Autonomy 🤸🍔✊ GMB Fitness
Autonomy means deciding and moving. Ryan, Andy, and Jarlo aren't here to shill for some stupid supplement company. This show explores fitness as a way to play your own game and do more of what matters, all based on decades of training, coaching, and clinical experience. And truly awful jokes. If you hate every formulaic fitness podcast, you just might be in the right place.
Episodes
147 episodes
Training Around Minor Injuries
The most requested topic from a recent round of surveys, how to train around minor injuries is a real and pertinent issue for all of us at some point or another. Whether you wake up one morning with a crick in your neck or you twist your ankle ...
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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35:05
Bored? Good. Here's Why . . .
"It's time to make the Donuts."In a few recent polls, we found that about half of you say you move on from a training program when it gets boring. Given that repetition is basically requisite to any physical training, we thought ...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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41:21
Q&A-Hole: Not the Answers You Were Looking For
On any given day, we get dozens if not hundreds of questions on our YouTube videos, social posts, and via email. And we enjoy answering them because we never want you to get stuck or give up. Most of our answers have carry-over to whatever situ...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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39:53
You Are NOT An Athlete
Nike says that "if you have a body, you're an athlete." That's BS, and it can lead to poor decisions and wasted energy that don't benefit you. Of course, you may be an athlete. We've worked with clients competing at all levels in just a...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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22:14
How to Play with Yourself
Play is a topic that is often left out of the conversation in fitness.This is in spite of the fact that experimentation, exploration and going off script is at the core of many physical training disciplines—dance, martial arts, acrobatic...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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22:07
Minimize Training While Maximizing Gains
Chances are if you like what we do at GMB, you don’t want to spend hours each day working out. Like us, you want to focus on just the essentials in order to help you better enjoy the things you love to to do like practicing your martial arts an...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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42:37
Rule #1 (Don't Die)
Martial art has its history in combat, so as a company founded by three martial artists, Rule #1 (Don't Die) is fundamental to GMB. If you die, you don't get to do anything else. It's over. That's the end. It might sound d...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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29:10
Raising Strong Girls, Part 2 (Juliet Starrett)
As a company founded by three dudes, GMB might seem like a very male centric company. But about half our team is women. The three dudes are married. Two of us have daughters, so raising strong girls and women is something we actually c...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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41:29
Raising Strong Girls, Part 1 (Juliet Starrett)
As a company founded by three dudes, GMB might seem like a very male centric company. But about half our team is women. The three dudes are married. Two of us have daughters, so raising strong girls and women is something we actually c...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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34:15
No, "Prep" is NOT just a Warm-Up
We get it - you were born before the turn of the millennium, so much of your knowledge of health and fitness comes from the Jane Fonda Workout VHS and watching interviews with Arnie in junior high PE class. But you’re a grown-ass adult, and you...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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25:49
YouTube: A Love/Hate Story
Why buy a program when there are 50 billion free workouts on YouTube? Precisely because there are 50 billion free workouts to parse through.In this episode, we talk about the good, bad, and ugly of the free content on YouTube.We...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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29:41
Beware of People with Easy Answers
"Just squat!" "Just do intermittent fasting!" As sentient beings in the 21st century, we all have pretty solid bullshit detectors by now, but when we're facing challenges, it's still tempting to believe the easy answers. And why no...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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24:56
Hell Yes or No, Revisited
It's easy to get overwhelmed by all the possibilities out there. Decisions are hard, and we can't make them for you. We can, however, show you how we make a lot of our decisions.In this episode, we revisit the framework "Hell Yes or No,...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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23:40
Fighting Boredom in Your Workouts
"Boredom, I think, protects the individual, makes tolerable for him the impossible experience of waiting for something without knowing what it could be."Here's the deal: you will get bored.We all love that new-car smell and sens...
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Season 3
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Episode 61
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25:37
When To Do Weighted Moves and When Not To
"Progressive overload" is a principle in training that says you need to continually add greater stimulus to an exercise to keep seeing a training effect. And it makes sense. To get stronger, you need to continue pushing your body. But t...
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Season 3
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Episode 60
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34:34
Redefining Your Impossible
If you've tried something new even once in your life, you might be familiar with falling flat on your face, possibly literally.In this episode, Ryan chats with David 'Jacko' Jackson and Tim Stevenson, founders of School of Calisthenics....
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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33:14
How to Practice Recovery
We get a lot of questions about Recovery which is not surprising, given how much information there is out there. There's no easy way to cut through all the noise since Recovery is and should be subjective, but in this episode, we b...
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Season 3
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Episode 59
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39:46
Structuring Short Sessions (when shit gets crazy)
We've all been there -- schedules and routines change, and we can't fit in our regular workout. Rather than trying to stick to your routine amidst a big project, the holidays, or a busy time, tailor your workouts to better serve you.In ...
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Season 3
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Episode 58
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23:09
Easy Wins for Fat Loss - with Andy Morgan
Have you ever Googled a topic and been overwhelmed by the sheer amount of products that are supposed to solve your problem? Or underwhelmed by the lack of real answers?In this episode, Andy chats with Andy Morgan of Rippedbody.com about...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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43:54
If You Can't Do It In Jeans . . .
You want to be able and ready, not just good at working out.Readiness means going beyond just capability so you can actually access and apply your skills and abilities when needed. Chances are, you don't wear sweats and tr...
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Season 3
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Episode 57
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33:59
DOMS - they suck!
DOMS. Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness.You don't like them, and they don't like you, but if you're training your body at all, you're going to have to learn to live with each other.There's tons of myths about muscle soreness. Some peo...
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Season 3
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Episode 56
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36:03
Balance
Balance is one of those things most people don't realize they can improve - or even that they might need to improve . . . until they start trying to learn different ways to move. The fact is most people don't have a proble...
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Season 3
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Episode 55
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31:48
All the Things Your Workout Leaves Out
When we think about fitnessing, a relative few activities come to mind. Weightlifting, running, cycling, swimming, jumping rope, etc. Why? Mostly because they're very efficient at producing very predictable results. But they also l...
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Season 3
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Episode 54
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29:15
How Movement Helps With Anxiety
Anyone experiencing anxiety lately . . . ? Congratulations, you're human. The good news is you're definitely not alone. Studies show that anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the US affecting 1 in 5 people every year ...
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Season 3
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Episode 53
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26:17