The Salty Fitness Podcast

Clip taken from this episode: FULL EPISODE Natural Family HealthWe teach about a Christian approach to rebuilding family health & fertility through metabolic restoration.✅ Men's Health, Women's Health & Couples Natural Fertility:https://mysaltyfitness.ac-page.com/natural-family-health✅ FREE metabolic fat loss email course (12 days): https://mysaltyfitness.activehosted.com/f/7✅ FREE get...

Natural Family Health We teach about a Christian approach to rebuilding family health & fertility through metabolic restoration. ✅ Men's Health, Women's Health & Couples Natural Fertility:https://mysaltyfitness.ac-page.com/natural-family-health ✅ FREE metabolic fat loss email course (12 days): https://mysaltyfitness.activehosted.com/f/7 ✅ FREE get great sleep email course (14 da...

This study shows us how intermittent fasting shifts our bodies to a "famine/war-time" state & away from an "abundance/peace-time" state, which leads to downsides such as more muscle loss & decreased energy in the day. Whether you're trying to conceive or lose fat or gain muscle or be creative or have a great mood, your body needs to be at or moving towards a state o...

In this video, I play a clip from Ray himself giving a short background and then dive into what made him unique (his anti-mainstream views) along with an overview of how he would categorize major hormones.- Natural Family HealthWe teach about a Christian approach to rebuilding family health & fertility through metabolic restoration.✅ Men's Health, Women's Health & Couples Natural...

Dealing with mold? In this episode, I replay a clip from Ray Peat's answer to dealing with mold & discuss his answer. Here's a summary of the clip from Ray Peat's answer to a question about how to deal with mold: 1. First, work on increasing your (liver's) ability to detoxify. 2. Decrease the inflammatory, poorly digestible foods 3. Increase foods that remove bad gut bacteria 4...

How should we eat our macros? What's wrong with low-carb diets? What symptoms will tell us about our metabolic health? We'll answer all these questions and more in this episode. Train. Work. Restore. The Salty Fitness Collective exists to guide men & their families in taking responsibility & dominion over their bodies in order to govern the world into glory. For more, visit https://mysalty...

In this episode, I give my top 5 food categories to build around and top 3 categories of foods to avoid for obtaining a high-octane metabolism. Our future episodes will break down each one of these 8 pillars. Train. Work. Restore. The Salty Fitness Collective exists to guide men & their families in taking responsibility & dominion over their bodies in order to govern the world into glory. ...

On this episode, we intro a series on FOOD. We talk about what IS food for & how it glorifies Christ & aids in the Christian mission to exercise dominion over the earth. Train. Work. Restore. The Salty Fitness Collective exists to guide men & their families in taking responsibility & dominion over their bodies in order to govern the world into glory.  For more, visit https://mysalt...

In this episode, I do a deeper dive into the problems with drinking too much plain water & consuming too little sodium and how that affects our long term cardiovascular health as well as our immediate energy efficiency for daily tasks. Train. Work. Restore. The Salty Fitness Collective exists to guide men & their families in taking responsibility & dominion over their bodies in order t...

Does water quality matter? What water filters are best? How much and when should I drink water? We answer all of these questions and more in this first part of a series on WATER. Links from the episode: (know what's in your local water): https://ewg.org/tapwater/ (top carbon filters): https://amzn.to/3Pi2vhF https://clearlyfiltered.com/ (Reverse Osmosis filters): https://aquatruwater.com/ (Paleova...

We recently expanded our services at our new location to include 1-on-1 and semi-private training with our gym facility. In this episode, we'll talk about how this is going to work & we'll also discuss the next phase plans as well. -- Train. Work. Restore. The Salty Fitness Collective exists to guide men & their families in taking responsibility & dominion over their bodies in...

My brother from CityGate Church sat down with me to talk about the Spartan Race that we ran together and some of the principles we had to embrace to push through. We also talked about how doing hard things on purpose (such as this race) equips you to do hard things in life that come your way. -- Train. Work. Restore. The Salty Fitness Collective exists to guide men & their families in taking r...

