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Unity Gym Podcast
by Health Experts Yani Burmeister [Unity Gym] and Rad Burmeiste [Unity Gym]
Dive into the dynamic world of health and fitness with Unity Gym's Yani and Rad Burmeister joined by expert physio Phil White. Unpacking the latest in physical and mental wellness, this power duo answers your burning questions, offering fresh insights and actionable advice. Whether you're a UMS Online Coaching client or a fitness enthusiast hungry for knowledge, our podcast is your go-to for staying ahead in your health journey. Tune in, transform, and take charge of your wellbeing with us!
Episodes
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Inner Circle 27 - Your squat should match your goal
Is your squat helping you build what you want to build? In this episode, I explain how body position shifts the demand between your hips and knees. You’ll learn why your squat should match your goal. 👉 Join the Inner Circle email list to get lessons like this in your inbox, complete with...
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Inner Circle 26 - The forgotten loading variable.
When it comes to progressive overload, most people think about adding weight, increasing reps or changing tempo. But there's one critical loading variable that almost everyone overlooks: range of motion. In this episode, I share a real example from inside UMS Online Coaching that shows why...
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Inner Circle 25 - Stop chasing pain. Build your body.
You can be strong at your favourite lifts and still have areas you've barely trained. So, when an injury settles down, have you finished the job? Or have you simply returned to the same training that overlooks those areas? Today, we're talking about looking beyond the sore spot and building...
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Inner Circle 24 - Why Rad needs a time machine!
If you’re an adult chasing handstands, muscle-ups or advanced calisthenics skills, there’s something you need to understand before you start throwing yourself at harder and harder progressions. Rad learned this lesson the hard way, and if he had a time machine, it’s the one thing he’d go back and...
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Inner Circle 23 - You don’t need another rehab program
Most people think the answer to an injured shoulder is another exercise, another program or another mobility drill. But eventually, the exercises aren’t the problem. The challenge is knowing what decision to make next. When should you add load? When should you back off? Is that discomfort...
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Inner Circle 22 - If your WHY doesn’t make you cry…
Your injury probably isn't your real goal. Getting out of pain is good. Getting your strength back is good. Being able to train again is good. But why does any of that actually matter to you? This week, I had a conversation with someone working through our shoulder rehabilitation program. He told...
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Inner Circle 21 - Surgery Won't Rebuild Your Shoulder
It can repair tissue. But then what? Most people think a scan tells them how bad their injury is. And if the damage looks serious enough, surgery will fix the problem. But there's an important distinction that often gets missed. Surgery can repair damaged tissue. It can't rebuild your physical...
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Inner Circle 20 - Don’t test it. Build it.
Most people think recovering from an injury is about getting back to where they were. But I think that's aiming too low. Today, I completed my first upper-body workout this year without once thinking about my injured shoulder. No pain. No need to scale anything back. And for the first time in...
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Inner Circle 19 - Don't Wait. Build.
Most people believe recovery is something that simply happens with time. They wait. They hope. They tell themselves they'll get back to the gym, back to sport, or back to doing what they love once their body is "ready." But after more than twenty-five years of coaching people through injuries…
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Inner Circle 18 - Don't Pause The Gym Membership
Most people think rehabilitation means stopping training. They avoid the gym. Rest more. Wait for the pain to disappear. But one conversation I had recently reminded me why that's often the biggest mistake people make. A woman working through our free 16 Part Coaching In Your Inbox series told me...
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Inner Circle 17 - The Most Expensive Decision You'll Ever Make
Most people think waiting is the safe option. They tell themselves they'll start exercising when they feel stronger... join a coaching program when they're more motivated... or take the next step once they're "ready." But after more than twenty-five years of coaching people through injuries and...
