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The MENtal Muscle-Up Podcast: The Cure For Mental Masturbation

Welcome to the Mental Muscle-Up Podcast, the no-BS show that is the cure for Male Mental Masturbation.


If you're a podcast junkie, self-improvement buff, and fitness fanatic like me, then this podcast is for you.


To quote Derek Sivers, “If more information was the answer, then we’d all be billionaires with perfect abs.”

By focusing on quality over quantity when it comes to the content calories we consume from podcasts like Mind Pump, Modern Wisdom, Wits and Weights, The Tim Ferriss Show, and Huberman Lab, we will use gym principles like Progressive Overload, and Specificity to


  • Raise the Bar in Our Relationships

  • Muscle-Up Our Mindset and Mental Health

  • Power Up Our Sense of Purpose, and

  • Build Bodies That Personify Peak Performance


Every episode of the Mental Muscle-Up Podcast inspires you to cure Male Mental Masturbation - which is defined as a term for overthinking or engaging in intellectual pursuits without practical application - as we go from passive consumption to immediate implementation with what we call the PodWod - your Podcast Workout of the Day.


Just like a training program in the gym, each PodWod gives a specific number of sets and reps in the form of questions and actions as we work on achieving the best podcast pump possible.


Since life is the ultimate workout, it’s time to start training for it. So hit subscribe, and stay tuned as we take the best of what works inside the gym and apply it outside the gym to Muscle-Up every area of our lives.


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Episodes

Jeff Nippard - Science Lifters Are Under Attack!

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP063 - Is a science-based approach to lifting all it’s cut out to be or is it just the latest fad, and is there an alternative approach that might be better for getting the results that you really want? As a Trainer, am I guiltier than 99% of the population when it comes to switching between real-science, bro-sc...

Jan 10, 202520 minSeason 3Ep. 15

MINDPUMP Podcast EP 2488: You’re Not Building Muscle, This Is WHY!

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP062 - If you’ve plateaued when it comes to your strength or muscle gains, what is the counter-intuitive mindset shift you MUST make before your next workout so that you don’t stay stuck in a perpetual plateau? “ Working hard is important. But more effort does not necessarily yield more results. “Less but better...

Dec 23, 202415 minSeason 3Ep. 14

The Hard Truth About Weight Loss You Probably Don’t Want to Hear

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP061 - If you are looking to make 2025 THE year when it comes to your health and your fitness, but you’ve made that promise before only to NOT follow through on it, what is the glaringly obvious truth that most people don’t want to but NEED to hear as to why they struggle to reach their health and fitness goals?...

Dec 16, 202419 minSeason 3Ep. 13

Why Weight Loss Is Not About Motivation, Willpower, or Self-Discipline

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP060 - If you’re one of the millions of people who ride the rollercoaster of losing weight only to regain it and then some, what do you do when you’re running low on motivation, willpower, and self-discipline so that you can still be consistent with your diet and training so that you don’t end up regaining all t...

Dec 09, 202412 minSeason 3Ep. 12

What Are the Two Types of Salary Every Entrepreneur Can Earn?

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP059 - If you’ve been in the entrepreneurial game for a while now and you’re still not making the kind of money you want, and perhaps you’re even thinking about switching gears or quitting altogether, what is the fastest way to double your salary and simultaneously get more fulfillment, purpose, and satisfaction...

Nov 28, 202415 minSeason 3Ep. 11

Named Must Your FEAR Be Before Banish It You Can

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP058 - If there is a source of recurring pain in your life that you have been avoiding - perhaps to the point where you’ve become numb or even blind to it, what is the first step we must take to overcome our fears, enabling us to step up instead of shrinking and surrendering into the shadows of fear? “We read a ...

Nov 12, 202414 minSeason 3Ep. 10

The Simplest Way to Level Up As A Man

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP057 - If upon honest and deep reflection you find that your life has plateaued and that you are not living up to your potential, what is one of the most potent power sources a man can possess that will allow him to face his fears, live just beyond his edge, and fulfill his potential in every area of life? “Good...

