The Ted O'Neill Program
A glimpse into the approach and training philosophies of strength, conditioning, and powerlifting coach Ted O'Neill, featuring conversations with other athletes and trainers, cohosted by Jon Leon Guerrero.
Episodes
07-03-2026 Reframe Your Experience
Coach Ted talks about what we think we know to be true and why we are so attached to it. (Originally aired 05-24-2024)
07-02-2026 The Lie that is Built into the Struggle
Coach Ted talks about we deceive ourselves with our terminal uniqueness. (Originally aired 05-23-2024)
07-01-2026 A Distraction-Free Environment
Coach Ted talks about how to sharpen the focus to reach and surpass the most aggressive goals. (Originally aired 07-31-2024)
06-30-2026 Cravings and Addiction
Coach Ted reminds us of how to define addiction and how to spot its beginnings. (Originally aired 07-30-2024)
06-29-2026 Refocusing Your Priority
Coach Ted talks about how we get derailed from our priorities and how to see past the fog to get refocused. (Originally aired 07-29-2024)
06-26-2026 Programming Your Growth
Coach Ted talks about his methods for sustaining progress in training, and when and how to employ them. (Originally aired 08-25-2023)
06-25-2026 Breaking Through to the New
Coach Ted talks about the tools you have to train to get past the obstacles. (Originally aired 08-24-2023)
06-24-2026 Defining Vitality
Coach Ted talks about the importance of taking control and strengthening the body as it impacts the rest of the expressions of your life. (Originally aired 08-23-2023)
06-23-2026 Transitions and Adding Weight
Coach Ted talks about transitioning between components of your training and the gradual approach to your working weight or your max effort. (Originally aired 03-05-2024)
06-22-2026 Warming Up
Coach Ted talks about what it takes to warm up for training. (Originally aired 03-04-2024)
06-15-2026 The Simplest Obligations of Training
Coach Ted talks about the proper reverence of the training space and the mindset to succeed every day. (Originally aired 02-26-2024)
06-16-2026 The Obligations of Training, Part 2
Coach Ted talks a bit more about the institutional knowledge of the training space and how we honor it by supporting others and being our best today. (Originally aired 02-27-2024)
06-17-2026 Academy Standards, Part 1
Coach Ted talks about the standards for maintaining progress in your training. (Originally aired 02-28-2024)
06-18-2026 Academy Standards, Part 2
Coach Ted talks more about the standards for continuing to progress in your training. (Originally aired 02-29-2024)
06-19-2026 Using Your Training Log
Coach Ted gives us the essentials for tracking your training and how to use your log to guide your progress. (Originally aired 03-01-2024)
06-12-2026 Starting to Regulate Your Nutrition
Coach Ted talks about how the uninitiated engage food and how we develop the skill of nutrition mastery in the first phase of Body Recomposition. (Originally aired 02-23-2024)
06-11-2026 A Different Way to Dig Deeper
Coach Ted talks about connecting with your objectives in a way that challenges your commitment to your result. (Originally aired 02-22-2024)
06-10-2026 Easier Said Than Done
Coach Ted talks about how inaction in the moment not only slows our progress but trains us to be better at inaction. (Originally aired 02-21-2024)
06-09-2026 Tagging Behaviors with Their Results
Coach Ted talks about how we might behave if we labeled choices with the outcomes they bring us. (Originally aired 02-20-2024)
06-08-2026 What it Means to Treat Yourself
Coach Ted talks about defining what we consider to be a treat, especially one that is attached to an occasion. (Originally aired 02-19-2024)
06-05-2026 The Change Formula
Coach Ted wraps up this week by recapping the Change Formula. (Originally aired 09-12-2025)
06-04-2026 Lock Down the Physical
Coach Ted talks about the crucial step of mastering your body. (Originally aired 09-11-2025)
06-03-2026 Re-Emergence
Coach Ted talks about rising from the ashes (metaphorically). (Originally aired 09-10-2025)
06-02-2026 The Most Visceral Training
Coach Ted talks about why most people identify the body as the self. (Originally aired 09-09-2025)
