#437 I Ignored My Surgeon's Rehab Protocol | Josh Hendrickson
Standard medical advice after a catastrophic muscle tear will turn a high-performance lifter into a spectator if you blindly follow it. Four months after snapping his bicep off the bone on an axle cle...
17 Aug 1h 59min
#436 Why You Should Never Bodybuild | Ben Mayfield-Smith
Most lifters suffer through brutal competition preps not because they lack discipline, but because they are using a physical outcome to mask a broken identity. After a career-ending rugby injury shatt...
13 Aug 2h 12min
#435 Why 90% of Hardcore Gym Owners Fail | Chandler Parsons
Choosing between athlete, coach, and gym owner is the only way to avoid burning out—you can only pick two. After 20 years under the barbell and totaling 2,044 raw, Chandler Parsons realized that chasi...
10 Aug 2h 42min
#433 Stop Buying Biohacks Until You Fix Your Training | Anthony Castore
An 185-pound frame earned in the trenches taught Anthony Castore that no protocol can out-discipline a broken foundation. From a 117-pound teenager asking too many questions to a Fellow at the Seeds S...
30 Jul 2h 19min
#432 Your Heavy Squat Is Actually Fake Strength | Brian Bott
If you train high school athletes like Division I pros, you are destroying their potential. For 13 years at Wisconsin, Brian Bott built NFL offensive linemen and Rose Bowl champions using old-school g...
27 Jul 2h 18min
#431 To Fix Your Body, You Have to Destroy Your Identity | Ben Pollack
To survive the brutal reality of elite-level strength, you might have to destroy the very person you spent a lifetime building. Ben Pollack earned a PhD in physical culture history while systematicall...
20 Jul 2h 29min
#430 Why "Bought Fitness" Will Never Make You Strong | Daniella Means, Kailey Latimer, & Lu Faustin
You can buy fat loss with an injection, but you cannot fake the raw, violent physical capability required to survive when the lights turn on and the floor turns into a warzone. Before stepping under t...
16 Jul 2h 13min
