From Breakdown to Beast Mode: Robert Sikes on Resilience and the Keto Comeback

What Are You Made Of? · Apr 26, 2025 · 35m

Mike “C-Roc” welcomes Robert Sikes, natural competitive bodybuilder and founder of Keto Savage, for a raw and inspiring conversation on grit, discipline, and transformation. Robert shares how he went from a scrawny high schooler to a 230-pound bodybuilder, only to lose 80 pounds in 12 weeks for his first competition—an experience that left him physically shredded but mentally and emotionally drained.

He opens up about the disordered eating patterns that followed, the toll extreme dieting took on his body, and how it all led him to discover the ketogenic lifestyle before it became mainstream…