Exercise is Bullshit!

Season 2. Episode 11! Excited today to have on a brand new guest Jeremy Hudson. Jeremy is the founder of the Hudson Institute of Performance Enhancement ( HERE ) and a strength and conditioning coach in Canada. Jeremy and I connected recently on LinkedIn over a post I had made questioning the long standing paradigm of the strength endurance continuum. Prompted by a study from Brad Schoenfeld's...

Season 2 Episode 10! So excited today to release this episode. I was lucky enough to be put in contact with the lead author from the recently published 2026 ACSM position stand. Dr. Brad Currier joins the podcast to discuss the first update to the ACSM's guidelines in the last 17 years. Brad is a brilliant scientist and researcher who graduated under the tutelage of Dr. Stu Phillips from McMas...

Season 2, Episode 9! We've got a great guest today. Elliot Newman joins me from all the way across the pond. Thankfully we did our episode well before the 4th of July, so there we no Independence Day jokes necessary. Elliot is a performance coach for elite athletes. You can learn more about his services HERE . Elliot and I connected on LinkedIn and struck up a conversation about different aspe...

Really cooking on Season 2 now! This week I'm ecstatic to be joined by a friend and colleague from all the way on the other side of the globe! Kyra Seiler joins me from Salus Strength in New Zealand. I met Kyra as she had heard about myself and Reformed Fitness through mutual colleagues. She was working her tail off (training over 100+ sessions a week) and need the accountability of working wi...

Today I'm thrilled to be joined by another one of my colleagues, Jake Picht. Jake is a former college baseball player and current Health Coach and Exercise Physiologist with Reformed Fitness . I've had the pleasure of working with Jake on and off for close to a decade now and I've met few better trainers ever in my time in the industry. Jake shares with us his in depth knowledge of str...

Season 2, episode 6! Today's episode is a banger! If you've ever thought of competing in a bodybuilding show, you don't want to miss this one. I'm joined today by my friend and colleague Jack Stiele. Jack is an up and coming bodybuilding coach and competitor working out of the JackedNLeen Gym in Rogers, MN. He works directly with Jack Oosten, another former guest and the owner of J...

Season 2... Episode 5! Today I'm thrilled to be joined today by the founder of Reformed Fitness , Xavier Robinson. Reformed Fitness is one of the leading HIT training companies in the world, and probably the most prominent in the virtual health coaching and personal training space. Xavier and I worked together for a number of years at a previous fitness business. After COVID he decided to brea...

Season 2. Episode 4! I'm so excited to be joined this week by my good friend Nik Daniel. Nik owns Purely Driven Fitness , where he specializes in helping clients moving into middle age with great health, strength and vitality. Nik and I have known each other for over a decade now. We used to work together at the same restaurant back before we both became sober, and our journeys since that time...

Season 2. Episode 3! I'm so excited to be joined today by the AMAZING Amy Walz! Amy is my colleague and coworker at my current company Reformed Fitness . We've been working together for the better part of the last year and she's one of the best trainers and health coaches I've ever had the pleasure to work with. In this week's episode we discuss how Amy got into the fitness ind...

Episode 2. Spiritual Bodybuilding... what the heck is that? I'm so excited to share this episode with you all. Today I'm joined by Justin Vizakis, the founder of "Spiritual Bodybuilding" and Optimizing Human . Justin came into my sphere somewhat indirectly, but it was one of those serendipitous things that makes sense in the larger picture of life. Justin is more than just a coac...

Season 2!!! I'm so excited to be kicking off a new season of "Exercise Is BULLSHIT". This season we have tons of new guests that have never been on the show before and some really awesome researchers and practitioners within the fitness space. Both High Intensity and outside the realm of HIT. We start off season two with a BANG. Nicole Zapoli of NZ Fitness is a brilliant coach and bu...

In our last throw back episode before starting Season 2 of "Exercise is BULLSHIT" I'm privileged to have Dr. Michelle Segar on the podcast. This was an episode that never made it to air on my previous show for a variety of reasons. None of which had to do with Dr. Segar's brilliance. In this episode we discuss her best selling book "The Joy Choice". An easy read and one...

