All protocols

Use an air monitor to measure PM2.5 and PM10 and assess environmental exposures; guest carries one regularly.

Track what you are breathing in your environment, including particulates and other exposures, rather than assuming air quality is fine.

Presented as useful for pain, fertility, and blood pressure management.

Use a home blood pressure monitor to track blood pressure responses to interventions like acupuncture; measurement was taken at a very specific time of day before treatment.

Used for blood pressure and diabetes; one treatment was followed by about a 25-point drop in systolic blood pressure, and the protocol described was weekly treatments for 8 weeks.

Use a single almond as a mindfulness exercise: eat it slowly while paying close attention to breathing, focus, and the sensory experience to become present.

For adolescents and conditions like anorexia, cultivate greater body awareness and attention to interoceptive signals to understand what states arise and how they connect with emotions.

Allow children unstructured, unsupervised play outside for extended periods; discussed as something lost that may be a major driver of worsening youth mental health.

Avoid constant parental hovering and repeated warnings; guest argues this is not good for children and may contribute to mental health problems.

Lower carbohydrate intake somewhat to help train the body to tap into fat stores and improve metabolic efficiency.

At low exercise intensities or during daily living, rely more on fats/lipids rather than carbohydrates as the preferred fuel source.

Consciously adjust diet based on the type and intensity of physical exertion being performed. During phases with more high-intensity interval training and weight training, increase carbohydrate intake because glycogen depletion is higher; during phases emphasizing longer runs or lower training demand, shift toward lower carbohydrate intake.

For most physiological adaptations to training or overload, evaluate progress over roughly 3 months, since beneficial or detrimental regression/progression usually becomes apparent within that timeframe.

Take notes, use a logbook or app, and write down performance to avoid self-deception and track progressive overload objectively.

Maximum recoverable volume should be the governing factor for deciding training volume and frequency.

Before using weights or machines, check whether you can voluntarily contract each muscle group, moving from calves upward. If you cannot contract a muscle without load, you will not properly train it with weights; prioritize muscles that are harder for you to contract voluntarily.

First decide how many days per week you can realistically train hard, then design the split from that.

Use the glute 'rule of thirds': train glutes with vertical, horizontal, and lateral/rotary movements rather than only squats, deadlifts, and lunges. A practical setup is one squat/lunge, one hinge/pull, one thrust/bridge, and one abduction movement per workout. Host describes doing three sets of each for 12 sets per workout, which at three sessions per week totals 36 weekly sets and can be recoverable when distributed across movement patterns.

Use weights as a tool to generate adaptation, not just to complete reps. As sets get hard, make the final two or three reps harder through stricter execution and muscle targeting rather than easier through momentum; near failure, stop counting reps and focus intensely on form and execution.

Do repetitions in really good form and isolate or properly execute the target movement.

For glute specialization, twice weekly may be sufficient and is the safer bet, but three times weekly can be useful if recovery and exercise selection are managed appropriately.

Recommended as an additional glute exercise; leaning forward or staying upright may emphasize upper gluteus maximus.

For glute hypertrophy, include this exercise up to twice per week if you already squat and deadlift, using full range of motion and full hip extension rather than short partial reps. Avoid lumbar hyperextension, adjust bar placement to your anatomy, start with bodyweight or a light barbell, and increase load only as long as form and range of motion stay strict.

Recommended as a glute exercise and as an alternative if hip thrusts are uncomfortable. Perform by rounding the back and flaring the feet slightly to reduce erector involvement and use the glutes to pull up.

Honestly assess which body parts lag aesthetically or functionally and prioritize them. Add another training day or more volume for the lagging part while reducing volume elsewhere; you cannot just hammer everything. Use short specialization blocks of about four to six weeks, then throttle back other muscle groups without panicking about losing all your development.

Neck muscles do not grow adequately from deadlifts, shrugs, or rows alone and should be trained directly. Host states he trains his neck twice per week.

Host describes successfully growing delts by increasing frequency and volume and using more variety, including cables, machines, dumbbells, bands, and lengthened partials.

Host describes using lengthened partials for delt growth and later recommends them for calves in the stretched position.

Do not feel tied to specific lifts all year. If an exercise causes pain, stop doing it for a while and find a suitable alternative. Pick one exercise from the movement pattern and trust that you will maintain most of your strength.

If the goal is glute growth without leg growth, minimize squats, lunges, and stiff-leg deadlifts and focus on more isolation-oriented lifts such as hip thrusts, kickbacks, 45-degree hypers, and abduction. A suggested setup is hip thrusts, kickbacks, and abduction three times per week, with four sets of each because they do not create as much soreness.