Two-time World's Strongest Man Mitchell Hooper and Fit Foods founder Jim McMahon break down Mitchell's 6,000-calorie diet, 20g daily creatine habit, contest caffeine strategy, and Mutant's upcoming Stronger Series on Episode #240 of the PricePlow Podcast.
Mitchell Hooper won his second World's Strongest Man title in April 2026, and he's the first professional strongman to join the PricePlow Podcast. He's also a kinesiologist with a master's degree in clinical exercise physiology, so his answers on protein, creatine, and caffeine come with a clinician's reasoning behind them.
In Episode #240 of the PricePlow Podcast, Mitchell sits down with Ben and Mike alongside Jim McMahon, founder of Fit Foods and Mutant, who first teased Mitchell's signature line on Episode #215. Mitchell explains how he eats 6,000 calories a day, why he takes 20g of creatine daily while Mr. Olympia (Nick Walker) skips it entirely, and how he times caffeine across a contest. He also gets candid about drug use in untested strongman, the two-point finish that decided World's Strongest Man 2026, and his upcoming mental health memoir.
Then Jim delivers the news. Mutant's Stronger Series, a product line built around Mitchell, starts with a "creatine plus" formula Mitchell has been testing for almost two years, and it launches at the Arnold in March 2027. Fair warning: the conversation gets explicit at times.
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Detailed Show Notes: Mitchell Hooper and Jim McMahon of Mutant
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0:00 - Introductions
Ben opens the October 14, 2026 recording by welcoming Mitchell Hooper and returning guest Jim McMahon. Mutant partners with Mitchell, and that partnership brought everyone together for this conversation.
Ben notes that the show has hosted a few local-level strongman competitors over the years, but Mitchell is its first professional. He's coming off his second World's Strongest Man title, and by the end of the episode, Jim is ready to say more about the product line he first hinted at on Episode #215.
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0:30 - From Kinesiology to a Surprise World's Strongest Man Invite
Mitchell earned a kinesiology degree and worked strength and conditioning for a pro basketball team, but the job felt purposeless by season's end. He went back for a master's in clinical exercise physiology (exercising people with injuries and chronic conditions) and opened a clinic. To relate to clients trying things for the first time, he set out to climb "proverbial mountains": a bodybuilding stage for weight loss, marathons for aerobic fitness, and then strength.
Strength stuck. A surprise invite to World's Strongest Man 2022 as a second reserve turned into a finals appearance as a rookie, then 25 straight podiums. Winning was never a childhood dream, he says. He loves the process, and the results are "a great cherry on top".
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2:15 - From Australian Powerlifting to Strongman
Ben, a former competitive powerlifter, asks how Mitchell landed in such an unusual sport. Mitchell won Australia's national powerlifting championship within about nine months, but he found it boring, and getting much stronger at 6'3" meant outgrowing the 120kg (264-pound) class. Gym friends talked him into strongman. He qualified for the amateur Arnold Australia in his first show, and after COVID cancellations and a couple of local contests, he was at World's Strongest Man.
The jump suited him, since straps and suits are common and good deadlifters stay good deadlifters. What surprises powerlifters is everything a barbell can't test: sprinting sandbags, 90-second efforts for reps, arms long enough for Atlas stones, and hands that fit the farmer's handles. In the end, "strong is strong".
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6:15 - A 3:24 Marathon at 230 Pounds
Mike wants the story behind Mitchell's 3:24 marathon at 230 pounds. Mitchell wanted aerobic fitness to relate to his patients, and a 10K didn't feel like enough. As for a half marathon, "a half anything sounds horrible", so he aimed for the full distance from day one. His mom ran six or seven marathons, so the goal didn't feel foreign.
His message: whatever your genetics, a reasonable effort sustained over time gets you further than you'd expect. The running paid off later, too. Mitchell calls it strength from the knee down. The feet, calves, and tibialis muscles respond to high volume, which left him better prepared to step under a 1,200-pound yoke than athletes who never conditioned their lower legs.
