Happy Sunday! I hope your week is going well. I'm back home and finally in a groove with work and training again after a ton of sleep. Sleep is good. Hahaha. Here is what went down this week Newsletters: Creatine and Your Brain: Here’s why creatine may matter far beyond muscle and why brain stress, sleep deprivation, and contact sports change the conversation entirely. No Gym? No problem, do this: Here’s why bodyweight training can humble you fast and why effort, tension, and control matter a...

One question I get on the road to violent training consistency is: “What do I do if I don’t have any equipment?” Ah yes. The ancient fitness panic. Rack? Missing. Cable stack? Gone. Dumbbells? Also vanished into the remodeling abyss. Just you, the floor, gravity, and the cold realization that your own bodyweight has been sitting there the whole time like a loan shark in sweatpants. This came up recently with one of our employees, Suzie, out in Colorado. Both gyms she normally uses are being...

I recently joined Jake Turra on the Jacked Athlete Podcast to talk about metabolic flexibility, performance, and how your body actually uses fuel in the real world. We dig into what metabolic flexibility really means—how well you can use carbs and fat, and more importantly, how fast you can switch between them depending on the demand. We get into how stress, sleep, and aerobic capacity can quietly wreck your metabolism—even if your training looks solid—and why most people are missing the...