 200 pounds, Ron’s journey is a testament to determination and consistency. Now boasting 12–15% body fat, Ron stays fit and energized while allowing himself flexibility in his health regimen. He’s also the founder of Superior Source MicroLingual®, known for clean, simple, sublingual supplements.

Key Topics Covered in This Episode:

1. From “Bony Beck” to Bodybuilding Inspiration

• Ron’s transformation began when a stranger mocked his aspirations, telling him he’d never achieve the bodybuilders he admired. This became a lifelong motivator.
• His current routine includes 500 ab reps per workout session, showcasing incredible discipline.

2. A Super Fit 80-Year-Old’s Diet & Supplement Regimen

• Ron shares the importance of maintaining muscle mass through a high-protein diet and targeted supplementation.
• Supplements include 10,000 mcg B12 sublingual tablets (a potent alternative to B12 shots), Keto Collagen, Vitamin D and other carefully chosen clean nutrients from his Superior Source brand.

3. The Power of Consistency & Early Mornings

• Decades of waking up at 4 AM have ingrained a structure in Ron’s life, enabling his success in both fitness and business.
• Consistent habits, like label-reading and intentional eating, help him counteract the signs of aging.

4. Lessons from Legends: Jack LaLanne’s Influence

• Jack LaLanne, fitness pioneer and inventor of the leg extension machine, is one of Ron’s heroes, underscoring the value of innovative exercise methods.

5. Testosterone & Aging

• Ron shares why he advocates for microdosing testosterone for men as a tool to maintain vitality and physical health.

Resources From the Show:

• Superior Source Vitamins: Learn more about Ron’s sublingual supplements at superiorsourcevitamins.com.

Tune in to hear Ron’s incredible journey and pick up actionable tips to fuel your own vitality and longevity!

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Podcast Transcript

2:44 – Ron’s story

4:41 – Minimal Amount of lactose in the product

6:44 – Ron’s favorite supplements

8:15 – Ron’s daily routine

14:41 – Processed foods and chemical food

15:02 – Causes of chronic disease

16:14 – Testosterone for males

17:48 – “Lifting weights does not make you healthy”

19:14 – Should you look at the scale or in the mirror?

20:31 – Over training

22:19 – Should you eat carbs?

25:38 – Cell phones in the gym

30:28 – Ron’s stretching routine

32:10 – Body signaling to take a break

34:27 – Training at home

38:17 – Where to find Ron online

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[preview] You know, I get up at four and I don’t have to get up before.

I just do it.

How long you’ve been doing that for?

How old are you?

I’m 40.

Longer than that.

If you neglect yourself, I think the break is about 40.

You should start jumping on yourself and reverse some of the longevity habits

that are killing you.

It’ll cut your life down.

I it’s all one.

And it’s all one in loss at the break at the dinner table, really.

The eating is everything.

Exercise is secondary.

Rest is very important.

[Intro] Welcome to The Health Fix Podcast

where health junkies get their weekly fix of tips, tools,

and techniques to have limitless energy,

sharp minds, and fit, physiques, or life.

JANNINE: Hey Health Junkies, on this episode of the Health Fix Podcast,

I’m talking with Ron Beckenfeld.

He is the owner of Superior Source Microlingual Supplements.

He’s been doing it for over 25 years.

And he also started a multivitamin company

called Continental Vitamin out of the back

of his yellow opal back in 1969.

So this guy’s been in the game for a while.

He’s over 80 years old.

And you know, he’s just got a wealth of information

when it comes to talking about fitness,

putting on some muscle, staying lean.

My goodness, the guy’s wearing a tank top

and flexing in our visit.

He’s just a character.

And really, you know, I love it because I hope that I can keep my muscles nice and strong

and be running a business at his age.

Now he talks about how he’s 12 to 15 percent body fat.

Now he doesn’t want to get too much thinner.

We talk about how we went from bony back in high school, 103 pounds to over 200 pounds.

Just from a guy telling him to put down a magazine that he’ll never be able to look

like that guy in the front of the magazine.

Goodness.

Well, I’m glad that he was driven to figure out what it takes to

stay fit well into your 80s.

And so in this podcast, we’re going to talk all about what it takes.

We’re going to talk about the best supplements.

We’re going to talk about what he’s taking himself to keep the muscle on, stay mobile,

and just feel great.

So this is a fun podcast.

Ron is he’s adorable.

That’s all I can say.

So nevertheless, let’s introduce you to Ron Beckenfeld.

RON: I’m having such a good time with you.

I can’t concentrate.

JANNINE: Well, first generation Hungarian, of course, I’m always going to be like, hmm.

So there was probably a little bit of already built in body building tendencies in your genetics.

RON: No, not that.

But maybe business.

My dad came here with nothing.

as a busboy became very successful.

And I started continental vitamin in 1969

out of the trunk of my car.

When you’d go to little health food stores,

we’re very small.

They’re just starting to sprout up here and there.

And I had a yellow opal.

I used to carry this little station wagon

and I used to carry my merchandise.

And I go talk to him here and he sell them this on that.

I used to go to a lab and they made it up for me.

JANNINE: Wow, wow.

Huh.

RON: And then after all about 20 some years, my dad, he worked so hard for so many years.

He had a heart condition, Parkinson’s.

He was taking these little nitroglycerin tablets.

He said, “Can you make something like that?”