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Inner Circle 16 - Your Shoulder Counts Everything
Most people think load management is simply about choosing the right weight in the gym. But after coaching injured lifters for more than twenty years, Rad and I have found that's only part of the picture. Recently, someone working through our free Coaching In Your Inbox series emailed us to say…
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Inner Circle 15 - Progress Was Never Meant To Be Linear
Most people assume that if they're doing the right rehab exercises, progress should look like a straight line. A little better every week. Less pain. More strength. More confidence. But after coaching injured lifters for more than twenty years, Rad and I have learned that recovery rarely works…
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Inner Circle 14 - The Biggest Misunderstanding About Surgery
Most people think the hard part is deciding whether or not to have surgery. But after coaching injured lifters for more than twenty years, Rad and I have found that's often not the hard part at all. The hard part comes afterwards. When you've done the physical therapy. You've had the surgery....
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Fastest Way To Pain Free Lifting After A SLAP Tear
*** Get the program card, cheat sheet & coaching support (all) FREE ***👉 https://unitygym.com/slapSLAP tear rehab doesn’t fail because of your shoulder.It fails because of poor structure.Most shoulder rehab programs miss the real problem — weak scapular stabilisers, poor rotator cuff function…
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Inner Circle 13 - What Grace's Recovery Teaches Us
On March 1st, 2025, one of our online coaching members suffered a SLAP tear in her shoulder. Seven months later, she was standing on the podium at the Central American Championships with three medals around her neck. Most people hear a story like that and assume it's about rehab. But it isn't.…
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Inner Circle 12: Training In The Presence Of Injury
Here's what that looks like ...The very first Monday of January, I started the year about as badly as you can. I’d finished the previous year pressing 75kg for 5×5 behind the neck. I’d had a couple of weeks away from heavy training. I came back thinking I’d be sensible and regress to 65kg. But I...
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Inner Circle 11 - Why MRI Results Can Mislead Lifters
The Difference Between Damage And DysfunctionA viewer commented on our SLAP tear rehab video asking whether the program would also work for other shoulder injuries besides a SLAP tear. And honestly, that question gets right to the heart of how we approach rehabilitation. Because in many cases……
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Inner Circle 10 - This Might Upset Some Physios
Watch the video everyone's talking about here: ▶️ Fastest Way To Pain Free Lifting After A SLAP Tear Rad and I make a pretty strong distinction between two very different rehabilitation models. The first is general population physiotherapy. The second is sports physiotherapy. That’s a really...
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Inner Circle: SLAP Tear Rehab Video
👉 Watch: Fastest Way To Pain Free Lifting After A SLAP Tear SLAP tear rehab doesn’t fail because of your shoulder. It fails because of poor structure. Most shoulder rehab programs miss the real problem — weak scapular stabilisers, poor rotator cuff function, and bad exercise sequencing. In this...
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Inner Circle: Are Dips & BTH Press Too Risky?
Although important, mobility isn't always the first priority inside UMS. Stability is often the first step towards a healthy joint, or a successful injury rehab. Especially when rehabbing the shoulder joint after something like a rotator cuff, labrum, or SLAP tear. Here's an example of where this...
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Why Strength & Flexibility Integration Works Better
Rad and I were looking at a program from one of our Inner Circle subscribers — Dan, 36, from South Wales, UK. To be honest, this was one of the best programs we’ve reviewed in a long time. For the first time, we saw a clear focus on structural balance. That’s extremely rare at this stage. But…
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Why Structural Balance Becomes Critical
In my last episode, I shared why I felt let down by the new ACSM Position Stand on Resistance Training (2026). Not because it was wrong. But because it didn’t really help people like you (and me). Today, I want to show you what it completely missed. And why this matters far more than the program...
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Inner Circle: The Biggest Research Drop In Decades
I was excited about this research… until I read it A new position stand. Over 30,000 participants. Something that promised to update everything we thought we knew about strength training. I even planned to make a YouTube video breaking it down. But after a long chat with Rad, we scrapped the…
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Why The Exercise Isn't The Problem
Something interesting came up in a coaching conversation this week. One of our online coaching members messaged Rad about shoulder pain during dumbbell floor press. He’d previously been told to always depress and retract his scapula when pressing — a cue most lifters are very familiar with. But…
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How To Train Pull-Ups and Dips When You Have Shoulder Pain [Subscribers Program Review]
Join our email list for a chance to have your program reviewed: https://unitygym.com/email-listThis video is for one of our subscribers who submitted their program for review.If you want to lose weigth and build muscle, this is for you.After more than 25 years of coaching, this is one of the most...
