#170 // Train Like an Athlete, Candy Mid-Workout, GLP-1 Honesty, and a Wild New Hunger Hormone
Fitness Stuff (for normal people)
Tony and Marianna
4.9 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Happy Micro-Dose Monday—Today we tackle 4 juicy topics in one episode instead of dedicating the full hour to just one. Fast-paced, research-backed, and designed to hit you with the good stuff right away.
Here’s what we cover:
🧠 How to Train Like an Athlete (Even If You’re Not One)
Bodybuilding builds size. Athletic training builds function. We break down the real differences between the two—and how to start blending them for a stronger, more capable, and actually useful body.
🍭 Why Some Lifters Eat Candy While They Workout
Yes, it’s real. And yes, there’s a good reason. We’ll explain the science of fast carbs, workout fuel, and why Sour Patch Kids might beat out your protein bar mid-set.
🧬 The Hunger Hormone You’ve Never Heard Of: Neuroestrogen
A brand-new rodent study found that estrogen made in the brain may play a massive role in appetite control—and it could reshape the future of obesity treatment. Wild? Yes. Relevant? 100%.
💉 GLP-1s, Influencers, and the Missing Truth
We talk about the real problem with influencers taking Ozempic or GLP-1s. Spoiler: it's not that they’re using them—it’s that they’re profiting off courses while hiding it. We break down what’s ethical, what’s misleading, and why transparency has to be the standard in the fitness space.
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If you're into fitness, health, nutrition, self-development, and learning how to think for yourself in a space full of BS—this is the episode for you.
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Timestamps:
(03:10) - Train Like an Athlete
(16:15) - Ozempic 2.0
(26:30) - Candy = Better Workout?
(40:30) - Influencers Hiding Weight Loss Meds
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today we have one of my favorite episodes, another one of our microdose Mondays. |
| 0:06.2 | This is where, instead of honing in on just one topic for the entire length of the episode, |
| 0:10.7 | we make our rounds on a handful of different microtopics to touch down on a few different |
| 0:15.9 | areas, where today these microtopics are how to train like an athlete, a new potential weight loss |
| 0:24.2 | medication that is different from Ozepic, why people eat candy while working out, and fitness |
| 0:32.1 | influencers not being honest about taking weight loss medication. But before we get into that, |
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| 2:11.9 | today like an absolute unit on the basketball court now it's already stuck in my head. Mariana shows me like |
| 2:19.3 | one to two TikTok sounds that I've missed. Basically every week that we record, she'll start saying |
| 2:24.4 | something like, what are you saying? That makes no sense. And your addiction is primarily based |
| 2:29.2 | of TikTok sounds. And it's hilarious. TikTok sounds. I speak in TikTok sounds sometimes. |
| 2:55.8 | It cracks me. And then you show it to me. And then it's stuck in my head for like a week and Karina gets annoyed by it. So thank you. So thank you. That's what we got. It's microdose Monday. I love little microdose Mondays where we get a touch on a little here, a little there, especially because you guys do ask us a lot of really good. And especially over in our AMA on Premium 2, we get a lot of these ideas where we are talking about these questions because you guys ask fantastic questions that we want to even take further |
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