Because he had a hard time swallowing tablets.

And I looked around and I knew the machines.

I was a little familiar with it.

So I found these machines that need to be rebuilt.

And that’s how I started with a superior source micro-lingual.

It’s been about 20 some years now with that, about 25 years.

JANNINE: Wow.

Hey, I mean, you definitely been around.

I’ve seen them.

I’ve been a naturopath for 17.

And it is one of those things we go to

when folks are having trouble swallowing

or just don’t wanna swallow another pill.

RON: Now we’re so clean, always active ingredients.

I’ll just show you.

And a little acacia gum, a little lactose,

sometimes some stevia or cherry.

I mean, you can probably put 10 or 15 of these on a dime.

And you know, they’re basically, we don’t, you put it in your mouth, under your tongue,

and it’ll get to work fast, aren’t you?

It’s very effective.

JANNINE: So a lot of people ask about the lactose in it, of course, since so many people are lactose intollerant,

it seems like a very small amount.

Are you using technology as kind of like in the dairy industry to to malsify and bring back?

RON: There’s more lactose in your shirt than that.

Some of the tablets only weigh 70, 80 milligrams, period.

And then you got the active ingredients.

You’d have to take a thousand of these things

to give you any trouble at all.

And you’re not swallowing them.

It should go into your tongue and your sublingual gland.

JANNINE: Gotcha, gotcha.

Yeah, it’s definitely something to think about.

I think a lot of people worry about it

and don’t realize that yeah, it’s supposed to dissolve

under the tongue, they’re not supposed to chew it and swallow it.

RON: You can if you want to, but like back to the lactose, it’s just not enough

to even matter at all.

JANNINE: Yeah.

Yeah.

Just out of curiosity, is it like the, are you using the lactose kind of like

in the idea of the dairy industry where we’ve got like the powders?

RON: Oh, yeah.

It’s lactose powder.

JANNINE: Okay.

RON: Use the application

you come to hold together, you do some stevia or Stevia and some natural

flavor, and that’s it.

You know, the key, the key to supplements is look at the other

ingredients. 

JANNINE: Yeah. 

RON: You’ll maybe take a sea of tablet, maybe 500 milligrams and they only got 200

milligrams of active. They got 300 milligrams of generally flowing the agents and all that type

of stuff. Some are chemical based and we just don’t use any of that at all.

JANNINE: Gotcha. Gotcha. Well, it makes sense. It makes sense not to have all that extra junk in the system.

And your B12 is like, you know, I see your marketing about the not having a shot because

because so many people get sick of injecting and things of that nature.

And you’ve got quite a bit of B12 in that little, little… 

RON: Oh we can, we get up to a 10,000

mics with a methyl folate, methyl B12 and everything.

We can pack a lot in there.

JANNINE: Now, I have a question for you.

And all of these different supplements that you have, which ones are your go tos right

now?

you’ve seen a trajectory of change from over the years

as to which is most–

RON: I do have to methyl B12 and B6.

I do take a vitamin D 5,000.

We have another product.

I don’t know if I got the box here.

It has zinc in some other great ingredients.

And I can’t remember them off here.

And I got so many products.

We make that.

I take a K27.

MK27, I take that.

What I really take a lot of is really good for me.

Is this keto collagen with coffees,

10 grams of protein, of collagen, and 80 calories.

I eat five times a day and I’m lucky to get 1,800 calories

and I pack it away pretty good.

This is the real go-to for me,

right before I work out with a cup of coffee, bam.

And another thing I think everybody should take

you get older, I think you’ll agree. This is collagen. A good collagen. We put by 10,

5,000 mics and 50 of hydrolonic acid in here. Very good product. I’m just showing you what

I take. I take this every day too. This beetroot and apple cider there. I take this every day.

JANNINE: Good deal. Good deal. Is that kind of, you know, all right, let me go back for a second.

What I was told once when I started getting into the gym when I was about 15 was look

for the oldest guy in the gym that’s the most ripped and he’s been there the longest. The old

OG guys are the ones who know what’s up and start asking them what supplements they take.

That’s what I was told back in the day. 

RON: That’s a pretty good deal. But again,

they’re just supplements. Nothing beats eating good food period.

And I take two drinks a day, whether it’s, and I don’t make it’s a way one time a repeat or I’ll

do this, I do this instead, the collagen again, I mean the keto again. Along with like this morning

I had about six egg whites I think and I had a little potato which is no calories, about some

fruit maybe I had 300 calories. Probably after we’re done that was about six this morning, I’ll have

have a protein drink away powder.

Now, this is brand new for us is creatine and HMB.

JANNINE: Mm-hmm.

RON: You know what the HMB is for?

For sarah copena.

JANNINE: Yes.

RON: I think as you get older, especially when you get older, you really want to hang on to

that bone mass and that muscle.

After I work out, every workout, I take this.

JANNINE: Yeah.

Yeah, there’s a lot of great research coming out with the creatine and women used to think

it was just for guys.

Now we’re seeing all– 

RON: No. Women need it too absolutely you kidding me.

JANNINE: Yeah.

RON: Now, what out of question they need to that need to keep hold their muscle

and get rid of the chicken fat.

The fat.

It’s key and it’s not, you know, people make a big deal about diets don’t work.

It’s very simple.

I didn’t get to finish.