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Daily Unit: The System That Ties It Together
By now, you should know your stage. Flexibility bottleneck. Balanced. Or strength priority. Most people stop there. They understand the theory. But they still guess the application. That’s where progress stalls. Because regardless of phase, one thing never changes. Structural balance. This week…
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Daily Unit: When Strength Takes Over
Eventually, something changes. You can sit comfortably in a deep squat. You can press a barbell behind your head at the bottom without strain. Your hips and shoulders move freely. At that point, flexibility is no longer the limiter. Strength is. This is where a lot of people make a costly…
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Daily Unit: The Fastest Way to Unlock Range
If flexibility is your bottleneck, there is a faster way. But it isn’t passive. And it isn’t comfortable. The fastest method follows a simple sequence: Contract. Stretch. Convert. First, you contract the muscle at end range. Hard. For middle splits, that means driving the legs apart using your...
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Daily Unit: It’s Not Your Hamstrings
Most people think tight muscles are the problem. They’re not. Your nervous system is. When you move into a deep stretch, your body doesn’t ask, “Do you want more range?” It asks, “Is this safe?” If the answer is uncertain, it contracts. That protective response is automatic. It’s called the…
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Daily Unit: STOP ... No More Stretching!
When strong people realise they’re stiff, they usually do one thing. They add more stretching. Another session. Another class. Another 20 minutes at the end of a workout. It feels productive. It’s usually a mistake. Real flexibility training isn’t gentle. It applies load. It demands muscular...
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Daily Unit: The 2 UMS Benchmarks
I believe that before you chase advanced flexibility… you need to clear two key benchmarks. Not Instagram range. Not circus tricks. Foundational positions. First: ✓ A comfortable, relaxed arse-to-grass squat. Not falling over. Not heels lifting. Not shaking. You should be able to sit there and...
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Daily Unit: The 80–90% Rule
Most people think they need 100%. 100% strength focus. Or 100% flexibility focus. That mindset is what keeps them stuck. If you trained pure maximal strength, you would bench, then sit for 3–7 minutes doing nothing. That gives you the highest possible force output. But it gives you zero…
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Daily Unit: The 3 Flexibility Strategies
Once you understand that flexibility is stress, the next question is obvious. How hard should you push it? The answer is not “as hard as possible.” The answer is: it depends on your goal. After years of trial, injury, ego, and experimentation, we realised there are only three ways to combine...
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Daily Unit: Yani's Warm-Up Injury
Here’s something most strong people don’t expect. You don’t get injured on your max lift. You get injured on the rep you thought was easy. Back in 2012, I was training hard. High volume. High intensity. Proper bodybuilding split. I was big. Strong. Confident. At a hypertrophy workshop, the first...
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Daily Unit: Too Hard. Or Useless.
Most people get flexibility wrong in one of two ways. They stretch so hard it kills their strength. Or they stretch so lightly nothing actually changes. Both feel productive. Neither works. When flexibility is aggressive and loaded without structure, it creates real fatigue. Muscles get tired.…
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Daily Unit: The Rule That Fixes It
By now you can probably see the pattern. Strong but stiff. Powerful but fragile. Disciplined but tight. The issue isn’t effort. It’s how the qualities are arranged inside the workout. Most programs either: → Separate strength and flexibility into different days → Or stack them on the same tissues...
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Daily Unit: Drag Car or F1 Car?
Here’s a simple question. Are you building a drag car… or an F1 car? A drag car is built for one thing. Maximum horsepower. Straight line speed. No concern for turning. In that environment, it dominates. But add corners, braking, transitions — and it falls apart. An F1 car still has power. But…
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Daily Unit: Strong But Fragile
You can be very strong… and still be fragile. Not weak. Fragile. We’ve seen guys squat 260 kilos. Huge engine. Impressive numbers. Then they sprint. Twenty metres in — hamstring gone. Another guy. Massively yoked physique. Bodybuilding background. First hard change of direction in indoor soccer....
