Author: Jason Leenaarts

#65-Should Everyone Be Powerlifting? With Tim Henriques

Tim Henriques is the author of All About Powerlifting and Director of NPTI covering Virginia, Maryland and DC. In this week’s episode, we tackle his All About Powerlifting project and discuss why he wrote the book and the contributions he feels every fitness enthusiast needs to recognize with regard to powerlifting in the fitness realm. We […]

#64-Getting Lean Minded With Mike Howard

Mike Howard, founder of Lean Minded and author of Talking Back To Diet Gurus, is my guest this week.  We talk about many of the unfortunate side effects the general population faces when they’re influenced by diet misinformation. Mike explains why he wrote his excellent book and how many of those philosophies continue to shape […]

#63-Is Your Cell Phone Affecting Your Health? With Dr. Jacob Barkley

I am joined in the studio with Dr. Jacob Barkley, Assistant Professor of Exercise Science at Kent State University, to discuss his work with cell phone behaviors. Dr. Barkley has done an incredible amount of research and published studies looking at the correlation between sedentary behaviors and cell phone use. You can see more of […]

#62-Not A Delicate Flower: Empowering Females In Fitness With Meghan Callaway

Meghan Callaway joins me this week to talk about her efforts in empowering women to be and achieve more with their fitness plans. We discuss some of the pervasive notions that women can only achieve great bodies through low resistance and unrealistic time constraints that seem to be perpetuated by the media and fitness celebrities. […]

#61-Can You Fix Your Hungry Brain? With Stephan Guyenet

Stephan Guyenet has delivered one of 2017’s finest books when it comes to the neuroscience of our eating behaviors in “The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting The Instincts That Make Us Overeat” He joins me this week to discuss some of the topics that he outlines in greater detail in that book. You can order your copy […]

#60-Lift Your Life With “Fast Forward Amy” Vandeputte

Amy Vandeputte of “Fast Forward Amy” fame hops on this week’s episode with me. If you’ve not heard of her yet, you can say you got your initiation through this show! Amy is steadily booming in the fitness industry by tapping into not only her native Belgium but also branching out to America and beyond as […]

Had A Dad

Father’s Day is this Sunday. For over 7 years, I’ve been the proud father of a wonderful boy. If you’ve been following me or my newsletters for quite some time, you’ll know I lost my father about 4 years ago to bone marrow cancer. I could go on an on about how great my father […]