Summary: Welcome to the newest episode of the Hack The System show! You should subscribe to this show on iTunes. The Hack The System Podcast is your access to interviews with the world's foremost experts on blogging, lifestyle design, traveling, and life/system hacking. In short--you're going to learn how to kick ass. In this episode, I sit down with Steve Kamb of Nerd Fitness. Steve has built a community of hundreds of thousands of readers through his web site, which shows regular nerds (like you!) how to "Level Up" and get fit. Listen to the audio podcast here: Below, I'm pasting some highlights of the interview, and the transcription. The full video interview is below. Highlight 1: Who is Steve Kamb? What is Nerd Fitness? Highlight 2: Steve's Fitness Philosophy and Exercise Routine Highlight 3: How Steve Kamb Built A High Traffic Blog Watch the full interview here: This podcast can be heard on iTunes. Click here to follow it via iTunes (and automatically sync it to your iPod) Transcript of the Podcast Episode Don't forget to subscribe to this show on iTunes. 00:00 Maneesh Sethi: Hey guys, this is Maneesh Sethi and right now I'm in Portland, Oregon. I'm going to be sitting down with Steve Kamb from NerdFitness.com. Great site, great guy, come with me, let's check it out. I'm really, really excited to talk to you Steve. You're one of my inspirations online, one of the bloggers that really do some cool stuff. 00:19 Steve Kamb: Really? 00:20 Maneesh Sethi: Yeah! 00:20 Steve Kamb: Aw, thanks, man. 00:21 Maneesh Sethi: No matter how much shit I give you, I kind of like your stuff. And I wanted to talk to you a little bit about your blogging, and your website, and your vision. Why don't you introduce yourself to the Hack the System audience? 00:35 Steve Kamb: Absolutely. So, I've been running a website called NerdFitness.com for three and a half years now and really it started, I want to say, about five years ago. I had this idea, pretty simple. Hey, I'm a nerd, I like fitness. Maybe there's something we can do to stick them together. And I googled and nothing popped up so I bought the domain to nerdfitness.com and came up with the tagline 'Level up your life', and decided that I just wanted to just kind of start helping nerds get healthy. I thought it was a group of people that could use some direction and guidance and have a little bit of fun along the way so I write about things like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings and push ups and the Paleo diet. People are like, 'How does that connect?' I'm like, don't worry about it, trust me, it makes sense. Check out the site and I guarantee you'll be like, 'Oh! I get it, that's kind of cool.' So, yeah, I've been running it for about three and a half years now. 01:27 Maneesh Sethi: So how did it progress? I guess you started off just - were you already in shape when you started the site? 01:32 Steve Kamb: Honestly, my journey with fitness probably started over a decade ago. I got cut from my high school basketball team, which is not really surprising. I couldn't dribble with my left hand, I was like 5'10", 100 pounds. I had no business being on a basketball court. But I decided, damn it, I'm going to come back next year and I'm going to be really strong and big and make the team. So I signed up for a gym membership and almost killed myself by dropping - I went to the nearest bench press and loaded up 45 pound plates on either side and my arms are shaking before I could even take it off - Boom, right on my chest! I had to rotate and the weights spun off and aw, dude, like the most humiliating moment of my life. But I very quickly rised then and there like, 'Okay, I didn't die and this is kind of cool. I like this concept of getting a little bit stronger.' And for me, as a gamer growing up, it just made so much sense. Okay, cool, you can pick up ten pounds this week, next week you can pick up fifteen. When we get that,