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9:00 - Programming Around Unknown Events
Strongman athletes usually see a contest's events about two and a half months out. Shows have reputations (the Arnold tends to run heavier with lower reps, while World's Strongest Man involves more running around), but until the events drop, there's no way to commit to a high- or low-volume block.
That makes the off-season tricky. Instead of doing the opposite of competition training, Mitchell uses it to attack weaknesses. He's blunt that strongman makes you less fit by nature, so he trains his fitness year-round to avoid becoming "the traditional strongman who doesn't want to walk up a flight of stairs".
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10:45 - The Steinstossen and a Well-Rounded Skill Set
2x World's Strongest Man Winner Mitchell Hooper
Mitchell doesn't have favorite events, but one stands out: the Steinstossen at the 2023 Arnold, where he won his first major title. He was leading going into that second-to-last event, which had athletes run about 30 feet with a stone of roughly 200 pounds and throw it into a sand pit. He padded his head with a towel under his hat, ditched the towel on attempt two, and took third.
As for his strengths, Mitchell says he's strong at everything you'd write into a strongman contest and won't impress anyone outside of one (don't hand him a grip dynamometer). The yoke is his standout, and he's top three in the world at nearly everything else, which leaves rivals nowhere to make up points.
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13:30 - Eating 6,000 Calories a Day
Mitchell's diet is simple: six meals of about 1,000 calories with 50g of protein each. That's 300g of protein and about a kilogram of carbs, with fat filling in the rest. For a strength athlete, the hard part is logistics, since you can't belt up and deadlift on a packed stomach. He thinks people overstate meal timing for well-fed athletes, since his glycogen stays topped off and he can train without breakfast.
Most meals are bodybuilder staples (chicken, beef, or salmon with rice), plus shakes morning and night. Since moving to Las Vegas three months before recording, he's leaned on calorie-dense protein foods like protein Pop-Tarts, and he leaves free calories at the end of the day "so you can live life".
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16:15 - How Much Protein Does a 330-Pound Strongman Need?
At 330 pounds, Mitchell's 300g of protein lands below the classic one-gram-per-pound rule, a rule Ben says protein researcher Stuart Phillips recently walked back (a topic that drew plenty of angry Instagram comments). Mitchell's view is that protein needs depend on the rest of your diet. Someone cutting carbs needs more protein to make up for the nitrogen-sparing effect carbohydrates provide, and his kilogram of daily carbs covers that.
He's pushed protein to 350g to 400g without noticing a performance difference, and with a family, several businesses, and content to make, practicality wins. Jim jumps in to say dining with Mitchell is more fun than dining with Shaun Clarida, and Mitchell agrees that strongman allows a far more balanced diet than bodybuilding.
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19:15 - Why Alcohol Doesn't Make the Cut
Mitchell likes a good time and thinks the occasional non-optimal choice matters psychologically. Alcohol just doesn't pay off at 330 pounds though. The amount he'd need to enjoy himself exceeds the amount that gives him heartburn, so it ends up as a bad-tasting drink that ruins his sleep. He'd rather drink "liquid candy" like Diet Coke and Diet Dr Pepper all day.
With two young daughters at home, he also doesn't want anything cutting into his rest. Mike agrees, noting the big difference between half a glass of wine and what he's seen from some other parents.
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22:15 - Nick Walker, Creatine, and 20 Grams a Day
When Mike mentions that Mr. Olympia Nick Walker told us on Episode #238 that he doesn't take creatine, Mitchell can't get past it. Ben's read is that Nick takes plenty of supplements and creatine didn't do anything noticeable for him, though its benefits extend beyond the gym (Mitchell cites cognitive research at high doses).
Mr. Olympia Nick Walker and Morphogen Nutrition founder Ben Hartman discuss Nick's ownership stake, his upcoming signature VOLUGEN and PROTEGEN products, and the supplements and food he actually uses on Episode #238 of the PricePlow Podcast.
