Strength coaching with sharp edges.
RX'D Radio treats strength training as a working craft, not a content category. Its conversations move from barbell programming and assessment to coaching credibility, parenting, travel, shoes, and the strange incentives of fitness media.
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RX'D Radio is a fitness and coaching show with the cadence of people who spend more time doing the work than packaging it. The conversations are informal, fast, and often sideways. A drink choice can become a riff on class signals. A travel habit can become a point about predictability, social media, and how people talk when an algorithm has trained them. Then the show snaps back into training. Barbell work is treated as a durable center of gravity, with the squat, bench, and deadlift described as movements that organize progressions, regressions, programming decisions, and coaching cues. The show also spends serious time on assessment. Its lens is practical: symptoms, subjective history, hands-on feedback, movement under load, coordination, intention, and whether the intervention helps the person in front of the coach. Degrees and certifications come up, but usually with caveats. Credibility matters in some rooms, yet the show keeps asking what a person can actually do with a client or athlete. That skepticism extends to fitness content itself. RX'D Radio draws a hard line between people who have podcasts and people who have something to say because they are building, teaching, coaching, or running a business. The episodes with Nick Ridpath focus on athletic development, education, and the path into training. The episode with Eric Bugera uses parenting as a way to talk about coaching, relatability, health, and the pressure to keep functioning when life changes. There is promotional material around Prescript courses and labs, but it is usually folded into broader arguments about teaching and programming. The tone is candid, abrasive at times, and intentionally loose. It is not polished wellness audio. It is closer to overhearing people test ideas against experience, joke through fatigue, and challenge the fitness industry's default stories. For the right listener, that roughness is part of the utility. The show gives practitioners a sharper ear for gimmicks, vague authority, and training advice that sounds good until someone has to coach it.
Made for: RX'D Radio is for trainers, strength coaches, rehab-minded practitioners, and serious lifters who want practical reasoning behind programming and assessment. It best suits listeners comfortable with blunt, informal conversation.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by tying fitness critique to lived coaching, education work, and athlete-facing decisions instead of reacting to content from a distance. Its loose humor carries serious arguments about what actually works in training rooms.
RX'D Radio is a unique blend of science, strength and clinical experience. Hosts Dr Jordan Shallow DC and Dr Jordan Jiunta DC offer up an insightful and sometimes irreverent perspective on all things health and fitness.Both competitive athletes in Powerlifting and CrossFit respectively, these two leave no stone unturned with their hilarious, insightful dissection of the most common misconceptions, gimmicks and accepted practices in the fields of training, nutrition, injury rehabilitation and much more!Be sure to follow the show on Instagram @rxdradio , Host Shallow @the_muscle_doc, Jiunta @thefunctionalchiro and check out www.pre-script.com! Show produced by LunderJack Productions
A B-stance RDL becomes a biomechanics seminar before you can say 'just lift the thing.'
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical look at how a trainer builds trust without leaning on the wrong credentials.
Nick Ridpath sketches a practical path from William & Mary to the training floor, and the thread running through it is simple: useful work matters more than credentials that do not serve the job.
A Marine coach story about grit, pressure, and starting over.
RX'D Radio presents Jay Jones as a First Lieutenant in the United States Marines and a coach whose work moves from Division One football to youth athletes and one-on-one training.
A candid coaching debate about sprinting's demands and who gets to train them.
RxRadio's conversation with Veronica Zucala, a Prescript Coach and educator, moves sprinting away from spectacle and into the less tidy work of coaching real bodies.
Gym growth, measured and coached.
Masha Gessen narrates her own cousin's murder-for-hire arrest and custody battle.
Rich Roll interviews recovery and endurance guests, plus 'Roll On' segments with Adam Skolnick.
Peter Attia evaluates longevity science, from CETP inhibitors to protein debates, through evidence.
Rhonda Patrick translates NAD, vitamin D, and coffee research into daily health protocols.
Shawn Stevenson interviews researchers and coaches on nutrition, sleep, hormones, and fitness.
First Lieutenant Jay Jones joins RX'D Radio to share his winding journey from a D1 football walk-on at Arkansas State to the United States Marine Corps.
A conversation about collaborative coaching, overcoming fear, and building authentic connections in the coaching space.
Eric Bugera discusses the importance of setting boundaries and prioritizing self-care in the context of online coaching.
Nick Ridpath shares his story of switching his college major to kinesiology after a discouraging meeting with his advisor.
Jon Bond discusses his 30-year career in the fitness industry, focusing on the importance of results, professionalism, and real coaching in personal training.
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RX'D Radio’s “E658: The Athlete Identity Crisis” examines how former competitive strength athletes redirect training intensity after business responsibilities become more demanding.
RX'D Radio’s E657 explains how grip pressure, wrist rotation, and hand position can reveal limitations in the shoulder, scapula, and upper-body movement.
RX'D Radio's E656 examines split stance training as the middle ground between bilateral stability and unilateral instability, with emphasis on hip extension, external rotation, and lower-body mechanics.
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Announcement of the return of the Prescript Barbell course, a nine-week program covering squat, bench, and deadlift with progression, regression, and adaptation principles.
Eric Bugera discusses how becoming a parent has influenced his coaching style and perspective on health and fitness.
Two hosts engage in casual banter about their morning drinks and one announces he's been sober for two weeks.
The host discusses how a habit of posting shoes on planes became a predictable conversation topic, leading to a broader critique of the fitness industry's inauthenticity.
The hosts discuss returning to podcasting after a break and compare their on-air and off-air personas.
RX'D Radio E637 with Nick Ridpath focuses on how pro athletes actually get trained when time is short and pain is the main problem.
The hosts discuss the problem with fitness content creators who only talk without taking action, using their own experience running an education company as an example.