When you lift, you change your body’s shape, right? Well, that’s also how we create gender. We talk about it with collegiate wrestler Mack Beggs and professors Kareem Kubchandani and Stephan Pennington.
Read MoreTBI-114 Arguing With the Breakfast Sheep Over What Is Really Important
Show host Christian Matyi, aka "XN," versus “the most important meal of the day.” We’re tearing apart breakfast with food historian Heather Arndt Anderson and a pack of athletes who know a lot about nutrition.
Read MoreTBI-113 Doing the same thing over and over and over with violas and Drew Ricciardi
The Big Inside’s host Christian Matyi, a/k/a “XN,” talks with professional viola player Drew Ricciardi, who uncovers a fascinating way to look at how your body moves, and says a bunch of complicated words.
Read MoreTBI-109 Getting Totally Sold On Winning During Baby Invasions
The new season of the show gathers a cast of thousands! (Well, maybe less than that.) We're trying to figure out why we get so obsessed with winning stuff. Plus: RANDOM BABY!
Read MoreTBI-106 Memorizing Dinosaurs and Wolverine Leadership with Kalle Beck
The fancy self-improvement and success gurus may be overthinking the idea of leadership. We talk to a strong dude with awesome hair to find out why.
Read MoreTBI-100 The 8-Year-Old's Guide To Avoiding Irony With Barbarians
A pro athlete with a huge audience reminded his fans that social media can create cynicism in a community. Know how we heard about it? Through social media.
Read MoreTBI-097 Silent Judgements and Former Teen Bodybuilders with Dr. Mike Cavaliere, DPT
A guest from TEN YEARS AGO, Mike Cavaliere, comes back on the show. Then he talked about being a teen bodybuilder; now he talks about how that helped guide him to be a DOCTOR of physical therapy. Mayhem ensues.
Read MoreTBI-096 The Sport That Doesn't Matter But Everyone Should Care About with Adam McVey
Is professional competitive bodybuilding relevant to anything other than itself? Adam McVey joins the show to dissect whether or why bodybuilding has any real cultural significance.
Read MoreTBI-095 Cultural Hegemony and The Other F-Bomb, With Author Megan Dietz
How does the craziness women experience with their body image intersect our culture? Author and podcaster Megan Dietz joins us to unpack the challenging cultural landscape and social politics that impact body ideals.
Read MoreTBI-091 Mail-Order Sandow Trophies, Gummy Whores, and New Year's Resolutions.
Every third podcast is talking about 2017 New Year’s resolutions right now, so The Big Inside’s host Christian Matyi, aka “XN,” and show regular Scott Bottorff caves in to convention and puts it’s own spin on the topic.
Read MoreTBI-090 Elephantitis of the kankles and other training errors
The Big Inside host Christian Matyi, aka XN, has kankles, but the source is apparently not in his heel but in his butt! Often, the source of your training limitations isn’t the most direct influence on the problem itself. This is the Fifth in a special mini series featuring regular show guest Scott Bottorff.
Read MoreTBI-088 Special Series 3: Advanced Training Tactics and Jedi Mind Tricks
This episode is the second in a special mini series from The Big Inside featuring host Christian Matyi, a/k/a XN, joined by regular show guest Scott Bottorff with a discussion of missing elements for advancing "advanced" training.
Read MoreTBI-087 Special Series 2: Training Program Assembly and Lousy Sound Quality
APOLOGIES: The sound quality of this episode is a little messed up.
This episode is the second in a special mini series from The Big Inside featuring a discussion of what considerations people should put into assembling a training program.
Read MoreTBI-085 Special Series with Scott Bottorff, Episode 1: Motivation and Bad Spelling
This episode is part of a special mini series from The Big Inside featuring regular show gues Scott Bottorff joining Christian Matyi, a/k/a XN, on a discussion of how motivation may not be solely the result of our mindset.
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