Mitchell takes 20g a day. Experts often say creatine needs aren't tied to body weight, but muscle stores creatine, so he figures more muscle needs more. The downside of overshooting is "slightly more expensive pee", and he'd rather overdo what he calls the most important non-macronutrient than come up short. Ben's reel on Nick's comments drew about 280,000 views, and Mitchell calls "steroids or protein?" debates "a stupid question".
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25:00 - Creatine Retention, PEDs, and the ATP Argument
Mike offers a point in Nick's defense: he eats plenty of meat, which directly supplies creatine. Mitchell adds that certain performance-enhancing drugs increase creatine retention, citing evidence on Anavar, which in his view makes adequate creatine intake even more important. He also argues that untested strongman self-regulates, since anything that harms your health also hurts your performance. Still, both he and Ben agree that the best bodybuilder in the world gets to do things his own way.
Jim brings it back to fundamentals. Creatine supports phosphocreatine and ATP, the body's universal energy molecule, and he argues that anything raising ATP means more power in the gym.
Mitchell's comments on Anavar reflect his personal experience and aren't medical advice. See the disclaimer at 49:45.
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29:00 - Mutant Protein and Ben & Jerry's Vanilla
Mitchell's protein routine includes chocolate protein stirred into plain Greek yogurt with granola, vanilla protein with orange juice and Greek yogurt, and Mutant's mint chip Hardcore ISO with milk. That last one, he tells Jim, is the best-tasting protein he's ever had.
Jim jokes that Mutant uses the same mint as Colgate mouthwash, which isn't true (Mitchell calls it the worst marketing ever). Then he gets serious: Mutant has used the same vanilla as Ben & Jerry's for more than 15 years. Jim suggests "marketing tips from Mitchell" as a new YouTube series.
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30:45 - Social Media and Sponsors Are a Business
Mitchell treats his social channels as a business, because otherwise you won't show up on the days you don't want to, and there are more of those than you'd think. Sponsorships get the same treatment. Grabbing every quick payday burns authenticity fast, so he values long-term partnerships and chooses carefully. "You don't promote Mutant today and Animal tomorrow", he says, while telling your audience each one is better than the last.
That mindset carried into his AI fitness app. Mitchell knew it would need serious credibility work, so his team invested heavily to build it from scratch instead of slapping together a "vibe coding" project.
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32:15 - Hooper Adaptive Coaching and Hooper Intelligence
To build Hooper Adaptive Coaching, Mitchell documented every programming rule he uses. He has little patience for coaches who claim AI can't program, arguing that if you can't explain what you'd do in each circumstance, you're coaching on vibes. The app builds plans for powerlifting, strongman, and muscle gain, adjusts nutrition, and includes Hooper Intelligence, a chatbot that changes your program and nutrition based on your conversations. It also syncs with Apple Health and Google Health, nudging your numbers after a bad night's sleep.
It launched about six weeks before recording. His plate also includes the Lift Heavy, Be Kind clothing brand, a kinesiology clinic in Canada, real estate, a book due in January, and a documentary with Generation Iron starting in November.
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34:30 - Inside the App: Decision Trees and an AI Mitchell
Mike pulls the app up on screen and asks how it works. Onboarding runs through a decision tree that sorts users into about 25 categories, then builds a periodized program around contest dates (a strongman might cycle through off-season, base-building, hypertrophy, and muscular endurance phases). Mitchell says any AI chatbot can do that much. The difference is that his app learns you over time and handles requests like rebuilding a session around vacation equipment, with logic to ease you back into normal training afterward.
All of his YouTube videos went into the system, and users can switch on an AI version of his voice (built with ElevenLabs) to talk through a session on the drive to the gym. New users get a free week.
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38:00 - Lift Heavy, Be Kind
Mitchell's clothing brand has donated roughly $80,000 to $90,000 back into strength sports, from supporting gyms and competitions to helping pay for cancer treatment for a fan's child.
