Optimize Your Strength Training: Preventing Health Issues Before They Start
Mark Bell's Power Project
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🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Did you know there's a 2,000-year-old war against muscle that might be destroying your health? It’s time to learn how strength training is the real key to preventing dementia, diabetes, and reversing the effects of aging.
On this episode of Mark Bell’s Power Project Podcast, hosts Mark Bell and Nsima Inyang talk with author Michael Gross about the forgotten history of strength. They reveal why much of modern medicine has been wrong about muscle and how the right kind of lifting can fix today's biggest health problems.
Discover why the advice you’ve heard about aging is wrong, how to protect yourself from muscle loss if you are on weight loss drugs, and how to build a stronger body for a long and healthy life. This conversation will change how you think about fitness forever.
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Chapters:
0:00 - The Ancient War on Muscle
3:55 - Lifting Reverses Aging & Depression
6:54 - Why We Still Demonize Muscle
9:54 - Today's Biggest Health Problems
13:31 - The Truth About Ozempic & Muscle Loss
17:32 - How To Get Kids to Start Lifting
24:23 - What is The "Watermelon Effect"?
30:35 - How Modern Life Destroys Your Body
33:32 - The 2-Move Desk Job Workout
37:37 - The Problem with Chasing Aesthetics
47:18 - You're Not Over-Fat, You're Under-Muscled
49:31 - Adopting The Athlete Identity
53:23 - Ancient Greek Secrets of Strength
58:20 - Why So Many Athletes Let Themselves Go
1:03:00 - How a Teenager Changed Modern Medicine
1:14:53 - The Medical Discovery Lost for 100 Years
1:21:12 - The Exercise That Fights Alzheimer's
1:26:00 - Why People Fail to Stick with Exercise
1:29:02 - How to Make Fitness Feel Like Play
1:35:42 - The Correct Way to Train for Longevity
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There have been these really constructive results of the tension of the tug of war, how doctors have |
| 0:07.1 | used weight training to not just help with orthopedic rehab and functional movement, but also |
| 0:13.8 | to reverse frailty for the oldest people. It's time to look at a different set of problems, dementia, type 2 diabetes, other metabolic |
| 0:24.6 | health conditions, and musculoskeletal conditions. |
| 0:29.0 | What happened to me was a shift from thinking so much about how I looked because I was just |
| 0:37.1 | so focused on being at the gym five or six |
| 0:40.6 | times a week, no excuses, no skipping. If I couldn't eat right, no big deal. If I couldn't be |
| 0:47.1 | there for an hour, no big deal. But I was going to show up. I think it's important to note that |
| 0:51.7 | there's many ways to have like an appreciable amount of strength. It doesn't necessarily always have to look like a dead look. You can jump. You can run. You can sprint. There's a lot of things you can do when it comes to making yourself strong. What's going on? Michael, you got to talk to us to a bunch about strength today and some strength definitions. Yeah, thanks for having me. Yeah, I appreciate you coming on the show. |
| 1:12.2 | Some of the stuff I've heard you talk about and some of the stuff that I know is in your book, |
| 1:16.0 | talking about like these many different definitions of strength. |
| 1:18.8 | And we showed you something today that you probably maybe wouldn't have thought of that would be shown to you. |
| 1:25.4 | I mean, maybe you've seen and seem to do some of it. |
| 1:27.3 | But, you know, we're a little bit more known for lifting and packing on some muscle, but we were showing you some rope flow today. Yeah, that was so much fun. I, uh, I just felt like a new man after he got done. Yeah, it's just, uh, interesting to try to get people to just move in some different ways and just get outside |
| 1:44.2 | and do something slightly different than just lifting some barbells and stuff. But what are |
| 1:49.4 | some of these definitions of strength and why do you think like looking into our history is |
| 1:54.2 | important maybe to help move us forward? You know, every single one of us is in the middle of a 2,000-year-old game of tug-of-war |
| 2:06.2 | that doctors and trainers have been playing with us in the middle. You know, we are the |
| 2:12.6 | contested territory. They're trying to decide who gets to corner the market in what we now call |
| 2:20.4 | health care, you know, in what kind of regimens are going to make for human thriving. |
| 2:27.3 | And muscle has always played a really important role in this tug of war. Doctors would use it, |
| 2:37.8 | would point to big muscular athletes as the worst possible outcome of what athletic training |
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