The Long & Thick Podcast

This week we sat down with Craig Reynolds, a man with an unreasonable number of job titles. World renowned drummer (Stray From The Path and beyond), host of The Downbeat, streetwear designer for his own brand of the same name, owner of StageFlight supplements, and now literally immortalized as a drum plugin with GetGood Drums’ One Kit Wonder.

We got into how he actually started drumming, the road to Stray From The Path, his relationship with fitness, and what it actually costs to be this relentlessly good at multiple things at once. Spoiler: it costs something.

Full of laughs, real wisdom, and a guy who somehow builds empires without losing the plot. Honored to get this one on tape.

Ronnie & Daniel

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Steve Harlow is a father, coach, business man, and fellow coffee enthusiast. We got the opportunity to hear Harlow's story and the nitty gritty of changing between careers, serendipitous opportunities to further engage and establish the fitness community in Nashville, and eventually both roast and review coffee through his business, caffeinated and confident better known as CaffCon. We hope you enjoy our conversation and the insights gained as much as we did!

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Kyle Iguchi is a Physical Therapist based out of Orange County. Kyle shares so many gems of wisdom throughout this episode. We get to discuss his story and how he ended up as a Physical Therapist, his own history with athletics and his love for basketball in particular, the ankle epidemic (23-25K sprains per day in the USA) and why it matters so much, how to train to stack the odds in your favor when it comes to your ankles and so much more.

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This episode is Sponsored by PersonalTrainerU — PTU Biomechanics Course 1.0 from Jason Colley

PTU provides a structural lens through which trainers, coaches, and movement professionals can understand movement, biomechanics, assessment, and programming.

See movement differently. Coach with intent. Help more clients.

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Evan Singleton is The Strongest Man on Earth. He has a remarkable story with his early career kicking off fresh out of highschool in the WWE. He has performed on stage in body building and was soon after bitten by the bug to pursue Strongman as his next passion project and sport. Since then he has not looked back and collected many accolades including being a 7X Giants Live Champion and winningThe Strongest Man on Earth in August of 2025. Evan has a multitude of interests including weaponry and executive protection and recently has begun exploring acting. It was truly an honor to sit down and have this conversation with Evan. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. 

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This episode is Sponsored by PersonalTrainerU — PTU Biomechanics Course 1.0 from Jason Colley

PTU provides a structural lens through which trainers, coaches, and movement professionals can understand movement, biomechanics, assessment, and programming.

See movement differently. Coach with intent. Help more clients.

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This week we are sharing a shorter episode diving into the world's most beloved drug. Caffeine. We get into how caffeine interacts with our bodies, why it doesn't actually give us energy, dependency and how to clear the system and more.

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This episode is Sponsored by PersonalTrainerU — PTU Biomechanics Course 1.0 from Jason Colley

PTU provides a structural lens through which trainers, coaches, and movement professionals can understand movement, biomechanics, assessment, and programming.

See movement differently. Coach with intent. Help more clients.

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Jared Johnson (JJ) is the owner of Subliminal Coffee Co. Subliminal Coffee began in April 2023 out of an East Nashville driveway and has since grown into a nationally recognized micro cafe and roaster. We discuss how JJ ended up in Nashville, transitioned from a pedal manufacturing company to coffee, the reality and challenges of owning a business and how vital his strength training is to all of the above, especially managing his hyper-mobility also known as Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS).

Sit back and enjoy this episode with your favorite cup of coffee. Share the best cup of coffee you've ever had with us below! 

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This episode is Sponsored by PersonalTrainerU — PTU Biomechanics Course 1.0 from Jason Colley

PTU provides a structural lens through which trainers, coaches, and movement professionals can understand movement, biomechanics, assessment, and programming.

See movement differently. Coach with intent. Help more clients.

PTU: ⁠https://ptu-biomechanics.netlify.app⁠

Adam Wright is the owner of GYM5 in Nashville Tennessee.

Not only does this episode mark the first ever in person interview for The Long & Thick Podcast, more importantly it captures the story of the man who built, rebuilt, and has continued to operate a legendary health club facility and marks it’s 20th year of business. 

This conversation dives into the background and history of Adam and the story of GYM5. As you listen you will better understand what makes GYM5 such a one of a kind establishment and how it is a direct reflection of Adam. We are so appreciative to Adam for sharing his story with us and we hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did. 

