Nacho Fitness Coach

Is breakfast actually the most important meal of the day, or did somebody just convince us of that? We’re digging into whether breakfast is a biological need or a marketing win, and whether ditching the old breakfast/lunch/dinner labels for “eating occasions” actually makes more sense.

Along the way we get into the protein-heavy hacks keeping breakfast realistic for people who aren’t exactly thrilled to eat first thing in the morning, plus a few long-standing debates about what actually belongs on the breakfast table.

Whether you’re a cereal-for-dinner person, a “I don’t eat un...

This episode is all about feet, specifically what we’re putting on them and whether it’s actually doing us any favors. We dig into barefoot and minimalist shoes, why a wide toe box matters more than most people realize, and why wearing the wrong kind of socks can quietly cancel out everything a good shoe is trying to do.

We also get into why foot experts are completely divided on this topic, what the transition into barefoot shoes can actually feel like, and how something as simple as squished toes might be connected to bigger problems down...

“Too old” gets thrown around like a medical diagnosis, but most of the time it’s just a decision wearing a convincing disguise. This one’s about the moment people quietly start preparing for decline, years before their body actually forces the issue.

There’s a story in here about a stranger’s excuse list that’ll make you wince, plus a real conversation about why people in their 30s are already building their homes around stairs they’ve decided they won’t be able to climb one day. Spoiler: it’s not about turning 80. It’s about what happens the...

Protein is suddenly everywhere, Cheerios, Doritos, you name it, and the labels want you to believe more is always better. This week gets into why that marketing trick works, and why most of it doesn't actually move the needle on your daily protein total.

From ditching the whole breakfast, lunch, and dinner structure to figuring out how much protein your body actually needs based on activity level, this one lays out a practical system for building a plate that works: protein first, fats next, carbs last. There's also a math problem on a protein chip bag that...

When was the last time you actually went to the doctor? Caleigh finally answers that question this week, and the answer is... not great. We're talking nearly a decade of skipped checkups, a running list of "probably fine" symptoms, and an appointment that somehow turns into a whole negotiation about timing, consent, and how much a person really needs to mentally prepare before showing up.

From pap smears to mammograms to the fine print on what "normal" blood work actually means, this one digs into why so many of us wait until something's wrong instead of just...

Sara's on a mission to hit a daily creatine dose most people would call excessive, and this episode follows exactly how well that's going (spoiler: ChatGPT has opinions). The two get into what it actually takes to hit a high dose in real life, the trial and error, the mixing tricks, the moments where the AI staged a full intervention.

Then things go completely off the rails with a farm-store find that has them questioning everything they thought they knew about supplement serving sizes, plus a detour into an unexpected source of protein that neither of them...

Fitness is full of rules that sound official but don't hold up: lifting weights makes you bulky, cardio is required to lose weight, a workout doesn't count unless you're sore for days after. None of it's true, and this episode runs through why.

The conversation also gets into the stuff that actually works: a meal plan that skips recipes entirely (pick one protein, one carb, one fat, one veggie, done), a 28 day challenge built around one small habit at a time, and workouts that only take 10 minutes but still count.

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Vibration plates are supposedly good for everything: better balance, more energy, magically draining your lymphatic system, you name it. This week Sara pulls the actual research, and it turns out to be a lot less witchcraft and a lot more "decent bonus tool if you're not expecting a miracle."

Vibration plates can wake up stabilizing muscles, get blood moving, and modestly support balance, coordination, and bone density, especially useful for older adults working on fall prevention or anyone easing back into movement after an injury. What they won't do is burn real fat or build real muscle...

There's been a lot of "wait...is that Sara?" happening all summer, and it's time to actually address it. She's been on peptides — tirzepatide, specifically — and after years of preaching no magic pill, she's owning up to finding one that actually worked for her.

The full stack gets laid out: the weight loss piece, a glow blend for her skin, and NAD+ for energy she calls the real MVP of the bunch. Getting there wasn't a shortcut from day one, either — months of doing everything "right" with nothing to show for it came first, followed by a hard l...

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This podcast offers health, fitness, and nutritional information and is designed for educational and entertainment purposes only. You should not rely on this information as a substitute for, nor does it replace professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have any concerns or questions about your health, you should always consult with a physician or other healthcare professional. Do not disregard, avoid, or delay obtaining medical or health-related advice from your healthcare professional because of something you may have heard...