So I had my breakfast and then we’ll have a protein drink, maybe a couple hours later.

I might even have another one that I’ll have lunch is chicken breast,

hummus, baba canuschete, those type of menarining type foods. Might have a little salad, might even

have a little rice, cottage cheese, tomato, avocado, I get really no calories, a cup of 300 calories.

So we’re basically up to about 700 calories, and I only got dinner left, and I will eat pasta.

Don’t eat much bread, a good quality pasta, I’ll eat fresh fish, always a nice fresh salad.

got to watch the calories in those dresses up creep up eat your life you can get 500 calories

there yeah yeah a nice fresh salad i drink a lot of water uh herb teas i drink lemonade fresh lemon

egg which is very good and uh now and then i will have a diet a diet icin this and that i will have

that ate a lot of fresh soups vegetable soups with chicken a little rice in there but these are very

low calorie, you can live with it. You can live with that kind of eating. When you’re eating

a good food, if you eat often, it’ll keep you full and you won’t eat, you won’t shut down.

And then after dinner, when everybody gets hungry usually, that’s where the problems start.

Is your body craving sugar or is it craving fat? So if you get a good quality nuts without the salt,

without the oil, you maybe use Trader Joe’s, they’ve got a great variety there of nuts.

I mean, I’ll have a handful, fills me up.

I don’t eat.

I don’t, any of the sport drinks,

loaded with caffeine and artificial sweeteners

and even sugar.

I stay away from that.

If you want caffeine, you can go buy some caffeine tablets,

a couple hundred for a couple for five bucks.

You owe you one.

JANNINE: No, so I’m guessing you don’t drink coffee.

RON: I will drink coffee before I work out only no other time.

That’s it, I use it with the keto too.

Okay, so that’s your pre-workout, that–

RON: Yeah, that, yeah.

You gotta keep hydrate is very, very important

to keep hydrate, I drink a lot of water,

not necessarily those drinks, you know,

you see the energy drinks, you know,

they put a little tyrene in some stuff in there,

but it’s not worth the money.

I’m not poopooing it or whatever, but they’re not worth the money.

I mean, people with it’s five bucks for a shot

or six bucks, whatever it is.

I mean, you can buy the caffeine tablets,

cost you pennies.

JANNINE: Yeah.

RON: You’ll get that energy person. Caffeine’s great for that.

I have heard a lot of folks using that for their pre-workout. And so the capsules, I

mean, tend to be more suitable for a lot of folks than the gut effect too of a coffee.

RON: Well, yeah, but when you go to those energy, those things are expensive. I mean, you don’t

care. And you get a couple hundred milligrams of caffeine, maybe 300 cup cup of coffee is

about 65 to 100. I just don’t think you need it especially for women. Women that really

are the nurturers, the givers, the mothers, and they do all the dirty work, you know,

take the kids here and there. You’ve got to leave some time for yourself. You’ve just got to give

you some time. 20 minutes would be minimal. Some kind of exercise. I don’t care what you want to do.

preferably a resistant training would be the best. But if you can get a little longer,

you know, if you have to get up at six normally get up at five 30s, you can have some time to do

something, you know, I get up at four and I don’t have to get up before. I just do it.

JANNINE: How long you’ve been doing that for? 

RON: How old are you? 

JANNINE: I’m 46.

RON: Longer than that. I got underwear old that old 46.

JANNINE: Oh my, oh my.

RON: Too much information?

JANNINE: I think it’s entertaining.

I mean, I was joking yesterday with my husband

that I had close since high school in my closet still,

but 46 year old underwear, no, no, I have outgrown mine.

[LAUGHTER]

RON: And you know, like I say, the women I went in–

what I want to do is put out a message.

And you don’t have to kill yourself to be healthy in a million

shape.

You just got to make a little lifestyle changes.

you can have your drink at night, your glass of wine or chakat, a little tequila or whatever.

But it doesn’t have to be, you know, when you burn down and only on a 800 calorie diet,

yeah, you’re going to lose some weight.

But soonerly, you just can’t keep it.

So if you can find something you can live with, probably manageable for even the women

would be closer to 13, 14, 1500 calories.

And you’ll lose weight on that steady.

a little bit of exercise, you might burn a few hundred calories, but a good lifestyle change.

Very important. Not hard. 

JANNINE: Yeah. 

RON: It’s not hard. You just got to you got to learn how to

know nothing is very important when a package is you must must absolutely must learn how to

relabel serving size. Two servings, one serving, three servings, how many grams sugar?

Got to go. 

JANNINE: Yes. Yes. 

RON: And the processed food, and then now you’re talking about the chemicals.

There’s gonna be a lot of stuff coming out on some of these chemicals for some of these diseases

like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and yada yada yada yada that type of stuff. You know, when you’re

eating a diet of 90% not good, it’s not good. It’s true. But I’m saying people, they don’t even know

They’ll have a salad with addressing as 500 calories and sugar in it.

And they eat one of those and they’ll eat some candy.

You know, they don’t eat much, but with the eat is real, not good.

And that will start giving you chronic diseases.

And it’s very, very common.

Chronic diseases are mostly, I would say,

I would say mostly diet related, some genetic.

But I related to, let’s say, you get a brand new car.

You put, you don’t change your, well, you don’t do nothing.

Do it sooner or later, after 40 or 50,000 miles, this car is going to give you trouble.

