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The Long & Thick Podcast
Hosted by longandthickpod · EN
Ronnie and Daniel sit down to help you navigate the noise and cut through the bullsh*t in the health and wellness space.
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The Origin Stories of Long & Thick
2w ago00:52:17Tap to summarizeThis 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. Follow us on Instagram @longandthickpod, and if you enjoy the show, leave us a rating and review — it genuinely helps new listeners find us.
Transcribe →You Don't Need a "Travel Protocol" - You Need This
3w ago00:47:29Tap to summarizeYou 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. Enroll and learn more at https://ptu-biomechanics.netlify.app Follow us on Instagram at @longandthickpod and find us on Apple Podcasts, iHeart, Amazon Music, and Podbean.
Transcribe →5 Tips to Defeating Your Training Plateaus - Episode Six Seven
4w ago01:00:12Tap to summarize5 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: Managing intensity relative to your actual goal — not just how hard it feels, but how hard you're actually pushing Matching recovery to your effort — and why more days in the gym isn't always the answer Why being data-driven isn't optional if you want to stop plateauing Fueling your body relative to where you're trying to go The outside stuff that drains your battery — work, relationships, life in general — and why ignoring it will catch up with you 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.
Transcribe →We Played The Best Version of Would You Rather
Jun 1200:45:32Tap to summarizeWe Played The Best Version of Would You Rather! On this episode of The Long & Thick Podcast Daniel and Ronnie sit down and health is on the afterburner. We focus on pure entertainment via the classic game "Would You Rather". Only thing is this version is different. In this version the person is encouraged to ask several questions about the options they are presented with. To keep it fun and interesting the person who asked the question can respond however they like to make the choice more difficult, easy, fun, etc. We hope this episode gets you through your zone 2 cardio sessions or upcoming travel. More importantly, what questions would you have asked? We want your most difficult questions and if they're worth the squeeze we will run it back and ask them to one another and shout you out for the question! Don't forget our incredible sponsor Jason Colley and PTU (Personal Trainer U) 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. Use Code: longthick15 for 15% off! https://ptu-biomechanics.netlify.app/ Love, L&T
Transcribe →Are We Losing The Ability to Learn?
Jun 500:40:12Tap to summarizeAre We Losing the Ability to Learn? There's a question we keep dancing around in a world built on instant access and instant convenience: are we actually getting smarter, or are we just getting better at looking things up? In this episode, we explore one of the most uncomfortable realities we are currently facing. Are the tools designed to make us more capable slowly eroding the cognitive muscles that made us capable in the first place? We break down how convenience and on-demand information have begun to reduce our tolerance for mental friction. The discomfort that is often the birthplace of real thinking, real problem-solving, and real learning. We talk about boredom and how we need to embrace it. The idle mind is where creativity and insight live, and we are actively avoiding it. We also get into the Dunning-Kruger effect. When people have surface-level access to information without the depth that builds genuine understanding, overconfidence grabs you by the throat. We discuss why we think it's driving real division between people who think they know and people who actually do. (hello grifters) And because we're not in the business of just pointing at problems, we close out with what you can actually do about it. We chat through how to set healthy limits with your tech use, why picking up a physical book or writing something by hand still matters in 2026, and how learning to sit with not knowing and not immediately reaching for your phone or an AI is an exercise that your brain needs. We hope you enjoy! This episode is brought to you by Personal Trainer U — PTU Biomechanics Course 1.0. If you're a personal trainer who's hit the ceiling on what your certification taught you, PTU is built for exactly that gap. Jason Colley's Biomechanics Course 1.0 gives you a unified framework — structure, gait, relative motion, ECM, and assessment — that connects everything happening in your client's body into one system you can actually apply on the gym floor. Use code LONGTHICK15 for 15% off any enrollment option. Enroll here: https://ptu-biomechanics.netlify.app Love always, L&T
Transcribe →Coffee, Tattoos, Photo Albums and What?
