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THIRST For More Podcast

THIRST For More Podcast

Von: Brandon Smitley | Terre Haute Intensity Resistance and Sports Training
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The THIRST For More Podcast is designed to help provide insight and knowledge for the strength and conditioning, sports performance, personal training, online training, gym ownership, and health and fitness professionals. Host, Brandon Smitley, reaches out to various professionals in the industry and sits down with them to chat about becoming a better coach, how to improve athletic performance, improving communication, ideas for marketing and brand recognition, and general information on just accelerating your career and life. Brandon is the co-owner of Terre Haute Intensity Resistance and Sports Training (THIRST), a locally owned gym in Terre Haute, Indiana. He trains and works with youth athletes, personal training clients, and strength sport athletes. Brandon's goal is to "Build Better People Through Strength". Connect with Brandon and the THIRST For More Podcast below. Instagram: @team.thirst Instagram: @bsmitley Website: http://thirstgym.comCopyright 2026 Brandon Smitley | Terre Haute Intensity Resistance and Sports Training Hygiene & gesundes Leben
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  • E 89 |

    E 89 |
    Sep 21 2026
    Episode SummarySleep is simultaneously the most oversold and the most underused recovery variable in strength and conditioning. Both of those things are true, and this episode explains why.I take the three studies you have seen on every sleep infographic and audit them honestly. The Stanford basketball sleep extension study had eleven athletes and no control group. The adolescent injury statistic everyone quotes has a confidence interval whose lower bound touches 1.0. The 2022 Sports Medicine meta-analysis reports a 7.5 percent performance decrement with 98 percent heterogeneity, which means the studies in it disagreed with each other almost completely.Then I show you where the evidence is not weak at all: the muscle biopsy data. One night of total sleep deprivation reduced muscle protein synthesis by 18 percent, raised cortisol 21 percent, and dropped testosterone 24 percent. Five nights of restriction at four hours in bed did the same thing, with one enormous exception. The group that was equally restricted but performed high intensity intervals maintained protein synthesis at control levels.That single finding overturns advice most coaches give. If your athlete slept four hours, the training may be part of what is protecting them. Do not send them home.The back half of the episode is implementation. A ranked intervention hierarchy, the two chemical inputs worth fixing, why the highest leverage sleep intervention in most programs is moving a 6 a.m. lift, why I have cooled on sleep trackers, and a four-week protocol you can run with a team starting Monday.WHAT YOU'LL LEARNWhy sleep is a permissive condition for adaptation, not a performance enhancer, and why that reframe changes how you interveneHow to read the three most quoted sleep studies in sport without overstating what they showThe mechanistic evidence on sleep loss and muscle protein synthesis, and its real limitsWhat to actually do with a training session after an athlete reports a bad nightWhy afternoon sessions are hit harder by sleep loss than morning sessionsA six tier intervention hierarchy ranked by effect divided by effortThe caffeine cutoff the research supports and almost nobody followsWhy consumer sleep trackers are least accurate on the number athletes care about mostA four week implementation protocol for a team or a private clientSTUDIES REFERENCEDMah CD, Mah KE, Kezirian EJ, Dement WC. The effects of sleep extension on the athletic performance of collegiate basketball players. SLEEP. 2011;34(7):943-950.Milewski MD, Skaggs DL, Bishop GA, Pace JL, Ibrahim DA, Wren TAL, Barzdukas A. Chronic lack of sleep is associated with increased sports injuries in adolescent athletes. Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics. 2014;34(2):129-133.Craven J, McCartney D, Desbrow B, Sabapathy S, Bellinger P, Roberts L, Irwin C. Effects of acute sleep loss on physical performance: a systematic and meta-analytical review. Sports Medicine. 2022;52(11):2669-2690.Lamon S, Morabito A, Arentson-Lantz E, et al. The effect of acute sleep deprivation on skeletal muscle protein synthesis and the hormonal environment. Physiological Reports. 2021;9(1):e14660.Saner NJ, Lee MJ-C, Pitchford NW, et al. The effect of sleep restriction, with or without high-intensity interval exercise, on myofibrillar protein synthesis in healthy young men. Journal of Physiology. 2020;598(8):1523-1536.Nedeltcheva AV, Kilkus JM, Imperial J, Schoeller DA, Penev PD. Insufficient sleep undermines dietary efforts to reduce adiposity. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2010;153(7):435-441.Drake C, Roehrs T, Shambroom J, Roth T. Caffeine effects on sleep taken 0, 3, or 6 hours before going to bed. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. 2013;9(11):1195-1200. Chinoy ED, Cuellar JA, Huwa KE, et al. Performance of seven consumer sleep-tracking devices compared with polysomnography. SLEEP. 2021;44(5):zsaa291.Baron KG, Abbott S, Jao N, Manalo N, Mullen R. Orthosomnia: are some patients taking the quantified self too far? Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. 2017;13(2):351-354.DISCLAIMERThis podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and should not be considered medical, fitness, or professional advice. Always consult with qualified healthcare and fitness professionals before making changes to your training, supplementation, nutrition, or health practices. Individual results may vary. The host and producers are not responsible for any adverse effects or consequences resulting from the use of any information, suggestions, or procedures discussed in this podcast.Subscribe & Review:If this episode added value to your training knowledge, please subscribe and leave a 5-star review! Your feedback helps us reach more fitness enthusiasts, coaches, lifters, athletes or anyone who can benefit from quality training information.About Brandon SmitleyInstagram: @bsmitley @team.thirstSubscribe On YouTube!Website: THIRSTgym.comMy FREE Newsletter — training insights, programming education & no-fluff content ...
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    1 Std. und 1 Min.
  • E 88 | Building Your Social Media Presence as a Fitness Professional

