Autonomy by GMB Fitness
Autonomy means deciding and moving. Ryan, Andy, and Jarlo aren't here to shill for some stupid supplement company. This show explores fitness as a way to play your own game and do more of what matters, all based on decades of training, coaching, and clinical experience. And truly awful jokes. If you hate every formulaic fitness podcast, you just might be in the right place.
Episodes
Tendinopathy is the injury most people quit on. Recovery takes months, progress feels random, and there's a billion-dollar market selling miracle fixes to people desperate for relief. Jarlo has been treating it for 28 years and has dealt with it personally for years at a stretch.
In this conversation we get into:
- Why getting stronger and feeling better don't track as cleanly as people assume, and what actually seems...
Two ways people get it wrong with training around injuries: rest until everything feels perfect (three weeks becomes three months becomes deconditioned and afraid to start), or push through and hope (which usually extends the flare).
Both worked when you were 22. They don't anymore.
Jarlo Ilano (physical therapist, GMB co-founder) and Andy Fossett walk through the framework Jarlo uses with patients and we use acro...
In this episode, Andy and Ryan explore the concept of bottlenecks in training, emphasizing how identifying and addressing the main limiting factor can accelerate progress. They discuss practical methods for assessment, common misconceptions, and real-world examples to help listeners optimize their fitness routines.
Key Topics
- Theory of constraints in training
- Identifying bottlenecks in fitness
- Assessment metho...
Sleep Is a Practice
We've talked about sleep before — our PM routines, keeping it dark and cool and quiet, putting down the phone, all the adulting 101 tips that every Instagram account and bestselling book has been yelling at you for years. You know all of it.
So we polled 119 members of our coaching community about their sleep. A third of them are struggling, and the comments made one thing very ...
Most people think training is about constant progress.
Getting stronger. More flexible. Better conditioned. Always moving forward.
And when that’s not happening, it feels like something’s gone wrong.
But that idea falls apart pretty quickly when you look at how anything actually develops over time.
Athletes don’t train at peak intensity all year. They periodize their with pre-season, in-season, and off-s...
Most people know when to back off their training, but only once something already hurts. That’s the problem.
In this episode, we break down why pain and fatigue are lagging indicators, and how to start using earlier signals to guide your training instead. You’ll learn how to recognize when you’re actually ready to push harder, not just when you need to stop, and how to adjust your sessions based on wh...
Many people think progress only happens on the days when they push themselves to the limit. Everything else feels like falling behind.
In reality, most productive training happens in the middle. The grey zone between maximum effort and total rest is where you can practice skills, build muscle, develop endurance, and accumulate consistent work without constantly needing long recovery periods.
Autoregulation helps you lea...
This episode is a rambling and unfocused mess. OK, so it's a little better than that, but the truth is that "how do I integrate more training into my life" is a really broad question, and any focused, succinct answer would be incomplete.
What you'll actually get is Ryan and Andy working through the tension between movement snacks and real training sessions, why 15 focused minutes beats 90 minutes of scattered effort, a...
Andy and Ryan discuss the use of timed sets vs rep counting in the Praxis Protocol, emphasizing the importance of quality movement over quantity. The conversation covers the significance of adjusting intensity, the idea of mechanical drop sets, and the distinction between time under tension and time under attention. They also address how to measure progress without relying on numerical goals, encouraging listeners to ...
If you’ve been training for years but still feel like you're not sure how to keep progress going, have random aches hanging around, and every new “must-do” tip online is somehow making it worse. Then this episode is for you!
Jarlo sits down with Dr. Jason Silvernail (DPT, DSc, U.S. Army Colonel, strength coach) to talk about the problem most people don’t realize they have: it’s not...
Osteoarthritis is often blamed on “wear and tear,” but the truth is far more empowering. In this episode, orthopedic surgeon Dr. Howard Luks joins us to break down what’s really happening inside your joints — and why movement, not rest, is the key to healing and longevity.
We talk about:
•Why osteoarthritis isn’t caused by using your joints too much
•The link between metaboli...
The most requested topic from a recent round of surveys, how to train around minor injuries is a real and pertinent issue for all of us at some point or another. Whether you wake up one morning with a crick in your neck or you twist your ankle while running, learning to train with limitations is a skill that can be learned.
In this episode, we dive into what constitutes a minor injury, why it's important to ke...
"It's time to make the Donuts."
In a few recent polls, we found that about half of you say you move on from a training program when it gets boring. Given that repetition is basically requisite to any physical training, we thought we’d tackle this topic and vouch for the grind of donut making.
Boredom is part of the process. Whether you learn to get interested in the details or just accept the repetition an...
On any given day, we get dozens if not hundreds of questions on our YouTube videos, social posts, and via email. And we enjoy answering them because we never want you to get stuck or give up. Most of our answers have carry-over to whatever situation you find yourself in, so we thought we'd share the love.
In this episode, Ryan and Andy answer a handful of commonly asked questions. Some of these are about ...
Nike says that "if you have a body, you're an athlete." That's BS, and it can lead to poor decisions and wasted energy that don't benefit you.
Of course, you may be an athlete. We've worked with clients competing at all levels in just about any sport or activity you can name. But the vast majority of people we work with are definitely not athletes.
What does that mean? Are we saying they're not good en...
Play is a topic that is often left out of the conversation in fitness.
This is in spite of the fact that experimentation, exploration and going off script is at the core of many physical training disciplines—dance, martial arts, acrobatics, any sport you play. However, play is not just free form improvisation or what children do on the playground; it requires a foundation in what you are practicing.
In this episod...
Chances are if you like what we do at GMB, you don’t want to spend hours each day working out. Like us, you want to focus on just the essentials in order to help you better enjoy the things you love to to do like practicing your martial arts and being active with your families.
In this episode, we were happy to be able to chat with Philip Chubb, otherwise known as the Mindful Mover, in which we dis...
Martial art has its history in combat, so as a company founded by three martial artists, Rule #1 (Don't Die) is fundamental to GMB.
If you die, you don't get to do anything else. It's over. That's the end.
It might sound dramatic but self-preservation is key to making any kind of progress. While this seems like a fairly basic and obvious fact, it is one that often falls to the wayside when we sta...
As a company founded by three dudes, GMB might seem like a very male centric company. But about half our team is women. The three dudes are married. Two of us have daughters, so raising strong girls and women is something we actually care about deeply.
So we got in touch with one of the coolest, most successful and badass women we know: Juliet Starrett. She’s the CEO of TheReadyState.com, an attorney, and...
As a company founded by three dudes, GMB might seem like a very male centric company. But about half our team is women. The three dudes are married. Two of us have daughters, so raising strong girls and women is something we actually care about deeply.
So we got in touch with one of the coolest, most successful and badass women we know: Juliet Starrett. She’s the CEO of TheReadyState.com, an attorney, and...
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