The Kris Gethin Podcast

If you are Indian and you have been going to the gym for months or even years, avoiding the biryani at family dinners, telling your coach you are being consistent, and still cannot figure out why your physique is not changing, I know that it could feel demoralizing. And the story you might have told yourself when that happens, that it is your genetics, culture, schedule, family pressure, or your e...

Most serious lifters treat cardio like the enemy, something that eats muscle, kills strength, and belongs in a different sport entirely. What they are missing is that the tool is not the problem, and avoiding it completely is quietly costing them their recovery, their longevity, and the very gains they are trying to protect. In this episode of The Kris Gethin Podcast, I break down why the lifters...

Most people chasing fat loss are locked in on calories, macros, and training splits while completely ignoring one of the most aggressive metabolic disruptors in their life - the phone they keep glued to their hand from the moment they wake up to the moment they try to sleep. Your phone is not just a distraction. It is actively interfering with your circadian rhythm, degrading your sleep quality, s...

Aging is usually framed as a genetics problem, a hormone problem, or something medicine will handle later. But the real issue is that most people are not dying because the clock ran out. They are losing strength, muscle, and physical reserve year by year until one illness, one fall, or one short stretch of inactivity exposes how little capacity they have left. In this episode of the Kris Gethin Po...

Caffeine is so normal in training culture that nobody questions it anymore. But the shock is this: the same stimulant you're using to "perform" can be cutting blood flow, drying you out, wrecking sleep quality, and pushing cortisol up while you chase a better physique. If you're living on pre-workout and energy drinks, you might not be training with energy at all. You're training with stimulation,...

Most people training for performance, muscle, or body composition have been told that carbohydrates during training are unnecessary, counterproductive for fat loss, or only relevant for endurance athletes. But walk into the hotel rooms of the professional bodybuilders, UFC fighters, and motocross racers at the Arnold Classic and every single one of them is consuming carbohydrates mid-session, beca...

How many times have you told yourself, "This week I'm going to be consistent," then two weeks later you're back at day one, annoyed at yourself like you are the problem? The truth is, most people do not fail because they lack discipline. They fail because the system they are using is working against them. The commute, the crowds, the gym hours, the intimidation, the waiting for equipment. Every on...

Fat loss does not fail because of weak discipline. It fails because the body does not feel safe enough to release stored energy. Long before macros, cardio, or meal timing matter, the nervous system decides whether energy will be mobilized or defended.  When sympathetic tone dominates through late nights, artificial light exposure, chronic stress, stimulant reliance, and inflammatory inputs, the b...

Injuries rarely fail to heal because the body is incapable. They fail because the healing sequence is interrupted. I see this constantly. People rest, the pain reduces, they feel better, and they assume the tissue has repaired. Then they return to training and it flares again. Healing does not happen through the absence of stress. It happens through the correct sequencing of inflammation, energy p...

Sleep is the most overlooked variable I see in people who train hard, eat well, and still feel stuck. Clients come to me wanting better programs, better supplements, better plans, but when sleep is short or broken, the body simply does not cooperate. It shifts into a defensive state, holds onto fat, and makes progress feel harder than it needs to be. In this episode, I explain why sleep is the str...

Stem cells and regenerative medicine get talked about like they're magic. Fix the joint, fix the injury, get back to training. That mindset is exactly why so many people walk away disappointed or saying the treatment didn't work. I wanted to have a real conversation about what actually determines results once the procedure is over. In this episode, I'm sitting down with Scotty Nelson at CPI in Tij...

After decades of training hard, competing, coaching, and living inside a high-intensity routine, you start to understand that discipline evolves. There comes a point where doing more is no longer the smartest decision, even when you are fully capable of it. In this episode, I explain why I am temporarily stepping away from resistance training as part of a structured stem cell recovery protocol, an...

After years of bodybuilding, coaching, and pushing my body to extremes, you start to see patterns you can't unsee. People chase fat loss harder and harder, slash calories, live on stimulants, and follow rigid nutrition rules that promise control and discipline. It works for a while. Then energy drops. Recovery slows. Hormones take a hit. Inflammation creeps up. And the cycle starts all over again....