That day-after-leg-day moment where sitting down requires a strategy? Yeah, this one's about that. Muscle soreness is one of those things everyone deals with but nobody actually understands — is it good, is it bad, did something tear, or is the body just being dramatic about it.

Turns out the whole "no pain, no gain" thing has been debunked — you don't need to be limping around for three days to know a workout worked. Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) comes from tiny tears in the muscle fibers, not lactic acid buildup like everyone learned back in the day, and...

Two hundred episodes and eight seasons later, there's champagne on the carpet and (allegedly) a hole in the ceiling to prove it. Turns out the numbering might be off by one thanks to an uncounted bonus episode a few seasons back, so nobody can say with total confidence this is actually episode 200 — but that's not stopping the celebration. Balloons, a genuinely questionable cork situation, and a toast to three and a half years of doing this for no reason other than wanting to.

From there it's rapid-fire hot takes on the stuff that gets repeated most: supplements ar...

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This podcast offers health, fitness, and nutritional information and is designed for educational and entertainment purposes only. You should not rely on this information as a substitute for, nor does it replace professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have any concerns or questions about your health, you should always consult with a physician or other healthcare professional. Do not disregard, avoid, or delay obtaining medical or health-related advice from your healthcare professional because of something you may have heard...

Food noise finally gets a name on this one. It's that constant, low-level chatter about food that has nothing to do with actual hunger. Caleigh's had it for years without knowing what to call it, and it turns out there's a real difference between being excited about tacos and being unable to stop thinking about food at all.

Sara doesn't have it, and never really has. She can eat the same three eggs for lunch, three weeks straight, without thinking twice. That gap between the two of them turns into a bigger conversation about whether everyone has...

Instagram's algorithm took over the show again, and this one's a chaotic ride through everything currently living in the feed. There's a street interview response about fat people and plane tickets that gets more unhinged with every line, a viral story about a woman who ran three full-time jobs at once and ranked in the top 10% at every single one, and an ongoing debate about what actually counts as illegal versus what just gets you fired.

On the fitness side, the scroll delivers some real talk too: protein brownies that taste like dried-out cat, why 180 grams of...

Vogue printed an actual diet plan in the 1970s that comes down to three eggs, five ounces of steak, and a full bottle of wine a day, with a promise of five pounds gone in three days. Sara found it, read it out loud, and neither of them could believe it made it to print in a fashion magazine.

From there it turns into a deep dive on the worst diet advice history has to offer, including a viral TikTok thread full of people confessing their most feral weight loss tricks: chewing ice for hours, calling a...

The clips of Jillian Michaels going head-to-head with body positivity advocates has been all over social media, and Sara and Caleigh finally sat down to watch the whole thing. The setup: a moderator reads a claim, and whoever gets to the hot seat first gets to argue it with Jillian face to face. First claim up: obesity is not healthy, and pretending it is puts lives at risk.

One woman used her turn to object to the word "obese" before ever addressing whether it was true. Another argued that exercise hurt her and dieting didn't make sense...

It's been over a year since Sara's neck surgery, and there's still a marble-sized knot sitting in her shoulder that won't quit. Massages haven't touched it. Time hasn't fixed it. So instead of waiting it out any longer, she's back in the chair for dry needling, the treatment that helped her most before surgery ever happened.

Dry needling sounds worse than it is: a needle taps into the muscle, and if that muscle is healthy, nothing happens at all. But if it's dysfunctional, it spasms, twitches, and resets itself, almost like it's shocking its own...

Caleigh and Sara pull up a post from a dietitian friend breaking down NASA's Artemis II crew menu, and it's not the bland astronaut food you're picturing. 189 menu items. Barbecue brisket. Mac and cheese. Nutella. Real food, not restriction.

NASA requires astronauts to hit 1.2 to 1.8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight, and every calorie is individualized per crew member, anywhere from 1,900 to 3,200 a day depending on size and activity. No blanket numbers, no cookie-cutter plan. If NASA won't send someone to the moon without hitting their protein, why are you skipping yours?

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Sara's been doing an annual nutrition talk at the school where she coaches, and the numbers on energy drinks are becoming impossible to ignore: two-thirds of kids surveyed drink them regularly, and most already know exactly how many milligrams of caffeine are in the can. They drink it anyway. This episode gets into why that's happening and why it matters.