He feels he's benefited disproportionately from strongman, spending four years as the world's top-ranked strongman and collecting multiple World's Strongest Man and Arnold titles, all without the gritty grassroots backstory some champions have. Given how smooth his path has been, he considers giving back an obligation. Mike points listeners to LHBK.shop.
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39:15 - Wearables, Sleep Tracking, and Resting Heart Rate
Ben asks whether Mitchell trains with wearables. Only at a surface level, he says. The best readiness score is how you feel, though data can help people who insist they feel great every day. He values sleep tracking most (heart rate variability, or HRV, plus total sleep and sleep stages) and uses an Orion, an Eight Sleep competitor that circulates temperature-controlled water through tubes in the bed. He has no affiliation with the brand and calls a sleep system the best money you'll ever spend.
Resting heart rate is his gauge of aerobic fitness, since regular VO2 max testing doesn't make sense in strongman. If it creeps up, he knows he's slacking. For finer details like HRV, though, he doesn't trust what wearables report.
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41:00 - WHOOP Advice vs. Real Life
Ben has tried nearly every wearable and finds them useful for trends but not for comparing individuals. After a long Arnold weekend on his feet, his tracker once told him to skip training for a week. Mitchell found his old WHOOP's advice redundant: his "perfect" 8:45 bedtime arrives while he's still eating dinner, and his ideal 7:15 wake-up loses to a child screaming in his ear at 5:30.
Ben balks at spending $2,000 on a bed-cooling system. Mitchell admits his Eight Sleep in Canada cost $8,000 to $9,000 and the Orion $2,000 to $3,000, but sleep is a third of your life, and one better placing at one show justifies it. Outside of his house and car, he barely spends money on himself.
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44:00 - Mitchell's Mutant Supplement Stack
Mutant Mind FK (pronounced "Mind Freak") is an epic nootropic-based pre-workout with a huge combination of Nitrosigine, enfinity paraxanthine, 3 grams each of taurine and tyrosine, and more!
After his first Las Vegas summer (the hottest on record), Mitchell leans on Mutant's drink pairing essential amino acids (EAAs) with electrolytes. EAAs shouldn't be a primary protein source, he says, but they boost the effectiveness of the protein you already eat, and the fruity drink is easy on digestion. He takes 10g of creatine in the morning and 10g at night without worrying about timing.
Pre-workout depends on the time of day. Madness ALL-IN is his high-stim pick, which he jokes Jim "overcooked", and Madness is his mid-stim default. MIND FK (which should be pronounced "Mind Freak") is caffeine-free, built on enfinity® paraxanthine, and he drops to it before contests to rebuild caffeine sensitivity. Beyond that, his non-negotiables stay simple, and he skips mass gainers.
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46:30 - Cycling Down to Paraxanthine Before Contests
Mike asks whether dropping to paraxanthine before a contest makes high-dose caffeine hit harder on game day. That's Mitchell's theory. He admits he also uses other things for energy and says the strategy would matter even more in a tested sport.
People underestimate how quickly they acclimate to caffeine, he says, and chasing the feeling can push intake to 1.5g to 2g a day with nothing to show for it but jitters and headaches. His advice is to be careful about how hard you go and how often.
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47:30 - Dosing Caffeine From the Arnold to World's Strongest Man
Mike notes that some research shows strength benefits topping out around 5mg/kg to 9mg/kg, then asks what Mitchell actually does. At a one-day show, he takes about 750mg before the contest. The Arnold is trickier, with events at noon, 3, and 6. Caffeine and blood sugar crashes are hard for him to recover from, so he relies on adrenaline plus a little pre-workout (mostly citrulline and beta-alanine) early, then times a big caffeine dose so it doesn't wreck his sleep.
World's Strongest Man runs four days, with heats before finals. Mitchell keeps the heats to about 250mg, because if he needs more than that, he isn't in shape to win. Keep in mind these are a 330-pound professional's numbers, not a recommendation.
