Stronger Weekly
by Altum Media
Latest episode
How to Build Muscle This Fall: 7 Rules That Actually Matter
How to Build Muscle This Fall: 7 Rules That Actually Matter
About this podcast
Strong parents raise strong kids.
Stronger Weekly is the health and fitness show for hardworking parents. Hosted by Jesse Carrajat, Stronger Weekly helps you get stronger, live healthier, raise great kids, and enjoy the ride along the way.
Here's what you can expect:
- Health & Fitness Headlines: The latest health news, research, and trends, broken down into what actually matters for you and your family.
- Fitness & Nutrition That Works: Practical, science-backed advice to build muscle, improve your health, and make the most of your limited time.
- Meaningful Conversations: Honest interviews with experts, parents, and everyday people about health, fatherhood, relationships, and life.
- Real Talk About Parenting: The challenges, lessons, and occasional chaos of raising kids while trying to become the best version of yourself.
- A Little Fun Along the Way: Humor, nostalgia, pop culture, and the occasional completely unnecessary debate about 1990s professional wrestling.
Jesse is a USMC veteran, certified health and fitness coach, healthcare executive, and father of three. Not a guru. Just a dad doing the work alongside you.
Take your health seriously. Take your responsibilities seriously. Don't take yourself too seriously.
Healthy habits are caught, not taught.
New episodes every Wednesday.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 129 episodes
- How to Build Muscle This Fall: 7 Rules That Actually Matter · 40 minFall is a good time to reset your training goals. But if building muscle is the priority, what actually matters: the perfect workout split, more days in the gym, heavier weights…
- Ask Us Anything: Too Many Kids’ Sports, Parenting Burnout, and Why You Can’t Get Jacked (w/ Ben Barker) · 1 h 5 minYou want to build muscle, stay healthy, show up for your family, and somehow get everyone to the next soccer practice on time. But how much is too much? Ben Barker is back for…
- How to Stay Fit, Feed Your Family, and Keep Your Sanity (Britany Williams) · 1 h 16 minMost fitness advice assumes you have time you don't. Between work, children, meals, and the rest of life, parents are told to optimize everything — then left feeling behind when…
- Four Kids. No Wi-Fi. No Screens. How a Tech Founder Raises Kids Like It's 1996 (Will Stackable) · 58 minTwo major studies landed this week on what screens are doing to kids — one tying smartphone ownership at 12 to eating disorder symptoms at 14, the other pooling data on 2.8…
- Quit Drinking for 31 Days? Here's What Happens to Your Body (The Sober October Episode) · 1 h 1 minTomorrow is October 1st, and Jesse is going to try to talk you into Sober October. Thirty-one days, no alcohol. Not because you have a problem — most people don't — but because…
- How to Raise Happy, Healthy Children in an Anxious World (with Todd Sarner, LMFT) · 1 h 30 minGentle parenting. Strict parenting. Free-range, attachment, screen-free, let-them-be-bored. Every philosophy has a following and a comment section, and for parents, it can be…
- What Is Functional Fitness — And Is It Right for You? (with Jon Little, REP Fitness) · 1 h 4 minEverywhere you look, the fitness world is selling extremes — train harder, do more, chase the most intense program on the feed. But for a busy adult trying to stay strong and…
- Intermittent Fasting, Lower Belly Fat & a $50 Supplement Stack (w/ Ben Barker) · 55 minStrength training. Functional training. VO2 max. Zone 2. Sprints. Every podcast tells you something different is the one thing you can't skip — and if you've got four hours a…
- 5 Productivity Tips for Busy Parents (& How to Never Miss a Workout) · 48 minYou didn't miss the morning workout because you're lazy. You might just need better systems — and a different mindset for this busy season of life. This episode lays out five…
- Fitness for Busy Parents | Answering YOUR Questions | Connor Shehan · 1 h 15 minParents: working hard, sleeping little, stressed out, with mouths to feed and schedules to manage — all while trying to eat halfway decent and get a little exercise in. This…
- Testosterone & Hormone Optimization: Everything You Need to Know | Dr. Howard Aubert, MD (Part 1) · 1 h 0 min · Season 4 Episode 137Hormone optimization is suddenly everywhere. Every clinic advertises it, every podcast pushes it, and the federal government just spent eighteen months quietly loosening the…
- Parental Burnout: Signs, Health Risks, and How To Fix It · 44 min · Season 4 Episode 136Nobody talks about parental burnout. Mortgages, careers, trying to be present for your kids — day after day after day. This episode breaks down what burnout actually is, the…
- Overtraining, Training After 40 & Do You Really Have to Run? (AUA w/ Ben Barker) · 1 h 4 min · Season 4 Episode 135Ben Barker is back for another Ask Us Anything. How do you tell the difference between real overtraining and just being tired and needing to push through? If you genuinely hate…
- Why You're Always Tired (And How to Actually Fix Your Energy) · 28 min · Season 4 Episode 135You get seven hours and still wake up flat. Coffee gets you upright, 2 p.m. drops you off a cliff, and then you finally climb into bed exhausted and your brain switches on. Most…
- Your Fitness Report Card: 5 Tests and the Benchmarks for Your Age · 39 min · Season 4 Episode 134Most people have no idea how fit they actually are. They guess, they compare themselves to the guy at the squat rack, or they measure against who they were at 25 — and then coast…
- We Put 12 People on Creatine for 90 Days — Here's What Actually Happened (with Ashley Boyer) · 1 h 2 min · Season 4 Episode 133Creatine is one of the most researched supplements on earth — and also one of the most hyped, doubted, and misunderstood. So instead of arguing about it, REP Fitness ran the…
- Kids & Screen Time, Intermittent Fasting, & Blasting Lower Belly Fat (AUA w/ Ben Barker) · 56 min · Season 4 Episode 132Jesse and Ben Barker are back for an Ask Us Anything, tackling the real-life questions busy parents and lifters are actually asking: how much screen time to allow your kids (now…
- Hyrox vs. CrossFit vs. Bodybuilding: Which Should YOU Do? · 34 min · Season 4 Episode 131Should you try Hyrox? Is CrossFit actually good for you? Should you just run a bodybuilding split? With a hundred ways to train and only a few hours a week to spend, the hard…
- 5 Tips to Finally Lose Those Last 5 Pounds (Stubborn Fat Attack Plan) · 35 min · Season 4 Episode 130You spent the spring trying to dial it in — then work, stress, and life got in the way. Now summer's here and you're a few pounds short of revealing the work you put in. It…
- Do You Need a Dopamine Detox? How to Give Your Brain the Break It Needs · 41 min · Season 4 Episode 129If nothing feels satisfying anymore — if you need your phone, your coffee, your drink, and your scroll just to feel normal — your dopamine system may be out of balance. And…
