Limitless with Clint RigginLimitless with Clint Riggin
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Navy veteran and coach Clint Riggin shares how steroid abuse, cocaine use and a thyroid crash pushed him to rock bottom, and how cutting alcohol and embracing discipline helped him build Limitless Coaching. The conversation blends addiction, fitness and mindset with practical ideas for anyone wanting healthier habits in recovery.
1:00:52•20 Oct 2021
Limitless: From Navy Drug Busts to Coaching High-Performance Sobriety
Episode Overview
- Recognising alcohol as a trigger for other drugs can be a crucial step in breaking a destructive cycle.
- Skipping proper post-cycle care with steroids can seriously damage hormones, mood and long-term health.
- Consistency, structure and time-blocking often matter more than motivation for staying fit and sober.
- The number on the scale is less important than how you feel, how your clothes fit and visual progress over time.
- Caring deeply and being authentic as a coach or helper is often more effective than having perfect knowledge.
“Once I cut out alcohol completely and started 75 Hard about seven months ago, everything changed.”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? This conversation with fitness coach and Navy veteran Clint Riggin offers a raw mix of addiction, mental health, and intense discipline that might hit close to home. Clint shares how chasing the perfect physique on stage led him into serious steroid use, a crashed thyroid and, in his words, looking "like the Michelin Man" just months after winning a bodybuilding show.
He opens up about sleeping 17 hours a day, suicidal thoughts, and daily cocaine use while still serving in the Navy, even failing two drug tests and losing rank, pay, and status. His honesty about that spiral is blunt and refreshingly free of ego.
Things start to shift when Clint recognises alcohol as his trigger for cocaine: "Once I cut out alcohol completely and started 75 Hard, everything changed." From there, he channels his obsession with training into building Limitless Coaching, turning a struggling side project into a thriving business in just 17 weeks. The episode digs into how he did it: structured routines, time-blocking, and refusing to sell generic fitness templates to desperate clients.
This chat is perfect if you're in recovery or rethinking your relationship with substances and want to rebuild your body and mindset without quick fixes. Clint, Angie and Dallas chew over topics like weekend warrior drug culture, hormones and TRT, body-image traps, and why consistency beats any "miracle" plan.
You also get some practical gems, like why stair steppers hurt so much (and work so well), why the scale lies, and why failing is "one of the greatest teachers" if you let it be. If you’re looking for real talk about addiction, discipline, and building a life you’re proud of, this one might give you a much-needed push — what part of Clint’s story feels most relevant to your own?
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