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The Trainer Who Trains the Trainers
Tom Purvis is the guy the experts go to for advice.

The Trainer Who Trains the Trainers

The Perpetual COVID-19 Strength Plan
Revisiting advanced training tactics for regaining more strength and muscle because gym openings and closing are a rollercoaster ride.

The Perpetual COVID-19 Strength Plan

Vitamin D Deficiency in Athletes
Vitamin D consumption and levels are a hot button issue because of the considered benefits to the immune system in the fight against Covid-19, but this isn't something we didn't already know.

Vitamin D Deficiency in Athletes

Discover Supplements That Benefit Your Specific Needs With Supplement Advisor
Should I take fish oil? Isn’t it good for reducing inflammation and heart health? What’s better? Pill form or liquid?

Discover Supplements That Benefit Your Specific Needs With Supplement Advisor

2020's Most Overweight and Obese States in America
Being obese is the new normal.

2020's Most Overweight and Obese States in America

The Move Well Project
This week's guest is Chris Peil, a sports rehabilitation expert, who helps Olympians and the World’s Strongest Man get out of pain and back to performing at their best.

The Move Well Project

The Muscle Lab is Open
Cody Haun is the epitome of a 21st century strength scientists and he's striking out on his own.

The Muscle Lab is Open

Heavy Suitcase Deadlifts Build Anti-Rotational Control and Strength
Exercises like the suitcase deadlift can keep you healthy or help rehab the damage that's already been done.

Heavy Suitcase Deadlifts Build Anti-Rotational Control and Strength

5 Ways to Workout With Your Partner
Those who train together stay together.

5 Ways to Workout With Your Partner

Maximize Muscularity and Strength; Minimize Risk of Injury
Jordan Shallow, the Muscle Doc and founder of Pre-Script, is a chiropractor, strength and conditioning coach, powerlifter and educator.

Maximize Muscularity and Strength; Minimize Risk of Injury

Getting Schooled on Building Muscle
Chris Barakat is a competitive bodybuilder, educator, and researcher who truly walks the talk.

Getting Schooled on Building Muscle

The Cossack Squat: Reclaiming Your Baseline Balance
When the gap in our balance grows too large, we need smart exercises to train the variables that move the meter back to the baseline of a reasonable asymmetry.

The Cossack Squat: Reclaiming Your Baseline Balance

The 10 Commandments of Health
Think of these commandments as a guide to best navigate the world of health and fitness through the information overload on the web and mainstream media.

The 10 Commandments of Health

Can I Train With A Herniated Disc?
Even if you can still exercise, play sports, and move in general with a herniated disc, there are a few precautions and steps you need to take to stop the owie from kicking your butt.

Can I Train With A Herniated Disc?

How Does Resistance Training Rank in Terms of Safety?
Here is why resistance training increases athletic performance while reducing relative risk for an injury.

How Does Resistance Training Rank in Terms of Safety?

A Weighted Vest for Beginners
Zelus has produced a comfortable and solid 12 lb weighted vest for beginners.

A Weighted Vest for Beginners

How to Keep Yourself Upright During a Squat
The 1.25 squat is one of the best ways to practice and train your quads, glutes, and trunk to be active and keep you from falling over at the bottom of your squat movement.

How to Keep Yourself Upright During a Squat

The Trifecta of Strength: Powerlifting, Weightlifting, and Bodybuilding
This episode is absolute gold for anyone who is a fan of thoughtful strength, a crazy attachment to lifting, and erudite hypertrophy.

The Trifecta of Strength: Powerlifting, Weightlifting, and Bodybuilding

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Returning to Your Sport From a Break Is Daunting, But Doable
Please go easy, slow, and don’t kick your ass for letting it all go and having to start again.

Returning to Your Sport From a Break Is Daunting, But Doable

The Pelvis When You Run, Viewed From a Whole-Body Perspective
The pelvis rotates as you run, which means it needs to move in a multidimensional way.

The Pelvis When You Run, Viewed From a Whole-Body Perspective

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How to Self-Diagnose Your Shoulder Pain

Top 10 Foods to Gain Muscle Mass

10 No Equipment Needed Exercises for Strong Legs

Understanding Energy Systems: ATP-PC, Glycolytic and Oxidative - Oh My!

