Srdjan Injac (pronounced “surgeon”) is the founder and head trainer of ELEV8 Fitness. He has worked in the fitness industry since 2008, specializing in strength training, resistance, conditioning, flexibility, balance, plyometrics, endurance, and sport-specific programs. He also works with clients recovering from injuries and post-surgical procedures.
Srdjan develops personalized training plans tailored to individual goals and capabilities. He is also the host of Build For Health, a podcast on TruStory FM focused on the role of strength and movement in long-term health.
Can you get stronger while eating less? Does exercise order matter, or is that gym mythology? How long is too long away from the gym? Then the peptide mail arrives — including one listener who thinks we were too cautious, and one who thinks we were unfair.
Last week: whether the restaurant should be allowed to open. This week: reading the menu, item by item. What BPC-157 and TB-500 claim to do inside injured tissue, what a growth hormone stack actually signals, and where the mechanism stops and the marketing starts.
A peptide is just a short chain of amino acids. Insulin is one. So is Ozempic. So are the compounds an FDA panel just voted on after the agency’s own scientists said no. What that vote did, what it didn’t, and why the difference is making people just plain crazy.
Two weeks away from your program costs less than the internet says. This episode covers what actually declines when you stop training, how to build a workout in a gym full of equipment you’ve never touched, the unwritten rules of a crowded gym floor, and how to come back without hurting yourself.
A week off won’t undo your progress. Hosts Pete Wright and Srdjan Injac, with ELEV8 trainer Devon Castro, cover what really happens when you stop training, why “never skip breakfast” is half-myth, how everyday walking adds up, and why sleep is the one thing worth protecting on the road.
The wellness internet says women’s fitness runs on a $40 cycle calendar, a fear of carbs, and a hormone out to get you. The science says otherwise. A look at GLP-1’s muscle-and-bone cost, what keto does to thyroid and energy, and why the scale lies.
The scale lies. BMI was invented by a 19th-century astronomer who said never to use it on individuals. So what should you actually measure? Pete and Srdjan dismantle the metrics we’ve been handed and make the case that muscle mass — not weight — is the number that matters.
Pete thought his metabolism was broken and the only fix was hiring a wizard. Srdjan has bad news for the wizard industry: metabolism isn’t a switch, it’s a system — and most of it runs on the twenty-three hours you spend outside the gym.
You exercise. You eat well. You think you’re doing the right things. But if you’re sitting eight to ten hours a day, your body has notes. Srdjan Injac breaks down what prolonged sitting actually does to your posture, hips, and metabolism — and what to do about it.
What happens when the strength coach breaks his arm? Eight screws, a plate, a hyperbaric chamber that nearly taps him out at sixty feet of pressure, and the most convincing case for muscle-as-insurance we’ve ever made on this show. Srdjan is recovering ahead of schedule. Here’s how — and why it proves the whole thesis.