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Build Muscle, Great Posture & Resilience to Injury | Jeff Cavaliere
May 25, 2026 · 2 hr 17 min
Jeff Cavaliere, MSPT, CSCS, is a physical therapist and certified strength and conditioning specialist and one of the world's leading public educators on resistance training to build muscle size and strength, avoiding and overcoming injuries, and improving your posture and movement patterns (biomechanics). We discuss often-overlooked muscles and exercises that support decades of pain-free training and long-term progress. Jeff explains the best and most efficient ways to strengthen glutes, rotator cuff, neck, and foot muscles and connective tissues, and how to resolve back, hip, and other pain. We also cover the essentials of cardio, fat loss, and nutrition and how to make excellent and ongoing progress despite real-life training constraints. This episode is crucial for men and women as young as their teens, 20s, and 30s, all the way up to their 70s, 80s (and beyond) to be strong, mobile, and pain-free.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) Jeff Cavaliere
(00:02:43) Lower Back, Back Pain
(00:10:06) Tool: Exercises for Lower Back Pain & Strengthen Glutes
(00:15:29) Sponsors: David & Our Place
(00:18:05) Walking Exercises to Strengthen Glutes
(00:23:23) Small Focused Exercises & Timing; Workout Soreness & Pain
(00:27:08) Tools: "Old Man" Test, Functional Strength Tests
(00:35:08) Sports, Movement Imbalance
(00:40:57) Tool: Training Like An Athlete
(00:46:44) Sponsor: AG1
(00:48:28) Inner Elbow Pain, Tool: Grip Modification
(00:54:21) Shoulder, Rotator Cuff Training, Tool: External Rotation Exercise
(01:06:50) Tool: Neck Training; Women, Posture
(01:15:20) Longevity, Strength & Agility; Pain & Construction Zone Analogy
(01:19:50) Sponsor: Joovv
(01:21:12) Cardio, Bike, Jumping Rope; Fat Loss: Zone 2 or HIIT?
(01:29:27) Nutrition, Tools: Calorie Counting; Plate Method
(01:40:18) Foot Stability, Tool: Foot Strength Test; Longevity
(01:48:15) Sponsor: Function
(01:49:53) Warm-Up Sets; Reps in Reserve or Train to Failure?; Work Sets
(02:00:30) Training Frequency; Tool: Real-Life Constraints, Split the Splits
(02:13:58) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter
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