Hammer and Chisel Performance Podcast

Sam Shaw, or as millions of fans around the world know him as, Dexter Lumis jumps on the podcast to talk about life in the WWE. He talks about how he got into the game, his crazy road to break into the big leagues of the WWE, and what life looks like behind the scenes for these incredible performers. This is an incredibly interesting episode that takes a look into an incredibly interesting lifeCHE...

Timestamps for all the questions: 00:00 intro 02:05 maintaining speed and agility 04:14 Carb cycling structure  05:39 maintain strength while dieting  07:17 lower protein as you get lighter in a cut? 08:50 machines vs free weights for size 10:55: underrated and overrated exercises  14:15 rate of weight loss in a diet 15:42 best approach for a skinny fat guy  17:08 nutrition education  19:05 direct...

Stefi Cohen is one of the greatest female powerlifters of all time. She exploded onto the scene in 2016 and became an absolute icon in the fitness industry, gaining fame through her incredible strength, brand, and entrepreneurial dominance. In the last couple years she has faced extreme public scrutiny and legal allegations. In this episode, we dive into an unfiltered conversation on her life, ris...

Dylan Cooper is a high level American weightlifter. He was a dominant junior competitor who has since moved to the dark side and ended his competitive career to instead push the boundaries of human limits as an enhanced athlete. We dive into a behind the scenes look into the life of a competitive olympic weightlifter, training for the sport, differences between USA weightlifting and other countrie...

JP Price is a former ATWR holding powerlifter and one of the strongest raw squatters of our lifetime. He was also incredibly strong within the sport of strongman, as well as owning a badass gym in Kansas City. In this episode, we talk training, talk criticisms of the sport of powerlifting as a whole, gym ownership and building a gym community and more. CHECK OUT MY EBOOK, Dialing in Your Nutrition...

In this video, I dive into an important nutrition strategy for fat loss and muscle gain...planning your nutrition into set phases on planned timelines...instead of just dieting indefinitelyCHECK OUT MY EBOOK, Dialing in Your Nutrition: A Comprehensive Manual for Setting Up Your Own Diet. This ebook covers fat loss, muscle gain, gut health, supplementation, building the metabolism, reverse diet str...

Dylan Shannon exploded onto the scene only two years ago. He is jacked, strong, athletic and has a knack for making content out of it. In only his first year on social media, he managed to grow a 100k+ audience, tacking on another 200k in year 2. He has huge audiences on both IG and YouTube and backs it up with a great knowledge base and the full package to show for it, as a full time athlete on s...

Steph Mock is a professional strength and conditioning coach in Major League Baseball and one of the most respected performance coaches working in professional sports today. With a background in elite athlete development, Mock specializes in building resilient, powerful athletes through intelligent strength programming, movement quality, and long-term performance planning. Steph is also highly tal...

In this video, I dive into some practical guidelines for how to identify your baseline maintenance calorie intake, and then setup your calories and macros from there to target fat loss or muscle gain. This is a solo episode. Weekly guest episodes will continue to drop every Tuesday, but I will be releasing more of these solo episodes on some Thursdays, diving into nutrition and training infoCHECK...

Justin Harris returns to the Hammer and Chisel Performance Podcast to talk about the differences between a post diet rebound, aggressive bulking and "main gaining". All different strategies for adding size. We talk about when to deploy these various strategies and who would benefit the most from each of them. Justin is one of the best bodybuilding coaches in the game and an OG in the wor...

Bryce Johnson had an absolute breakout year on the pro strongman circuit last year. Many people believe he may be the next "Brian Shaw" in the sport. Bryce is an absolute behemoth at 6'6 415lbs and has proven to be a dominant competitor that is just scratching the surface of his potential. In this episode, we dive into his prep for the upcoming Arnold Classic and how his career has u...

Maximus McCall is an Australian nutrition coach for strongman competitors and powerlifters. Among his clients are some of the biggest, strongest athletes in the world. Maximus is also an accomplished athlete and competitor himself and walks the walk of what he coaches. A highly intelligent and well educated practitioner, merging real world experience and evidence based literature within his protoc...

