Always Adaptive

About Always Adaptive

Dive into trending health and fitness topics with Evidence Based Coach, Randall James. Having a background in many different exercise modalities, he looks at all exercise through the lens of health AND performance and so provides a unique perspective that's hard to find elsewhere.

Publisher

Randall

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

20 Nov 2024

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

81 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Cardio vs Diet: Which Matters More for Longevity?

   What's more important for longevity, cardiovascular fitness or diet quality? Recently I rewatched an episode of the Coach Em Up podcast featuring Zack Telander and Alec Blenis, where they got into a really interesting discussion about longevity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and ultra-processed foods. Some pretty wild statistics were thrown around, and naturally, being the nerd that I am, I wanted to dig into the actual research and see what the literature had to say. So in this video, we're div...

2. 

   28 Sept 2026

   5 Things I've Learned Over 12 Years of Coaching

   September marks 12 years of coaching people, and to “celebrate,” I wanted to do what I do best: be a nerd. So I’m sharing five lessons I’ve learned over those 12 years. We’re talking about what I do when someone feels a tweak during a workout, why I think some people could benefit from more intensity, and why I’ve changed my mind about chasing perfect movement. I also get into knee valgus during running and why a bench press cue like “break the bar” might help one person but make the lift unc...

3. 

   14 Sept 2026

   IBD: These 2 Supplements Put My Ulcerative Colitis Into Remission

   I’ve had ulcerative colitis for around 25 years, and if you’ve followed this channel for a while, you know I’ve experimented with just about everything trying to get this disease under control. Well, I’m finally in remission. And strangely enough, the two things that seem to have made the biggest difference for me weren’t biologics or another prescription drug. They were two supplements: Boswellia Serrata and Indigo Naturalis, also known as Qing Dai. Over the years I’ve experimented with d...

Who has been a guest on Always Adaptive

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Fitness expert
• Dr Paul Saladino
• Dr Nick Norwitz
• Dr Andy Galpin
• Dr Mike Israetel

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

196,655

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 68 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

88

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

32

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