    E 88 | Building Your Social Media Presence as a Fitness Professional
    Sep 14 2026
    Episode SummaryHalf of the fitness accounts winning right now are teaching things that are flat-out wrong - and the correct coaches are stuck at 47 views. This episode explains why, and what to do about it.We skip the hustle-porn and go to the research: the mere-exposure effect (why familiarity builds liking) and parasocial relationships (why audiences come to trust a persona like a friend). Then we tackle the uncomfortable part - the market rewards seeming right more than being right - and turn it into a practical, six-part presence system you can run around a full coaching schedule.If you would rather be right than loud, this is how to be both.WHAT YOU'LL LEARNWhy viral vs. invisible is a false choice - and why presence beats spikesThe mere-exposure effect: how consistency and brand recognition compound trustParasocial relationships: why showing your face and telling the truth about yourself is the engineThe credibility trap: perceived expertise vs. actual accuracyA six-part presence system for busy, credentialed coachesThe traps that eat serious coaches aliveDISCLAIMERThis podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and should not be considered medical, fitness, or professional advice. Always consult with qualified healthcare and fitness professionals before making changes to your training, supplementation, nutrition, or health practices. Individual results may vary. The host and producers are not responsible for any adverse effects or consequences resulting from the use of any information, suggestions, or procedures discussed in this podcast.Subscribe & Review:If this episode added value to your training knowledge, please subscribe and leave a 5-star review! Your feedback helps us reach more fitness enthusiasts, coaches, lifters, athletes or anyone who can benefit from quality training information.About Brandon SmitleyInstagram: @bsmitley @team.thirstSubscribe On YouTube!Website: THIRSTgym.comMy FREE Newsletter — training insights, programming education & no-fluff content delivered straight to your inboxFree 3-Minute Performance Audit — find out what's actually limiting your results (and what to do about it)THIRST Coaching Lab - get help not only writing, but improving your program design with biweekly calls with other coaches and trainersBrandon Smitley is a world renowned strength coach and athlete for over a decade. He and his wife, Adrian, own Terre Haute Intensity Resistance and Sports Training (THIRST) where they work with youth athletes and personal training clients of all ages. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Purdue University in Health and Fitness, and his Master’s degree from Indiana State University in Physical Education and Coaching. Brandon has been awarded Personal Trainer of the Year Awards from Purdue University and Indiana State University as well is the 2020 Reader's Choice for Best Personal Trainer in Terre Haute, IN and the Wabash Valley.Brandon is a sponsored athlete with Elitefts and NutraBio where as a competitive powerlifter he currently holds the all-time world record squat in the 132 pound weight class, with a 567 pound squat. He also holds a 330 pound bench press, and 510 pound deadlift in that weight class, totaling 1377 pounds, ranking 4th all-time. He provides online coaching and programming around the world, and has personally worked with over 200 athletes in the US, UK, France, Italy, Mexico, Canada, and other countries. Brandon’s been published at Elitefts, Muscle and Performance, and Muscle and Fitness magazine.He holds his Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), Level One Sports Performance (USAW), Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) certifications, and is educated in PRI for Fitness and Performance.
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    47 Min.
  • E 87 | How to Build Long-Term Client Relationships

