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 Wright and Srdjan Injac take a calm walk through one of fitness culture’s most persistent anxieties—the so-called anabolic window—and explain why it’s been overstated.

Srdjan reframes the conversation around what actually drives progress: daily calories, adequate protein, sufficient fiber, and long-term consistency. Whether you eat two meals or six, the body cares far more about what you total up over the day than whether you sprint to a shaker bottle the second your workout ends. The much-feared 30-minute cutoff turns out to be less a hard deadline and more a misunderstanding of how long the body remains responsive after training. The conversation also digs into nuance that often gets lost online, including subtle differences in recovery and timing between men and women, how cortisol and glycogen play into post-workout meals, and why “fasted cardio” can make sense for some people and not others. Rather than rules, Srdjan emphasizes experimentation—learning how your own body responds to food timing, workout intensity, and energy availability.

The takeaway is refreshingly unglamorous: stop chasing perfect timing, start building repeatable habits. Eat in a way that fits your life, fuel your workouts, and trust that progress comes from showing up again tomorrow—not from beating a stopwatch to the fridge.

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You've probably heard the terms flexibility and mobility used interchangeably. Turns out, they're not the same thing—and understanding the difference could completely change how you train, move, and age.

In this episode, Pete and Srdjan break down what separates passive range of motion (flexibility) from active, controlled movement (mobility), and why you might need more of one than the other. They cover when to stretch (hint: it's not always before your workout), how yoga and Pilates fit into the picture, and why weightlifting without flexibility is like driving with the parking brake on.

Whether you're desk-bound and stiff or hypermobile but unstable, this episode will help you figure out what your body actually needs.

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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 taught to chase. Srdjan breaks down the core as a 360-degree muscular system, not a single muscle group, and explains why abs alone represent only about 20% of what truly keeps us upright, stable, and injury-resistant. From the way sitting at a desk weakens deep stabilizers, to why most back pain comes from core fatigue rather than structural damage, Srdjan reframes core training as the foundation of long-term strength and mobility.

Together, they explore why machines shut off the core, why instability is your best friend, and how breathing and bracing are as essential as the exercises themselves. Srdjan walks through the muscles you never hear about—multifidus, transverse abdominals, pelvic floor—and explains how they work together to protect your spine, improve form in big lifts, and reduce fall and injury risk as we age. They also tackle myths, overrated exercises, and the mistake of thinking the core’s job is to move you. Its real job? Resist movement.

Whether you’re new to strength training or trying to understand why your lifts feel stuck, this conversation redefines what it means to “train your core” and how to build a body that supports you for decades to come.

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