Autonomy 🤸🍔✊ GMB Fitness

About Autonomy 🤸🍔✊ GMB Fitness

Autonomy means deciding and moving. Ryan, Andy, and Jarlo aren't here to shill for some stupid supplement company. This show explores fitness as a way to play your own game and do more of what matters, all based on decades of training, coaching, and clinical experience. And truly awful jokes. If you hate every formulaic fitness podcast, you just might be in the right place.

Publisher

GMB Fitness

Category

education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Jul 2012

Latest episode

28 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

11 of 158 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   28 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Tendinopathy: Why Getting Stronger Doesn't Fix It (and how to keep training)

   Host Jarlo, a clinician with 28 years of experience, explains why strength alone doesn't fix tendinopathy and reveals effective training strategies for recovery.

2. 

   9 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   3 Out of 10 Protocol for Training with Pain or Injury

   Ask a question Two ways people get it wrong with training around injuries: rest until everything feels perfect (three weeks becomes three months becomes deconditioned and afraid to start), or push through and hope (which usually extends the flare). Both worked when you were 22. They don't anymore. Jarlo Ilano (physical therapist, GMB co-founder) and Andy Fossett walk through the framework Jarlo uses with patients and we use across our programs. A discomfort scale, an irritability test, ...

3. 

   21 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The One Thing Limiting Your Training Progress

   Ask a question In this episode, Andy and Ryan explore the concept of bottlenecks in training, emphasizing how identifying and addressing the main limiting factor can accelerate progress. They discuss practical methods for assessment, common misconceptions, and real-world examples to help listeners optimize their fitness routines. Key Topics Theory of constraints in trainingIdentifying bottlenecks in fitnessAssessment methods: strength, flexibility, controlPractical examples: handstands, pull...

Inside a recent episode

Tendinopathy: Why Getting Stronger Doesn't Fix It (and how to keep training)

Published 28 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] What's happening in younger, in girls and younger women is this thing called relative energy deficiency. So that's just a fancy term for not eating enough for everything that you're doing. And it just happens. Women in sports and the women listening to this know this. A lot of times you're doing your work and you're practicing, you're doing everything through there. And this is a time where that adage, you can't outrun a bad diet, right? Well, you can outrun like not eating enough, right? You can overwork yourself because you're just simply not eating enough. So those are the types of things. So I think the major through line for what predisposes you are these very big things. […]

Who has been a guest on Autonomy 🤸🍔✊ GMB Fitness

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

• Jarlo
• Dr Jason Silvernail
• Dr Howard Luks

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

37,958,666

Score snapshot 25 Oct 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

94 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

21 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 18 / 100

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Quality

1

Social presence

0

YouTube

63

Engagement

27

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