Is Advil Killing Your Gains (and Lifespan?) + THC for Fat Loss & Building Muscle
Fitness Stuff (for normal people)
Tony and Marianna
4.9 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week on Fitness Stuff for Normal People, Marianna and Tony are switching things up with the very first SPLIT episode. First, they break down why the painkillers so many of us reach for after a tough workout—ibuprofen, Advil, Tylenol—might actually be stalling your progress and quietly adding long-term health risks. Then they move into the truth about THC and whether it’s really helping or hurting your goals to lose fat, build muscle, and get stronger. Two conversations, one episode, and plenty of takeaways for anyone chasing real results in the gym.
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Timestamps:
(3:10) NSAIDs/Pain Killers
(26:56) THC
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is a split. |
| 0:02.1 | Two topics, both still spicy, though. |
| 0:04.2 | First, we're talking about why the over-the-counter painkillers like ibuprofen, |
| 0:08.3 | Advil, or Tylenol that you're popping after a hard workout might be getting in the way of your gains |
| 0:13.5 | and quietly chipping away at your long-term health too. |
| 0:17.3 | Then the truth about THC, and whether or not it's helping or hurting your ability to lose fat, |
| 0:23.0 | gain muscle, and get stronger in the gym. But before that, if you haven't joined FS |
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| 0:34.0 | of our complete 12 re-training programs that are programmed out out in Google sheets to track and guarantee that you are making progress. |
| 0:40.2 | That on top of getting bonus episodes every single Friday, AMA style, it's only five bucks a month |
| 0:45.0 | and it takes less than 60 seconds to sign up. |
| 0:47.6 | We'll leave a link to do that in the show notes down below this episode. |
| 0:51.5 | And if you haven't already and you would like to, you can go ahead and leave a little five-star review on whatever platform you are listening on. |
| 0:59.1 | And also on Spotify now, you can leave comments. |
| 1:02.0 | So if you have any questions about this episode or past episodes, you can go in there and drop them. |
| 1:07.2 | And we will try our best to answer all of them. |
| 1:09.2 | And before we get into today's episode, |
| 1:11.1 | a quick shout out to today's sponsor, Legion Athletics. We say this over and over again. |
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| 1:28.7 | more out of your training, or any other specific area you personally need help with. There's a lot of |
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