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Fitness Stuff (for normal people)

Training for Strength vs. Size & Skinnytok

Fitness Stuff (for normal people)

Tony and Marianna

Health & Fitness

4.9644 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Fitness Stuff for Normal People. Today’s episode is a split. First, Marianna and Tony break down what actually separates training for strength from training for size, and how dialing in the right approach can change your progress entirely. Then we move into why “skinny” isn’t the goal, and what real health looks like when you zoom out past aesthetics. Consider this a reset for both your programming and your perspective, so your training reflects what you actually want.


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Timestamps:

(5:16) Strength vs Size


(27:34) Skinny Tok

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's episode is a split-styled episode, two topics, one hitting your muscles and the other hitting your mind.

0:07.8

First, we're going to break down the differences between training to get stronger and training to get bigger because they are two very different things, along with how to adjust your training to fit those goals.

0:18.0

And then changing gears a little bit to talk about how skinny does not mean healthy

0:22.3

where the overlap is and isn't and the important things you need to look out for but before that

0:27.5

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0:32.8

you get access to every single one of our complete 12 week training programs that are programmed out

0:37.1

into google sheets to track and guarantee that you are making progress. It is just $5 a month, and you

0:42.3

get tons of extra perks like bonus episodes every single Friday, AMA style, where we answer

0:47.1

your questions and signing up to take less than 60 seconds. We'll leave a link to do that in the show

0:52.0

notes down below this episode. And if you haven't already, you go ahead and leave a little five-star review on whatever platform you are listening on. That way we can reach more people, which is the goal at the end of the day. And if you follow us, then you get notified with every new episode that drops on Mondays. And a quick shout out to today's sponsor, Legion Athletics, if you need to re-up on any of your staple supplements, weigh protein, fish oil, creatine, pre-workout, all that good stuff.

1:18.7

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1:22.1

Or double points on every order after that with the code.

1:24.3

FSPOD, we will leave the link in the show notes below.

1:26.9

If you want to get someone

1:27.7

a gift for christmas some protein powder for christmas i will be pumped would you not be pumped

1:34.0

you got just stacks of protein yeah i mean protein powder like it's not cheap like it's not cheap

1:40.1

so if if my little sister or something like that got me a pro i'd be like my, my God, Madison, I love you. I actually think I got my brother protein powder for Christmas one year. And he probably loved you for it. Yeah. Like any dude would be ecstatic with a good, like a bomb protein too, not just a Walmart brand. Mm-hmm. I'll go 50. Plan ahead. Do your thing. Before we get into into these topics i was telling you this before the

2:02.1

episode how since the placebo episode that was last week i haven't been able to stop thinking about it

2:07.6

and we alluded to i don't know what part this was we were talking about how just outlook

2:14.5

optimism versus like a more pessimistic outlook had influence over how long you would live,

2:19.8

but we didn't actually look through and go through data for the episode on that part.

2:23.2

Right after we got off, I looked it up and it blew my mother freaking mind.

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