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Nutrition
Smart Bulking Strategies During Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving can feel like enemy territory for anyone trying to bulk in a health-conscious household. This guide breaks down smart, stealthy strategies to stay on track with your mass-building goals while keeping the peace at the dinner table. Learn how to maximize calories, navigate social dynamics, and discover the Power Athlete programs that can take your bulking to the next level.
Ep 833 – Micro-Impacts & Brain Health w/ Dr Hunter Waldman
Certified Power Athlete Coach, Dr Hunter Waldman, breaks down the hidden world of micro-impacts, those sub-concussive hits that slowly chip away at your brain health, focus, and performance. In this talk from the Power Athlete Coach Collective, Hunter dives into what the latest research says about repeated head trauma, the role of nutrition and supplements in recovery, and how athletes can build true brain resilience for the long game.
Ep 832 – Robb Wolf on Nutrition, Ego & the Death of a Movement
Robb Wolf sits down with John to break down the rise and fall of CrossFit, from its explosive beginnings to the moment it lost its way. They dig into the truth about Paleo nutrition, the diet wars that followed, and how performance got buried under hype. This is an unfiltered look at what went wrong in fitness, and what it’ll take to rebuild it.
Ep 831 – The Science of Stress & Strength
Technology’s evolving faster than our bodies can keep up. John sits down with Certified Power Athlete Coaches, Dr. Ben Skutnick and Dr. Hunter Waldman, to dig into how comfort and convenience are killing performance. They break down the science of stress, why it’s essential for growth, and how nutrition and training come together in the HAMMER 90 Challenge, a 90-day mission proving what happens when discipline, data, and discomfort collide.
Ep 821 – Inside the HAMMER 90 Challenge
John is joined by Certified Power Athlete Coach and Nutrition Ninja, Ben Skutnik, to take you inside the HAMR 90 Challenge. A 90-day program built to forge strength, discipline, and lasting results, hear their firsthand experience running the challenge. Whether you’re chasing fat loss, peak performance, or a mental edge, this episode gives you the blueprint to commit, conquer, and come out stronger.
Ep 819 – Peptides: The Biohack You’re Missing w/ Jay Campbell
What if the secret to faster recovery, better fat loss, and real performance gains isn’t another supplement or diet, but peptides? Jay Campbell joins to break down the powerful world of peptides, expose the truth behind fasting trends and fruit-based diets, and explore what GLP-1s like Ozempic really mean for the future of health and discipline.
Ep 818 – Fuel, Focus & the Discipline to Dominate
Resident Power Athlete Dragon Slayer, Arash Soofiani, sits down with John to dig into the hype around the sugar diet, the rise of carnivore nutrition, and what real discipline looks like in training and life. Arash brings the questions, John delivers the no-BS truth and together they unpack what fuels performance, sharpens mindset, and separates the committed from the comfortable.
Ep 816 – The Carnivore Cure w/ Dr. Shawn Baker
Is everything you’ve been told about red meat dead wrong? Dr. Shawn Baker John to expose the truth about the carnivore diet. From reversing autoimmune disease and obesity to crushing chronic inflammation, Baker lays out how an all-meat diet is transforming lives and challenging everything we thought we knew about nutrition. If you’re tired of being sick, overfed, and underpowered, this is the wake-up call you didn’t know you needed.
Ep 814 – Beyond the Trends: What Really Works for Performance & Durability
John and Arash break down the truth about strength training, jiu-jitsu prep, fascia-specific workouts, and trending diets like Mark Bell’s sugar protocol. They go deep on gut health, raw dairy, and fermented foods. If you’re tired of gimmicks and want real, actionable strategies to boost performance and durability, this episode is your wake-up call.
Ep 812 – Fast Food, Slow Gains w/ Ben Skutnik
Think your diet sucks because of carbs or bad genetics? Think again. Certified Power Athlete Coach, Ben Skutnik, joins us to break down the real reasons you’re failing with food: emotional eating, environmental triggers, and the fact that you treat your kitchen like a storage unit. If you’re not cooking, not prepping, and not tracking, don’t expect performance. This episode is a gut check for anyone who’s tired of starting over and ready to take control.