Same thing with your body.

If you neglect yourself, I think the break is about 40.

You should start jumping on yourself and reverse some of the longevity habits that are killing

you.

It’ll cut your life down.

It’s all one in loss at the dinner table, really.

Eating is everything.

Exercise is secondary.

Rest is very important.

JANNINE: And then you had one more, the hormone.

RON: The testosterone for males.

JANNINE: Yeah, tell us a little bit about what you’ve been up to.

RON: I’ve been taking it’s a 53, so I’m 80, so 27 years,

but I don’t take much, just a replacement around TRP, TRT.

And I’m very careful with it.

I mean, it’s very inexpensive.

If you go to a doctor and get a prescription,

maybe 35 to 50 bucks the last six months.

And with a testosterone sipping aid,

and just don’t overdo it.

100 milligrams will keep you feeling good,

you know, prove everything, your sex life, everything.

I’m not bragging at my 80,

I still have sex on the average of four days a week.

JANNINE: Wow, wow.

RON: Yeah, and that’s, I’ve been doing that for years.

JANNINE: You have a lucky wife.

RON: Yeah, it works both ways.

I got a wonderful wife, you can make she, she’s great.

does everything. 

JANNINE: Oh my goodness.

RON: I have a very good life and I just want to give the message up in my real hero. If you

want to know a hero in the bodybuilding world who’s Jack willing. 

JANNINE: Okay.

RON: For his era in the 30s had probably the best body in the world. The guy invented the leg

extension, invented the selector system on the weights. And he was just a message giver.

He didn’t become a real rich man, but he really did a lot of nice things and he really wanted

to have every to be healthy. He was on the air for about 20 years, I think, but he’s

world records and all kinds of pushups, chin ups. I mean, ungodly strength train thinks

he’s dead and always putting out the word and he was a decent guy.

JANNINE: Huge. 

RON: Long, long timer, he lived till about 96.

JANNINE: Wow. See, that’s the thing I look at, right? RON: Because your lift weights don’t make you

healthy. Not necessarily. There’s a lot of things that are very good. I think cardio

not overdone. I don’t think running is the best thing in the world for your joints. I

don’t think golfing that one-sided torquing is the best deal going. I don’t think playing tennis is

slamming all the time is the best thing. Moderation, you can be fine, but you can’t play it six days

a week month after month. Taking yourself because these guys that are because you’re a big guy

strong guy doesn’t make you healthy. 

JANNINE: It’s true. It’s true. I’ve seen definitely a lot of different

folks who they look from the outside appearance to be healthy, but we tuck the labs look under the

hood and not so good. RON: Well, much as I take care of myself, I have some block arteries genetically.

I can’t the predicate is just too stiff for me of a diet. I mean, probably probably the best way

you can eat in general to keep your health. I would say a vegan type diet, fresh and some good

quality protein. I think you got to be all the bases covering you can, you know, if you got 90%

of it or right, 90% of the time, you’re okay, you can have your once a week you want some

whatever. So okay, it’s okay. Once you’re in shape, it’s okay. You got to get to that point.

JANNINE: Right, right.

RON: [inaudible] turn shape.

And I went too crazy with the scale,

just look in the mirror.

Everybody has, you know,

I’m a light bone structured guy on 170 pounds.

If I had heavy bones, I’d be 200 pounds.

I’m not a big man.

RON: Interesting.

RON: So you’ve done some of the DEXA scans.

So look at the body composition.

RON: What’s that?

JANNINE: Have you done the DEXA scans

to look at your body composition?

So like your bone weight.

RON: My body–

My body fat?

JANNINE: Yeah.

RON: At one time I was just ripped beyond belief, you know,

but now I want to keep a little more chicken fat,

I call it, I’m not as cut as I used to,

but I’m still decently cut.

Oh, that’s probably about 10, 12, 13% something like that.

JANNINE: Nice, nice.

RON: I’ve had it down to five and six, I know that.

JANNINE: That’s–

RON: I’m all drawn out, it’s not healthy when you’re older, right?

You know, if you get sick, you know,

I can’t afford to lose any weight.

I don’t want to, you know, get any leaner.

JANNINE: Yeah.

RON: And you don’t want your skin to go.

JANNINE: Yeah.

RON: As you get older, hangin’ on to your skin,

and the testosterone will help,

the collagen will help, that type of stuff will help.

I can look at somebody and tell you,

if they got bone mass problems, just one glance,

I can tell if they got to sort back the way they walk.

(laughs)

You know, I’ve just been around it so much.

JANNINE: Yeah, yeah, no, it makes sense.

RON: And the way to train, you know,

over trainings that we’re seeing in the world,

have anything running, whatever,

it just will break you down and give you inflammation

and you’ll pay the price.

JANNINE: I’m guessing you probably learned from experience.

RON: I learn over training is the worst thing you can do

for your general health at Hobra.

Put the strain on your body with the inflammation,

your sore, you can’t sleep at night

or you’re coming in the workout, still a little sore.

Everybody is different.

I think you can get a great body on three days a week.

I’ve seen it, I mean, a championship body

on three days a week.

But yes, unbelievable genetics to go with it.

see guys walking the gym, they’re track stars, lean as you can be, six foot, 185 pounds,

190, they gain 50 pounds of solid muscle in the monster. I’ve seen it in two, three years,

without any additives. 

