Back pain may be the most common type of pain humans experience, but knee pain is a close second. What do you do if you have painful knees, but still need to train? Coach D and Trent discuss the anatomy of the knee, the various causes of knee pain, […]

Today a member of Fort Worth Strength & Conditioning joins the show to discuss his journey going from overweight and diabetic to fit and strong with well-managed blood sugar.

Clif Hadley is a 61-year old IT professional with no prior athletic background (well, not since […]

In another 40fit athlete profile, Fort Worth Strength member Brad Lamar joins the show to talk about his amazing journey of losing 50lbs and nearly 10in off his waist while getting stronger and leaner than he’s ever been.

Brad is a 49-year old IT professional […]

Coach D delivers an overview of total joint replacements, their effectiveness, their limitations, and the considerations for training before and after surgery.

Modern medicine has developed artificial joints which can replace damaged or worn out joints in the human body, often with great results. As […]

Consistency is the key to progress in fitness and nutrition, and that often means doing the same thing workout to workout (ensuring you have a logical progression built into your training program) for long periods of time. Fitness is a marathon, not a sprint, […]

Want to change your body, change your health, change the way you eat and train? It all starts with the habits you cultivate, and your daily routine. Many folks start a fitness program because they have been driven to change. Something has pushed them […]

As we’ve said many times, training for strength improves tissue quality, flexibility, and joint health, especially for Masters lifters who have accumulated some bumps and bruises along the road of life. However, some Masters trainees find that even after they have acquired a solid baseline level of strength, they […]

In Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Clearfield, he explains how he “helps the body heal itself” using treatments such as proliferative therapy, joint manipulation, platelet-rich plasma injections, and traditional physical therapy and exercise. Dr. Clearfield also discusses his process for analyzing and diagnosing a new patient.

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Coach D and Coach Trent discuss the importance of training with a long-term mindset and an eye on sustainability — training smart now so you that you can keep training for years!

Trent analogizes fitness with cars. If you let a car sit for months, […]

What if you just don’t like exercise? What if you have trouble sticking with anything physically hard? How do overcome these hurdles? Not everyone falls in love with training, and that’s OK. You can still enjoy the health and physique benefits of training! Strength […]

Coach Charity Hambrick returns to the podcast for a sort of “coaches’ roundtable,” an impromptu discussion between three coaches talking shop about training, programming philosophy, and long-term health and fitness. As Coach D reminds us, we’re all organisms with a certain trajectory. We’re born, […]

Coach D and Coach Trent continue the discussion on sustainable fitness by diving deeper on the topic of joint health. As the saying goes, “motion is lotion,” but what kind of motion should we be doing in training, and is there such thing as too much? As with many […]

In the strength community, the typical advice about warmups is to start warming up with the first barbell lift you will be performing. For many people, especially novices, this will be the squat, so the warm-up would consist of a couple sets of five […]

The last episode of 2020! Thanks for tuning in, and we look forward to keeping the conversation about health and fitness going in the New Year.

In today’s episode, Coach D and Coach Trent discuss the concept of selecting appropriate volume and intensity for a […]

Coach Charity Hambrick returns to the show to discuss her experience contracting COVID-19 and her slow road to get back into training afterward. Though she contracted COVID back in October 2020, Charity had lingering fatigue and muscle cramps for weeks, and loss of smell that lasted for over three […]

It’s January, and that means there are millions of people trying to make good on their New Years’ Resolutions. For many, this resolution involves losing weight, cutting body fat, and “leaning up.” And predictably many resolutioners first instinct is to hit the cardio machines […]

Coach D, Trent, and Charity discuss the tendency of strength coaches and athletes to get hung up chasing PR’s on the bar, and missing the forest for the trees — that is, the greater PR’s in life such as raising good families, growing mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

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Coach D and Trent discuss the most important vitamins you should be getting from your diet and supplements.

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Coach Darin has said it before, humans like to “complicate to validate.” The bigger, faster, more complex, more “science-y,” the better! Right? Likewise, the idea that fitness is an intense, all-in pursuit pervades media and popular training programs. Frankly, it’s exhausting!

Health and fitness doesn’t […]