06-01-2026 The Marrying of Metaphysics
Coach Ted talks about the focus of strength training and how it came to include the practices of metaphysics. (Originally aired 09-08-2025)
05-29-2026 An Integrated Approach
Coach Ted talks about the necessity of putting all the pieces together. (Originally aired 09-05-2025)
05-28-2026 The Momentum Crash
Coach Ted talks about when it all falls apart. (Originally aired 09-04-2025)
05-27-2026 The Fallacy of Moderation
Coach Ted talks about moderation being the obstacle to accomplishment. (Originally aired 09-03-2025)
05-26-2026 Metabolic Mastery
Coach Ted talks bloodwork as a snapshot and medicine as maintenance. (Originally aired 09-02-2025)
05-25-2026 Acidic Environments
Coach Ted talks about the exploding rates of diseases and the common controllable cause among all of them. (Originally aired 09-01-2025)
05-22-2026 Escaping the Societal Quagmire
Coach Ted talks about the norms that are slowly killing so many. (Originally aired 08-29-2025)
05-21-2026 The Root of Skepticism
Coach Ted talks about the attachments some have to their limitations and why they exist. (Originally aired 08-28-2025)
05-20-2026 The Best Way
Coach Ted talks about the best way to do something (until there is a better way). (Originally aired 08-27-2025)
05-19-2026 The Mechanics of Training
Coach Ted talks about meeting trainees where they are in the process and helping them to maximize their efforts. (Originally aired 08-26-2025)
05-18-2026 Training for All
Coach Ted talks about making training accessible for everyone. (Originally aired 08-26-2025)
05-15-2026 Why Body Recomp is a Requirement
Coach Ted talks about Body Recomp optimizing all other Lifted Academy curricula so that it is now a requirement alongside any other product offering. (Originally aired 01-19-2024)
05-14-2026 Group Recomp (continued)
Coach Ted talks about groups experiencing body recomp together. (Originally aired 01-18-2024)
05-13-2026 Group Recomp
Coach Ted talks about the first group body recomp and how it has influenced us both. (Originally aired 01-17-2024)
05-12-2026 The Origins of Body Recomp
Coach Ted talks about where the body recomp principles revealed themselves and how he incorporated them to achieve anomalous levels of success. (Originally aired 01-16-2024)
05-11-2026 Introducing Body Recomp Concepts
Coach Ted talks about the importance of macronutrient ratios, but more about commitment to the process. (Originally aired 01-15-2024)
05-08-2026 Once in a Lifetime
Coach Ted talks about an athlete's perishable opportunities. (Originally aired 10-18-2024)
05-07-2026 Pulled Back In
Coach Ted talks about a renewed sense of purpose for a group of athletes that came together out of nowhere. (Originally aired 10-17-2024)
05-06-2026 Eras and Cycles
Coach Ted talks about finding an internal purpose in your training and how training groups are cyclical. (Originally aired 10-16-2024)
05-05-2026 Get in the Habit of Winning
Coach Ted talks about breaking a big goal down into smaller milestones, and looking even further beyond the goal. (Originally aired 10-15-2024)
05-04-2026 Done and Out
Coach Ted talks about the syndrome of people hitting a big goal and immediately bailing out. (Originally aired 10-14-2024)
05-01-2026 True Leadership
Coach Ted talks about the most interesting and most valuable person in any place. (Originally aired 10-11-2024)
04-30-2026 Training as a Mirror to Your Life
Coach Ted talks about the comfort that comes with being stronger than the challenges you encounter. (Originally aired 10-10-2024)
04-29-2026 Method to the Madness
Coach Ted talks about the outcomes that are determined before designing a training program. (Originally aired 10-09-2024)
04-28-2026 What Causes a Fall
Coach Ted talks about the the events that cause us to lose focus. (Originally aired 10-08-2024)
04-27-2026 Training Variety
Coach Ted talks about the benefit of subtle differences in exercises to address different skills or strengths. (Originally aired 07-31-2023)
04-24-2026 Deciding to Come From a Place of Strength
Coach Ted talks about standing up for yourself and deciding who you want to be. (Originally aired 10-04-2024)
04-23-2026 Strength or Weakness?