After spending decades in bodybuilding, you start to notice patterns that are difficult to ignore. People who once looked indestructible begin to age faster than expected. Recovery slows. Energy drops. Joints ache. Hormones suffer. And yet the narrative persists that bodybuilding itself is the cause. From my experience, that conclusion misses the real issue. In this episode, I explain why muscle,...

Injury has a way of exposing how people really think. For some, it becomes a reason to stop, spiral, and slowly detach from who they believe they are. For others, it becomes a moment of recalibration. After decades in this industry, I've learned that the injury itself is rarely the thing that derails progress. The mindset around it does far more damage than the tissue ever could. In this episode,...

Peptides are everywhere right now, but most people don't actually understand how they work or how to use them intelligently. That's why I wanted to sit down with Kyal Van Der Leest, founder of LVLUP Health, to cut through the noise and talk about what really matters if you care about performance, longevity, and staying sharp. In this episode, we get into oral peptides and why some work while other...

I see more people than ever leaning into a victim mindset and calling it self-awareness. Blaming their past, their genetics, their schedule, or the world around them for why they are stuck. And I can tell you from decades of coaching and living this life, that mindset is the fastest way to stay exactly where you are. In this episode, I break down the real difference between a victim and a warrior....

Holiday weight gain hits harder than people admit. It is the late nights, the drinks, the constant grazing and the zero structure that leave you softer, bloated and feeling slow. If you woke up in January and realized your metabolism is dragging, this episode is the wake up call you needed. I walk you through the same high level reset I use with my one on one clients to pull down inflammation, tig...

Jardiance has exploded in the longevity and fat loss world, but most people still have no idea how it actually works. You hear about glucose dumping, ketone shifts, inflammation changes and kidney filtration, but the mechanism is rarely explained in a way that makes sense. In this episode I break it down with zero nonsense. You will learn how empagliflozin, the compound in Jardiance, blocks SGLT2...

Most people underestimate how much alcohol destroys their progress during the holidays. They think a few drinks only affect their sleep or recovery, but the real damage happens on a deeper level. Inflammation shoots up, blood sugar swings all over the place, the liver gets overloaded, electrolytes crash, mitochondria slow down, and the gut takes a beating. That is why one night out can leave you f...

Most people don't realize how much of their holiday weight gain has nothing to do with "bad food choices" and everything to do with unplanned habits, skipped movement, and metabolic chaos. They write December off as a free-for-all, promise themselves they'll start fresh in January… and then spend the next two months undoing damage that was completely avoidable. In this episode, I'm giving you the...

Most people have no idea what's really happening in the longevity world. They hear "anti-aging" and think of fasting windows and cold plunges. Meanwhile, some of the most powerful tools are prescription-only compounds that almost never get discussed publicly. I've been experimenting with several of them for years, tracking how they impact my performance, recovery, bloodwork, and training cycles… a...

Most people assume supplements are helping their health and performance. The reality is that a large part of the industry is built on cheap ingredients, artificial additives, and labels designed to look impressive instead of delivering results. I've been in this industry for nearly three decades as a writer, editor, and brand owner, and I've seen exactly what happens behind the labels.  In this ep...

Most people don't fail because they don't care. They fail because they keep getting in their own way. In this episode, I answer the real questions my clients and community ask about staying consistent when life gets messy. These are the problems that stop most people from ever reaching their goals. I talk about why waiting for life to "calm down" is a trap, why skipping check-ins kills progress, a...

Cookies, coffee drinks, and fast food aren't harmless treats. They're engineered to keep you addicted, inflamed, and tired. In this episode, I break down exactly what's hiding inside the foods most people eat every week, and how they quietly destroy your metabolism, hormones, and recovery. We get into what makes these foods so damaging, from hidden sugars and trans fats to emulsifiers, dyes, and c...