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High Intensity Business

High Intensity Business (formerly Corporate Warrior) is a high intensity strength training podcast designed to help HIT enthusiasts to achieve their fitness goals and HIT business owners and personal trainers to build a successful HIT business. The podcast helps individuals and personal trainers to optimise results for themselves and their clients with evidence-based information on exercise, diet, and lifestyle. Moreover, the podcast explores every aspect of starting and growing a high intensity training business including personal training, sales, marketing, operations, hiring, retention, pricing and packaging, financial management, exercise equipment, leadership, productivity, and much more. Previous guests include Dr Doug McGuff, Drew Baye, Skyler Tanner, Fred Hahn, James Fisher PhD, James Steele PhD, Luke Carlson, Adam Zickerman, Kyle Recchia, Adrian Antigua, Bill Crawford, Dorian Yates, Simon Melov PhD, Roger Schwab, Robb Wolf, Mark Sisson, Steve Maxwell, and many, many more.

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543 - Mike Mentzer: American Odysseus — John Little on the New Book and Defending Mike’s Life and Legacy

Nov 26, 2025

Who is Mike Mentzer, really, and why is he considered so controversial? 
 
Prolific Author and High-Intensity Training Expert John Little returns to talk about the new book on Mike Mentzer: American Odysseus — why is it so important to know the truth about Mike Mentzer and everything that happened to him? 
 
John goes into Mike’s confrontation with Arnold Schwarzenegger, how his views on high-intensity training changed over the years, what type of HIT workouts he may prescribe if he were training clients today, and more.
 
With the surprising amount of misinformation about and pushback against Mike Mentzer today, you’ll want to tune in to this episode to learn why all of this is really going on.
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