4 Signs You Are Taking Too Many Probiotics

The Ultimate 90-Day Bodyweight Training Plan

A Simple Guide to Periodization for Strength Training

Physical Readiness for Firefighters: 12 Week Training Plan

The 8-Minute Mile Standard

Train for Explosive Power With This Simple Dumbbell Exercise
The Dumbbell Power Shrug is the easiest exercise to learn to train full-body coordination and explosiveness.

Train for Explosive Power With This Simple Dumbbell Exercise

The Myth of Good Posture
The balance of strength and mobility across the muscles and joints of your body is what is really required when you think about the importance of posture.

The Myth of Good Posture

Bodybuilding 101: Sculpting a Powerful Physique
A beginners guide to hypertrophy with a 4-week kickoff plan and a 12-week mass builder training program with additional guidance on implications for teens, women, and nutrition.

Bodybuilding 101: Sculpting a Powerful Physique

Can Hydration Be As Simple As Listening To Our Bodies?
How much water should you drink every day? Maybe not eight glasses.

Can Hydration Be As Simple As Listening To Our Bodies?

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The Practice of Natural Movement
Learn about the most functional of functional fitness philosophies.

The Practice of Natural Movement

Everyone's Bike: The NordicTrack S22i
This stationary studio bike by NordicTrack checks all the boxes.

Everyone's Bike: The NordicTrack S22i

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Sandbags to Help You Get It Together

Pull It Tight, Lift It Right

Energy Bars to Upgrade Your Lifestyle

The Guide to Overcoming Poor Posture

How Do You Take Your Vitamins?

Roll Yourself to Better Mobility

Groceries: The Final Frontier in Fitness

Massage Your Way to Better Mobility and Recovery

Social Media Fitness App: Not Your New Bvddy

Get Wild: Clean Foods to Fuel Your Body and Mind

Protein To Go: Au Bon Bone Broth
It's expensive but there's no doubting the quality of the final product.

Protein To Go: Au Bon Bone Broth

A Comprehensive Guide to Gym Flooring
You need a good floor. It's the foundation of your home and commercial gym. The same flooring seems to do well in both places and it doesn't have to be expensive.

A Comprehensive Guide to Gym Flooring

Keep Track of Your Nutrition On the Go
Sometimes you don’t have anywhere to keep your meals cool when you are out for the day, but with these bags your problems are solved.

Keep Track of Your Nutrition On the Go

Can Colostrum Make A Difference In Your Life?
Could colostrum be beneficial to your health?

Can Colostrum Make A Difference In Your Life?

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Recipes

The Keto Diet: Basted Egg with Lemon Ricotta

A Free Keto Diet Recipe Book: Lox Stuffed Avocados and More

Eating Well As We Age: Parmesan Crusted Walleye

20 Ways to Prepare Poultry: Chicken Potstickers

Jackfruit: Protein for Athletic Summers

Summer Barbecue: How About Clean Eating and a Vegetables Only Dish

Subscription Eating - Not Your Mother's Take Out

Prebiotic Food: Broccoli and White Bean Soup

No Powder Protein Bars

Food Intolerances: Should I Get Tested?
The companies that continue to promote the IgG blood tests either do not fully understand the function of the IgG antibody or worse, they do and are continuing to sell their product anyway.

Food Intolerances: Should I Get Tested?

The Athlete's Friend, Eggs: Best Buying Practices
Fun fact in case you missed it—the only difference between brown and white eggs are that brown eggs come from chickens with brown feathers and white eggs come from chickens with white feathers.

The Athlete's Friend, Eggs: Best Buying Practices

Turkey Piri Piri Burgers
As your summer heats up, spice up your burger game with these turkey piri piri burgers.

Turkey Piri Piri Burgers

Greek Pimiento Burgers
Take a summer food vacation to Greece by combining all of the signature flavors in a tasty, grilled burger!

Greek Pimiento Burgers

Caprese Chickpea Burgers
Lighten up your summer eating with this chickpea based vegetarian burger.

