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Tawna Mccoy joins the Coach Em Up Podcast with host Tim Riley to talk about her experience growing up in a small to town to becoming an IFBB pro bikini bodybuilder and gym owner. She speaks on the subjectivity and toxicity surrounding the sport of bodybuilding, opening multiple gyms with her spouse, advice for aspiring business owners, youth and D1 sports, why GLP-1s are becoming too popular, why fitness classes are a great way to get people into the gym, and much much more! Plus, you can't miss the story about her gym catching on fire...

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00:00:00 Intro

00:04:35 Who is Tawna Mccoy?

00:05:36 Growing Up In Waco

00:09:50 Escaping The Small Town Life

00:11:36 Performance/Sports Upbringing

00:16:56 Navigating Big Life Changes At School

00:19:41 Meeting Husband after a Bikini Comp

00:24:06 Getting into Bodybuilding

00:26:58 Olympias and Bodybuilding

00:27:57 The Problem with Perfectionism

00:30:25 Navigating the Toxicity of Bodybuilding

00:37:23 Main Subjective Criteria for the Old Bikini Division

00:41:13 Retiring from Bodybuilding

00:43:57 Opening Gyms with Your Spouse

00:48:23 The Gym Catches on Fire

00:50:47 What parts of being an athlete help with being a business owner

00:52:22 Hold on to good people and Nurture them

00:57:15 Advice For Opening Your First Gym

00:58:07 Taking Over Existing Gym Spaces

01:01:53 The Reasons Gyms Fail

01:03:41 Advice for Someone Opening a Gym

01:07:31 More Gym Chat

01:09:24 3 Things to be a High Achiever

01:12:46 GLP-1 rant

01:14:57 Was the Shake Weight Cool?

01:15:32 Fitness Classes are the Gateway

01:17:59 Unsolicited Solicited Advice

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Nick Conaway joins Tim Riley to talk strength training for older adults, how to build muscle after 40, and why most men are overcomplicating everything. Nick went from running nuclear power plants for 20 years to building a men's health platform with hundreds of thousands of followers, and this podcast looks at the road he took to getting there.

Nick Conaway built Fit Over 40 Man for guys aged 40 to late 50s who are drowning in social media noise and paralyzed by conflicting fitness advice. His approach strips it down: sleep, a three-day full body workout split, single-ingredient foods, and consistent daily non-negotiables. No extreme protocols. No peptide stacking. No lone-wolf nonsense.

This conversation covers the full picture: how golden handcuffs kept him stuck in nuclear energy, what Carol Dweck's Mindset and Atomic Habits did for his identity after a career-ending CrossFit injury, why men's health has to include blood work, and why male loneliness midlife is a bigger performance killer than bad programming.

They also get into quitting alcohol for fat loss, fitness and longevity as a long game, and why the best thing you can do for an aging parent is get them lifting weights.

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:01:11 - First annual client meetup in Dallas

00:03:50 - Who is Nick Conaway

00:05:33 - 20 years in nuclear power and golden handcuffs

00:11:23 - Leaving corporate life and betting on himself

00:17:10 - Childhood roots and the fear of career transitions

00:24:05 - CrossFit obsession, overtraining, and emergency rib surgery

00:32:00 - Shifting from outcome-driven to process-driven identity

00:36:00 - Simplifying nutrition and managing midlife stress

00:42:00 - Male community and midlife isolation

00:46:05 - Showing up daily and navigating grief while building a business

00:52:16 - Social media growth, blood work, and training for older adults

01:05:49 - Peptide overuse vs. the alcohol-free generation

01:11:21 - Alternative career and actionable steps for men over 40

01:15:15 - Unsolicited advice

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Dr. Lance Brooks breaks down sprint mechanics and biomechanics of sprinting at a level most coaches never reach. Tim Riley sits down with the coach, researcher, and founder of Brooks Performance Methods to dig into first principles of sprinting, sarcomere function, quasi isometric contractions, and why the elastic vs force dominant sprinters debate is built on a false premise.

Lance's path is wild: bodybuilding forums to personal training at 24 Hour Fitness and Gold's Gym, then D1 strength and conditioning internships, a master's under Dr. Ken Clark, a doctorate, and postdoctoral work in a Harvard comparative biology lab implanting crystals into rats and running guinea fowl on treadmills. All of it in service of understanding how muscles actually produce force during locomotion.

The conversation covers acceleration vs max velocity mechanics, impulse momentum sprinting, vertical impulse top speed sprinting, horizontal impulse acceleration sprinting, and what Newton's Second Law actually demands from a coach's programming. Lance also dismantles the lazy "science lags behind practice" talking point and explains why mastering basic first principles of sprinting will always outperform chasing hyper-specific applied studies.

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:04:09 - Lance's Background and Career Path

00:15:30 - Early Coaching Lessons and Internship Blunders

00:22:34 - Bridging Research and the Field

00:32:14 - Comparative Biology, Animal Models, and Muscle Testing

01:04:30 - First Principles of Sprinting and Biomechanics

01:21:40 - Quasi-Isometric Muscle Mechanics and the Elastic vs Force Myth

01:36:00 - Sprinting/Research Q&A

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