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Human Powered

by Joseph Oehlschlaeger

Welcome to Human Powered, a podcast that will help you live more happy, healthy, fit and FREE! Here, you'll get simple, actionable steps for optimizing nutrition, exercise, sleep, habits and psychology so you can GO GET OUT THERE and more fully pursue your purpose, maximize your impact and live a deeply fulfilling, meaningful life. Joseph, a certified nutrition coach and adventure athlete, believes that "the secret" for robust, life-long health and human performance is found in actions over intentions, skills over diets, and environment over willpower. Thanks for listening, now let's get to it! :DHave a question you'd like Joseph to answer?Email him: [email protected] DM on Instagram @itscoachjoseph

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Episodes

  1. EP 29 | You Are What You Consume

    “You are what you eat.” But…. Is that ACTUALLY true? On today’s episode, I’m going to reveal 3 “buckets” or “pillars” of consumption that shape our waistlines, our bank accounts, and ultimately who we are as people. I hope you find this episode to be as freeing and as powerful as I have. To your...

  2. Modular Meal Prep: Make Meal Prep Fast, Easy and Flexible

    Want to make reaching (and maintaining) your fat loss, health, or fitness goals simple, fast and easy? We all know that home cooked meals are always the most nutritious… but they can take so much time and effort… especially on the busiest of days. If you’re looking for the secret to always having...

  3. Tactical Fruit: Turn The Tide Of The War On Snacks

    Growing up, I was a sucker for cool “tactical” stuff. Slap “Tactical” on something and I wanted it. A vest? Meh. A “Tactical” vest? YES PLEASE! So, in the spirit of making simple nutrition cool again, I present you one of my secret “tactical” healthy eating skills. This tactical strategy will…

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  4. Become A Highly Skilled Eater By Harnessing The "4 Horseman" Of Eating

    What matters more: (1) what you’re eating? (2) how you’re eating? (3) why you’re eating? (4) where you’re eating? In this episode, you’ll discover the “4 Horsemen” of eating and how becoming a more highly skilled eater will allow you to lose fat, stay lean, boost performance and live a healthier,...

  5. How To “Switch On” An Automated Process That Keeps You More Lean, Strong And Fit

    What if you could just "switch on" a system in your body that would keep you more lean, fit and strong without you having to do anything. Well, have I got BIG NEWS for you!! It doesn't exist. BUT! There is a process that works VERY SIMILAR to the magical system above. And this process is so…

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  6. EP 24 | How To Push Out Of The Comfort Zone With A Personal Statement

    One of the most simple, yet powerful actions I’ve taken over the past 2-4 years is creating personal mission statements or “power statements” that, in a few words, remind me of who I am, what I’m pursuing in life, and the actions must take to live in alignment with my values and purpose. Have you...

  7. A Hammer Or A Bulldozer? (A Tempting Mistake That Can Cost You Years Of Robust Health)

    Imagine with me for a moment… you just bought a house! Yay!!!! And it’s PERFECT…. expect for those kitchen cabinets… and the bathroom linoleum… and the weird half wall blocking in the kitchen… Ok, it’s a great house but it could use a few tweaks to make it the DREAM house. So what do you do?…

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  8. 4 Questions To Break Free From Procrastination... Yet Nobody Asks Them

    In this episode, you're going to discover 4 questions that can help you break free from procrastination and just do the darn thing. While it may appear like no big deal, procrastination is one of most powerful forces preventing you from pursuing, and achieving, the dreams you have for yourself…

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  9. Lessons From A 24-Hour Ruck: Leadership, Positive Focus, And Finding Joy In The (Uncomfortable) Process.

    It’s sometime around 2AM… On some forgotten logging road in the middle of nowhere in the Oklahoma mountains… With feet that are bleeding and blistered all over… That I discover a powerful truth (3 of them, in fact) that’s shaped how I’ve lived each and every day since. So, in this episode, you’re...

  10. The Great Diet Deception (And What To Do Instead)

    In 2008, Michale Phelps set a world record while SWIMMING BLIND! As Phelps dove into the water to start the race, his goggles failed to seal properly against his face… instantly flooding them with water and leaving Phelps swimming blind. Unable to see the lines painted on the bottom of the pool,...

  11. Making Nutrition Simple: 3 Core Principles That Support ANY Goal

    You type “what is the best diet” into Google and you’re immediately bombarded with 3.6 BILLION page recommendations… Jump on social media and your feed is flooded with diet + supplement ads that have been targeted at you due to your search query. Crazy times we live in, yes? But even with 3.6...

  12. Do New Year’s Resolutions Work? Joe-ology. 5-Second Goal Setting For Busy Peeps.

    Every year around this time, the internet and social media erupt with everyone and their grandma’s hot takes regarding if new year’s resolutions work or not. Do they? You want something better than my hot take? How about a little Joe-ology on this matter: it literally doesn’t matter. Resolution…

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  13. EP 17: The 4 Biggest Lessons Learned In 2022

    The lessons, losses, victories, and struggles of 2022 become the foundation upon which we build 2023. I wanted to share with you the 4 biggest lessons I learned in 2022 in the hopes that you can benefit from my mistakes and struggles so as to have a head start on 2023. I hope you find this…

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  14. The Home-Run Meals Blueprint: Easy-To-Make Meals That You Love (And Get You Lean)

    The meals we eat determine how much we weigh and how lean we get (and stay). Meals cooked at home have consistently been shown to be a powerful way to not just lost fat and stay lean but also to optimize our daily energy levels, biometrics, and overall health + performance. But cooking at home…

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  15. Use This 3-Part Process For Making Powerful Decisions To Elevate Your Impact & Influence

    Do you ever feel stuck or paralyzed making a decision? You don’t know what to do at first, so you put if off to think more… and the longer you think about it the more stress, overwhelm, and despair set in? It can be a vicious cycle. The ability to identify and analyze all your available options,...