Coach Ted talks about connecting with your own thoughts and taking inventory of the place from which those ideas are based. (Originally aired 10-03-2024)
04-22-2026 There's Always a Solution
Coach Ted talks about always being able to work toward a desired outcome. (Originally aired 10-02-2024)
04-21-2026 An Integrated Plan
Coach Ted talks about the outcomes of exercise therapy. (Originally aired 10-01-2024)
04-20-2026 Hips Don't Lie
Coach Ted talks about how the hips reveal so many other issues, and some of the solutions to those issues. (Originally aired 09-30-2024)
04-17-2026 To Understand What's Next
Coach Ted talks about what happens when you've achieved a milestone.(Originally aired 09-20-2024)
04-16-2026 Recovery Days
Coach Ted talks about activities that boost recovery on non-training days. (Originally aired 09-19-2024)
04-15-2026 Training Through the Pain
Coach Ted talks about our ability to change our association with adversity. (Originally aired 09-18-2024)
04-14-2026 Subjective Conditions
Coach Ted talks about what happens when you overcome the conditions and circumstances that are subjective. (Originally aired 09-17-2024)
04-13-2026 Forcing Normalcy
Coach Ted talks about exerting influence on the healing process. (Originally aired 09-16-2024)
04-10-2026 Moving with Purpose
Coach Ted talks about the advantage of stating clear objectives. (Originally aired 09-13-2024)
04-09-2026 Defining Your Own Existence
Coach Ted talks about the practice of strength, of reinforcing a plan and taking deliberate action, and of what you become. (Originally aired 09-12-2024)
04-08-2026 Bucking the Trend
Coach Ted talks about how human beings tend to view those who cut their own paths. (Originally aired 09-11-2024)
04-07-2026 Owning Your Identity
Coach Ted talks about evolving and improving an identity that expresses and serves you. (Originally aired 09-10-2024)
04-06-2026 Hidden in Plain Sight
Coach Ted talks about some of the metabolic disruptors that are tucked into the common things we consume and consider normal. (Originally aired 09-09-2024)
04-03-2026 Once in a Lifetime
Coach Ted talks about an athlete's perishable opportunities. (Originally aired 10-18-2024)
04-02-2026 Get in the Habit of Winning
Coach Ted talks about breaking a big goal down into smaller milestones, and looking even further beyond the goal. (Originally aired 10-15-2024)
04-01-2026 Pulled Back In
Coach Ted talks about a renewed sense of purpose for a group of athletes that came together out of nowhere. (Originally aired 10-17-2024)
03-31-2026 Eras and Cycles
Coach Ted talks about finding an internal purpose in your training and how training groups are cyclical. (Originally aired 10-16-2024)
03-30-2026 Done and Out
Coach Ted talks about the syndrome of people hitting a big goal and immediately bailing out. (Originally aired 10-14-2024)
03-27-2026 Follow the Path
Coach Ted talks about achieving your stated objectives by recognizing the path and staying on it. (Originally aired 06-30-2023)
03-26-2026 Conditions and Requirements
Coach Ted talks about applying principles we have mastered to new objectives. (Originally aired 06-29-2023)
03-25-2026 Projecting Your Thoughts
Coach Ted talks about the fundamentals involved in willing your desired outcomes into existence. (Originally aired 06-28-2023)
03-24-2026 Microbridges
Coach Ted talks about keeping forward momentum by doing the next right thing. (Originally aired 06-27-2023)
03-23-2026 How You Do One Thing
Coach Ted challenges the notion that our demonstration is predictable. (Originally aired 06-26-2023)
03-20-2026 Why All of this is Important
Coach Ted talks about why this talk of strength and its impact on your life is crucial. (Originally aired 06-23-2023)
03-19-2026 The Checkout Line
Coach Ted talks about how the masses are manipulated into consumption.(Originally aired 06-22-2023)
03-18-2026 Strength Solves All
Coach Ted talks about facing circumstances from a position of strength. (Originally aired 06-21-2023)
03-17-2026 Work Capacity
Coach Ted talks about more effective selections increasing your output and maximizing results. (Originally aired 06-20-2023)
03-16-2026 Stroke Volume
Coach Ted talks about the crucial measurement of stroke volume as an indicator of heart health and overall fitness. (Originally aired 06-19-2023)