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49:45 - Contest-Day Drugs and Nervous System Fatigue
Paraxanthine is the primary metabolite of caffeine, providing most of caffeine's beneficial effects. Now you can take it directly with enfinity!
Not medical advice: In this segment, Mitchell describes his personal experience with prescription drugs and other compounds used around strongman competitions. It reflects his own account as an untested professional athlete. It isn't medical advice, and PricePlow doesn't endorse using any of these drugs. Talk to your doctor before making any decisions about medication.
Mike asks what else is in play, admitting his own knowledge stops at ephedrine and DMAA. Some athletes say Anadrol gives them more in the moment, though Mitchell puts the effect at small to moderate. He calls "Halo" (fluoxymesterone, sold as Halotestin) extremely toxic, the kind of drug that turns you into someone your family doesn't want around. On the psychological side, he names modafinil and Adderall, and Adderall is the one he thinks could cross a line.
His bigger point is that nervous system fatigue is badly underrated in strongman. At his first World's Strongest Man, sitting fourth or fifth going into the stones, he just wanted to go home. By the sixth event at the Arnold, he says, eight out of ten athletes barely warm up.
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53:00 - When the Nervous System Hits Like a Train
Mike asks whether GABA or L-theanine helps once the nervous system starts to fry. Mitchell says you don't feel it coming. It hits like a train. At the 2025 Rogue Invitational, organizers toughened a yoke-and-power-stairs medley he'd won the year before, adding weight to the yoke and a 20-foot duck walk to each implement. Only three of ten athletes finished. That night, his heart rate wouldn't drop below 165 in bed (he'd also taken Adderall), and he genuinely feared the worst.
Top athletes don't stop mid-event to save energy, he says. Ben adds that elite performance enhancers aren't limited to anabolic steroids. Mitchell describes the tell: big roars after event one, a quiet wave and nod by event six.
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58:15 - The Louis Cyr Trophy and What Winning Costs
Jim recalls Mitchell finishing an Arnold completely spent, sitting on the ledge with the Louis Cyr trophy. Jim pushed through the crowd to give him a hug and a moment of cover. That all-out effort is what keeps Jim hooked on strongman.
Mitchell has now won four Arnolds, two World's Strongest Man titles, three Rogue Invitationals, and the Strongest Man on Earth. The shows lose some gravity over time, but family gives them new weight. He was once prepared to miss his first daughter's birth for a contest. He won that show and another soon after, then sat backstage in tears, realizing he'd missed her first two weeks. This year, she met him at the edge of the stage after his Arnold win.
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1:02:00 - Competing Without the Pressure
Mitchell knows who'll be sitting beside him at Olive Garden whether he wins or loses, and he believes that's why he won World's Strongest Man this year. Heading into the final day with knees so beat up he was numbing them to compete, he told family and friends he'd be either the strongest or second-strongest man in the world, and he'd be fine either way.
Taking the pressure off his identity let him compete freely for something bigger than a trophy, which he calls the most valuable thing you can do. Mike loves that Mitchell's daughter cared more about seeing her dad than about the win. Mitchell adds that she refused to leave the top of the podium during photos.
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1:05:00 - How World's Strongest Man 2026 Came Down to Two Points
Mitchell entered the finals with maximum points, then finished second to defending champion Rayno Nel in all three day-one events, including a 0.1-second loss in the opener and a deadlift where his back limited him. He's won shows after trailing by five points, so the scoreboard doesn't rattle him.
Day two opened with the max log, the coolest event of his career. He expected a big swing, but Rayno set personal bests at 400, 420, and 440 pounds. Despite bad knees, Mitchell nearly matched his 210kg (460-pound) contest best, setting up a one-point battle in the Atlas Stones. Rayno dropped a stone, his only mistake all week, and Mitchell won by two points. He credits some luck. Jim's advice: go watch those last two events.