Tim Riley is a private sector strength and conditioning coach who specializes in NFL combine prep. He is also a prominent figure in the sports performance and fitness industry in general. Tim is the host of the popular Coach 'Em Up Podcast as well as the creator of APEX, a new and popular fitness competition that rivals the likes of Hyrox. Tim is a character, a go getter and his story is amazi...

Dr. Mike T. Nelson is a research-driven human performance specialist, exercise physiologist, and leading educator in fitness, nutrition, and metabolic science. With over 18 years dedicated to understanding how the human body works, Dr. Mike has developed evidence-based methods to help people burn fat, build strength, improve flexibility, and optimize health and performance. He holds a PhD in Exerc...

Josh Bryant is a renowned strength coach, author, and co-founder of Jailhouse Strong. He has coached multiple world-record holders across powerlifting, strongman, and professional sports, and is widely known for his brutally effective training philosophies, high-intensity programming, and no-nonsense approach to building real strength. Josh is also a prolific writer and educator, contributing to o...

Strength & Conditioning for Football Players | Nick DiMarco on Speed, Power, and DurabilityIn this episode, I sit down with Nick DiMarco, director of strength and conditioning for football at Elon University, to break down what actually matters when it comes to strength and conditioning for football players. From Freshman to Seniors, we dive into how to build speed, power, and resilience witho...

This episode is pure Eric Bugenhagen. I sit down with one of the most unpredictable, high-energy personalities in the fitness industry for a wide-ranging conversation that hits training, mindset, life philosophy, and the chaos that fuels his intensity. Eric opens up about how he trains, how he thinks, and why embracing discomfort, absurdity, and obsession has shaped both his physique and his life....

In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with Judd Lienhard for a wide-ranging conversation on training, leadership, and long term development—both in the gym and beyond it. Judd shares his perspective on what truly drives progress: building systems that last, leading athletes (and teams) with intention, and developing people—not just performance metrics. We dive into how great coaches think, ho...

In this episode, I sit down with Skip Hill, one of the most influential voices in modern bodybuilding. Known for his decades-long coaching career, sharp industry insight, and unfiltered commentary, Skip has worked with countless elite competitors while also shaping bodybuilding media through writing, podcasting, and online platforms. We dive into Skip’s journey from coach to media figure, how body...

In this episode, I sit down with Chris Duffin—one of the most influential minds in strength training, biomechanics, and human performance. Chris is a world-record-holding powerlifter, engineer, and the founder of Kabuki Strength. Known as “Mad Scientist” in the strength world, he’s spent decades blending hard science with real-world training application. His work has shaped how athletes, coaches,...

Jen Thompson is a legendary female Powerlifter with multiple All Time World Records and dominant World Championship wins. Known for her insanely strong bench press, Jen has been competing for decades and remains an active competitor and a staple in the Powerlifting community, and an inspiration to women all over the world CHECK OUT MY EBOOK, Dialing in Your Nutrition: A Comprehensive Manual for Se...

In this episode I dive into my own origin story, background and road to getting where I am today. Recapping one full year of full time business ownership, what goes on behind the scenes, leaving NFL football strength and conditioning, first year of fatherhood and the obstacles I have had to overcome to get here. This episode will be ad freeCHECK OUT MY EBOOK, Dialing in Your Nutrition: A Comprehen...

Dusty Hanshaw is a former high level bodybuilder known for his insane strength and brutally heavy and intense approach to training. He is a popular voice in bodybuilding media with a wealth of wisdom and crazy stories. None crazier than his near death experience that put him in a coma for a month. CHECK OUT MY EBOOK, Dialing in Your Nutrition: A Comprehensive Manual for Setting Up Your Own Diet. T...

Robert Oberst is an iconic former Strongman competitor, actor, arm wrestler and entrepreneur. He is one of the biggest personalities in the industry and puts it on display in this conversation as we dive into a variety of stories and topics. CHECK OUT MY EBOOK, Dialing in Your Nutrition: A Comprehensive Manual for Setting Up Your Own Diet. This ebook covers fat loss, muscle gain, gut health, suppl...

Dawson Windham is an elite powerlifter that has been a crowd favorite in the sport since he was a teenager. He has been a phenom of strength from a young age known for his gritty and passionate demeanor and work ethic. We had a great conversation about training, and the value of attacking training with a savage blue collar work ethic. CHECK OUT MY EBOOK, Dialing in Your Nutrition: A Comprehensive...