JANNINE: Wow. Wow. RON: When I started the nutrition label wasn’t even there. They

didn’t even have the way they have it broke down the sugars and fats and all that. They

didn’t even have that. And the choices, you know what I mean, outer was horrible. They

can make, you know, now all the powders are good. The pea

proteins are great. You can make cardboard tastes good.

That’s a bugaboo, I think is those chemical burgers. I don’t

think those are good. 

JANNINE: Oh, yeah. 

RON: No, I think you’re better off

even though you don’t maybe in love with meat. But if you

push the shove, you’re better off with a nice piece of grass

fed beef. I eat buffalo on a regular basis. It’s leaner than

chicken. 

JANNINE: Yeah. 

RON: All kinds of fish. I eat tuna, sardines, you

name it. 

JANNINE: Wow. 

RON: Fish. 

JANNINE: I, you know, I have yet to try to get the

sardines in I’ll admit I– 

RON:  it’s not for everybody. You know, I put a

little onions or a put some lemon on it. And you know, the

tuna’s good. I mean, but always fresh white meat chicken, some

rice, you know, you got to have some carbohydrates, people say no

carb, the BS. No, you must have carbs. You got to have carbs. You got to burn something.

And you don’t want to, you don’t want to burn your fat and carbs. And then all of a sudden,

you’re burning protein and all your clean muscle goes away. That’s the problem with people only

diet. You got to get it. The protein is the foundation. Some people disagree with me,

but that’s the way I feel. 

JANNINE: Well, it’s been said over and over and over again, protein, protein,

protein. And now we’re kind of like, it’s trendy. But like I said, from my experience,

you go to the guy in the gym who’s been there the longest who has the fittest body and you

ask him what he does and the gal too, you know, and everybody says protein, every,

RON: I would agree. And if you’re first starting off and you’re really, some people are very

intimidated with a gym, especially the females, you get some, you know, bigger people in there

and the clunking of the weights and just a trainer would be your best bet.

Just to get you going and maybe it has some nutritional background and it’s basically fresh

food you eat all you want. That’s what it really boils down to. Pretty much.

JANNINE: Yes. It’s so interesting to me how that is the way it is and we have a bajillion diets that

people just can’t seem to follow or things happen or whatnot when really back to basics is the secret.

RON: You got to eat to lose weight, period. And you know this, if you don’t eat much,

your body will go into starvation mode and it’s going to spin your wheels.

Just fresh food, you know, once you start eating regularly, I know that a basket of strawberries

is maybe 100 calories or less. I know a baked potato is 75 to 100 calories. Put a little sour

cream out a couple more calories here and there. You know, pretty close without measuring and weighing

and you just learn the value of food, but you got to be careful with the dressings and the

the crutaments where they’re just not good quality and a lot of dead calories, hidden calories.

JANNINE: Yeah. 

RON: Like drink juices because the calories is too dense and sugar. I eat the whole fruit.

JANNINE: Makes sense. 

RON: Yeah, these little tips in this and that and again, you can eat as much,

really eat as much as you want pretty much. 

JANNINE: It’s wild. It’s

wild to think for a lot of people. Now, have you have you

coached before? Did you ever coach anyone? Did you ever do

any training anything like that with any other? 

RON: Probably

about 18 years old, I did a little, there’s only with a

beautiful woman I’d want to train the guys.

It is, you know, there’s so much knowledge out now. And the

The mode you’re probably most people have is over training.

It’s very addicting.

And if you miss a workout, you think like, you know, you’ve really missed something.

It’ll bother you.

You got to learn how not to leave the gym spent.

Sometime I’m spent and I’m exhausted.

You don’t want that.

That’s good.

No.

I can do a good 40 minutes of it except for legs.

Any in an upper body can wear solid man.

I mean, really get a real hard workout, just about 40 minutes about 20 some sets in 40

And I’m pushing weights around 12 reps or so.

And I’m pushing hard.

And another thing is the worst thing in the world,

that gym, those cell phones, horrible.

They’ll kill you or get on.

You don’t know it all of a sudden, you know,

they’re 10 minutes and you should have done,

you know, a few sets here and there.

I’m a little extreme because I’m in love with this sport.

I’ve been in love.

I’ll give you a quick something.

I was maybe, I was a grammar school for still.

So these two have these new stands on the corner,

you go and look at the magazine, this is 1950s.

So I’m looking at this magazine,

this big, grizzly looking guy,

put down that damn magazine,

you’ll never look like as long as you live.

To this day, you’re talking 70 years later, I remember.

JANNINE: Wow, wow.

RON: Yeah, very hurtful, very hurtful.

These two call me in school, Boney Beck.

I was 103 pounds up to the 11th grade.

JANNINE: Really?

RON: Oh three, not three, oh, oh three.

And I gained, I went to 205 in about three years or four years.

JANNINE: Holy cow.

That’s a lot on a body.

RON: Yeah, and I grew about an inch to go with it too.

JANNINE: Okay, okay.

Wow, wow.

RON: Yeah.

JANNINE: So in all of that training, I gotta know,

What’s your favorite workout?

Is it upper body?

Is it legs?

Like what’s your favorite lift?

RON: But I look at it a little different.

Most people hate to work legs because it’s hard.

That’s my favorite because it’s hard.

JANNINE: Nice.

