Who is Oda?

Alexander Oda is here to help you take back control of your time and your life. Based out of Chicago, IL, Oda proclaims to build modern day Renaissance men and women. Helping high stress, high performing individuals with demanding lifestyles.

His professional background is in Industrial Engineering but he felt a natural attraction to non-traditional engineering roles. This lead him to his current work as a senior analyst at an accounting firm. He defines his work as building financial models for valuations, mergers and acquisitions.

Also very passionate about fitness. When it comes to his athletic pursuits he recalls being active throughout childhood and adolescence. Active in karate as a child and running cross country track and field. It was in college where he started his journey with bodybuilding. Since then he has been weight training for over seven years. Through all of this fitness became a force of habit for him. Due to how he was raised he was always able to maintain a clean diet even as a child. He was fortunate to have a family that pushed high expectations on him and this fueled his pursuit of self improvement. This simultaneously complimented his pursuit and love of bodybuilding.

Though not adhering to a specific diet he generally just sticks to whole, non-processed foods. He also practices back loading carbs at night because he lifts early in the mornings. With this in mind he keeps carbs lower towards the beginning of the day after working out and increase them as the day goes on. For preferred supplements he makes his own pre-workout stack: caffeine (pill), unflavored whey protein isolate, creatine, glutamine, beta alanine (as Carnosyn), taurine, maca, citrulline malate, d-aspartic acid, tribulus terrestris, and fenugreek.

When competing in bodybuilding shows this is what he does to prepare:

“I'll start limiting my water intake around 12 hours before stage time (as opposed to the 24-48 hours most other bodybuilders will do). I've found that this helps me get and maintain a pump while on stage; I also have a small glass of red wine prior to heading to bed before the day of the show. Additionally, 30 minutes before stepping on stage and while pumping up, I'll load up on sweets such as gummy bears, Skittles, etc.”

For his training schedule: 

“7 days a week - though one of those days is a low intensity, active rest day that consists of 20 minutes of incline cardio, stretching, and 15 minutes in a steam room/sauna.”

You might be able to see him training at XSport Fitness in Schaumburg Illinois.

Aside from bodybuilding and fitness Oda enjoys international travel and working on numerous side projects. Projects that can range from creating content on social media like Instagram and YouTube, maintaining a fitness presence internationally, or targeting start-up endeavors. Currently he is preparing to launch a consulting business and YouTube channel (both are now live!). The content produced here aims to help people get their time back and reinvest their time so they can become modern-day Renaissance men and women. After working long hours in the finance industry, he has come to realize that a lot of individuals have passions and goals that they'd like to achieve outside of their careers, but don't have the time to invest in those passions. Now, he focuses on helping individuals restructure and bring balance to their lives.

If you are in China in late autumn he will be flying out to Shanghai from October 26th - November 6th to do a fitness bootcamp.

Learn more about Oda's endeavors by visiting his website whoisoda.com. He is also on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

*The material on this website is provided for educational and entertainment purposes only, and is not intended for diagnosis or treatment.

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