BJ Gaddour
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BJ Gaddour is the former fitness director for the Men’s Health brand, the author of Your Body Is Your Barbell and The Ultimate Pushup Guide & the creator of the best-selling SpeedShred & MetaShred DVDs. He was also the first personal trainer to grace the cover of Men’s Health, the world’s largest men’s magazine. Since leaving Men’s Health in 2017, BJ’s main focus has been TheDailyBJ.com, providing at-home fat loss & muscle gain programming for busy parents & professionals. Follow him on all social media platforms @BJGaddour. He lives with his wife & dog in Palm Springs, CA.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
BJ Gaddour makes aging-athlete fitness concrete through adaptable exercises, candid self-assessment and routines designed to keep movement sustainable.
BJ Gaddour turns workout programming into an ongoing conversation about staying capable as the body accumulates wear. Usually speaking directly to the audience, with occasional extended conversation, he moves through squat rebuilding, daily hanging, fat-loss habits and recovery…
BJ Gaddour's squat rebuild lets your knees join the planning meeting.
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A blunt fat-loss checklist built around simple meal prep, affordable protein, and no-nonsense training advice.
BJ Gaddour keeps the focus on a plainspoken fat-burning checklist built on training and nutrition basics. He also folds in a push for his new YouTube VIP program, El Fuego, so the piece lands somewhere between advice and promotion.
A straightforward program pitch that turns into a usable lesson in progression and repeatable hard training.
BJ uses this episode to introduce El Fuego, a six-week full body fat burning push meant to line listeners up for spring and summer. It sits next to the superhero shoulders program, and he is direct about the setup: the new programs can start any time, and he says he will walk…
Blunt habit coaching folded into sports talk, protein tips, and live, practical thinking.
BJ opens with sports and movies before settling into sticky habits, protein tips, and the question of how routines hold up under work, mood, and business pressure.
A decade-by-decade training talk that pairs ambition with staying available.
The episode moves decade by decade, from the teens through 50 and beyond, and keeps its attention on practical training choices instead of nostalgia.
A simple daily habit aimed at mobility, grip, and steadier training.
BJ Goddard treats daily hangs as a plain habit, not a grand fix. He links it to the Labor Day weekend reset, fall momentum, and the coming 28 day hangs challenge, then makes the case in training terms that feel grounded: mobility first, sub-maximal practice, better reps, and a…
A practical rundown on training around sore joints, setbacks, and arthritis.
This episode treats pain, inflammation, and arthritis as a training problem, not a reason to stop moving. It lays out 10 ways to work around injuries, setbacks, and other limits that make exercise harder, with examples tied to travel, work stress, rehab, and how one knee can…
A practical rotation of simple meals for busy weekdays.
BJ Gaddour presents the episode as a weekday system built around 10 simple muscle meals kept on rotation when the week gets busy. The appeal is not novelty but repetition: protein, produce, and starch adjusted to the goal and activity level in front of you, which keeps the…
A blunt, lived-in look at aging, stress, and training when the body starts to argue back.
The episode takes a Guardian piece on rapid aging bursts and makes it feel less abstract, leaning on listener comments, stress, and the speaker's own knee problems to show how aging can land in ordinary life.
Yoga, grief, breath, and brave self-compassion.
Western bowhunting lessons from the field.
BJ Gaddour frames The BJ Gaddour Podcast episode “THE CHEAT CODE- Repair, Rebuild & Regain!” around a three-phase R3 system built from repair, rebuild, and regain.
The episode opens with a familiar loose, caffeinated riff, then shifts into a Guardian article about rapid aging bursts from recent research.
BJ Gaddour says "Yes, I'm on OnlyFans" and says OnlyFans recruited him in 2020, while YouTube stays the place for "vanilla fitness content".
BJ Gaddour frames Paris 2024 as the most memorable Olympics of his lifetime, with 16 highlights for 16 days and a strong reaction to NBC and Peacock’s coverage.
BJ Gaddour introduces Summer Swole as a six-week program starting Monday, 5-5-25, built to get members “swimsuit ready” by summer.
BJ Gaddour and Jeremy Scott spend this episode on Peloton’s collapse, calling it a sign that fitness is drifting toward a “fitness for the rich” model.
BJ Gaddour opens with a $69 limited-time bundle from Dr.
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BJ Gador opens with membership updates and a live chat invite.
BJ Goddard shares his go-to muscle meals for packed weekdays.
BJ Gador opens by laying out his blue zone recovery system and frames it around staying in the game as a 42-year-old aging athlete.
BJ Gador opens with member updates, a Superhero Shoulders mention, and an invite for VIP questions.
BJ Gador opens by saying there is a practical way to stop missing workouts.
The episode opens by taking on pain, inflammation, and arthritis as the kind of problem that can shut training down before it even gets going.
BJ opens by pitching the VIP program and framing the squat as something many experienced lifters need to rebuild, not just load up.
The host opens the show in a loose, end-of-summer mood, says he took an edible, and works through weekend junk-food cravings and how cheat meals have shifted from his twenties to his thirties and now to next month’s 42.
Ten tips, shred mode.
El Fuego starts on 3-3-25, at the time of recording.
BJ opens loose and busy.
Happy Thanksgiving week, creatine gets the mic.
BJ Gaddour’s episode on “6 Strength Training Secrets” centers on safer exercise selection, joint-specific mobility, warmups, work-set volume, final-rep intensifiers, and back-off sets for heavier training.
BJ Gaddour uses this episode to launch “Old School Abs,” a six-week core training program on YouTube with both a bodyweight-only track and an equipment-based track.
BJ Goddard opens with a listener request and frames the episode around training by decade.
BJ opens with Labor Day weekend and the tail end of summer.
BJ Gaddour says he now prefers lunges and split squats over barbell squats because his right ankle and right hip lack flexion and rotation, which makes heavy squatting tilt his pelvis and aggravate pain.
BJ Gaddour and Jeremy Scott discuss the 2024 NBA Finals, criticizing Jayson Tatum's celebrations and the lack of competition.
BJ Gaddour and Jeremy Scott discuss training in extreme heat, sharing personal experiences from Palm Springs and Scottsdale, and explore weight vest workouts for strength and endurance.
BJ Gaddour interviews Jeremy Scott about training strategies for men over 40, focusing on sled workouts, mobility, and sustainable fitness.