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1:09:45 - Injuries, Adrenaline, and the Dinnie Stones
Mitchell has avoided surgery: two minor right biceps tears and tears to his left groin and hamstring, but nothing off the bone. He credits starting strength sports later, after building tendon resilience elsewhere. His worst injury came at the 2025 Rogue Invitational, where he broke his foot in the first meter of a hay bale push and thought he'd broken his carbon-plated shoe.
Adrenaline is incredible, he says. Before a Dinnie-style stone carry at the 2023 Arnold UK, he couldn't hold the hook grip backstage and told his coach he couldn't do it. In the contest, he didn't feel a thing, carried the stones for about 70 seconds, and was the only athlete to finish. Asked whether it was worth it, he said no.
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1:13:45 - Parents and Built-In Self-Belief
Mitchell credits his parents for genetics more than pressure. They didn't care what he did, as long as he was trying something. His mom, a music major, took up running for fitness and taught group classes at the YMCA. His dad, a big sports fan, played college basketball in Canada. At five, Mitchell was waking before 5 a.m. to watch sports, and sports became part of who he was.
Their biggest gift was belief. He grew up convinced he could do anything he set out to do, whether that meant winning World's Strongest Man or becoming an astronaut, which left him unafraid of failure. It's the trait he most hopes his own daughters carry.
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1:16:15 - The Weakest Man on Earth
Mitchell's book, The Weakest Man on Earth, comes out in January. It covers his strongman titles, but it's centered on mental health, and he warns it's graphic and confronting. He's done with tidy stories that promise a light at the end of the tunnel and is honest about how much he struggled behind the scenes, including during some of his biggest wins.
He's never felt judged as less of a man for struggling. The stigma he has felt is his family believing it's somehow their fault. Talking about it doesn't help him personally, he says, but he wants readers to feel less alone, and the tongue-in-cheek title reflects the gap between how people see him and how he sometimes feels.
If you're struggling, you can call or text 988 any time to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in the U.S. or the Suicide Crisis Helpline in Canada.
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1:20:00 - Inside the Stronger Series: Creatine Plus
Jim confirms Mitchell has been beta testing the first Stronger Series product for almost two years, and it launches at the Arnold in March 2027. It's creatine-based, so Jim doubts Nick Walker will want it. He reiterates that phosphocreatine, ATP, and glycogen remain essential substrates no matter what else you take. Jim first worked on the concept about 22 years ago. It got overlooked, it's back in vogue, and Mutant made it better.
Health Canada put the product through the wringer, at one point arguing creatine robs the body of methyl donors. Jim's reply: check the recipe, because Mutant added methyl donors on top of the creatine and the other ingredients. He's never liked overhyped marketing, part of why he enjoys working with Mitchell.
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1:22:15 - How Mitchell Chose Mutant
Jim thought the partnership started with a friend's recommendation, but Mitchell sets the record straight. After his previous supplement sponsorship ended, he waited out a respectful cooling-off period, then asked Brian Powers, executive director of the Arnold Sports Festival, who owned Mutant. He liked the brand and wanted to work with them.
Jim calls them kindred spirits. He repeats the "shut up and show up" mantra from his first appearance and adds that everyone has bad days, sometimes bad months or years, and what matters is how you move forward. Whether it's caffeine, enfinity, creatine, or creatine plus, Jim says to use whatever works for you, in the spirit of his late friend Rich Piana.
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1:23:45 - Stronger Protein, Leuvate, and a Third Product
The Stronger Series won't stop at creatine. Jim says a Stronger protein with Leuvate is coming too, aimed at maximizing protein efficiency, and Mitchell has requested a third product: a pre-workout. That one will chase Mitchell's goals with DSHEA-appropriate ingredients instead of the ones discussed earlier in the episode. He also stresses that this relationship goes deeper than a standard endorsement. Mutant already sells plenty of supplements, and the aim is higher quality and efficacy.
Mitchell delivers the soundbite. Anyone can launch a maple "moose flavor" whey isolate, but that doesn't make anyone's life better. If they can help people get a little more from their training and their lives, it's a project worth doing.