RON: And we’re training properly with a good trainer

would really be very helpful to maybe to avoid some injuries.

But if you have a really good eating

and you get plenty of rest and do all the right things,

you can teach a monkey to workout.

You’ll get results.

maybe keep away from the injuries.

JANNINE: I was going to ask about injuries.

Any major injuries over the years?

RON: Yes.

JANNINE: Arms? Shoulders?

RON: Yes. My shoulder is probably,

probably need a shoulder replacement.

That’s what we talked about early about that.

157.

JANNINE: Yes.

RON: Yeah. Exactly.

I see more, you know,

that’s the major thing.

Just doing injuries will get,

not lifting heavy weights as constant training

and not giving an arrest and inflammation.

It goes with it.

Overtraining will give you more than more than anything else.

Just overtraining.

JANNINE: Gotcha.

RON: You know, you got to head, you got to headache.

You take two aspirins.

You need 10 to get rid of it.

Same thing with working out.

You got to learn how to draw the line.

JANNINE: Yeah.

Yeah.

And no one like D load weeks happen.

Are you do you do those kinds of things where you’ll take a week off here there or?

RON: On injuries. 

JANNINE:  or just in general.

Do you have to–

RON: My body tells me when I want to need to take a rest and I’ll take three or four days or

a week off. Yes, I will. It’s good for you. It’s not I’ll do a

little cardio, but I’ll stay away from the inflammation type

things. 

JANNINE: Gotcha. 

RON: And I do a lot of stretching. I do get

massages. I can if you know, I get regular massages, a

fascia release, so on and so forth. And just try to take

care of myself overall, you know, every workout I do 500 reps

of abs a minimum. 

JANNINE: Wow. 

RON: Yeah.

JANNINE: How, how, what’s your AB routine with the 500?

Is it?

RON: No I’ll do any machines or any leg raises or any crunch?

It doesn’t matter.

I do it now, but I’m not stopping some constant.

I’ll do sets of 100 to 200 at a time.

JANNINE: Holy cow.

RON: Yeah.

When you’re pushing your own weight, it’s not very hard.

It’s like walking.

You know, it’s just not hard.

Hey, you know, pushing your own way to run.

It’s not very difficult.

JANNINE: It makes sense.

So my 88 year old, your old father tells me that pushups

are his secret to pushing his weight around.

And he likes to see who can beat him on pushups.

I’m curious, do you do pushups?

RON: I can and I have and I agree with your father.

I don’t see a problem in long,

that’s a push and now you get to the pulling in.

So what do you do for the pulling some chins?

JANNINE: Yeah, yeah he has–

RON: And the bands are wonderful.

Those type of things are really good for resistant traits

especially the females,

They can kind of work with it a little better.

Pilates, you can use a little strength involved there for sure.

Anything is, but for overall, to really hang on

that muscle is some type of resistant training.

You can be healthy without it.

You might not look, it’s great,

but you’ll be healthy without it.

JANNINE: That’s good to hear.

I know a lot of people just, for some reason,

just do not want to do anything resistance wise.

RON: You know, then you’ll get in life

when you put into it, you need that,

you need that to hang out of your muscle and your bone on it.

but you could still be extremely healthy without it.

JANNINE: Makes sense.

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JANNINE: I have a question about,

you said you’re doing massage, some, some fascial release.

Do you do mobility work?

And sound like you did some stretching.

What is your routine for that?

I’m super curious.

RON: What are the major things,

two things major things I do for over to myself.

I hang from a bar at least a minute at a time to hand.

And I got one of those inversion tables.

You know, those are a few minutes there.

maybe two, three, four, five,

then I don’t know what it is, I mean,

it just goes by how I feel.

That is two very good things,

along with keeping you open everywhere else you can.

The hamstrings, obviously, the hips, obviously,

those type of things.

JANNINE: Makes sense.

RON: You know, any kind of yoga is wonderful,

and I just watch these gals on these guys.

I’m pretty good at that stuff, I actually, surprisingly.

I’m fairly flexible.

That’s one thing that I did want to see about,

because it seems that some of the lifters,

some of the guys get really jacked

and they can’t move very well.

The flexibility takes a little–

RON: And I’ve seen you the most flexible guys

I’ve ever seen in my life with splits with thighs

like quadzilla.

I’ve seen that too.

I’ve seen some monsters, you know,

five, 10, 300 pounds of mega monsters

that could unbelievably flexible.

JANNINE: Huh. And they’re seeing– 

RON:  Everybody’s different than you see somebody that, you know,

don’t got much muscle on them. And they’re not very flexible at all.

I think that you can improve on that very rapidly, get that flexibility in there.

You just got to kind of peck away at it.

JANNINE: Makes sense. We’re here in there, you know, 15, 20 minutes is a day over. You’re right where you

want to be. 

JANNINE: Makes sense. Makes sense. So when you get achy or tired, where does it hurt?

Do you feel it in your muscles? Do you feel it in your bones? Do you feel it everywhere?

And that’s your clue to take a break or?

RON: I just sometime I’m a little tired or I just know I’m worn a little worn down from maybe

six, eight weeks of constant training. And you just got to listen to your body and don’t be stupid.

