The Iron Haus Podcast

Brad and Louis tackle gym cleanliness, sanitation practices, and why maintaining a clean training environment should be a top priority for every fitness facility. Then, we shift gears to discuss the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence in the fitness industry, from AI-powered workout programs to smart equipment and personalized coaching. Is AI changing fitness for the better, or are we los...

Louis lost about 130 pounds over ten years, and he kept a few souvenirs. In this short solo episode, he gets honest about loose skin: where it showed up, how he's made peace with it, and what the research actually says about whether going slow, starting young, or lifting weights makes a difference. If the fear of loose skin is what's keeping you from starting, this one's for you.

Why can some muscles take a beating every 48 hours while others need a full week? Louis and Brad rank their fastest- and slowest-recovering muscle groups, explain why your calves and core may handle a lot more frequency than you think, and look at why a stubborn chest might really be a posterior-chain problem. Along the way they cover the "little bites" that quietly wreck your macros, and how to p...

Two rough nights of sleep in a row, and leg day on the calendar. In this quick Check-In, Louis walks through exactly what he's doing with his training today: what he changed, what he refuses to change, and how he's keeping two bad nights from turning into a bad week. No studies, no hype. Just a coach's real game plan.

Join Brad and Louis as the drive to Orlando Florida on a equipment hunt! They talk about ego lifting and injuries!

Do you actually need heavier dumbbells to keep growing? Louis breaks down the mind-muscle connection what it is, what the research really says, and where it stops working. You'll learn why the muscle cares more about effort than the number.

A client asked Louis how Instagram influencers stay shredded all year. The short answer: it's their job, many are on PEDs they won't admit to, and the sacrifices don't show up on camera. Louis and Brad cover both ends of the body fat scale. They lay out the ranges for men and women, from stage-lean to obese, and explain what happens at each extreme. Too lean costs you hormones, libido, recovery, j...

Everybody's asking AI for a workout plan now and some coaches, gyms, and apps are letting it write theirs and charging you for it. On this Friday deep-dive, Louis breaks down how gym-goers and coaches are actually using AI, what it genuinely does well, what the research says it gets wrong, and why he won't let it write a single one of his clients' programs. A follow-up to Wednesday's conversation...

Louis and Brad discuss A.I. workouts & "programs" and why it still can't replace personal trainers!

Thirty seconds or five minutes? Both are right, it depends entirely on what you're trying to build. In five minutes, Louis walks through what the research says about rest periods for power, strength, muscle, and endurance, including the one recommendation on the classic chart that newer evidence has overturned. Short episode, clear answer, something you can use at your next session.

Peptides are everywhere, but do you actually know where they come from? In this episode, we dig into the peptide supply chain and the difference between a product being sold, tested, filled, or packaged in the United States and the actual peptide API being manufactured here. We break down why U.S. pharmaceutical companies rely heavily on foreign API manufacturing, the major countries behind peptid...

You have been told to feel the muscle working. It turns out that advice is right about a third of the time, and the rest of the time it is quietly making you weaker. In this one Louis breaks down what to actually put your attention on while the bar is moving, and it changes depending on what the set is for. You will get the four moments in a session where attention actually earns its keep, a green...

Everybody wants the physique, the number on the scale, the health markers, the confidence. Almost nobody wants the eighteen months of boring Tuesdays it takes to get there. In this one Louis and Brad make the case that results aren't given to you, they're earned, and the price is paid in time you can't shortcut. We get into why the gym habit takes about six months to stick and not twenty-one days,...

A client sent Louis an article about the three things that changed her body composition more than any workout, macros, sleep and recovery. The conclusion's right. The reasoning underneath it is where it gets interesting. In this short solo episode: whether you can actually build muscle and lose fat at the same time and who that works for, three explanations you've heard your whole life that stoppe...

We get asked constantly what's actually going in the building. So this week we're walking the whole floor the racks, the bars, the machines that earned their spot, and the ones we passed on. But an equipment list is really a coaching philosophy in disguise, so we're explaining the reasoning behind every call: why the lightest bar in the building is 25 pounds, why a pendulum squat and a belt squat...

The 10,000-step goal on your watch was never a research finding — it was the brand name of a Japanese pedometer sold in 1965. Most of the rules we follow in the gym, in the kitchen, and in business got in the door the same way: somebody said it, it sounded right, and nobody ever went back and checked. In this solo episode, Louis lays out a three-question filter for telling the difference between a...

We get asked constantly what's actually going in the building. So this week we're walking the whole floor the racks, the bars, the machines that earned their spot, and the ones we passed on. But an equipment list is really a coaching philosophy in disguise, so we're explaining the reasoning behind every call: why the lightest bar in the building is 25 pounds, why a pendulum squat and a belt squat...

Everybody's heard it! "You gotta feel it the next day,' 'crunches burn belly fat," "Lifting makes you bulky." Some of it's harmless, some of it's actively holding you back. Louis and Brad go myth by myth, separate the bro science from the real science, and explain the reasoning so you can spot the next one yourself. Fun, fast, and grounded in the research!

Everyone's got a protein number. A gram per pound. Two grams per pound. Whatever the guy with the shaker bottle said. In this episode, Louis walks through what the actual research says about how much protein builds muscle, and where the returns stop. We cover the meta-analysis that pinned down the plateau, why spreading protein across the day beats stacking it into one giant dinner, and how to hit...

Everybody's waiting to feel motivated. And motivation shows up right on time, the first week of January, the Monday after a bad photo, the morning after you finally got a good night's sleep. Then it leaves. Louis makes the case that motivation was never the thing carrying the people who actually make it, that it's a feeling and feelings are weather, and that the boring word nobody wants, disciplin...

The supplement aisle is a minefield of hype. Louis and Brad cut it down to the short list that's actually backed by evidence and call out the popular stuff that's mostly marketing. If you've ever stared at a wall of tubs wondering what's worth it, this one saves you money and confusion.

You don't need forty training techniques. You need to understand about five things, and then everything else is just a different way to deliver one of them. In this solo episode, Louis breaks down what actually makes a muscle grow, and why most lifters have it backwards: stacking drop sets, rest-pause, and cluster sets onto one exercise until they're exhausted but not really growing. You'll learn...

Loading up a bar you can barely move, quarter-repping it, and calling it a PR isn't training heavy, it's ego lifting, and it's a great way to stall your progress or get hurt. Louis and Brad draw the line between hard, productive heavy training and the ego trap, explain why you don't actually need to max out to grow, and layout how to train genuinely heavy without wrecking yourself. Ego stays at th...

The internet decided cardio steals your muscle. Unlike most gym myths, this one isn’t made up, there’s a real phenomenon underneath it. It’s just far smaller than the discourse implies, and it almost certainly isn’t your problem. Louis walks through what the interference effect actually is, the thing people really mean when they say cardio wrecked their progress, and why avoiding conditioning to p...

No lesson plan today, just the two of us catching you up on what's actually been going on. The wins, the stuff that's been kicking our butts, what we're each training right now, and where we're at with getting The Iron Haus off the ground. If you've been following along, this is the one where you get to know the people behind the platform.