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1:25:45 - Wrap-Up and Where to Find Mitchell
Mitchell says he's bigger on YouTube than Instagram (and jokes that he's "not handsome enough for TikTok"), so search his name on either platform. Mike points listeners to Jim's earlier appearances: Episode #231 with Dr. Daniel Traylor on Leuvate, and Episode #215, where Jim shared the Mutant story and predicted the protein price shocks that have since continued. Mike also thanks PerfectShaker, which is making Mitchell a custom laser-engraved stainless steel shaker, and wishes him luck with fatherhood, the book, and his training.
Where to Follow and Learn More
Connect with Mitchell Hooper
- YouTube: Mitchell Hooper - His preferred platform
- Instagram: @mitchellhooper
- Hooper Adaptive Coaching - Mitchell's AI coaching app with the Hooper Intelligence chatbot (free one-week trial)
- Lift Heavy, Be Kind - Mitchell's clothing brand, which donates back to strength sports
- The Weakest Man on Earth by Mitchell Hooper - Forefront Books, January 5, 2027
Connect with Jim McMahon and Mutant / Fit Foods
- LinkedIn: Jim McMahon
- Instagram: @mutantceo - Jim's personal account
- Instagram: @mutantnation - Mutant's official account
- Mutant Website
- Fit Foods Ltd. Website
- LinkedIn: Fit Foods Ltd.
- Mutant on PricePlow - Sign up for news and price alerts
Resources Mentioned
- Mr. Olympia Nick Walker on Morphogen Nutrition, His Signature Line, and What He Actually Uses | Episode #238 - Nick's no-creatine comments
- Ben's Instagram Reel on Nick Walker and Creatine
- Amino Acid Fortification (Not Spiking!) with Leuvate: Dr. Daniel Traylor | Episode #231
- Jim McMahon of Fit Foods: Protein Price Shocks and the Mutant Story | Episode #215
- Leuvate: The Fast-Absorbing Amino Acid Blend Behind PVL's ISO CLEAAR
- PVL ISO CLEAAR: A Clear Protein Drink Built Around LEUVATE+™
- Mutant MIND FK: Nootropic Powered MIND FREAK Pre-Workout Supplement
- Paraxanthine: Caffeine's Major Metabolite for Laser-Targeted Energy
- Slow vs. Fast Caffeine Metabolizers: How enfinity Paraxanthine Solves the Problem
- Darren Thompson: Inside PerfectShaker | Episode #209
- Mitchell Hooper Joins Team Mutant (Press Release, October 2024)
- Mitchell Hooper Wins 2026 World's Strongest Man (Muscle Insider)
Products Discussed
- Mutant Madness ALL-IN - Mitchell's high-stim pre-workout
- Mutant Madness - His everyday mid-stim pre-workout
- Mutant MIND FK - Caffeine-free pre-workout with enfinity® paraxanthine
- Mutant Creatine - 10g morning, 10g night
- Mutant GEAAR and Mutant EAA Extreme - Mitchell's EAA and electrolyte drink is one of these (he doesn't name it on air)
- Mutant Hardcore ISO - The mint chip whey isolate Mitchell calls the best-tasting protein he's ever had
Thank You, Mitchell and Jim!
Mitchell Hooper gave the PricePlow Podcast its first look inside professional strongman, and he held nothing back, from his 20g creatine habit and contest caffeine math to the mental health struggles behind his biggest wins. Thank you to Mitchell for the candor and the laughs, and to Jim McMahon for coming back to share the Stronger Series. We'll be watching for The Weakest Man on Earth in January and the creatine plus launch at the Arnold in March.
Mutant and Fit Foods sponsored this episode and brought Mitchell to the show, so keep in mind that the Mutant products discussed come from our sponsor. Thanks as always to PerfectShaker for supporting the podcast all year (Mitchell, your custom laser-engraved shaker is on the way). See their shaker cups at PricePlow.com/perfect-shaker, or hear how they're made in Darren Thompson: Inside PerfectShaker on Episode #209.
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