The Heavy Meta Podcast

The Final Assault on the DusitD2 Hotel, Told by the SAS Operator Who Led It (Part 3 of 3)

Just after first light they heard the terrorists praying for the first time all night. Christian Craighead told the Kenyans to get ready, then started singing the Hail Ma

"They Were Already Planning My Court-Martial" — Christian Craighead, Part 2

He's inside 14 Riverside Drive alone. His own side is planning his court-martial. Nobody sends him maps, mug shots, or orders — and 150 people are hiding in a hair salon.

SAS Operator Breaks His Silence: Christian Craighead, In His Own Words (Part 1)

In January 2019, an SAS operator walked alone into a terrorist attack on the DusitD2 hotel complex in Nairobi. More than 700 people got out alive. Then his name started d

If You Are Not Going Longer, You Are Not Training Endurance

Endurance is not a pace. It's not a zone. It's not a finish line. Endurance is how long you can keep going, and almost nothing we call endurance training is training that

Sub • Stance | Peptides: What Nobody Selling Or Regulating Them Will Tell You

A peptide is legal or illegal depending on a court calendar, not a toxicology report. In September 2024 Eli Lilly sued the FDA over whether retatrutide contains 40 amino

Most Men Dress to Disappear | Tanner Guzy

Style is identity made visible. Most men dress in a way that communicates nothing, because they'd rather be invisible than be a liar with their appearance. Tanner Guzy i

A Metric Is a Point. Fitness Is a Shape | Hybrid Training

Hybrid training is specialization pointed in two directions at once, not general physical preparation. A big deadlift next to a fast mile is impressive. It is not eviden

How to Train in a Hotel Gym (5 Rules, 5 Real Sessions)

Hotel training is filler training. Its job is to keep the practice intact when the conditions won't support progressive overload — not to break records, not to test anyth

I Just Commited Brand Su*cide

After a year and a half building OLLIN, I'm renaming everything. This is why. The short version: OLLIN was a placeholder born out of a dissolution I couldn't talk about,

Nobody Knows What They're Doing | Josh Tyler

Nobody knows what they're doing. Not you, not your heroes, not the guy selling you the answer. This is a conversation, not an interview. No agenda, no promotion, no gues

The Reason You Can't Think Your Way Into Change

You don't think your way into a new self. You move your way there — and then you turn around and the person who started walking isn't the person who arrived. ???? Read t

TRAINING FOR PROFIT

The best companies in the world aren't the ones that pay the most. They're the ones that refuse to set their most valuable asset on fire. In 2024 I ran a project with a

Endurance Q&A: Your Most-Asked Questions, Answered

Before launching the new OLLIN endurance program, I opened a Q&A to the membership and answered what came back. This is that conversation. The through-line: most enduran

The Witching Hour: What Endurance Actually Teaches You

How do you describe a feeling to someone who's never felt it? There's no single word for what the 12th hour of a maximal effort does to a person — the pain, the haunting

Training vs. Exercise: The Word You've Never Understood

There's a word hiding inside the thing you do every day, and almost nobody who does it knows what it means. Trahere — Latin, to drag, to draw a living thing out of its cu

Training For The Apocalypse

The apocalypse is a useful frame. Not because the world is ending — because it strips fitness down to one question: does this body work when it has to? Most lifters, aft

What is Exercise? How is it Different than Training?

Most people confuse the two. Here is how I make an intentional difference. Training is using the psychological and sensational potential to push the physiological boundar

Being Unfit Is a Superpower. Most People Waste It.

Being out of shape is the single highest-leverage position you will ever occupy in your fitness life — and most people waste it because they're too embarrassed to use it.

The UNFVCKD Podcast w/Stuart Diplock

About the episode: In an industry obsessed with 15-second clips and "hack-based" transformations, genuine physical mastery is being lost. In this episode, Stuart Diplock

Are You Bankrupting Your Body? The Perils of the "Get-Fit-Quick" Scheme

Today, we're talking about fitness—a topic that feels rigged from the start. You've probably seen people with perfect genetics, natural talent, or the resources to take s