  16. Your 401h: Here’s How To Invest In Your Health & Fitness “Portfolio”

    If you want a leaner, stronger, healthier, more high performing body (and mind), then it’s time to realize that your health & fitness is one of your most valuable assets. Your “health portfolio” is a collection of “holdings” such as your biometrics (blood pressure, cholesterol, A1C, resting heart...

  17. How To Drop 10-20 lbs (Without Dieting)

    Diets Suck. By “diets” I mean popular patterns of eating such as: -Carnivore -Keto -Paleo -Whole 30 They require TONS of effort and sacrifice and….. They rarely ever work. Yes, you may lose some weight while on the diet, but it nearly always comes back once you stop. These diets trap you in this...

  18. Health Freedom | A Manifesto For Those Who Want To Live Fully Alive

    You may be bankrupt and you don’t even realize it. I’m not talking about money. I hope you have plenty of that. I’m talking about your health. You see, incredible health and wealth are built with the same formula: Consistent Investments + Time = Massive Result Most of us say we want to achieve...

  19. A Simple Framework For Consistent Healthy Habits

    Is there a system, framework or methodology for creating any success, outcome, or results that you want in life? Be it a leaner body, high level of energy, one million dollars, stronger and deeper relationships etc. There is. It’s a set of timeless principles that underpin the greatest...

  20. 3 (Uncommon) Strategic Systems That Get You Leaner, Fitter, And Healthier

    Do you struggle to stick-to your new diet? Gym membership? Healthy habit? Same. If you spend much time on social media these days, most influencers say you just need more discipline, willpower, or motivation. “You just need to WANT it BAD ENOUGH.” The problem is….. This “just want it bad enough”...

  21. Meet Your New Best Friend: Walking

    Do you ever struggle to consistently get physical activity into your day? Between hectic daily schedules.. Building business empires.. Traveling for work, fun, adventure… It can be challenging to work regular physical movement into the day. However, there is one form of physical activity that…

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  22. One Simple First Step Toward A Leaner Body Composition

    Would you like to be about 10-20 lbs leaner? If so, today’s episode shares the beginning step my housemates have chosen to do in order to begin working toward their own goal of dropping about 10 lbs of bodyfat over the next few months. In this episode, we cover: -The 3 primary drivers of body...

  23. Forget motivation, this is how you actually make a new habit stick

    Motivation is one of the most powerful forces on the planet. However, it’s more of a fickle lover than Taylor Swift’s boyfriend in her song “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.” Motivation goes up and down, in and out, comes and goes. It’s charming, useful, and get’s shit done WHEN it’s...

  24. 3 Breakfast Tweaks For A Leaner, Stronger Body

    Is breakfast the most important meal of the day? Not really, according to most research. However, there are at least two unique factors to consider when choosing what to eat with your first meal of the day. If you would like to lose 10+ lbs and maintain a stronger, leaner, fitter, more...

  25. Constantly Tired? Try This Simple Action First

    Fatigue Sucks (to use the scientific term) It often negatively affects us in the “big three:” Our Health Our Wealth Our Relationships In this episode, I wanted to provide a twist on a classic (and highly overlooked) behavior that is the first, and most simple, place to start when seeking to...

  26. 4 Mealtime Tweaks To Help Reduce Frequent, Mindless Snacking

    This past year I traded a very high physically demanding job for a work-from-home desk job. And…I started getting a bit “fluffy.” After doing some simple, self-observation of my eating habits, I realized that all the “in-between-meals” snacking I was doing was the biggest contributing factor of…

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  27. 3 Invisible Elements of Behaviors That Stick

    New years resolutions…. The “no carb” diet that was SUPPOSED to start last week… The seeming inevitable feeling of frustration and failure when you realize that, yet again, you weren’t able to “stick with it.” Making new behaviors or changes “stick” really is one of the biggest struggles when...

  28. One Simple Strategy To Maintain Epic Health, Wellness, And Fitness When You Have Zero Time, Energy, And Motivation

    Over this past year, I've experienced a season in life where all my motivation dried up. I know longer had any desire or drive to exercise, follow healthy eating habits, and protect my sleep schedule. During that season, I fell back on a simple strategy called bare minimums, and this strategy...

  29. Welcome to the Optimized For Impact Podcast!

    Welcome to to OFI Podcast! If you're an entrepreneur, creator, thought leader or go-getter who is looking to: increase the clarity, creativity, and functionality of your mind build a leaner, stronger, resilient, more energy filled body forge more resilient, robust, health/immune function.…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Welcome to Human Powered, a podcast that will help you live more happy, healthy, fit and FREE! Here, you'll get simple, actionable steps for optimizing nutrition, exercise, sleep, habits and psychology so you can GO GET OUT THERE and more fully pursue your purpose, maximize your impact and live a deeply fulfilling, meaningful life. Joseph, a certified nutrition coach and adventure athlete, believes that "the secret" for robust, life-long health and human performance is found in actions over intentions, skills over diets, and environment over willpower. Thanks for listening, now let's get to it! :DHave a question you'd like Joseph to answer?Email him: [email protected] DM on Instagram @itscoachjoseph

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