Ep 812: Fast Food, Slow Gains w/ Ben Skutnik

Power Athlete Radio

Power Athlete

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

You don’t have a nutrition problem, you have a discipline problem. Certified Power Athlete Coach and nutritionist, Ben Skutnik, joins John to lay out why you're stuck: emotional eating, zero cooking skills, and no plan. We get into the weeds on food tracking, meal prep, and why mastering your kitchen is non-negotiable if you want to perform. Stop guessing and start eating like someone who gives a damn. Shownotes: https://pahq.co/Ep812 You can't out-train a crappy diet. Three comprehensive nutrition programs crafted by NFL pro John Welbourn prescribing daily custom macros for your personal body goals. START TODAY - https://powerathletehq.com/nutrition/ Check out what we do: Training - https://powerathletehq.com/training Nutrition - https://powerathletehq.com/nutrition Knowledge - https://academy.powerathletehq.com Click on the link to see the companies we use and support 👉 https://powerathletehq.com/partners/ Follow Ben on Insta https://www.instagram.com/benskutnik/ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	You're listening to Power Athlete Radio, a podcast dedicated to empowering your performance every damn day.
0:08.4	Join former NFL Pro and Power Athlete founder John Wellborn as he dissects the greatest minds in strength, conditioning, and more.
0:17.0	So whether your goal is to be the hammer, destroy mediocrity, or simply move the dirt, you've
0:23.0	come to the right place.
0:24.6	Now with the warm-up done, let the gains begin.
0:27.4	Dr. Skutnik, we are testing some new tech after Jacob, as you guys don't know, you
0:33.7	can't see Jacob off film or off camera, but periodically I'll glance over and
0:38.1	he'll have taken his hand and run it through his hair and be taking these huge breasts as if like the whole fucking matrix is about to break or crash. And as he was doing it yesterday, I'm like, what's wrong? He's like, dude, this Zoom thing. He's like, I just can't deal with it anymore. this thing didn't redone having all these issues he's like i can hack at this and i'm like
0:37.0	is there something better? And so we have quit Zoom and we've moved over to Riverside, which I think will be a much better experience for not only me, because then I won't have to watch Jacob have a panic attack mid fucking podcast. But all this aside, Dr. Skutnik, we are going to talk some nutrition today.
1:14.2	More importantly, some power athlete radio focused nutrition on one of our favorite initiatives
1:19.2	we've done over the years, Hammer 90. Yeah, I'm excited. So with a deep-dab nutrition,
1:26.0	I put together a few questions I want to ask you.
1:28.0	And really what they are is their pain points and things that we've come across,
1:31.6	you know, not only being a teaching professor, but having a nutrition kind of business on the side
1:38.7	where you work with athletes and people and everyday people and helping them along.
1:42.1	I feel like day one, everybody's excited,
1:45.1	but as they get into the rigmaro and get into just the process of what it takes to
1:51.8	dial in their nutrition, hopefully cut some body weight, put on some muscle, and potentially
1:56.1	recomp, I feel that they're pain points. So I just wanted to get into them. So everything else
2:00.3	good with you.
2:04.1	Fight any wars on social media on the internet today?
2:08.0	Not today, but it's early.
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