In this guest episode, I'm joined by Pastor John Gilfillan of CityGate Church: https://www.citygatechurch.cc/ We discuss the nature of the times we are living in, how there is no neutrality in God's world, and how we should live in a culture that hates Christians. - Train. Work. Restore. Salty Fitness exists to guide men & their families in taking responsibility & dominion over the...

As we continue in our "Your Work Matters" series, we talk specifically about the serious dangers of sitting jobs or just being sedentary in general, & then hit on some practical actions to take for the sake of your long term health. The Salty Fitness Collective: Train. Work. Restore. Salty Fitness exists to guide men & their families in taking responsibility & dominion over t...

My goal in this episode is to contrast the pagan vision of the family, household & work with the Christian vision - and perhaps this is a Christian vision that some of you haven’t considered yet. And so I hope, in doing this, it will bring about some hopefulness. I also have some practical questions to work through for men from young to retired. Salty Fitness exists to guide men & their fa...

In the episode, I sit down with Derek Anderson, owner of Amber Valley Construction and fellow churchman at Citygate Church in Portage, MI. We talk about how a conquering Christian worldview changes how we live, work & rule in this life. Derek tells us about his near-death story, his pathway to owning a successful business, his 500 year plan, and his motivation for running for a civil magistrat...

Introduction episode to our new series coming your way. We're going to do a deeper dive into work (vocation) - what it is, what it's for, it's implications on the father & husband, the mother & wife. As part of this series, I am going to be interviewing some men who are living in such a way as to show their work as glorious. Salty Fitness exists to guide men & their familie...

In this episode, we'll talk about competition & how it can be a glorious tool for Christians. We'll also talk about kids & sports in regards to competition as well as the mindset men should have as they face difficulties & competition in life. Salty Fitness exists to guide men & their families in taking responsibility & dominion over their bodies in order to govern the...

This is part 2 of 2 of my guest episode with Pastor Cole Brandon of CityGate Church in Portage, MI. We dive into how Christian men who bear a false humility are making themselves weak & ineffective in their good works as Christians and as husbands & fathers in their households. Salty Fitness exists to guide men & their families in taking responsibility & dominion over their bodies...

In this episode, I have one of the pastors of CityGate Church in Portage, MI on as my guest, Pastor Cole Brandon. In this part 1 of 2, we discuss how guilt got into the world & how it wreaks havoc on the world & how it turns men, particularly, into monsters or impotent weaklings. We also talk about the role of the local church in the Christian man. Salty Fitness exists to guide men & t...

In this episode, we review and expand a bit on our previous episode about WORK. We also take a long tangent on our day of REST, that is, the Lord's Day. And we finally make the connection between PHYSICAL FITNESS & our work, and as such, the degree of saltiness we possess. __ Salty Fitness exists to guide men & their families in taking responsibility & dominion over their bodies in...

David Bahnsen says that there is no such Biblical idea of a "work-life" balance. So what is the Biblical view & how might that affect how men & their wives understand work. Getting this right will help us make the clear connection between physical fitness & glorifying Christ. Salty Fitness exists to guide men & their families in taking responsibility & dominion over t...

God made BOTH a spiritual (unseen) and a physical (seen) world. Many Christians today hold a dualistic view of these two worlds. But Christ is Lord of both. So if we believe this, how would this affect the way we live? Salty Fitness exists to guide men & their families in taking responsibility & dominion over their bodies in order to govern the world into glory. For more, visit https://mys...

In this episode, we open our series on the theology of fitness with an orientation of where we are in God's story and why we exist in this world. I lay out the unpopular but glorious & most Scriptural view of Christ's reign and purposes. This is not meant to be a deep Biblical dive (although I'd love to do that if there are enough requests) but a high view of the world we live in &...

In this episode, I will give a brief summary of how fitness, and the lack thereof, played a role in my life in some significant ways. Salty Fitness exists to guide men & their families in taking responsibility & dominion over their bodies in order to govern the world into glory. For more, visit https://mysaltyfitness.com