Joshua "YETI" Bredl Jessica Kleinschmidt interview

In the Joshua "YETI" Bredl Jessica Kleinschmidt interview, Bredl said more than a dozen of his online clients have each lost over 150 pounds. He also explained how a WWE contract affected his coaching business, described his work with Yeti Ultra and Portal Health AI, and picked Razor Ramon, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Dusty Rhodes and Montez Ford for his wrestling Mount Rushmore.

What did Joshua "YETI" Bredl say about weight changes and his NFL size?

Joshua "YETI" Bredl said he regained weight when other priorities pushed his own health aside. He also described physical costs at both extremes: his feet struggled after he deliberately gained weight for the NFL, while rapid weight loss left him feeling foggy and sluggish. Today, he treats training more as maintenance.

At about 340 pounds, Bredl said he needed to roll his foot on a tennis ball before getting out of bed. Otherwise, even walking to brush his teeth could feel as though it strained his foot. He said he can still notice some symptoms from moving at that weight before his feet were ready for it.

Fast weight loss brought a different set of problems, including what he called brain fog and a lackadaisical feeling. Bredl said he is now around 260 pounds and considers 245 to 250 pounds a healthy, comfortable range for his frame. Closer to that range, he said, his knees feel happier and he feels bouncier and stronger. His broader lesson from regaining weight was that postponing his own care did not help the people for whom he was making sacrifices.

How did Joshua "YETI" Bredl start online weight loss coaching?

Joshua "YETI" Bredl said an ACL injury led him to post his training progress on Instagram, where strangers began asking for help. He initially answered without charging, then built a paid online plan while studying kinesiology as a full-time student athlete. He did not expect to coach major weight-loss transformations without meeting clients.

Building an audience during ACL recovery

Unable to train as he had before the injury, Bredl did floor ab routines and other exercises he could manage. His posts reached Instagram’s popular page several times, and he said his account quickly grew to about 27,000 followers. Questions about diet and training filled his messages. After spending so much time replying that he neglected a school assignment, he decided the work needed a price and a structure.

A paid plan and Laura’s transformation

Bredl created a 30-day plan priced at $30, with separate versions for men and women, a grocery list and food guidance. He used a free storefront and connected it to PayPal. After posting a preorder, he said he woke to $7,000 in his account. By the third month, clients were sending him progress photos.

He identified Laura as his first client to lose 180 pounds with his guidance. They worked remotely and did not meet until he was in Los Angeles. Bredl put the scale of that work plainly:

I have over a dozen clients that have lost over 150 pounds each.

He stressed that the clients did the work themselves. Helping them make those changes remains one of the achievements he values most.

What did Joshua "YETI" Bredl say about his WWE contract?

Joshua "YETI" Bredl said his WWE contract created a conflict with the online training business he had already built. According to Bredl, WWE wanted a share because its exposure could bring him more clients. He said attorney Brad Small helped protect his interests, and Bredl responded by stepping back from publicly promoting the coaching.

Bredl said he still helped people who approached him, sometimes accepting payment, but no longer pushed the service as he had before. He connected that continuing demand to his later work with DOGPOUND and his decision to bring online coaching back under Yeti Ultra.

His account distinguishes the business he had before WWE from opportunities he believed WWE might create. He did not describe the final financial terms of the contract.

What does Joshua "YETI" Bredl offer through Yeti Ultra?

Joshua "YETI" Bredl described Yeti Ultra as the current chapter of his online coaching business, not the beginning of it. He said its website offers several coaching tiers, a free body calculator and a way to contact him about choosing a plan. Direct communication remains central to how he wants the service to work.

Bredl said the calculator asks about body type alongside other inputs. He named ectomorph, endomorph and mesomorph as the categories it uses. Visitors can use that tool without paying, then message him if they want to discuss a coaching option.

He also described an assistant on Telegram that routes questions to him for a response. After years in which online training grew from an improvised student business into a crowded field, Bredl said he wanted to make his own experience available through a more organized service.

What did Joshua "YETI" Bredl say about Portal Health AI?

Joshua "YETI" Bredl said Portal Health AI connects clients with people who can discuss health-related options, including blood work, telehealth consultations and peptide protocols. He presented it as a separate project alongside Yeti Ultra and said people could contact him for an introduction rather than choose an option on their own.

In Bredl’s description, a client might start with blood work or a consultation call before considering another service. He said the people involved would guide clients through those choices. He did not give prices, identify a specific protocol or describe an individual client’s outcome.

For Bredl, the project continues a focus on fitness and wellness that he said has remained part of his work even as he takes on projects outside training.

Who is on Joshua "YETI" Bredl’s wrestling Mount Rushmore?

Joshua "YETI" Bredl chose Razor Ramon, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Dusty Rhodes and Montez Ford for his wrestling Mount Rushmore. His reasons ranged from Razor Ramon’s presence to a childhood video-game connection with Austin, Rhodes’s influence on young wrestlers and Bredl’s firsthand experience alongside Ford in Florida.

Razor Ramon, Stone Cold Steve Austin and Dusty Rhodes

Bredl put Razor Ramon first, praising how much character he conveyed with his voice, presence and a toothpick. He chose Austin partly because wrestling games on a neighbor’s Nintendo 64 introduced him to the roster when he was not allowed to watch WWE at home. Austin was the wrestler he repeatedly selected.

Rhodes made the list for his influence on wrestlers coming through NXT. Bredl said he met Rhodes twice during WWE Tough Enough, before Rhodes died during the show’s run. He credited Rhodes with nurturing performers and supporting their characters.

Montez Ford and a meeting with Hulk Hogan

For a newer name, Bredl chose Montez Ford of the Street Profits. He said they spent time together in Florida and that he saw Ford deal with difficulties before teaming with Dawkins. Bredl also praised Ford’s music and expects him to keep improving as a wrestler.

Hulk Hogan was not one of the four, but Bredl recalled meeting him at a urinal before an early WWE Tough Enough live segment. Nervous about the encounter, Bredl said Hogan looked over and told him, “you got a big frame brother.” Bredl remembered the brief exchange as reassuring.

Who is Joshua "YETI" Bredl?

Joshua "YETI" Bredl is a Denver-born athlete and performance coach, a WWE Tough Enough champion and a Green Bay Packers signing. He has trained Justin Bieber, Adam Levine and Kelly Rowland and built Bieber’s Webby Award-winning gym. He now works on Yeti Ultra and Portal Health AI, makes music as YETSKII, streams on Twitch as @yetihood and is a father of two.