CHANGES!

 In this episode of the Garage Gym Athlete podcast, Jerred announces a significant shift in format. H shares how, after years of managing two podcasts, he has decided to streamline the Garage Gym Athlete podcast to follow the shorter, highly focused style of his other podcast, the Better Human Business podcast.

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Podcast Transcript

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the garage gym athlete podcast. Today, I'm shifting gears a bit. And this is really for the people who've been listening to the garage gym athlete podcast for a long time. And you are a member of the community and you want to keep listening. And if you're kind of new here you know, you stumbled across the podcast from other content.

I highly recommend you. Listen. To this episode all the way through as well, it's going to be relatively short. But it's more of an announcement. Of what's changing at the garage gym athlete podcast. And I want to talk about. How this kind of co came about. I've always been managing two different podcasts. And so, and some of you have been around long enough to actually know this journey. I started podcasting way before it was cool way before every single person and their brother and sister had a podcast. Back in 2014. And it was called the better humanology podcast on that podcast. I just interviewed. As many people as we could find.

And I did this for years and the main goal of that podcast was to answer the question. What does it take to become a better human. And we got a ton of great answers, ton of great research. But I was always battling, I was doing that better humanology podcast, but then we also started the garage gym athlete podcast.

This podcast. And it was. Very manageable at first because how we did the garage gym athlete podcast was we only interviewed athletes and we'd interview six to 10, and then we drop it. In seasons. And so kind of like how Netflix does like a mini series. We were doing that back in 2018. 2017, whenever we first launched the podcast.

So we would drop it when a new cycle would drop, we would drop, you know, six to 10, maybe even 12 athlete interviews, just for athletes to get to know one another what it's like to train you know, in the garage, if there's anything unique perspectives. And that was a lot of fun. But we started running into scheduling issues and like finding the right people.

And it's very challenging to continue that format for a long time. So then we switched to science-based. Where we're really just. Covering a study, what you've become more accustomed to accustomed to recently. You know, I'd say the last couple of years where we. You know, we have. A specific study on whatever the topic is, squats, dynamic efforts, whatever we can find that we think would help the athlete become more autonomous in their efforts. And that's also gone through a lot of iterations.

At one point, it was just me. Then we had four different people on the podcast and then it was just Joe and I, and then again, just me again, and like it's gone through a lot of iterations, but the fact of the matter is the format's kind of stayed the same. But what has also happened back in 20, I guess this is 2023. I kicked off the the better humanology podcast that I originally started with, you know, I had two that stopped at some point and I was only doing garage gym athlete, but then I started better humanology back, but rebranded it to the better human business podcast.

And some of you listened to both podcasts, and I really appreciate that. So we have the better human I have the better human business podcast. And they're just short, they're short 10 to 15 minute episodes. Sometimes not even a full 10 minutes. It publishes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. And it's really just a quick. To the point. Like, here's a, here's a tidbit that can help you in business or self development this week. And I do that twice a week. But here's the deal with that podcast? The feedback I have gotten not just on the content itself of the better human business podcast. But the feedback that I've gotten an overwhelming amount when I meet people and they talk to me about the podcast or, you know, I talked to a listener, the feedback is always. Don't change the format.

We love the short format straight to the point. You know, get me in, get me out. Like, I don't want this like long podcasts because there are all those other podcasts. Out there where they're doing a two to six hour long interview. And I'm sure if that's the only podcast you listened to. And that's not my podcast, but you know, there are a lot of podcasts out there where they're going really deep with their information. And it takes a long time to get through that.

And sometimes it's incredibly helpful, but if you're really busy like me, I like to dive into information, but I don't have. Realistically four hours or three hours to listen to a podcast, unless it's just a topic I absolutely want to crush. And then I'd have to put it on two acts and like go for a long run or whatever. My only point being is I've never wanted to be that long format podcast. We've done.

I've done a ton of interviews with better humanology. We hit a lot of big names from James clear to Ben Greenfield to Joe de Sena. You know, I've, I've interviewed a lot of big people. Sometimes that those interviews are really hard to coordinate. We've also entered a. We interviewed a lot of athletes and that has been awesome, but ultimately had it's trouble too. If someone doesn't have like a professional setup. So anyway, I'm just saying we've tried a lot of different things, but I've never gotten as much good feedback on as I have on the better human business podcast from not only the content, but just the actual format.

