Stop Collecting Sore Joints and Start Making Progress: Programming 101

Build for Health with Srdjan Injac · Feb 19, 2026 · 35m

Here's the uncomfortable truth about most people's fitness routine: it's not a routine. It's a vibe. A loosely organized collection of exercises they kind of remember, performed at an intensity that feels appropriately unpleasant, repeated until boredom or injury ends the whole experiment. That's not training. That's just being tired on purpose.

This week, Pete and Srdjan get into what separates people who actually progress from people who have been "getting back into it" for the last four years. The answer is periodization — which sounds like the kind of word a personal trainer uses to…