Oct 29, 202413 minSeason 3Ep. 9

Never Skip A Workout Again: The Goldilocks Rule of Training

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP056 - If you’re having difficulty staying consistent with your training in the gym or you can’t even remember the last time you went, and as a result, you’ve either plateaued or started to slide backward in terms of how you look, feel, and perform, what is the Goldilocks Rule of Training, and how do we use it t...

Oct 27, 202419 minSeason 3Ep. 8

The Entrepreneur's Journey - Purpose Vs Profit: Which Should You Pursue?

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP055 - If you’re an entrepreneurial-minded individual with more ideas than you have time to work on - all of which are going to change the world, of course - what do you do when you’ve got two or more business ideas that you really want to pursue but you keep going back and forth about which one to commit to bec...

Oct 25, 202419 minSeason 3Ep. 7

How to Free Yourself From the Prison of Fear

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP054 - If fear of failure, fear of success, or any other kind of fear has left you paralyzed and unable to step up and take the actions you need to take to succeed in any area of the REPP Work, what health and fitness strategy can we apply to master and ultimately conquer our fears? “We read a bunch of books now...

Oct 23, 202417 minSeason 3Ep. 6

If Your Wife Won’t Take Your Advice, Try This Instead.

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP053 - If you’ve ever wondered why nothing you say or do seems to make things better when you’re witnessing your wife or partner have an emotional breakdown, and if offering solutions to her problems only seems to make matters worse, what is the skill we men need to practice and master to put out the emotional f...

Oct 21, 202415 minSeason 3Ep. 5

The Best Weight Loss Exercise Nobody Seems to Be Talking About

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP052 - If you’re one of the millions of people who say to themselves, “I need to do better” when it comes to your fitness, nutrition, or both because what you see on the scale and in the mirror makes you cringe a little, what is the single best exercise for shedding fat and building muscle so you can look, feel,...

Oct 20, 202414 minSeason 3Ep. 4

How to Avoid Taking Your Dreams to the Grave With You

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP051 - If you’re an entrepreneur with the goal of disrupting an entire industry because you’re tired of seeing people suffer from the bullshit advice they get from the so-called gurus, what is the unseen war we must wage and win over and over again to avoid taking our dreams to the grave with us? “Success is not...

Oct 19, 202417 minSeason 3Ep. 3

The Heaviest Weight Most Men Will Ever Lift (But It Does Get Lighter)

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP050 - If you’re the type of guy who when faced with the reality that you need to make some changes, you say to yourself, “I just need to do better” , and yet you’ve been saying that for years and not much has actually gotten better, what is the very first and hardest step you need to take before you can ever ha...

Oct 17, 202417 minSeason 3Ep. 2

A Mistake That Costs Most Men Their Relationships

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP049 - If you’re a man who is consistently confused, irritated, and frustrated with the disconnect between you and your woman, what is the painful truth we men need to accept about the woman we love if we want to exist in a kingdom where we can rule as King and Queen working together as one? “Men and women are d...

Oct 15, 202418 minSeason 3Ep. 1

You’re Not As Fit As You Think You Are - Finale of Season 2: Part IV of IV

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 If you’re a man who’s willing to admit that your physical health plays a critical role in your overall quality of life, today’s episode is for you as we be asking and answering the following MMU Question of the Day… What level are you playing at when it comes to how your body looks, feels, and performs? “Physical...

Oct 11, 202422 min

Impotence and the P-Word (Purpose, Not Penis) - Finale of Season 2: Part III of IV

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 If you’ve even remotely contemplated the idea that you have a life purpose and that one of the secrets to living a successful life is finding and fulfilling that purpose, today’s episode is for you as we be asking and answering the following: MMU Question of the Day - What level are you playing at when it comes t...

Oct 11, 202424 min

The Hidden Cause That Links Male Suicide, Divorce, and Hostage Situations - Finale of Season 2: Part II of IV

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 Unless you want to be blindsided by a wife who wants to divorce you or a depression that will cripple you, you’ll want to listen to today’s episode in its entirety as we be asking and answering the following: MMU Question of the Day - What level are you playing at when it comes to the one thing that stands at the...

