The Supra Human Show

In this episode, Supra Human client Jamie Shyer shares his profound journey from 235 pounds and a cocktail of medications to a lean, muscular, and medication-free lifestyle. Joined by his coach, Shane Teal, Jamie discusses the mental and physical resilience required to lead a 100-year-old family legacy through high-stakes private equity transactions while maintaining elite fitness. Key Discussion...

Success is a double-edged sword. While it brings abundance, it often demands your health as payment. In this episode, Supra Human founder John Madsen returns to the show to discuss the "arc of success" and how high-performers can reclaim their fitness without sacrificing their businesses or families. John shares his personal journey from the NFL to the boardroom, detailing how his own tr...

Should you bulk or cut first? This episode breaks down the most efficient ways to transform your body composition, specifically for busy professionals and those struggling with a "skinny fat" physique. We discuss the physiological benefits of "priming" your body with a fat loss phase before building muscle, the importance of training intensity, and why most people’s perception...

Can you be an elite business leader, a present father, and maintain the physique of an athlete? In this episode, Supra Human client Colby Bodoin and Coach Jared Boyle join us to discuss Colby’s three-year transformation journey. Colby shares the raw emotional moment that forced him to stop "spinning his wheels" with fad diets and commit to a structured plan for the sake of his wife and d...

Do you feel like you have to lose your fitness goals the moment life gets stressful? In this episode, we break down the "All or Nothing Trap", the common knee-jerk response to remove fitness or nutrition from your plate whenever a new challenge arises, whether it's a heavy project at work, a new addition to the family, or an unexpected life event. We discuss why turning the "fit...

In this episode of The Supra Human Show , Supra Human CEO and Co-Founder Nineveh Madsen, talks about why so many fitness programs fail busy women. As a busy CEO, a mother, wife, and client herself, Nineveh shares why high-performing women often struggle to prioritize themselves and why cookie-cutter programs rarely work for real life. This episode dives into stress, guilt, comparison, body image,...

Cortisol has become the go-to excuse for why fat loss stalls, but the science does not support that claim. If you have been told your body is "too stressed to lose weight," this episode confronts that belief head on and redirects your attention to the behavioral patterns that are actually driving your results. In this episode of the Supra Human Show one host shares bloodwork showing cort...

Losing 20 pounds five times and gaining it all back, that was the cycle for over a decade. Kirk Jones came into the program at 231 pounds, Two and a half years later he sits at 191, leaner and stronger than he has been since his twenties, training alongside his 14 year old son who now brings friends to the gym because of what he saw his dad do. This episode is a direct challenge to the belief that...

Fitness content sometimes treats exercise like a mental health cure-all. Train harder, feel better, repeat. But the research tells a different story, and so does lived experience. If you are already training consistently and still struggling, this episode explains why more volume is not the answer and what the evidence actually supports for mental health challenges. On this episode of the Supra Hu...

You reconnect with your daughter after 23 years of separation. The next day, you open a medical portal and find out you have cancer. That is not a hypothetical scenario for content. That is what happened to this week's guest in the middle of a coaching transformation that had already changed his body composition, his blood markers, and his daily habits. His coach had to scrap the entire plan overn...

Hyrox exposes how narrow gym fitness really is. If you've been training the same way for years, chasing body composition without a performance goal, this episode is the wake up call that shows what you're missing and why fitness might feel stale. In this episode of Supra human, Ben Olliver, Dr. Taylor Waters, and Ryan Stevens discuss their first Hyrox race in Phoenix, from getting overtake...

A surgeon looked at his shoulder and said "never lift heavy weights again". Ten years later, that same man is 195 pounds of lean muscle in his 50s, training harder than most guys half his age, and completely pain free. Adam came into Superhuman at 230 pounds with a bad back, a deteriorating shoulder, and the image of his parents at 70 struggling to stay independent. What changed was not just the t...

Fear mongering fitness content is everywhere, and the biggest health influencers are often the worst offenders. If you have ever felt guilty about eating bread, confused by someone demonizing vegetables, or convinced that a supplement was the missing piece, this episode is the intervention you need. Ben Olliver, Dr. Taylor Waters, and Ryan Stevens host Supra Human, a show built to challenge weak t...

