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Build for Health with Srdjan Injac
Build for Health is a show that flips the script on fitness. Hosted by longtime podcaster Pete Wright and strength coach Srdjan Injac of ELEV8 Fitness, this show isn’t about gym culture or getting shredded—it’s about why building muscle is the most important investment you can make in your long-term health. Each week, Pete and Srdjan break down the science, bust the myths, and offer real-world insight into how resistance training supports not just strength, but brain function, metabolic health…
Episodes
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacThe Scale Lies the Morning After Thanksgiving
The holiday weight warning arrives on schedule every year. Five pounds, maybe ten, somewhere between the first slice of pie and the last New Year's cocktail…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacNobody Bulks Up by Accident
Fitness was marketed in two languages for a very long time. Men got strength, muscle, and heavy weights. Women got weight loss, toning, aerobics classes, and…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacDid Social Media Make Fitness Harder?
More free fitness instruction exists right now than at any point in history. You can watch a qualified coach teach a squat at 2 a.m. for nothing. And the share…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacSleep Is the Workout
You can do everything right in the gym and still undo it on the couch at midnight. Lifting doesn't build muscle while you're lifting. It damages muscle and…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacLifting for Your Brain: What Resistance Training Does Above the Neck
Most of us walk into the gym assuming the body is on duty and the brain has the hour off. It's the other way around. Every squat starts as an electrical…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacRest is Not One Thing
Training is the stimulus. It is not the adaptation. That happens later — in the hours we treat as leftover time, and describe with words that all mean absence…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacStress, Cortisol, and Your Gains
Cortisol gets described online as the thing standing between you and the body you want. It's actually the hormone that gets you out of bed. It runs on a daily…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacListener Questions
A calorie deficit takes energy away. Building muscle demands it. Whether you can do both at once depends almost entirely on where you're starting from, and the…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacPeptides Explained, Part Two: BPC-157, TB-500, and the Growth Hormone Stack
Part one covered the fight. This one covers the food. Four peptides get walked through one at a time. BPC-157 and TB-500 are the recovery pair — the ones most…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacWhat Are Peptides? BPC-157, TB-500, and the FDA Fight, Explained
A peptide is a short chain of amino acids. That's the entire definition. Insulin is a peptide. So is the drug in Ozempic. So are BPC-157 and TB-500 — compounds…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacTraining on Vacation: Improvising in a Strange Gym, Plus Gym Etiquette Rules
A two-week break feels like a setback and mostly isn't. What changes first is muscle fullness, not muscle tissue — glycogen and the water bound to it, drained…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacWhy Strength Is the Vital Sign Your Doctor Never Measures
At a routine physical, a doctor charts blood pressure, weight, cholesterol, and triglycerides — a page of numbers meant to forecast the years ahead. None of…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacStaying Lean on Vacation with Devon Castro
ELEV8 trainer Devon Castro joins hosts Pete Wright and Srdjan Injac to take on a familiar fear: that a vacation will erase a year of training. It doesn't hold…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacGLP-1, Cortisol, and Cycle Syncing: A Women's Strength Training Reality Check with Brooke Passey and Kaila Gallion
Spend ten minutes on the wellness internet and you'll learn that women's health runs on one vengeful hormone, that carbs are a betrayal, and that the fix is a…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacYour Bones Are Alive
Most people picture the skeleton as a rigid frame — inert scaffolding that holds everything else up. It isn't. Bone is living tissue, constantly broken down…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacThrow the Scale Away
t starts with one of the most common questions Srdjan gets at the gym: "What should I weigh?" A client asked it that very morning — wanting one number, for her…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacThe Four Engines of Your Metabolism (And Why Three of Them Aren't the Gym)
Most of us treat metabolism like a mystery dial somewhere inside the body — one that worked fine in our twenties and quietly broke sometime after. In this…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacThe Sitting Disease
You can hit the gym four times a week and still be quietly undone by your chair. That's the uncomfortable thesis behind what's been called "the sitting…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacThe Incident: How Srdjan Broke His Arm and Started Beating the Clock
A few weeks ago, ELEV8's Srdjan Injac went on a bike ride. He came home with an oblique fracture of his radius, a Saturday-night ER trip, and a Tuesday surgery…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacADHD in the Gym
Here's something that should be obvious but apparently isn't: ADHD and the gym should be a natural fit. The gym produces dopamine. ADHD is a dopamine…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacAging Is Inevitable. Weakness Isn't.