The comparison is the real eye-opener. Alani and Monster run 200 to 300mg of caffeine per can, more than double what's recommended for kids in an entire day, in one sitting. Compare that to a 12oz Mountain Dew...

Alcohol is back on the table, again, because apparently once wasn't enough. Sara breaks down what a few weekend drinks actually do to sleep, testosterone, and fat-burning, and the numbers aren't subtle: up to 70% less growth hormone released during REM sleep, a 20-30% testosterone drop, and fat-burning paused for up to two days while the body deals with the alcohol first.

But this isn't a "never drink again" episode. Two things can't be true at the same time. If the goal is peak recovery or real progress, the Friday drinks are working against it, whether that's comfortable...

There's a place in Toronto that will let you lie on a vibrating table, pedal an infrared bike, or straddle something called a sculpt roller — and charge you $350 a month for the privilege. They claim you can burn 2,000 calories in 45 minutes. Sara and Caleigh watched the video. Reactions were had.

This episode is really about the bigger pattern: people will spend serious money on elaborate, passive "wellness" experiences before they'll lace up their shoes and go for a walk. Sara breaks down why the basics are still the basics — and why that's actually good news.

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Sara went down a rabbit hole. It started with a quick weight gain she couldn't explain, a turning-45 reality check, and the sneaking suspicion that willpower wasn't going to cut it this time. So she started doing her research — like actually doing her research — and landed somewhere she didn't expect: peptides.

This week we break down what peptides actually are, how GLP-1 and GLP-2 are different (and why the difference matters), and the surprisingly good argument for starting with a peptide before you've even fixed your habits. Sara also explains the lego theory of aging — yes, really — and why...

Okay so we started this episode asking the hard-hitting questions — would you rather give up caffeine or social media? And Caleigh's answer might tell you everything you need to know about her. But then we got into the actual topic, and it's a good one: testosterone. Not just a "man thing." We both have it. We both need it. And a lot of us are running low without even knowing it.

Sara pulled her actual Function Health results on air and her total testosterone came in at a 7. Optimal range? 15 to 47. So we got into what that ac...

We did something a little different for our mid-season bonus and honestly it might be our favorite thing we've ever recorded. Sara and Caleigh brought actual kids into the studio and just asked them stuff. What do adults get wrong about kids and movement? What makes PE fun or miserable? What would you tell grownups about fitness? No coaching, no prompting. Just real answers from real kids.

The themes that came through were pretty clear: the kids don't care about the structure. They care about having a say. Being signed up for something without being asked, getting...

Kids don't need a gym membership or a packed schedule to be active — but they do need movement. In this episode, Sara and Caleigh break down what it actually looks like to raise kids who move their bodies, why 60 minutes of moderate activity a day matters, and why none of it has to cost a single dollar.

They get into screen time as the real barrier to active kids, why throwing kids into organized sports too young isn't always the answer, and what actually happens when you just take the iPad away and let them be bored fo...

In January 2026, the government released a new food pyramid — and it flipped everything we grew up with upside down.

Protein and healthy fats are now at the top. Whole grains got demoted to the bottom. Ultra-processed food got explicitly called out on an official government website for the first time. We went through the whole thing live at realfood.gov, including the part where the site opens with “America is sick” in big red letters before the pyramid even appears.

Sara breaks down why this goes beyond personal food choices — schools, hospitals, nursing homes, and governme...

There's a tangent at the top of this one — it's a good one — but once the fitness content kicks in, it's one of the more useful episodes we've done. Caleigh's Apple Watch got an update that started showing heart rate zones during walking workouts, and the data had some things to say.

Sara breaks down what zone 2 actually means: working but not struggling, breathing harder, still able to hold a conversation. And more importantly, what it actually takes to get there and stay there. Spoiler — it's more than most people are doing.

From there, it's a full...

Hard-boiled eggs are one of the best proteins you can keep in the house — cheap, versatile, easy to grab on the go — but only if you actually prep them. And if you've ever stood over a pot of boiling water, set a timer, then peeled the shell off in chunks while half the egg white comes with it, you know there has to be a better way. Turns out there is, and it's been on Amazon for under $35 this whole time.

The egg cooker is having a moment in our house, and we're breaking down everything — how it wor...

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HYROX is all over the fitness internet right now and we finally went full nerd on it — what it actually is, what each of the eight stations involves, what the weights and distances look like in practice, and who this thing is genuinely built for. Spoiler: the burpee broad jumps got an immediate hard no. The ski erg wasn’t far behind.

