Barton and 4x Natural Mr. Olympia champion Phillip Ricardo Jr. sit down to discuss the challenges of being consistent with health, fitness, and daily habits.  As a Natural bodybuilder, Phillip dives into the importance of:

• Warming Up Properly
• Having Monthly Programs
• Incorporating D-Load weeks for Recovery
• The Confidence that. comes from working out 
• Smart ways to avoid getting injured working out.
• And much more...

Philip Ricardo Jr. was born on July 29, 1971. He is a legend in the sport of natural bodybuilding and has been competing for decades. He’s won the Natural Olympia in 2019, 2015, 2008, and 2007, and he’s the reigning Men's Bodybuilding Grand Master's Champion

Philip Ricardo Jr. was born in Rochester, New York, on July 29, 1971. He didn’t always have the muscular and shredded physique he has now. As a kid, Ricardo Jr. was skinny and asthmatic. Despite those adversities, he played Pop-Warner football (favorite sport) in Brooklyn, New York. Philip Ricardo Jr. credits physical activity for relieving him of his asthma and allergies. 

At 13 years old, his father introduced him to weightlifting.  In 1985, his family moved to Illinois, where he played high school football. The weight training program there helped Ricardo Jr. see dramatic changes in his body. He was slim, lean, and muscular throughout high school. 

He enlisted in the Marine Corps upon graduating high school in 1989. After boot camp, he was stationed overseas in Iwakuni, Japan, where he worked out at the military base gym with veteran marines. Ricardo Jr.’s co-worker signed him up to compete in the Iwakuni Japan Marine Corps Based Bodybuilding Championships without his knowledge his second year overseas. 

Ricardo Jr. continued to compete in a few small competitions in Japan, then was stationed in San Diego, California. The NPC held military shows, and he saw success in these events.

Later on, Philip Ricardo Jr. joined the American Bodybuilding Association (ABA) – a drug-free organization that is now known as the INBA PNBA. He competed against the best natural athletes globally with the ABA and had great success. He continued to compete with ABA and other federations to test his limits. 

Philip Ricardo Jr. turned pro in 2003 with the PNBA. Since then, he’s competed as a natural bodybuilder for almost 20 years and has won professional titles in five different drug-free organizations. 

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