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This episode is Sponsored by PersonalTrainerU — PTU Biomechanics Course 1.0 from Jason Colley

PTU provides a structural lens through which trainers, coaches, and movement professionals can understand movement, biomechanics, assessment, and programming.

See movement differently. Coach with intent. Help more clients.

PTU: https://ptu-biomechanics.netlify.app

This week, Daniel and I turn the mic on ourselves. If you're newer to the show, this is a good place to catch up on how we got here — we walk through the same questions we ask every guest who sits down with us: our history with sports and physical fitness, when and where it started, what it actually looked like, and how our relationship with fitness has changed (a lot) since then.

From there we widen the lens and get into where we think the health and fitness space is heading — what it actually means to be healthy right now, and what it's like building a career and a show inside an industry that's as full of noise as it is genuinely useful information.

No polish, no wellness buzzwords, just the real version of how two guys ended up doing a podcast about this stuff.

This episode is sponsored by PTU (Personal Trainer U) Biomechanics Course 1.0, created by Jason Colley. Use code LONGTHICK15 for 15% off enrollment at https://ptu-biomechanics.netlify.app. Payment plan options are available — check the site for full course details.

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You Don't Need a "Travel Protocol" - You Need This

How to travel and not completely disregard your program and goals.

We had a real conversation about one of the most underrated challenges in fitness. What do you do when your routine doesn't travel with you? Not from a perfectionist standpoint, and not with the answer being "just give up until you get home." There's a middle ground that a lot of people fail to find because nobody talks about it without dressing it up in unnecessary complexity.

In this episode, Ronnie and Daniel break down diet and movement maintenance while traveling in a way that applies whether you're a competitive prep athlete managing macros on the road or just a regular person trying not to completely derail a month of work over a long weekend. We talk about how your food strategy should actually shift based on where you are — eating options at a beach resort look completely different from a road trip through the midwest, and treating them the same is how people end up frustrated.

We get into gym access, and more importantly, what happens when you don't have it. We call back to a previous episode where we ranked different tiers of gyms — because the hotel fitness center conversation had to happen — and we dig into bodyweight training as a legitimate tool rather than a fallback. There's a real difference between going through the motions with push-ups and actually challenging yourself with scaled, progressive bodyweight work, and we get specific about what that looks like.

We also tackle the cardio versus weight training split from a travel lens. Cardio on the road is straightforward — the world is a treadmill if you want it to be. Maintaining progressive overload without access to equipment is a different problem entirely, and we talk through the actual maintenance mindset that keeps you from losing meaningful ground while you're away.

This one's practical, it's honest, and no biohacking required.

This episode is brought to you by Personal Trainer U — PTU Biomechanics Course 1.0, created and taught by Jason Colley. If you're a fitness professional who's ever felt like your education left gaps — in how you assess movement, how you understand load, how you actually connect what you're seeing to what you're programming — this is the course built to close them. Jason's framework covers structure, relative motion, gait, foot mechanics, extracellular matrix, shoulder mechanics, assessment, and a full programming system that ties it all together into something you can use the next day.

Available self-paced at $750, as a live 9-week cohort with direct access to Jason at $1,250, or on a payment plan at two payments of $700. Long & Thick listeners save 15% on any option with code LONGTHICK15 at checkout.

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5 Tips to Defeating Your Training Plateaus Episode 67. We're officially washed. The Uncs are still here though, still recording late into the night because that's just what we do.

This week we're breaking down five ways to beat a training plateau — whether you've stalled on your lifts, your cardio, or both. And the honest truth is most of these points keep circling back to one thing: you can't manage what you don't measure. If you're not tracking, you're guessing. And guessing is how people spend years spinning their wheels wondering why nothing's moving.

We get into:

We also dropped some news — big production-level interviews are coming. We can't give you dates yet but trust us, we're locked in. If you know someone we should be talking to, send that rec our way. And if you know somebody that can help us with a rebrand on the logo front, DM us or text one of us directly. Seriously.

One last thing — shoutout to our sponsor, PTU Biomechanics Course 1.0 from Jason Colley at Personal Trainer U. If you work with clients whose movement keeps breaking down no matter what you try, this course is the framework you've been missing. Nine modules built around the human skeleton, covering how structure drives hip mechanics, foot position, compensation patterns, overhead range — all of it connected. Use code LONGTHICK15 for 15% off at checkout. Link in the show notes.

Thanks for riding with us. We love y'all. See you next week.