#441 I Squatted 1,000 lbs, Then My Entire Life Collapsed | Patrick Maguire
"I've squatted 1,000 pounds more times than I've successfully asked out a female." Most superheavyweight powerlifters hide their rock-bottom...
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Are you sick of "fitness influencers," training fads, and crappy advice that barely applies inside the gym or on the field? Then sit down with elitefts CEO Dave Tate and Director of Performa...
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20 of 330 episodes#440 Why You Should Never Get An X-Ray For Joint Pain | Dr. Christopher Marvin
Most strength athletes aren't broken—they're just loading flawed mechanics until something snaps. Dr. Christopher "Marv" Marvin came back fr...
#439 How 47 Football Players Hit 20+ MPH in One Off-Season | Mark Uptegraff
Most coaches fail their athletes long before an injury ever occurs because they train muscles for show while completely neglecting the struc...
#438 Why Powerlifters Die Young (Fix Your Work Capacity) | Jason Brown
The myth that aerobic conditioning steals your strength is the exact reason most experienced lifters hit an early plateau and stay chronical...
#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...
#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...
#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...
#434 Why Most Lifters Over 30 Are Destined To Break| Mark Valenti
Stop chasing cheap metrics in your youth only to end up a broken, thirty-five-year-old former athlete who doesn't even know how to properly...
#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 t...
#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...
#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...
#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...
#429 I Ignored My Surgeon's Warning (And Benched 435lbs Anyway) | Jordan Wong
The worst thing that can happen to an elite bencher might be the exact psychological reset needed to save their career. Before Jordan Wong c...
#428 Stop Training Athletes Like They're Good at Lifting | Lucas White
"Your skill set's not going to be lifting weights—it's going to be the sport, but you still have to learn how to strain." For thirteen seaso...
#427 The Trap of the 300-Pound Power Clean | Monte Sparkman
Most high school strength coaches are hiding behind a rigid workout template because they are terrified of what happens when the plan fails...
#426 What Powerlifting Judges See (But Never Tell You) | Valerie Smith
You aren't truly learning how to lift until someone forces you to pull the slack out of a stiff bar with an opener that's completely out of...
#425 We've Broken Our Natural Hormones to Survive the Modern World | Mike Stratton
Your body naturally produces testosterone, but it doesn't make the gallons of coffee you are using to survive a modern, unsustainable lifest...
#424 You Learn More From One Loss Than 100 Wins | Phil Daru
Most people think discipline is about pushing harder, but Phil Daru argues that real growth begins the moment failure exposes the flaws in y...
#423 Powerlifting's Dirty Secret (The Real Freaks Haven't Arrived) | Matt Levine
The elite coaches dominating the fitness industry aren't out-programming you; they are out-communicating you. For twenty years, Matt Levine...
#422 The Barbell Giveth, and the Barbell Taketh Away | Jim Wendler, Matt Rhodes, & Vincent Dizenzo
If you think your current training routine is built for longevity, you are lying to yourself about what decades under a heavy barbell actual...