JANNINE: And what’s your–

RON: It’s very difficult because it’s addicting.

actually going into the gym. Let’s say you’re going at noon time. You say the same person. It’s

a beautiful feeling. I just love the gym and I love the people. We’re all there for the same

purpose. Very curiously, very respectful and there’s some wonderful relationships in there you

can have. Not take it past the gym. There’s nothing wrong and see a nice smiling face and

telling you look good and give you a high-five. It goes a long way for male and female.

JANNINE: Oh, absolutely. I mean, my closest friends have always been made at the different gyms that I

worked in or worked out in for that matter.

RON: I love to see the women in the gym now. More and more, I like to see that they’re more involved

in sports, the females in California. The men give up a lot of sports for them,

and it’s very good for them. It’ll get that same feeling the men get out of the closeness,

the camaraderie, that discipline is the key to life, in my opinion. You got to get your

It’s the key. Like Arnold would say you can’t get nothing done if you get up past five in the morning.

And I kind of agree with that. You just get stuff done.

You knock it out and get stuff done. And then you got 24 hours a day. So you give

yourself, you’re talking about 40 an hour a day out of 24 hours and you give me a break here.

You got to give yourself some time for yourself and peace of mind, whatever you enjoy doing.

Even it’s gardening. I don’t care what it is.

JANNINE: There’s nothing like a morning workout. I am wholeheartedly with you on that one.

JANNINE: I’ve not been able to get up at 4 a.m. but the five I can handle.

You remember we’ll change that real fast.

After your husband comes and shoots me, right?

JANNINE: Oh my goodness.

RON: What do you go to a gym or you train a little bit at home?

JANNINE: I train at home now.

RON: That’s not easy for a lot of people. I like it.

You know, I’ll just watch the news or something or that type of thing.

I have no trouble and I’m really able to focus in and the way I train.

JANNINE: Yeah. Yeah. It’s… I like it because, yeah, I can get things done. I can focus and, you know,

but I do miss, like you said, seeing the same people, the relationships. 

RON: Yeah.

JANNINE: It is sad for me. I do miss that. But right now with my travel schedule and where I live,

it’s a little hard. I live about half hour out of any major city that has a fitness center.

RON: Well, I drive to Gold’s Gym and I live above UCLA in Los Angeles. It’s about a 25 minute drive

with no traffic and traffic a little bit more. I drive to work from 30 minutes to an hour

to my business down here in Vernon. We have 100,000 square foot manufacturing plant down here.

JANNINE: Yeah, yeah. Let’s talk about the the plan. Let’s talk about let’s talk about that. We’ll kind of

around out our conversation with talking about superior source and and your hundred thousand

dollar not thousand dollar hundreds much more than that hundred thousand square foot office

there you got in terms of the– 

RON: Manufacturing space and manufacturing in over house and

I’ve had people working for me a ton of them 30 years the problem is they’re all getting

old like me.

JANNINE: Uh oh. 

RON: you know, we have a great culture and we have a great company.

We have great people have been here for decades.

I don’t turn many people over and I’m not the biggest payer in town.

JANNINE: Well– 

RON: My people like me, I talk to them, even my girls have been with me.

They say, you can’t touch them.

I am all hugs and kisses.

I don’t care what anybody says.

I’ve been with the decades.

I love them.

JANNINE: Yeah.

Yeah.

Sounds like you got a family there.

RON: We, we every year we put on most people celebrating Christmas and whatever we put

on a Halloween party.

We have a big properties on over five acres and we have a catered.

We have the music, all getting costumes.

Everybody’s laughing and having fun.

We so there’s no separation from the manufacturing to the office.

So I’ve been doing this many, many years and is really tight in the company.

I mean, they’re decorating.

You know, we take, we shut the whole place down.

We decorate every day, start a month before decorating.

They start working on their costumes.

We have give them all money, you know, prizes or dancing and having fun.

I just love it.

JANNINE: That’s awesome.

RON: Halloween.

Halloween.

It doesn’t, you know, in no religion, no nothing.

And everybody just has a real good time.

We have a theme sometime, you know, like a Tim Burton theme or whatever.

So we have some kind of theme always cooking.

JANNINE: And of course I have to ask what, what did you dress up as this last Halloween?

What was your costume?

RON: They had me, I think, as some kind of a

a copier or type guy with a whip and a hat

and a little cowboy boots on and everything.

I had fun.

JANNINE: Nice.

Nice.

And did you have a tank top on underneath?

‘Cause you know I gotta give you a little bit on that.

RON: Do what?

JANNINE: Do you wear your tank top underneath?

RON: I don’t know if I had it on that,

but I wear it to the goals Jim or wherever.

I always wear it up.

You know, I’m kind of an exhibitionist.

There’s not a mirror I walk by and I’ll love.

You know, I’m honest about it.

JANNINE: I love it.

I love it.

I don’t think there’s many guys that can pull off

a tank top like you, but that’s for sure.

That’s for sure.

And to be able to flex like you, you were doing.

I mean, pretty impressive.

Look at that.

My goodness.

My goodness.

And of course we have to say fueled by Superior Source.

So– 

RON: Superior Source.

JANNINE: Let’s tell folks a little bit about website.

I think it’s SuperiorSourceVitamins.com, correct?

RON: Basically, if you were in all the major health food chains,

where all the million independents were invited in shop,

vitamin cottage, sprouts, trader Joe’s,

I do some work for them, Amazon for sure,

and CVC for health, our own website, which we will sell in.

