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16 – What’s the Big Deal with the Biggest Loser?

by | Mar 9, 2020 | Podcasts

We discuss recent as well as some older articles and studies about The Biggest Loser, including issues with metabolism, the framing of how weight loss happens, and some of the more pervasive effects of representing weight loss in the media. Scott also discusses some...

14 – Lou Schuler on Fitness & Writing

by | Feb 24, 2020 | Podcasts

Mike is joined by Lou Schuler to discuss some of the larger trends in fitness, as well as how to avoid saying the same things over again in fitness writing. Mike wanted to talk to Lou to talk about fitness writing because Lou — an award-wining journalist — has been...

13 – Baywatch’s Alexandra Paul

by | Feb 17, 2020 | Podcasts

Scott is joined by Alexandra Paul of Baywatch. They discuss Alexandra's work as a health coach, her remarkable activism (and even her arrests), her work for animal rights and how that has changed her, her career development after Baywatch, and much more.   Books...

12 – Anatomy of a Perfect Workout

by | Feb 10, 2020 | Podcasts

We discuss what goes into an actual, solid workout: what to focus on, tempo vs cadence, pumping reps vs explosive reps, myths, warmups. Some Quick Notes: “The muscles work the weights; the weights don't work the muscles.” *Most* of what we talked about is...

11 – How to Design a Workout Program

by | Feb 3, 2020 | Podcasts

How much customization is needed for a workout program? Ideally, does every program you do need to be custom-designed from scratch? The answer is obviously not. Any good coach will have their own library of programs that are useful for a variety of different contexts:...