The We Are OLLIN Podcast

Nobody knows what they're doing. Not you, not your heroes, not the guy selling you the answer. This is a conversation, not an interview. No agenda, no promotion, no guest hitting the same talking points they hit on the last five podcasts. Michael Blevins sits down with Josh Tyler and follows the thread wherever it goes: why every business is selling the feeling of certainty, why you crave a Porsch...

You don't think your way into a new self. You move your way there — and then you turn around and the person who started walking isn't the person who arrived. ???? Read the full article: https://www.weareollin.com/articles/you-are-not-who-you-think-youre-how-you-stand A client stands in front of me and says, "I'm just not an athletic person." He says it like he's reporting the weather. For years I...

The best companies in the world aren't the ones that pay the most. They're the ones that refuse to set their most valuable asset on fire. In 2024 I ran a project with a desk of elite commodities traders where the only metric that mattered was money. If they made more, we succeeded. If they didn't, we failed. We spent zero dollars on gadgets — no recovery beds, no biohacking toys — and their sick d...

Before launching the new OLLIN endurance program, I opened a Q&A to the membership and answered what came back. This is that conversation. The through-line: most endurance programs make you good at one thing — one movement, one event, one finish line. That's a finite game. This program is built to develop aerobic ability generally, the capacity to provide oxygen and blood flow across anything...

How do you describe a feeling to someone who's never felt it? There's no single word for what the 12th hour of a maximal effort does to a person — the pain, the haunting that arrives when it's just you, your effort, and the dark. I can't give you the word, but I've spent more than 20 years in the country it belongs to: triathlons, a decade of road racing, 100-mile gravel, a 24-hour assault bike wo...

There's a word hiding inside the thing you do every day, and almost nobody who does it knows what it means. Trahere — Latin, to drag, to draw a living thing out of its current state and into a new one. It's the root of "training," and for most of its life it had nothing to do with barbells. You trained a vine. This episode draws the line between training and exercise and refuses to let them be syn...

The apocalypse is a useful frame. Not because the world is ending — because it strips fitness down to one question: does this body work when it has to? Most lifters, after years of chasing PRs and stacking calories, are no harder to kill than they were on day one. Just bigger, hungrier, and more expensive to keep alive. In this episode I break down why the strongest guy in the room is usually the...

Most people confuse the two. Here is how I make an intentional difference. Training is using the psychological and sensational potential to push the physiological boundaries. Exercise is using physiological process to change the psychological or emotional state. This is part of an excerpt form a longer article that will be posted in a few weeks. The full session can be found on www.weareollin.com ...

Being out of shape is the single highest-leverage position you will ever occupy in your fitness life — and most people waste it because they're too embarrassed to use it. In this episode I cover why untrained systems respond to everything, why no program is appropriate as written for someone starting or restarting, and why formerly fit people actually have a harder time coming back than total begi...

About the episode: In an industry obsessed with 15-second clips and "hack-based" transformations, genuine physical mastery is being lost. In this episode, Stuart Diplock and I attempt to dismantle the transactional mindset of modern fitness. We explore why long-form storytelling is the antidote to superficial trends, how personality traits dictate the sports we choose, and the profound psychologic...

Today, we're talking about fitness—a topic that feels rigged from the start. You've probably seen people with perfect genetics, natural talent, or the resources to take shortcuts, and you've told yourself, "The whole system is unfair." And you're right. The fitness world isn’t "perfectly efficient." Some people have an advantage. But what if that unfairness isn't a reason to quit, but an opportuni...

world, Strange Grayson. We explore our shared history of hitting rock bottom with injuries from traditional training and how a few key conceptual shifts completely changed the game. Grayson details his "Matrix moment" at his first Functional Range Conditioning (FRC) certification, where he realized that despite being able to lift hundreds of pounds, his body was full of untrained "holes" that left...

Are you hitting a strength plateau or dealing with nagging injuries despite your training? This episode reveals why your program is likely failing you. We're not talking about reps or sets, but the two inescapable biological laws that govern ALL strength: The Law of Specificity and The Law of Accommodation. To learn more about these training principles, visit: www.weareollin.com Timestamps: 00:00:...

The UNFVCKD Podcast welcomes, Sean Waxman, a renowned strength and conditioning coach with over 30 years of experience. Sean shares his journey in strength training, starting from his early days in the projects where his father introduced him to weightlifting. Sean discusses how his initial motivation for strength training came from survival needs in his neighborhood, which evolved into a deeper p...

In this episode, host Michael Blevins dives deep into the misunderstood world of strength. Explore the ancient history of strength training, uncover common misconceptions that plague modern fitness, and discover transformative ways to redefine how you conceptualize and train strength. Michael shares his personal journey—from a barbell-centric focus to a weakness-driven approach—revealing how chasi...

Welcome to The UNFVCKD Podcast, hosted by Michael Blevins. In this groundbreaking first episode, Michael shares a pivotal moment that reshaped his worldview, sparked by the comments on an Instagram post. He reflects on the shortcomings he identified in his previous venture, The Nonprophet Podcast, and outlines his ambitious vision for this new platform. UNFVCKD is more than just a podcast; it's a...

Welcome to Unfvcked. A podcast about progress.