Oct 11, 202431 min

How Strong Are Your Relationships REALLY? Finale of Season 2: Part I of IV

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 What level are you playing at when it comes to cultivating and sustaining strong and healthy relationships with your partner, your Brothers, your family, and your Self? “The quality of your life ultimately depends on the quality of your relationships.” - Esther Perel 🎙️ In today’s PodWod, we be crushing our RELA...

Oct 02, 202432 min

INTERVIEW - What Can We Do to Stop the Destructive Decline of Men?

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 Since men continue to fall behind, slip through cracks, and be demonized in some of the most damaging ways imaginable, what do we need to do on an individual, cultural, and global level to help raise men back up before it’s too late? “It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whol...

Sep 27, 20241 hr 30 min

Why Losing Weight Is Always A Losing Battle

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP048 - If you’re trying to lose weight so you can look, feel, and perform your best, to weigh, or not to weigh, that is the question. If striving to hit your ideal weight is hindering your progress more than it is helping, what is an alternative metric to measure if the scale just ain’t cuttin’ it for you? “When...

Sep 20, 202425 minSeason 2Ep. 24

Why So Many Entrepreneurs Fail Even When They Succeed

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP047 - If you’re an entrepreneur who is in the process of building your business or empire, since the road to success as an entrepreneur is fraught with failure, what do you need to focus on first and foremost so that your string of endless struggles does not devour your potential for prosperity? “Do not go wher...

Sep 19, 202419 minSeason 2Ep. 23

The Key to Healing Deep Emotional Wounds

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP046 - If you’re at a point where you’re not sure if you can handle any more of the emotional curveballs life keeps throwing you, and you want to put an end to emotional suffering once and for all - not pain…let me be clear because as the saying goes, “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional” - how the fuck do...

Sep 17, 202420 minSeason 2Ep. 22

Your Partner Doesn’t Support You: What Should You Do About It?

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP045 - If you’re in a long-term committed romantic relationship what can you do if your partner does not support your goals, does not encourage you to become a better version of yourself, and is holding you back from being your true authentic self? “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change...

Sep 16, 202418 minSeason 2Ep. 21

How to See Past the Six-Pack and Find the Right Coach

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP044 - If you’re like me and you’re beyond tired of all the hypie bullshit being spewed out there when it comes to fitness and nutrition, how do you filter the amateurs from the pros when looking for a coach for what is arguably the most important variable for living a happy and complete life - your PHYSICAL hea...

Sep 13, 202420 minSeason 2Ep. 20

What I Totally F#cked Up About Fulfillment, Success, and Happiness

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP043 - If you’re an entrepreneur in pursuit of a purpose - meaning you have a unique message, gift, and experience that you want to bring to the world, how do you make sure that the mountain you’re climbing isn’t one where you’ll get to the top only to realize you’ve been climbing the wrong fucking mountain? “Su...

Sep 12, 202417 minSeason 2Ep. 19

The Simplest Yet Hardest Way to Pull Yourself Out of a Pit

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP042 - If you’re a man who is familiar with procrastination and fear that ultimately leads to self-sabotage, how do you fight through the emotional turmoil that comes up every time you want to make a positive change in your life? “The only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid unav...

Sep 10, 202416 minSeason 2Ep. 18

Building Your Business Without Blowing Up Your Relationships

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP041 - If you’re an entrepreneur and in a long-term committed relationship how do you find the time to build your business while simultaneously keeping your relationship commitments so that you don’t end up super successful but all alone? “Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities ...

Sep 09, 202416 minSeason 2Ep. 17

Tracking Your Macros: Are You Making This Critical Mistake?

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP040 - If leveling up the way you look, feel, and perform is something you value and are currently working towards, since all physical change begins with a change in mindset, what are the Mindest Macros you need to track and manage to Muscle-Up your Mindset so you can you look, feel, and perform your best? “What...

Sep 06, 202422 minSeason 2Ep. 16

Side-Hustle Success: The Most Important Metric to Measure: Moneyball Part II

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode. 🤔 EP039 - If you have a side hustle or are thinking about starting one that could potentially become your full-time deal, and with so much information out there when it comes to finding and fulfilling your purpose (a lot of it conflicting or fucking useless), how can you be 100% certain that the work you are dedica...

Sep 05, 202424 minSeason 2Ep. 15
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