The Strength Barracks

06/02/2026

05/27/2026

📊So we had a tie on the poll for Yoked Shoulder program & the 12 week bench PR Program so I will be writing both!

✅️Message me through the Body by Barracks app and I will populate the program you want directly to you.

I will NOT send both at the same time because if you run both we will run into issues with shoulder overuse & potential injuries.

One priority at a time! 💯

05/25/2026

🛢Let's compare oils for cooking specifically looking at polyunsaturated fats, (PUFA's) which is just a fancy word for industrial waste byproduct.

🧬Over time, PUFA's build up oxidative stress — basically, your body gets bombarded by unstable molecules that cause wear and tear, inflammation, and damage to your arteries, organs, and tissues. Think of it like rust forming inside your body.

Palm Oil: ~9-10% PUFA
Lard (Pork Fat): ~9-11% PUFA
Olive Oil: ~8-12% PUFA (mostly low)
Avocado Oil: ~12-14% PUFA
Peanut Oil: ~30-33% PUFA
Canola Oil: ~28-35% PUFA
Soybean Oil: ~50-60% PUFA
Corn Oil: ~55-60% PUFA
Sunflower Oil (regular): ~60-70% PUFA
Safflower Oil: ~70-75%+ PUFA (highest among common oils)
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Real, Raw Butter: 4% PUFA
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✅️ Beef Tallow: 3% PUFA for the win! Handles heat the best without oxidation & contains fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E) and choline.

🐄 All ruminant animals have low levels of PUFAs in their body (adipose) fats compared to non-ruminants like pigs, chickens, or seed oils. Seems like the Creator knows a lil more than the food/chemical industry.

05/21/2026

✅️We have an 8yr old entrepreneur at The Barracks that 3D prints the perfect sized funnels for pre-workout and protein. Even works on small water bottles without clogging.

He sells them for $5 - Available at front desk!

Let's support his initiative & hustle!

05/18/2026

Upper body 2nd floor is coming together thanks to ATLAS General Contracting This addition is going to be 🔥. When they are done this will be upper body heaven! Still a lot to do, but we are weeks away.

05/18/2026

🔥 Guess What’s Missing in Gatorade & PowerAde?

It’s that time of year again — when heat illnesses spike.

~9,000 time-loss heat illnesses occur each year among U.S. high school athletes across multiple sports. Football accounts for the vast majority (~70%), with a rate ~11x higher than other sports combined. Most cases happen during August preseason practices (not games), especially in hot/humid conditions, and many require ER visits or hospitalization.
Yet for many athletes, I see this over & over because the issue isn’t just dehydration — it’s magnesium deficiency.

Facts:

Roughly 48–52% of the U.S. population already has inadequate magnesium intake.
Athletes lose significantly more through sweat (3–20+ mg per liter) and need 10–20% more magnesium daily than sedentary people.

How low magnesium hurts performance and safety:

Temperature Regulation: Magnesium helps muscles relax, supports efficient sweating, and promotes proper blood flow for cooling. Without enough, core temperature rises faster, sweating becomes less effective, and fatigue + cramp risk increase. 💧
Hydration: Magnesium helps cells hold onto fluids and maintain electrolyte balance. Low levels worsen dehydration, cause fluid shifts, and lead to quicker exhaustion.

🔄This creates a vicious cycle: poorer cooling + faster dehydration = higher risk of overheating.

It doesn’t stop there. Low magnesium is also linked to significantly higher rates of muscle tears (strains), tendon issues, and ligament injuries. Calcium triggers muscle contraction — magnesium allows relaxation. Without balance, muscles stay tighter, lose elasticity, and absorb force poorly during sprints, cuts, or deceleration. Supplementation has shown protective effects against muscle damage in athletes.

Recommended Intake for Athletes (Especially Outdoor/Hot Weather):

Target 350+ mg per day, with heavy sweaters often needing 400–450 mg during intense summer training.
A magnesium blend (containing 3–5 well-absorbed forms like glycinate, citrate, and malate) is ideal for broad benefits.

✅Coaches & Parents: Prioritizing magnesium can make a night-and-day difference. Better temperature regulation, fewer cramps, reduced soft-tissue injuries, and improved recovery. Give your athletes this edge.

🚱Gatorade alone doesn't cut it...

Stay safe out there this season. 💪

05/16/2026

Char on a steak contains heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. These compounds, in extremely high doses, in isolated laboratory conditions, in rats, have shown carcinogenic effects.

The doses used in those studies, scaled to human equivalents, would require you to consume the charred outer crust of approximately several thousand steaks per day for the rest of your life.

Humans have been cooking meat over open fire for somewhere between two hundred thousand and a million years. The crust on a roasted joint, the bark on a brisket, the blackened edges of a chop pulled from the embers: this is the food our species was built around.

If burnt-edge beef caused cancer at the rate the headlines imply, we would not be here to read the headlines.

Eat the steak.

Enjoy the crust.

-Sama Hoole

05/15/2026

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At The Barracks Drip Lab, we offer the same high-quality, doctor-prescribed compounded GLP medications — backed by real medical supervision — at the most competitive price in our area.

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Most members pay under $250 per month — many significantly less depending on dosage.

This isn’t about cutting corners. It’s about cutting out excessive markups.

If you’re serious about sustainable weight loss and want to work with professionals who actually respect your wallet, The Barracks Drip Lab is your local solution.

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DM us to schedule your consultation today.

The Barracks Drip Lab. Real Knowledge. Real results. Real doctors. Real value.

05/06/2026

Dave Tate from elitefts confirming the problem & calling it out. 💯👊

The strength industry I built my life in is unrecognizable.

Twenty years ago, you learned by walking into a gym, getting humbled, and shutting up long enough to let someone better than you correct your form. You found a coach because you went where the strong people trained. You earned a seat at the table by putting in work nobody wanted to watch.

Now the loudest voices have the lightest plates.

The algorithm rewards:

Hot takes
Form police
Manufactured beefs
People are tearing each other down
People looking straight into their phones and lying...

all for views.

It punishes patience.
It punishes craft.
It punishes the quiet work that actually builds lifters.

Coaches who never coached.
Experts who never competed.
Gurus selling secrets they read on someone else’s page last week.
Influencers calling themselves athletes because the camera was rolling.

The best lifters in the country are the hardest to find online. The worst are unavoidable.

Federations split until records mean nothing.
Numbers get inflated for clout.
Mentorship got replaced by DMs.
Brotherhood got replaced by drama.

The work got replaced by the post about the work.

Watch the comments long enough, and you’ll forget what this was ever about.

But here’s what hasn’t changed.

The bar still doesn’t lie.
The plates still weigh what they weigh.
The feeling of a PR is still surreal.

Real coaches are still in real gyms, doing the same thing they’ve been doing for forty years, building real lifters one rep at a time.

Gyms are still full of people who came to work, not to “show” it.

Meets still happen.
Records still get broken by people you’ve never heard of.
Old guys still teach young guys.
Strong women still pull weights that would have been world records when I was competing.

The mission hasn’t moved.

Live, Learn, Pass On is still the whole game.

It always was.

The industry got loud. The sport never did.

Tune out the noise.
Find the lifters who actually train.
Find the coaches who actually coach.

Then go put in the work.

That’s the part the algorithm can’t touch.

Live, Learn, Pass On.

02/12/2026

✅️ Construction build out has commenced as of today for the 2nd floor upper body addition.

🇺🇸 Please bear with us for a few more short weeks. We are adding more bathrooms & showers first, then rewiring the entire floor.

🔥 Private "Pump Room" will be done in a couple weeks as well.

👀 Many more surprises but you'll have to wait for the finished product!