    E 87 | How to Build Long-Term Client Relationships
    Sep 1 2026
    Episode SummaryEveryone teaches you how to GET clients. Almost no one teaches you how to KEEP them, and keeping them is where the whole business lives.In this solo episode, Brandon makes the case that most coaches don't have a lead problem, they have a retention problem, and that retention isn't a marketing tactic -- it's the coaching relationship itself. Drawing on the working alliance, the coach-athlete relationship model, and self-determination theory (and staying honest about what the research does and doesn't prove), you'll get a practical framework for keeping clients for years instead of weeks.WHAT YOU'LL LEARNWhy a small lift in retention swamps almost anything you do on acquisitionThe three legs of the coaching alliance -- and the one clients break without telling youWhy the first 90 days decide the relationship (and why the 21-day habit rule is a myth)The listen-first communication shift that builds buy-in instead of resistanceWhy difficult clients are diagnostic data, not verdictsCheck-in, memory, and community systems that scale personal attentionHow to handle ruptures and exits so clients boomerang and referDISCLAIMERThis podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and should not be considered medical, fitness, or professional advice. Always consult with qualified healthcare and fitness professionals before making changes to your training, supplementation, nutrition, or health practices. Individual results may vary. The host and producers are not responsible for any adverse effects or consequences resulting from the use of any information, suggestions, or procedures discussed in this podcast.Subscribe & Review:If this episode added value to your training knowledge, please subscribe and leave a 5-star review! Your feedback helps us reach more fitness enthusiasts, coaches, lifters, athletes or anyone who can benefit from quality training information.About Brandon SmitleyInstagram: @bsmitley @team.thirstSubscribe On YouTube!Website: THIRSTgym.comMy FREE Newsletter — training insights, programming education & no-fluff content delivered straight to your inboxFree 3-Minute Performance Audit — find out what's actually limiting your results (and what to do about it)THIRST Coaching Lab - get help not only writing, but improving your program design with biweekly calls with other coaches and trainersBrandon Smitley is a world renowned strength coach and athlete for over a decade. He and his wife, Adrian, own Terre Haute Intensity Resistance and Sports Training (THIRST) where they work with youth athletes and personal training clients of all ages. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Purdue University in Health and Fitness, and his Master’s degree from Indiana State University in Physical Education and Coaching. Brandon has been awarded Personal Trainer of the Year Awards from Purdue University and Indiana State University as well is the 2020 Reader's Choice for Best Personal Trainer in Terre Haute, IN and the Wabash Valley.Brandon is a sponsored athlete with Elitefts and NutraBio where as a competitive powerlifter he currently holds the all-time world record squat in the 132 pound weight class, with a 567 pound squat. He also holds a 330 pound bench press, and 510 pound deadlift in that weight class, totaling 1377 pounds, ranking 4th all-time. He provides online coaching and programming around the world, and has personally worked with over 200 athletes in the US, UK, France, Italy, Mexico, Canada, and other countries. Brandon’s been published at Elitefts, Muscle and Performance, and Muscle and Fitness magazine.He holds his Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), Level One Sports Performance (USAW), Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) certifications, and is educated in PRI for Fitness and Performance.
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    52 Min.
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