So I'm not here to say, Hey, go listen to better human business podcasts. If you want to, if you're interested in self development and growing a business, I kind of give you the behind the scenes of things that I'm working on and all the things I did have my hands in, you can go check it out. But the point being is I want to bring that format over to garage, gym athlete.

And this has been something I've been thinking about for a while now. And so this is the announcement of the fact that that's happening. And so I am changing formats of the format of the garage, gym athlete podcast. This one doesn't count. This is being published on a Monday. So the first one. We'll be Wednesday. And so ultimately I'll have four podcasts a week, Monday and Wednesday.

We'll be garage team athlete, Tuesday, Thursday. We'll be better human business. And they're all going to follow the same format. I have anywhere from seven to 15 minutes long. And what I'm going to bring you is still a ton of research and prep, but I'm going to try to do it in a very, very targeted and precise way. Okay.

So it's not like. You know, these are. You know, not going to be worth your time, but my point is the, the mission here, garage gym athlete has always been to build autonomous athletes and that. And an autonomous athlete is an athlete who can operate on their own. They can operate in autonomy. And the way you do that is through knowledge. And so. I want to go deep on a specific topic, get as much information as I can.

Maybe I have to pull 15 different studies and I look at all these different things, but what I do is then I consolidate that down for you down all the way to. What would be, let's just call it a 10 minute episode here at garage gym athlete. So I am doing all the research. I'm looking at all these things, but then I will consolidate it all. Two. Here's basically what the research says.

I don't have to mention a specific study or all the studies I pulled. I'll probably put those in the show notes. If you do want to go dive deep and you can click on every single study, but as far as the audio podcast itself, I won't be like, Hey, here's the one study or the two, the one, one or two studies recovering.

It might be a whole bunch of different studies, but I'm not going to reference them specifically, unless I feel like it's needed. I'm just going to get straight to the point. If we're talking about the deadlift, if we're talking about your blood sugar. Doesn't matter. We're going to go deep on that topic and I'm going to give you the ultimate takeaway and what you should do with that information.

And I'm going to do it all in around 10 minutes, sometimes less, sometimes a little bit more. That's my plan. And I want to try this out for a few months and honestly get feedback because I'm still going to put a ton of effort into the podcast. And I want the episodes to really be really hard hitting, but that's something I've even noticed in our own podcast is we could honestly probably get through the ultimate takeaway you need in about 10 minutes. And then there's a lot of other conversations and tangents and everything, and those are good for podcasts to have just in general, if you want to get to know more about my training or the behind the scenes of garage mathlete.

And so what I'm going to do. Is Joe is still here. He's going to come on the podcast, but we're going to do an occasional Friday episode. It's not going to be every single week. We will do an occasional Friday episode. Where Joe and I come on and we can just talk about our training, maybe something we've seen in you know, recent months that's popular in the fitness world. You know whether or not we want to talk about Garmin watches, all those kinds of things.

We're going to put that in the Friday episode. Again, it's not going to be weekly. It's going to be occasional that way. You can still hear what we're doing. New things that we've learned that are outside of it since the Monday and Wednesday episodes are going to be so extremely targeted and just getting you exactly the information you need. So I really am looking feedback as we make this change going into the last quarter. Of 2024. Just give a few episodes of try listen for a few weeks.

Maybe don't give me feedback after the first one, like listened to a couple and be like, oh, you know what? This is awesome. Or no, I hate it. I love the old style. Would love to get your feedback, but ultimately I think this is a great direction for you to become a more autonomous athlete for you to learn.

And for me to be able to dive really deep and be super focused on one specific topic and be able to dive in and give you a really good takeaway at least twice a week, for ways to improve your performance, your health, and ultimately live a longer fitter life. That's what we're all here for. And I want to build you into an autonomous athlete, and I think this is the best way I can do it in the. Best way I can still stick to the mission. So, if that sounds interesting to you stick around. Make sure you're subscribed. But here is the first new, shorter format, right?

At 10 minutes. I am rounding this episode out. So thank you for all the athletes who stuck around. Some of you've been around since I was. Interviewing people on better. Humanology a lot of, you've been around through all the iterations we've done on the garage, the monthly podcasts, and now you're here for another iteration. And I think things should evolve and change.

And I appreciate everyone for being here. And if you think this will be interesting, this is your first episode. Listen, all the way through subscribe to the podcast and we'd love to have you stick around. I'll still end it the same way though. Remember, if you don't kill comfort, comfort will kill you.