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.
There’s more free fitness advice than ever, and the share of Americans who strength train has barely moved in twenty years. Why the feed keeps changing the plan, what that costs people on the gym floor, and a lightning round through this week’s trends, from Hyrox to cortisol cocktails.
Every rep you lift is a decision your brain makes: which fibers fire, in what order, how hard to brace. This week, what resistance training does to memory, executive function, balance, and the odds of staying sharp at 80.
You don’t get stronger in the gym — you get stronger in the twenty-two hours after you leave it, and only if those hours cooperate. This week, Pete and Srdjan borrow a well-validated model from occupational health psychology to figure out why “rest day” is four different jobs wearing one name.
Cortisol is the hormone that gets you out of bed in the morning. So why is the internet convinced it’s the reason you can’t lose your gut? A look at what stress actually costs you, and why the answer isn’t found inside the gym.
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.