The Bodybuilding.com Podcast

Alyssa Ritchey started out as a hyperactive farm girl, then traveled through the gamut of sports including gymnastics, track and field, skateboarding, bikini, and CrossFit. Now she’s a record-setting weightlifter with the Olympic team in her sights. She shares her story and her blow-by-blow account of her most triumphant lifts!

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Meet slam dunk specialist and new Team Bodybuilding.com athlete Myree Bowden. In a wide-ranging interview, he tells his story of life on the court, walks through the process of performing a slam-dunk moment by moment, and shares the training that has allowed him to keep growing his vertical jump even as he gets older. Of course, he also shares his all-time top five favorite dunkers.

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Is this the human race's most unlikely contender at a world championship strength event? Nick tells Heather how he happened into the sport of Armlifting and ended up representing the USA on the global stage.

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"Weight gain" and "weight loss" tend to dominate fitness and nutrition conversations. But what if you want—or your sport demands—that the number on the scale doesn’t change all that much? Doug Kalman, PhD, RD, a researcher and dietician who has also competed in boxing, talks with Nick and gives him a no-BS lesson about how to eat for maximum strength gains and body re-composition. Listen up if you participate in a weight-classed sport, or just want to change your body without having to buy a whole new wardrobe!

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The United States Army is about to undertake a dramatic and unprecedented overhaul to the way it tests, and promotes, military fitness. The man who headed the research into the new standards talks with us about how and why, as well as the future of Army nutrition and how the Army plans to circulate 80,000 kettlebells to bases around the globe.

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Nita Strauss was wielding her ax in the service of Alice Cooper and building a reputation as one of the best metal guitarists in the world. She was successful, but far from happy. Then she changed course, quit drinking, and became a fitness diehard. Strauss shares her story, her on-the-road workout tips, and her favorite wisdom for better living from the ancient Stoic philosophers.

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After Scottish powerlifter Fergus Crawley survived a suicide attempt in 2016, he turned his life around with the help of an unlikely ally–a French Bulldog puppy. Then, he set his sights on one of the most grueling strength records out there: the most weight squatted in 24 hours. We did deep into his incredible story, and geek out on all the training deets.

Highlights:

- How he went from a normal student and lifter to depressed and suicidal

- "It got to the stage where I think five days passed where I didn't say a word to anyone, other than to a coffee shop checkout employee or to someone at the local supermarket or something like that. I just sat back and thought, 'This just isn't me. This isn't the person I am. I'm sociable, I'm outgoing.' I couldn't understand why I was in the position I was in, but it came down to the fact that I'm a man. You don't talk about these things."

- "The irony is I was training for strength but ultimately feeling like self-help was a complete weakness."

- How getting a puppy—and talking to it—led him out of the abyss

- Why he's talking about it now: "There's thousands upon thousands of men around the world in similar situations who feel like they can't talk about it. That is the crux of the issue. It was for me."

- How he landed on the idea of attempting a grueling record on his favorite lift

- "I want my attempt to be a symbol of strength in and of itself, but I also want the process and the story behind it to become a symbol of strength as well, rather than people seeing the mental health as a weakness."

- Why his coach programmed his training "like an ultramarathon"

- "So my training has involved horrifying amounts of cardio that I kind of didn't see coming, to be honest. But here we are."

- His programming plan: 10 reps OTM... for a long, long time

- His "baptism by fire" to get his body accustomed to lactate

- His secret weapon: Many, many walking lunges. "As a leg movement for overall strength, stability, and positioning, they've just done wonders for me and my lower back and upper back and shoulders especially."

- The overall arch of his training, and how he's peaking before the event

- How he has managed recovery from workouts with 1,000-plus reps of squats

- The challenge of nutrition: "During my 22 years on this earth, I've always been hungry. I've never been full."

- How the terms "endurance" and "endurance athlete" lose all meaning when in the face of feats by hybrid athletes like Fergus and Ross Edgely

- The detail questions: High bar or low? Squat shoes or flats? Belt or no? Supplements or junk food or both? Classical music or Slayer? How deep is he squatting?

- The, shall we say, "digestive" concerns of the challenge

- What comes next for him after the challenge—whether it succeeds or not

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WBFF pro muscle model Rob Smith, the host of Bodybuilding.com’s Everyday Beast video series, shares his philosophy on food, lifting, and beasting through life.

Highlights:

- Why workout "pairings" with food are so important to him

- "Cheating" versus "I deserve it" meals—there's a big difference

- How he avoids diet burnout as a competitive bodybuilder who also loves food

- Where he learned to cook, and how he refined his skills

- The problems of hunger and "food mis-education" in the United States

- How his fitness journey started in... group aerobics class

- Why he "got big" to survive on the rugby pitch, and how other players react to him

- His history on the stage, and how he's tried to learn from each show

- Why he has continued with rugby: "Your body fades, but your friendships are gonna last way longer than that."

- "When you're running at full speed, full stride, 800 meters, or you know you break a line and you're out there, there's no better feeling in the world than running full speed."

- How sports and bodybuilding can actually complement each other

- How competitor Jason Wittrock introduced him to the ketogenic diet, and how it has worked for him as an athlete and bodybuilder

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Jackson Bliton, better known as Bajheera, has built a unique dual following online. He's a pro bodybuilder, but also a pro gamer, and streams both to tens of thousands daily. He shares his story, his nutritional approach, and takes live questions from his Twitch followers.

Highlights:

- His additional alter egos Bulkjheera and Leanjheera

- His dual love of gaming and activity, going back to early childhood

- Dragon Ball Z as a fitness inspiration

- 200 push-ups a day at age 11!

- How he saw the potential of online streaming and had "the conversation" with his family

- How distance running helped him develop the discipline necessary for bodybuilding

- "I'm not an expert, I'm not a dietitian, but just the very basics can take you really far."

- How he added muscle through some epic (and no so epic) bulks

- On nutrition: "It's a slow, steady burn, and I like that style of putting in work every single day… I'm going to activate myself and put myself in position, and moving towards my goal, even if it's difficult."

- His inspirations: Dad, and Goku

- His guiding narrative: "What's the story that you want to tell, and have told about you?"

- Why motivation is "a convenience"

- "The days that you feel like going to the gym and tearing it up, fantastic. But the ones that aren't that really matter. You still take the action even if you're not necessarily feeling like it."

- Why he trains in the morning

- How the distance runner in his past still guides him in training: "When you do distance running practices, you're toast at the end."

- How Bajheera is an avatar for Jackson, but also represents his followers who support him

- The importance of momentum in life

- How he balances gaming with his increasingly demanding fitness goals

- "Supplementation for gamers" versus "supplementation for people," and the flaws in supplements that are supposedly created for gamers

- "I would encourage you to use caffeine on the activity that you want to use it on, because it'll make whatever activity you're doing really fun."

- How competition helps him be a better gamer

- The importance of learning to lose

- The person he wants to stream with? Kai Greene

- How he transitioned from "chicken and rice all the time" to flexible dieting

- "Science suggests that if you hold protein and calories consistent, it doesn't really matter what you do."

- The importance of relatively easy, "punch the clock"-style workouts: "You're pushing blood around, and you're pushing nutrients around. You're putting yourself in just a better mindset of when your head hits the pillow."

- Why he starts every workout with some curls

- Where the name Bajheera came from

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