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Daily Unit: The Hidden Trade-Off
Most lifters don’t consciously choose to ignore flexibility. It just loses by default. Here’s how it happens. Strength training is scheduled. Logged. Progressed. Measured. Flexibility? “Do it later.” “Add it at the end.” “Fit it in on weekends.” But when strength and flexibility live in separate...
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Can You Train For Fat Loss With A Shoulder Injury? [Subscribers Program Review]
Join our email list for a chance to have your program reviewed: https://unitygym.com/email-listThis video is for one of our subscribers who submitted their program for review.And if you’re training with shoulder pain while also training for fat loss or a powerlifting competition, this matters for...
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Daily Unit: Here's Why Flexibility Fails
If you’re strong but still feel tight, it’s not age. And it’s not motivation either. It’s usually one simple problem. Your program forces a trade-off. This week, I want you to watch the full 4-part playlist. Because it shows the exact rule we use in UMS to fix this. Strength and flexibility in…
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UMS H.I.I.T. Workout #3 — Full Body Burn 🔥🔥🔥
When people want to lose fat or lean up, they often throw the baby out with the bathwater. They chase what looks good and forget what actually functions. That mistake is both common and costly. We’ve seen it for years. People train hard, work up a sweat, then quietly sabotage results through poor...
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HIIT #2 — Le Fat Loss Logic 🥖🥐
Most people judge a workout by how destroyed they feel at the end. Sweaty. Breathless. Wiped out. But that feeling can be misleading. We’ve coached thousands of people who trained hard… And their body paid the price. Joints hurt. Posture caved. And confidence slowly dropped. The mistake wasn’t...
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UMS HIIT Workout #1 — Why Structure Matters
Most HIIT workouts look intense. Music loud. Heart rate high. But a lot of them quietly fail the people doing them. We’ve seen it for years. People jump into circuits that feel hard… Yet joints flare up. Form falls apart. And structural balance is destroyed! We used to think HIIT had to be…
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Why UMS H.I.I.T. "Hits" Different 💥👊
One of the most confusing parts of training is knowing when to change the tool. You might be doing solid strength and flexibility work… But right now, fat loss feels slow. Energy feels flat. And motivation starts slipping. We used to think the answer was to push harder in the same program. More...
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When H.I.I.T. Workouts Actually Work
If you’ve ever felt flat coming back from the holidays… A bit softer than you want to be… Or frustrated that your usual strength work isn’t leaning you up right now… You’re not broken. And you don’t need more willpower. We’ve been there too. We tend to avoid High Intensity Interval Training...
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Real Food Is Risk Management - What New US Food Pyramid Got Right
Most people think nutrition is only about calories and macros.Protein, carbs, fats. Numbers in an app. That’s only part of the story. Food is also a delivery system.How it’s packaged.How it’s stored.How it’s heated.And how often that happens … day after day, for decades. Ignore that layer long...
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Fix The Gut, Not The Willpower - What New US Food Pyramid Got Right
When cravings hit hard, most people blame discipline.They think they’re inconsistent.They think motivation is broken. In our experience, that’s rarely the truth. More often, the system regulating hunger and energy is out of alignment. This week’s YouTube coaching deep-dive breaks down in detail...
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Why Ultra-Processed Is The Enemy - What New US Food Pyramid Got Right
For years, nutrition debates focused on the wrong enemy.Fat versus carbs.Low-this versus high-that. Meanwhile, something far more damaging went largely ignored. Processing. This week’s YouTube coaching deep-dive breaks down in detail what changes were made around food processing. ▶️ Rad and I...
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Dive into the dynamic world of health and fitness with Unity Gym's Yani and Rad Burmeister joined by expert physio Phil White. Unpacking the latest in physical and mental wellness, this power duo answers your burning questions, offering fresh insights and actionable advice. Whether you're a UMS Online Coaching client or a fitness enthusiast hungry for knowledge, our podcast is your go-to for staying ahead in your health journey. Tune in, transform, and take charge of your wellbeing with us!
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Health Experts Yani Burmeister [Unity Gym] and Rad Burmeiste [Unity Gym]
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