As we continue to transition to Season 2, I hope you enjoy another throw back episode. This one was from my first appearance on the "High Intensity Business" Podcast. I discuss my introduction to High Intensity Training, the transformation it helped me with, and my first book " How 2 Look Good Naked ". I hope you enjoy this throw back, and I look forward to seeing everyone in s...

As we transition into Season 2 I'm sharing some previous podcasts I've done on other popular fitness shows. This episode is from High Intensity Business with Lawrence Neal. In this episode we talk specifically about how to build and tailor the best workouts for your clients in a studio space. This is based on my extensive experience in in studio training. I previously worked at one of the...

Episode 37! This will be our final episode of 2025. When we come back in early 2026 I'll have a ton of new and interesting guests. While I deal with the backlog of getting everyone set up, I'll be re-releasing some previously recorded episodes from this show and others. This will make sure there's no gap in content, but also give me a little time to collect some new interviews to make...

Episode 36! Excited today to be joined by Dr. Lee Bell from Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. Dr. Bell has worked with many names listeners will recognize on the podcast from Doctors, PAK, James Fisher, James Steele, Milo Wolf and others. Originally my thought for this episode was to discuss overtraining and deloading with Dr. Bell... which we did. But along the way we branched into a variety...

Episode 35... The Million Dollar Trainer! Pete Cerqua joins me today on the podcast to discuss his history in HIT and how he became one of the leading voices in helping gym owners grow their business. After a long successful career growing his gym to a seven figure business, Pete stepped away from it all. Now he helps other business owners find the bottle necks in their own business to help them g...

Episode 34! Thrilled to have my friend and fitness colleague David "Cookie" Cook on the show this week. Dave owns "Cookie Cuts" Fitness in Nashville, TN. He's one of the most soft after personal trainers in the area. Aside from having a thriving coaching business, Dave is one of the most authentic people I've ever met. He's extremely open with his story of recovery...

Episode 33. Today I'm joined by the founder, owner and CEO of Max Strength Fitness, Jeff Tomaszewski. Jeff has long been a proponent of safe and efficient high intensity training, and I'm lucky to have known him for the better part of a decade. His extremely successful high intensity training studios, Max Strength Fitness, are some of the fastest growing in the strength training boutique s...

Episode 32! I'm ecstatic to be joined today by Derek Van Every. Derek is another brilliant student from Stu Phillips lab at McMaster University. He's already completed his Master's and is currently working his way through his PhD under the tutelage of Dr. Phillips. For those of you that follow online body building, most will be familiar with Jeff Nippard. Jeff has a huge following and...

Episode 31! Today I'm thrilled to be joined by one of the brightest minds in the evidence based exercise space. Dr. Lauren Colenso-Semple is a brilliant researcher focusing on an often understudied area in the sports science literature... women. Her research deals with a variety of subjects specific to female research participants and she's made it her job to reevaluate long held dogma in...

Episode 30! This week I'm thrilled to be joined by one of the longest tenured basketball strength and conditioning coaches in the country. Who during this podcast when we recorded it had been with Florida State University for over 20 years. Mike Bradley is one of the longest tenured strength coaches in all of college athletics. However at the time of this recording he was entering what might turn...

Episode 29... "The Gospel of Fitness" Today I have the pleasure of being joined by Steve McKinney. Steve owns "Fitness and More" training studio in Granite City, Illinois. Steve has specialized in delivering private 1-on-1 High Intensity, Low Impact workouts for over three decades. He's delivered 10's of thousands of 1-on-1 sessions and his studio is packed with a waitl...

Episode 28! I'm so excited to be joined today but one of my favorite researchers currently in the field of Exercise Science. Dr. James McKendry joins me from his brand new home at the University of British Columbia in Canada. James is a former student of Dr. Stu Phillips (probably the leading protein scientist in the world), and now he's running his own lab in Canada. We talk a bit about what he h...

Episode 27! Jack is Back! I'm joined today again by my good friend Jack Oosten of JackedN'Leen Gym in Rogers, MN. Jack and his wife have built on of the premier bodybuilding destinations in the country right in our back yard. If you're ever in the Twin Cities, make sure you take a day to stop by and check out this Utopia of Fitness equipment. J&LGym. On today's episode, Jack and I chat about s...