Kidd Ellis & Nikki Corso
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A podcast about health, fitness, and CrossFit from Vegvisir CrossFit in Houston, Tx with your hosts Kidd Ellis & Nikki Corso! Podcasts posted weekly every Thursday!
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Practical CrossFit talk meets gym-owner candor, with useful detail on training, equipment, habits, and the community that keeps people showing up.
Buff Brains by Vegvisir CrossFit turns everyday training questions into loose, good-humored conversations with practical stakes. Kidd Ellis and Nikki Corso move easily between choosing equipment for a small home gym and explaining how CrossFit programming differs from…
Kettlebells for your tiny apartment, then a broadsword joke that needs a much bigger one.
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A grounded talk about resilience, habit, and showing up through a new building and a new kid.
This episode reads like a gym-floor conversation about staying steady when life gets loud: a new building, a second kid in the NICU, and the choice to keep training anyway.
A grounded look at recovery after 30, with sleep, food, and mental health at the center.
Buff Brains starts with jokes about getting older and being close to 34, then shifts into a plainspoken look at recovery and fueling after 30.
A blunt, useful take on why elite fitness only works when the goal is clear.
Buff Brains treats Physical 100 as a training question first and a spectacle second, and that framing gives the episode its bite. The move to Physical Asia, plus seven other nations including Australia, is used to sharpen the argument rather than just raise the stakes.
A grounded talk about overwhelm that treats purpose and definition of done as tools for moving forward.
The conversation keeps its focus on overwhelm and the way busy people can stay active without really getting anywhere. Its clearest strength is practical: purpose is framed as a shield, and a clear definition of done helps stop work from spreading past its useful point.
A grounded five-part health conversation that keeps coming back to consistency.
Buff Brains treats health as a set of habits, not a test of character. It moves through five areas - fitness, sleep, nutrition, stress, and mindset - and gives mobility, strength, and cardiovascular work the first turn.
A practical look at when a home gym is worth the space, money, and discipline.
This review treats home fitness as a habit problem first and a gear problem second. The point lands cleanly: anyone setting up a workout space, especially in a small New York apartment, needs some discipline already in place because the room will not provide the push that a gym…
A noisy case for the Open as a community event, not just a scorecard.
The piece treats the Open as a gym-wide ritual, not a scorecard recap. It explains why a gym owner would want as many members as possible to sign up, notes that most of the money raised cycles back into the event, and keeps the point simple: the hassle still earns its place.
Practical fitness Q&A with a human, lightly rough redo.
Bankster podcast turns a broken rerecord into a brisk fitness Q&A, and the loose edges are part of the charm. It moves from creatine concerns to CrossFit splits, recovery, and the plain problem of gaining weight without making the week too complicated.
Yoga, grief, breath, and brave self-compassion.
Western bowhunting lessons from the field.
Hosts Kit and Caitlin Ellis discuss holiday gift ideas for CrossFitters, categorizing athletes into four personality types—data introverts, data extroverts, people-motivated introverts, and people-motivated extroverts—and recommending tailored presents like fitness trackers, lifters, and humorous apparel.
Buff Brains by Vegvisir CrossFit frames “The 5 Factors of Health” around fitness, nutrition, sleep, mindset, and community, with the host pushing a “10 out of 10 fitness” standard of cardio four times a week and weight lifting three times a week.
CrossFit coaches and a business owner have a candid conversation about building resilience through fitness and life choices.
Gym owners Matt and Kit discuss practical strategies for building personal accountability, drawing from their own experiences with partners, mentors, calendars, and mantras.
Hosts Kit Ellis and Matt Marone discuss the most challenging and often hated movements in CrossFit and strength training, like Bulgarian split squats and overhead squats.
The hosts of Buff Brains discuss the two most important recovery adjustments for athletes and active individuals over 30: optimizing sleep quality and hygiene, and shifting nutritional focus from just eating healthy to intelligently fueling for increased training intensity.
The hosts of Buff Brains explore the psychological barrier of vulnerability that prevents people, especially high-achieving professionals, from succeeding at the gym.
CrossFit coach Matt breaks down the 26.2 Open workout, explaining the strategic 'roadblock' nature of the movements and offering pacing advice for different skill levels.
The host shares creative and extreme workout challenges for road trips, including doing burpees for every cow seen and handstand walking around Buc-ee's.
Buff Brains by Vegvisir CrossFit examines three forms of self-sabotage: ego, expectations, and end games.
Kid and Caitlin set fitness and family goals for the first three months of 2025, including Caitlin exercising five days a week during pregnancy and a family trip to Hawaii in March.
The hosts of Buff Brains discuss the CrossFit Open, tracing its history from the Games to the current community-focused event.
The hosts analyze the Netflix competition show Physical 100 (now Physical Asia), using its often poorly-scaled challenges to discuss core fitness principles like relative intensity, goal-specific training, and the value of well-rounded fitness programs like CrossFit.
The episode starts with a reset.
The hosts discuss their long-awaited move to a new CrossFit gym location, sharing stories of construction delays, budget overruns, and unexpected challenges like having a rapper as foreman.
Matt gets a home-gym question.
The hosts of Buff Brains explore the common experience of feeling overwhelmed, defining it as 'plenty of actions without direction.' They discuss personal stories, the pressure to constantly be productive, and practical strategies like using purpose as a shield and setting clear definitions of done to combat it.
The hosts discuss the challenge of changing habits and getting back into a fitness routine, using the analogy of a shovel to represent daily capacity.
The hosts discuss the CrossFit Open workout 26.3, breaking down the movements and weights.
Hosts break down the newly announced CrossFit workout 26.1, explaining the movements, standards, and strategy.
The hosts discuss the best arm workouts for a pump, including rope climbs and dumbbell presses.
The hosts discuss what sport they would do if not CrossFit, blending fitness talk with casual banter.
The hosts discuss how to define strength and explore the best workout routines for building strength, with a focus on CrossFit principles.
Hosts discuss setting fitness goals during the transition from summer to fall, emphasizing the importance of goal-setting in CrossFit.
Hosts discuss the most annoying behaviors they see in the gym, focusing on people working out in front of the dumbbell rack.
Hosts Kidd Ellis and Nikki Corso debate fitness topics with guest Matt Marone, focusing on CrossFit and weightlifting.
Kidd interviews Clark Hibbs about starting Yellow Rose Fitness and his journey in the fitness industry.