Episode 105: What It Really Means to Train Like an Athlete

Episode 106: Return to the Hunt

Step back into the wild mindset of your ancestors. In this episode, Brad explores how ancient tracking instincts can sharpen modern focus, endurance, and awareness. You’ll learn how to channel primal energy — the same drive that once fueled survival — into your daily performance rituals. From reading subtle cues in your environment to mastering patience and precision, this is about reclaiming the hunter within to dominate your goals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Episode 105: What It Really Means to Train Like an Athlete

Here's what we're going to cover today. We're going to talk about what it actually means to be athletic — agility, power, speed, and performance. We're going to break down the different types of power and what they mean for your body. We'll show you how to figure out your body type, measure your metabolic rate, and track your recovery. And then we're going to hand you real training programs — built specifically around your age, your current shape, and your ability level — so you can start training like the athlete you were born to be. No sport required. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Episode 104: The Secret to Staying Fast, Mobile, and Injury-Free

Let's start at the very beginning, because too many people skip this part. When most people hear the word "performance," they immediately think about strength, speed, power, or endurance. They think about how much weight they can move, how fast they can run, how high they can jump. And while all of those things matter, none of them are sustainable — none of them are even fully achievable — without a foundation of mobility underneath them. Think of your body as a machine. A beautifully engineered, incredibly complex machine. Now imagine that machine has joints that don't move through their full range of motion, muscles that are perpetually tight and shortened, connective tissue that hasn't been properly maintained. That machine is going to break down. Maybe not today, maybe not this month, but eventually, and often at the worst possible time. The breakdown could come as a nagging shoulder injury, a lower back that gives out, knees that ache on every stair, or hips so tight they limit every single athletic movement you try to make. Mobility work — and I'm using that as an umbrella term for calisthenics, stretching, yoga, foam rolling, dynamic movement, and all related practices — is the maintenance protocol for that machine. It is the oil in the engine, the lubrication in the joints, the spaciousness in the connective tissue that allows everything else to function at its highest level. When you train your mobility consistently, you don't just feel better. You move better, you recover faster, you perform at higher levels, and you stay in the game far, far longer than your peers who neglect this piece. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Episode 103: Westside Barbell

Background To understand Westside Barbell, you have to understand where it came from. The original Westside Barbell Club was actually based in Culver City, California, in the 1960s and 1970s. It was a legitimate powerhouse in the world of competitive powerlifting, producing champions and setting standards. But the Westside Barbell that the entire strength world knows and argues about today is the one in Columbus, Ohio, the one built by Louie Simmons. And Louie did not simply copy the California club's name as an act of flattery — he inherited its spirit and then took it somewhere nobody else had the vision or the audacity to go. Louie Simmons came up as a lifter in an era when powerlifting was raw, rough, and not particularly scientific. The sport in the 1970s and early 1980s was built mostly on doing the competition lifts over and over again, adding weight when you could, and hoping your body held together. Periodization was a concept that most American coaches and lifters had barely encountered in any formal way. Soviet and Eastern European strength science was beginning to leak into Western consciousness through translated texts, but it was still largely inaccessible to the average powerlifter grinding it out in a garage or a small gym somewhere in Middle America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Episode 102: Becoming A Hybrid Athlete

WHAT EXACTLY IS A HYBRID ATHLETE? Let us start at the very beginning because if you are new to this term, it deserves a proper introduction. A hybrid athlete is someone who trains simultaneously for strength, power, cardiovascular endurance, and mobility — and does not sacrifice one quality for the sake of another. The hybrid athlete is not the person who can squat six hundred pounds but gets winded walking up a flight of stairs. They are also not the ultra-marathoner who can run a hundred miles but cannot carry their own groceries without injury. The hybrid athlete lives in the middle, and that middle is a remarkable place to be. Think about the demands of real life, real sport, and real adventure. Whether you are chasing your kids around a park, competing in a weekend obstacle race, hiking a mountain, playing recreational sports with friends, or simply wanting to feel powerful and capable in your body well into your sixties and beyond, the hybrid approach prepares you for all of it. You become what fitness professionals sometimes call a generalist of the highest order — exceptionally good at everything rather than world-class at one narrow thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]