May 2900:27:46Tap to summarizeOn this episode of The Long & Thick... Daniel and Ronnie share some life updates and fit in plenty of good laughs. We chat about everything the title suggests (coffee, tattoos, travel, photo albums, PTU sponsorship, and more!) If you find yourself needing to be entertained with your eyes while listening to us check out the YouTube channel and be sure to leave us a comment, subscribe, etc. Today’s sponsor is PTU Biomechanics Course 1.0 from Jason Colley at PersonalTrainerU. If you have a client whose movement keeps breaking down no matter what you try this course is going to change how you see that problem. Jason teaches personal trainers a complete system built around the human skeleton and the shape of your client’s structure. How this one variable drives their hip mechanics, foot position, compensation patterns, and overhead range. One framework. Everything connects. Nine modules. Full assessment and programming system. Built for trainers who want to stop guessing and start understanding what is actually happening in their client’s body. Use code LONGTHICK15 at checkout for 15% off - https://ptu-biomechanics.netlify.app/
Transcribe →The Lost Art of Mentorship
May 2200:40:54Tap to summarizeOn this new episode of The Long & Thick, Daniel and Ronnie discuss mentorship and 5 key factors within it. This is an important episode in particular. Mentorship is a lost art within our current western society. Few people have experienced it and most don't recognize how vital it truly is. The things we dive into on this episode are as follows: . What is mentorship? . Humans will find mentors unintentionally . Some of our mentors . Personal Mentorship . Professional Mentorship This episode is brought to you by PersonalTrainerU — PTU Biomechanics Course 1.0 from Jason Colley. Look, as trainers we have all been there. Client’s knees cave in every squat. You cue it. You stretch the hip. You strengthen the glute. It keeps happening. Or a client’s shoulder keeps flaring up no matter how you program around it. And you are doing everything right but something upstream is driving that pattern and you cannot see it. That is exactly what PTU Biomechanics Course 1.0 is built to fix. Jason Colley built this course around one central idea. Your client’s structure and breathing mechanics drive everything downstream. Their hip loading. Their foot mechanics. Their compensation patterns under load. All of it. The system is built around 5 pillar principles: Structure, Relative motion, gait, extra cellular matrix and lastly assessment/programming. . Once you learn how they all integrate as one, you stop guessing and start seeing. Nine modules covering structure, breathing, gait, relative motion, ECM, foot mechanics, shoulder, assessment, and a full programming system you can apply the very next session. This is not a lecture course. Every concept connects directly to exercise selection, cueing, and loading decisions on the gym floor. What makes it different from every other biomechanics course out there is that it gives you one unified framework. Not a collection of isolated tools or strategies but a connected system that explains why your client moves the way they do and exactly what to do about it. Three ways to join. Self-paced at $750. Live cohort at $1,250 with direct access to Jason. Or a payment plan of two payments of $700. And because you listen to The Long and Thick Podcast — use code LONGTHICK15 at checkout for 15% off any option. Link below! Check out PTU Biomechanics Course 1.0. https://ptu-biomechanics.netlify.app/ If you happen to watch this episode you'll notice quite the upgrade. Big shout out to the legend in Nashville Zach Chiarizzio for setting us up for success and sharing his talents with us. We appreciate you!
Transcribe →Jason Colley Part II - The Mind and Muscle Behind Personal Trainer U
May 1500:49:49Tap to summarizeJason Colley Returns — And He's Our First Official Sponsor 🎙️ Round two with Jason Colley, and this one is a milestone for the show. We're proud to announce Jason is the first official sponsor of The Long & Thick Podcast, and in this episode we get into the heart and soul of PTU — the philosophy, the mission, and the why behind the program — alongside the story of how this partnership came together. This is a full sit-down interview about both: our new partnership AND the launch of PTU Biomechanics Course 1.0. Jason brings the same no-fluff energy as his first appearance — but this time we go deeper into assessment, programming, and the body as a connected system rather than a collection of parts. Here's the honest pitch: As trainers, we've all been there. Your client's knees cave on every squat. You cue it. You stretch the hip. You strengthen the glute. It keeps happening. Or a shoulder keeps flaring up no matter how you program around it. You're doing everything right — but something upstream is driving the pattern and you can't see it. That's exactly what PTU Biomechanics Course 1.0 is built to fix. Jason built this course around one central idea: your client's structure and breathing mechanics drive everything downstream. Hip loading. Foot mechanics. Compensation patterns under load. All of it. The system is built around 5 pillar principles — Structure, Relative Motion, Gait, Extracellular Matrix, and Assessment/Programming. Once you learn how they integrate as one, you stop guessing and start seeing. What's inside: Nine modules covering structure, breathing, gait, relative motion, ECM, foot mechanics, shoulder, assessment, and a full programming system you can apply the very next session. This is not a lecture course. Every concept connects directly to exercise selection, cueing, and loading decisions on the gym floor. What makes it different from every other biomechanics course out there is that it gives you one unified framework. Not a collection of isolated tools or strategies — a connected system that explains why your client moves the way they do and exactly what to do about it. Three ways to join: Self-paced study — $750 Live 9-week cohort with direct access to Jason — $1,250 Payment plan — 2 payments of $700 🎁 Long & Thick listeners get 15% off any option with code LONGTHICK15 at checkout. Note: PTU is working toward formal accreditation. This is your chance to get in on the ground floor of the framework before it becomes the standard. 🔗 Enroll & learn more: https://ptu-biomechanics.netlify.app Follow Jason: @jasoncolleyptu Follow the show: @longandthickpodcast on Instagram Listen everywhere: Apple Podcasts | iHeart | Amazon Music | Podbean
Transcribe →Injuries 101 - The Quick Breakdown of What Breaks You Down
May 800:24:18Tap to summarizeInjuries 101 - The Quick Breakdown of What Breaks You Down On this episode of The Long & Thick Daniel and Ronnie revisit the nature of musculoskeletal injuries split across 5 different categories. 1) Injury types 2) The mental and physical damage 3) Why they happen 4) How to best prevent them 5) What effective rehab and recovery look like If you are alive, this episode is for you! Chances are you or someone you know has dealt with an injury in one way shape or form. We hope you find value in this weeks episode and would love if you left us a review and shared the episode with someone you think would enjoy! Love, L&T
Transcribe →Answering The Top 5 Current Health and Wellness Related Questions
May 100:27:06Tap to summarizeOn this episode of The Long & Thick Podcast we answer the top 5 most currently asked questions as it pertains to health and wellness (with one exception!) We discuss: 1. Should I be on a GLP-1 medication - and what do I do about muscle loss? 2. How do I actually build and maintain muscle as I age? 3. What does longevity actually look like in practice? 4. How do I optimize my sleep and why does it matter so much? 5*. Cardio or strength focus, which do I pick? This episode is a quick hitter of cutting through each of these questions without sparring helpful and clear advice/answers regarding each question asked. We hope you enjoy! Like the show? Let us know! Leave us a review anywhere you listen/watch and be sure to share on social medias of various flavors, it helps a lot! Love, L&T
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