The Average population of men are sedentary, overfed, undertrained, and completely fine with it. In this episode Ben Olliver, Dr. Taylor Waters, and Jose Espinoza discuss the real population data on the average American male: body fat, daily movement, calorie intake, and training compliance. The numbers are worse than most people realize, and they argue that using that average as your reference po...

Stepping on the scale at 300 pounds knowing your father died of a heart attack at 49 and realizing you are on the same path. That is where John’s story starts. In this episode of Supra Human, Dr. Taylor Waters, Ryan Stevens, and coach Jose Espinoza discuss with John Zarour what actually changed. After years of grinding on StairMasters, jumping between programs, and losing and gaining the same weig...

You can bench three plates but get winded walking up stairs. You look strong in the mirror but cannot keep up when it actually matters. In this episode of Supra Human, Ben Olliver, Dr. Taylor Waters, Ryan Stevens, and John Madsen break down the gap between looking fit and actually being fit after 40. They challenge the idea that strength alone equals fitness and lay out what real performance shoul...

There are 5 fitness lies ruining your progress, and you might not even realize you still believe them. In this episode of Supra Human, Ben Olliver, Dr. Taylor Waters, and Ryan Stevens discuss five of the most common fitness lies still keeping people stuck in 2026. They cover the beliefs around consistency, willpower, cardio, timing, and execution that sound right on the surface but quietly lead to...

Lori Escalante thought she was just going in for a routine mammogram. Instead she was told doctors were 95 percent sure she had a tumor. In this episode of Supra Human, Ben Olliver, Dr. Taylor Waters, and Ryan Stevens talk with Lori about the moment that forced her to rethink how she was living her life and why she finally decided to stop negotiating with her health. They discuss Lori’s lifelong s...

Is your training partner sabotaging your progress in the gym without you realizing it? In this episode of Supra Human, Ben Olliver, Dr. Taylor Waters, Ryan Stevens, and guest Jose Espinoza discuss how training partners affect intensity, execution, and long term results. They talk about the biggest red flags in a partner that ruin workouts, including bad spotting, long rest periods, phone distracti...

Are you actually in the top 10 percent for your age? In this episode of The Supra Human Show, Ben Olliver, Dr. Taylor Waters, and Ryan pull a list from ChatGPT that claims to define what top 10 percent fitness looks like at age 35. The standards include strength, endurance, grip, bodyweight performance, and aerobic capacity. As they read through the list in real time, even elite coaches realize th...

He helped oversee more than $10 billion in federal technology projects and was still completely guessing with his health. In this episode of The Supra Human Show, Ben Olliver, Dr. Taylor Waters, and Ryan Stevens sit down with serial entrepreneur and investor Tim Greeff. As Founder and former CEO of the National Security Technology Accelerator, Tim helped scale a federal tech accelerator responsibl...

If you are still waiting to feel motivated, you are already behind. In this episode of The Supra Human Show, hosts Ben Olliver, Dr. Taylor Waters, and Ryan Stevens sit down with Nineveh Madsen, CEO of Supra, to discuss why motivation is unreliable and why real performance is built on standards, systems, and ownership. As the CEO responsible for Supra’s operations, structure, and execution, Nineveh...

Many people train until they look good, then they lose interest and quit. In this episode of The Supra Human Show, Ben Olliver and Ryan Stevens and Dr. Taylor Waters explain why aesthetic-only goals eventually stall motivation and why training for real events like Hyrox changes how you approach fitness. Preparing for something concrete forces better programming, builds real conditioning, and creat...

Modern fitness culture rewards looking like you are doing the work more than actually doing It. In this episode of The Supra Human Show, Ben Olliver, Ryan Stevens, and the team break down the fitness and social media trends they would happily leave behind in 2026. From performative workouts and overcomplicated routines to fake authenticity, unnecessary supplements, and content-first training, they...

Six week transformations do not fail because of you. They fail because the timeline itself is unrealistic. In this episode of The Supra Human Show, Ben Olliver, Ryan Stevens, and Dr. Taylor Waters discuss why “6 Weeks To Shred” programs set people up with expectations that almost no one can sustain. They explain how aggressive cuts, missing exit plans, and short timelines often lead to binge cycle...