Our products are reasonably priced.

We’re not gouges.

We’re not trying to get $60, $70 a bottle.

In most of its $10, $11, $12, $90 a bottle, even less.

We manufacture here,

we’re here to pass it on. Yeah. Yeah. This may be all the raw materials are tested. We won’t put

nothing off the door unless it’s 100%. It’s got to be good quality all the way. 

JANNINE: Makes sense. 

RON: AbsoluteIy got

you know, we’ve been at this fruit. The company’s been a business 55 years. Like I mentioned,

I started out of the trunk of my car. 

JANNINE: It’s it’s impressive. It’s impressive. And and– 

RON: I’m still

working and I don’t know what else to better to do. I mean, I can’t find anything more exciting.

JANNINE: Well– 

RON: Podcast talking to you. I mean, I got to like-minded people. I really go for that.

JANNINE: It’s– 

RON: Important. 

JANNINE: I couldn’t imagine a better place. I hope that when I get to your age,

that I get to do something fun like that too. I mean, it’s great stuff. 

RON: You got to be passionate

about what you’re doing. Like, I went on like Arnold used to say. We had a bar with a big 45 pound

plates on. He goes and tap and I said, “What are you doing Arnold?” He said, “These are my friends,

they don’t talk back.” 

JANNINE: Well said. 

RON: You know, you can’t go wrong when you’re putting energy in

yourself. Like I said, you don’t have to be a Herculean effort. Just very consistent, very steady,

getting the groove and go from there and everybody, but everybody will improve. I don’t care who they

are. Some will just have a little better genetics than the others, but you will improve dramatically.

Get your weight down. No big deal. No big deal. Not whatsoever.

JANNINE: Makes sense. Makes sense. Well, you’ve definitely convinced me I’m kind of wishing you were coaching

folks so that we get would have you coach us up a little bit here. 

RON: I’m doing that now. That’s

what they make trainers for. I mean, you know, you can’t be a stick in the mud. You got to, you got

What used to be fear of things like you can’t drink water or if you lift weights

You’ll be muscle-bound you can’t even be a bass fisherman with lifting weights

I mean are some kind of resistance training all those fallacies are gone

and

good consistent putting a

10% in yourself is of your day is not a big not even 10% what I’m talking about about two or three percent

JANNINE: Wow, yeah, yeah

RON: Ever since two and a half hours a day,

nobody needs to do that.

You don’t have to be, that’s overdoing it.

JANNINE: Yeah.

RON: Little cardio, little resistance training

and you eat clean fresh food,

you’re really on your way.

JANNINE: It’s perfect.

And add a little bit of superior sports, micro-linguals.

RON: That would help, that would help.

I’m not gonna say I don’t like to make money,

but it’s not my driving factor.

JANNINE: No, I hear you, I hear you.

But you know, I do think, yes, I’m a naturopath, yes,

We have a history of giving people buckets of supplements, but I do think in some cases

we do need a little boost here and there just to keep it.

RON: Well, supplements are just what they say, supplements.

JANNINE: Right.

RON: They’re not supposed to place the, what I found the really most effective thing in my

eating is when I started picking up these protein powders.

I’ve been doing it for decades.

It curves my appetite.

It’s not a lot of calories and it really works.

It fills me up versus these candy bars, whatever, and they got some sugar.

I could eat 10 of those things, you don’t do it.

But the drinks fill me up for about two to three

and a half hours or so.

They just seem to work and it’s me talking

like our keto color, just 80 calories.

A serving, I mean, you wanna lose some weight.

Or almost the powders are 20, 25 grams,

about 125 to 250 calories somewhere in that area.

That’s a meal.

And very filling.

and you can put other ingredients in there,

you know, with probiotics and so on and so forth,

BCA’s, EEA’s, whatever, you know?

JANNINE: Easy.

RON: There’s no substitute for the real deal, the food,

and do it in falling in line with you

with some kind of a lifestyle fitness.

The supplementation is just what it is.

JANNINE: Yep.

– Yep.

– Absolutely, absolutely.

Well, Ron, you’ve been a delight, such great information,

so many things I learned and I love just the history.

That’s, you know, a lot of folks out there

are younger like me spouting off all these ideas

and all these things, but we don’t have the history

you have to back it.

And that’s, that’s why I wanted to chat.

RON: Unfortunately, younger guys have learned

from all the theories and fallacies.

And that’s all coming to light.

JANNINE: Yeah.

RON: Like I said, lifting weights will make you a muscle bath.

There’s no sport you can play without it right now.

JANNINE: No.

– No, no.

RON: And very important.

Just take care of yourself, give yourself a time

to be, you know, unwind in the weights

and the training of some sort is a great unwinder.

Because you don’t think about much else besides that.

JANNINE: Yeah, it’s been my stress relief all these years.

RON: Right.

people are missing out.

I mean, it’s just wonderful.

You mean wonderful people like minded, sweet.

You know, can’t go wrong to put energy in yourself.

JANNINE: It’s true, it’s true.

Thank you so much for coming on Ron.

I really appreciate it and I look forward

to possibly chatting with you more in the future.

And if I can get myself down to California,

I would love to do a workout down there.

RON: We’ll go ahead and together and drag that husband here

as long too.

(laughing)

JANNINE: Sounds good, sounds good.

Thanks Ron.

RON: Okay, my pleasure.

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