Caprese Chickpea Burgers

Ginger Scallion Pork Burgers
Change up your barbequed burger routine with a little something unexpected.

Ginger Scallion Pork Burgers

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Gym Owners: How Do You Measure Your Success?
Unfortunately, many gym owners don't even count the money they don't pay themselves and lose sight of what truly matters in a successful gym business.

Gym Owners: How Do You Measure Your Success?

The 6-Week Challenge: Playing a Losers Game
6-week challenge versus professional coach for life: Which business are you in? You can’t be in both.

The 6-Week Challenge: Playing a Losers Game

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Leave No Client Behind

A Practical Experiment in Muscle Fiber Activation

Training the Overspecialized Athlete

Rational Periodization in Strength Training

The Approach of the Coach: Evidence Versus Intuition

Productive Programming: How to Develop a Sound Training Philosophy

Crunching Numbers: How to Grow a Fitness Business

Are You Programming Recovery for Your Athletes?

If You're Not Training Champions, You're Only Creating Elitism

The Invaluable Experience of Working for Free

Client’s First Day: Find the Pain
Without a deeper, personal connection, the business of coaching isn't going to work. Learn the process of building relationships in your coaching business.

Client’s First Day: Find the Pain

Coach Compensation: Beyond Dollars Per Hour
Coaches should be paid based on gross revenue, and on clients sticking around.

Coach Compensation: Beyond Dollars Per Hour

Develop an Online Presence: The Importance of Your Website
It’s okay if your website isn’t perfect, but if you build it, people will begin to find you.

Develop an Online Presence: The Importance of Your Website

Developing and Leading Successful Workshops
Teaching others keeps the spark alive behind why you got into the industry in the first place.

Developing and Leading Successful Workshops

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When the Fittest Among Us Get Covid-19
Amanda Thebe, a force of nature in women's health and coaching, as well as a serious fitness enthusiast in her own right, talks about her long-term symptoms from Covid-19.

When the Fittest Among Us Get Covid-19

Get Lean, Get Strong, Get Results
Mario Tomic's passion for training has taken him on a journey from being a computer programmer to YouTuber, to coach, to an entrepreneur who lives the digital nomad lifestyle.

Get Lean, Get Strong, Get Results

The Pros and Cons of Training to Failure
Paul Carter of Lift Run Bang has some strong thoughts about going over the top in your training, and not in a good way.

The Pros and Cons of Training to Failure

The Six Pack of Knowledge: Thought Leaders in Hypertrophy
Some of the best coaches with expertise in hypertrophy, bodybuilding, and physique can be found in these podcasts. New ones added regularly. A great reference source for enthusiasts and trainers.

The Six Pack of Knowledge: Thought Leaders in Hypertrophy

Training for Size, Training for Mass
Another great masters of muscle growth and development podcast with a renowned expert in the field of training.

Training for Size, Training for Mass

How to Grow Like a New Lifter After Lockdown
If you’ve been out of the gym for a while and relying on bodyweight workouts or minimal equipment during lockdown then you don’t want to miss this!

How to Grow Like a New Lifter After Lockdown

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Emily Beers

Emily Beers

Coaching

Jennifer Pilotti

Jennifer Pilotti

Yoga, Personal Training, Mobility & Recovery

Jesse Irizarry

Jesse Irizarry

Strength and Conditioning, Strength Training

Douglas Perry

Douglas Perry

Technology, Cycling, Swimming

Tom MacCormick

Tom MacCormick

Strength and Conditioning, Personal Training, Sports Science

Gareth Kelly

Gareth Kelly

Strength and Conditioning, Gymnastics

Clinton Sills

Clinton Sills

Hypertrophy, Physique coach

Wendi Iribeck

Wendi Iribeck

Registered dietician, nutritionist, Fitness coach

Mischele Stevens

Mischele Stevens

Triathlon, Endurance Sports

Mariah Heller

Mariah Heller

Coach, Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Massage Specialist, Chronic Pain Educator

Shane McLean

Shane McLean

Personal Training

Jimmy Pritchard

Jimmy Pritchard

Strength & Conditioning, Exercise Science

Brad Borland

Brad Borland

Strength and Conditioning, Bodybuilding

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