We also got into something a lot of people think about but don’t always say out loud: how much of what you consume online is actually your choice? Between Sara’s News Feed Era...

This week on Nacho Fitness Coach, we did something slightly chaotic—we asked ChatGPT to explain why Caleigh wouldn’t be a good personal trainer… and then read it out loud. Turns out, it had some very specific opinions.

We go through each point and unpack what being a trainer actually involves, from patience and repetition to handling clients who don’t always follow through. Along the way, we talk about burnout, personality fit, and whether loving fitness automatically means you should coach other people.

By the end, we shift the conversation from “should Caleigh be a train...

Caleigh and Sara are back, but this time we’re putting a timer on the chaos. Caleigh gives Sara a topic, sets a three-minute countdown, and lets Soapbox Sara go absolutely feral with a no-holds-barred fitness rant.

We bounce through rapid-fire topics, calling out common myths, overcomplicated advice, and the stuff that just needs to be said out loud. Some rants stay on track… others spiral immediately—but every single one is honest, unfiltered, and way too relatable. If you’ve ever wanted someone to just say what everyone’s thinking about fitness, this episode delivers.

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This week on Nacho Fitness Coach, Caleigh and Sara spiral into a story about a fitness influencer who got himself very publicly “canceled”… and what we thought was going to be a quick tangent turns into a full-blown discussion about social media, influence, and human behavior.

We talk about what happens when people gain a following and start to believe their own hype, why reacting emotionally online almost never ends well, and how easy it is to forget there are real humans behind the comments. We also share some of our own experiences with viral content (and accide...

This week, Caleigh and Sara somehow go from roasting each other and comparing wildly different daily step counts to talking about monkey bars, grip strength, stairs, and the movements adults probably shouldn’t stop doing just because they feel harder now. We get into how everyday movement adds up, why basic physical capability matters more than people think, and how avoiding certain movements might be exactly why they get harder over time.

Then we shift into a conversation about blood work, supplements, and taking ownership of your health with actual data instead of vibes. We talk about Fu...

In this episode, Caleigh and Sara talk about what to do when you don’t feel great but also can’t figure out why. We get into how easy it is to convince ourselves we’re doing “fine” while ignoring the obvious stuff that might actually be making us feel bloated, tired, foggy, run-down, or just off. Before jumping to extremes, we talk about looking at the basics first: eating enough, eating regularly, getting enough protein, sleeping more, drinking water, and paying attention to stress.

We also go off on several very important tangents, including nails, shot put, carbs...

This week on Nacho Fitness Coach, we went down a rabbit hole after hearing a clip about something most people don’t realize: many doctors receive little to no formal education on exercise or nutrition in medical school. That doesn’t mean doctors aren’t incredibly knowledgeable or valuable, but it does raise a big question about where people should actually look for guidance on lifestyle habits that impact long-term health.

We talk about how the healthcare system is largely designed to treat illness rather than prevent it, and why things like sleep, movement, hydration, and food often...

Season 8 is here, and apparently Caleigh and Sara are still incapable of acting normal for even five minutes. In this episode, we kick things off with some wildly unserious chaos, a life update from Caleigh about putting her kids in public school, and a very real conversation about how routine changes can throw everything off, including workouts, meals, and general sanity.

Then we get into the actual myth-busting: can your body only process 30 grams of protein at a time? We break down where that idea came from, why people keep repeating it, and why it doesn’t ho...

In this episode of Nacho Fitness Coach, Caleigh and Sara wrap up Season 7 by doing what they do best: talking about real-life fitness, questionable ideas, and accidentally proving a point with a pair of five-pound pink dumbbells. What starts as a “this will be easy” overhead hold quickly turns into a very humbling reminder that light weights can still wreck you when you don’t respect them.

We dig into why holding onto strength and mobility matters more than chasing perfection, especially as we get older. We talk toddler squats, hip mobility, getting up and down from the fl...

In this episode, Caleigh and Sara take a nostalgic (and slightly unhinged) trip down memory lane as they unpack growing up in the 90s, explaining old pop culture to their kids, and realizing that everything we loved is now considered “vintage.”

We talk about South Park Wednesdays, MTV back when it actually played music, VHS tapes, dial TVs, and the emotional damage caused by movies like My Girl. We also dive into generational humor, why every age group eventually becomes the punchline, and how Gen Alpha is stepping into the spotlight whether they like it or not.