Here's a thing that happens to almost everyone: somewhere around middle age, you quietly renegotiate your relationship with your body. You stop expecting it to…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacProgramming 102: When to Shock the Muscle and How to Know You're Ready
You had questions after our Programming 101 episode, and Pete and Srdjan are back to answer them. This week it's Programming 102 — a listener-driven deep dive…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacMythbusting!
There's a remarkable amount of misinformation floating around the fitness world — and the frustrating part is that most of it isn't malicious. It's just wrong…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacStop Collecting Sore Joints and Start Making Progress: Programming 101
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…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacTracking Progress Without Losing Your Mind
If you’ve ever had a great week in the gym and then let a bathroom scale talk you into thinking nothing’s working, this episode is for you. Pete and Srdjan…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacTraining After Surgery: Slow Is Fast
This one is about the part of training nobody romanticizes: coming back after injury or surgery without letting impatience take the wheel. We start with a…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacThe Two Most Slandered Joints in the Gym
Knees and shoulders might be the two most over-policed joints in the gym—by people who mean well, by people who absolutely don’t, and by that one guy who…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacProtein Panic and the Myth of Perfect Timing
The question sounds simple, but it carries a lot of baggage: if you don’t eat right after a workout, are you undoing all your hard work? In this episode, Pete…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacFlexibility vs. Mobility: The Distinction That Could Change How You Train
You've probably heard the terms flexibility and mobility used interchangeably. Turns out, they're not the same thing—and understanding the difference could…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacIntroducing Instability: The Secret to a Stronger, Safer Core
In this episode of Build for Health, Pete and trainer Srdjan Injac dig into what the “core” really is—and why it’s far more than the six-pack we’ve all been…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacWhat’s the Deal with Cardio?
Cardio gets a bad rap—and to be fair, most of us have earned that bias the hard way. But in this episode of Build for Health, Pete and trainer Srdjan Injac get…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacTrainer, Coach, or Program: Choosing Your Best Fit
When you’re ready to get serious about fitness, the first big question is: how do you actually learn what to do—and stick with it? In this week’s episode, Pete…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacWhy Strength Sticks When Goals Don’t
When it comes to fitness, most of us think in terms of outcomes: “I want to lose 20 pounds,” or “I want to bench 225.” But what if the secret to lasting change…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacHigh Reps, Heavy Lifts, and Other Fitness Questions
Welcome back to Build for Health, where we take your questions seriously—even when you’re not quite sure how to ask them. This week, Pete Wright and Coach…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacWhy Fad Diets Fail
Fad diets promise quick fixes—but at what cost? This week on Build for Health, Pete Wright and Coach Srdjan Injac are joined by family nurse practitioner and…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacThe Forbidden Exercises
Some moves might be popular gym staples, but that doesn’t mean they belong in your workout. This week on Build for Health, Pete Wright and Coach Srdjan Injac…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacForm and Isolation: The Unsexy Keys to Strength
This week on Build for Health, Pete Wright and coach Srdjan Injac get down to the nuts and bolts of training with a focus on two fundamentals: form and…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacEnergy or Intimacy? Choosing Your Gym Fit
What’s the real difference between training at a big national gym and a private studio? New trainer Brooke Passey joins Pete and Srdjan to unpack incentives…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacTrainer Red Flags, Green Flags, and Real Talk
This week, we zoom in on the moment you decide to get help—how to choose a trainer (and a gym) that won’t waste your time or your joints. Srdjan contrasts the…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacPlateau or Power Move? Demystifying the Maintenance Phase
This week on Build for Health, Pete Wright sits down with trainer Srdjan Injac to take on one of the most misunderstood stages in any fitness journey…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacRecovery Is Not a Reward
We treat recovery like flossing: we say we do it, but mostly we don’t. This week, Pete and Srdjan break down the myth of rest-as-recovery and walk us through…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacThe First Rep: How to Begin Again (and Again)
There is a moment—quiet, unassuming, easily missed—that defines everything that comes after. It’s not a personal record. It’s not a transformation photo. It’s…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacBeyond Protein: Building a Smarter Supplement Stack
Every era has its elixirs. The ancients had tinctures of mercury. The Victorians had cocaine cough drops. We, the modern wellness wanderers, have…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacThe Protein Priority: Building Blocks, Not Buzzwords
In Episode 2 of Build for Health, Pete Wright and ELEV8 Fitness founder Srdjan Injac take on the misunderstood superstar of the nutritional world: protein…
Build for Health with Srdjan InjacBeyond the Mirror: Why Muscle Matters More Than You Think
Welcome to Build for Health, where we flip the script on what strength really means. Hosts Pete Wright and coach Srdjan Injac invite you to leave the “get…