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Are you uncertain of how much protein you should eat per day, or, per meal? In today's podcast I discuss the right amount of protein per day AND how you can best track your protein per meal throughout the day to successfully reach your daily target!
Do you struggle with over-eating at night? Is it holding you back from reaching your goals? If so, in today's podcast I discuss the 3 common reasons why people over-eat at night AND provide corrective actions that you can implement immediately to regain control and crush your goals!!!
How hard should you push yourself in your workouts as you age? What rate of progress should you expect? In today's podcast I discuss what factors influence our training progress and recovery as we age, how we can positively influence those factors, and how we can ensure we push ourselves hard enough, but not too hard, in our training. Lots of great information!!!
Do you feel overwhelmed when considering what diet approach to follow? How can there be SO MANY that ALL claim to work?!! Which one is actually the best? Which one should you actually follow? In today's podcast I discuss why so many diets work in the short term but how you can find (hint... create) the diet that will work in the long-term!!!
Do you wonder if you train long enough? Or, too long? What's the right workout length? Does it depend on your goal? What exactly does it depend on? We answer these questions and give workout length recommendations in today's podcast!!! Listen in to learn!!!
A commonly overlooked but significantly impactful component of success towards our goals are... the people around us. The people in our lives can be an influence of progression, support, and motivation, or, they can be a hinderance. Who are the people in your life? Are you mindful of cultivating the best culture around you?
Want to learn how to write AMAZING programming for any goal? In today's podcast I cover 3 programming tips per goal listed, so 12 tips in total, that can elevate your programming to elevate your progress!!!
Are you wondering why you're not making better progress towards your goals? Maybe you want to lose weight but your weight seems to be stuck? Maybe you want to build muscle or gain strength but you haven't seen any recent progress? If so, you may be searching for what's holding you back... and if so, you may be tempted to blame a specific food or food category like processed foods or carbs. But, before you do... listen to today's podcast!!! What's holding you back may be different than what you expected!
Have you seen Sam Sulek performing partial range of motion repetitions and wondered if doing so in your own training would help you grow more muscle? In today's podcast I discuss the pros and cons of partial reps and provide a recommendation of if you should add them to your training or not... and if you do, how to do so safely!
Are you feeling overwhelmed? Is it causing you to revert to old, less than best nutrition habits? Is it causing you to skip workouts? If we're feeling overwhelmed how can we reduce our stress while still being able to make progress? In today's podcast I provide several tips that can help you do exactly that!!!
How hard is hard enough when it comes to training intensity? Do you struggle with knowing how hard to push yourself in your workouts? Are you afraid you're doing too much, or, not enough? In today's podcast I discuss the proper intensity you should use in strength-based training!
Do carbs make you fat? When you do eat carbs, have you experienced sudden weight gain? In today's podcast we discuss how to include carbs into your daily diet in a manner that will not promote body fat but actually allow you to lose body fat while still accomplishing other goals such as building muscle, increasing strength, improving endurance, and much more!!!
Are you a runner? Or are you considering adding running to your fitness routine? If so, in today's podcast I discuss the importance of adding running specific therapies and strength training to not only avoid injury but to improve performance and progression!!!
Are you prepping for a powerlifting meet? Or you've prepped for one before but you weren't able to perform as you had expected? In today's podcast I discuss programming concepts that will help you properly manage exercise selection and workout structure to ensure you feel AND perform your best on meet day!
If you struggle with being consistent in training but not as consistent with your nutrition... today's podcast can help! In today's podcast I provide 10 tips that can help you better understand and control your hunger levels so you can stay on track with your nutrition program and crush your goals!!!
Are you eating healthy, training hard, but, you feel like crap and aren't seeing the results you expected? If so, today's podcast can help! In today's podcast I discuss the factors that a person should consider when experiencing poor recovery and poor progress. We discuss common issues AND provide metrics and techniques to improve in each area!
Do you struggle to do the things you know you should do? The things that would allow for success, but, you're tired, you're unmotivated, you just don't seem to do them as you expect that you would. In today's podcast I discuss how this feeling is common and provide 6 tips that can help us overcome this feeling and increase our discipline!
Want to get a great Push Day workout in and do so in under 60 minutes? AND!!! Have the ability to completely personalize the workout to your equipment availability, exercise preferences, and specific goals? In today's podcast I teach a workout template that I created for a Business Client that allows for ALL of these aspects and more!!!
You likely have a "want". Something you want to achieve, something you want to be successful towards. And towards our "wants" we put forth efforts. Daily efforts, weekly efforts, monthly efforts, all hopefully building towards a desired outcome. Often though our efforts don't quite match with reality, meaning we often believe we're more accurate with our efforts than we really are. In today's podcast I discuss how that disconnect in accuracy could be what's truly holding us back.
Do you often fail squats because your chest "dumps" forward coming out of the bottom? Or your hips rise before your knees? Or the bar pushes you forward and you feel as though you're going to die? haha. In today's podcast I discuss how you can tell if you have weak quadriceps and, if so, how you can strengthen them with exercises that are THE MOST specific to YOUR needs!!! Interested? Listen in!!!
Do you have a goal you're struggling to push forward? You're want to push forward but you never seem to have enough time, enough energy, enough money, etc... In today's podcast I discuss how in order to do more we actually, first, have to do less! Listen in to learn more!!!
Do you like to, or want to, run but you're afraid of losing muscle? In today's podcast I answer if running actually does cause muscle loss, AND, provide advice for how you can ensure that you do not lose muscle while running as part of a regular exercise routine.
Want to know THE BEST foods for muscle growth? Should you eat meat? Mostly carbs? No carbs? In today's podcast I discuss how to know what THE BEST foods are for you!!! Listen in to learn!
We often hear that you cannot out train a bad diet when discussing fat loss, but is the same true for strength and muscle growth training? In today's podcast I discuss why nutritional support is important for long-term progress for both beginners and advanced lifters regardless of their goals AND how you can identify if you have proper nutritional support or not!
In today's podcast I provide an upper and lower body workout template along with a discussion on specificity of exercise selection. How to determine what is the best exercise for each individual according to their health history, current abilities, and equipment availability. Tons of great information!!!
Are you struggling to keep up? You want to grow in certain areas while maintaining others but you're exhausted and becoming mentally burned out? In today's podcast we discuss 3 areas you can focus on that will help create mental balance!
Who is Sam Sulek? If you don't know, he's an emerging YouTube influencer in the bodybuilding world. Recently a former client reached out asking my opinion on Sam's videos since her son has been watching them and is talking a lot about Sam's training style. She wanted to know if Sam's videos and training style would be a good influence or something she should be cautious of.
Want to lose body fat? But, you want to keep it off and be in a healthier place physically at the end of the process? If so, don't follow the example of what's explained in today's podcast!!! I review a YouTube video of someone who's lost 90lbs in 5 months... but, may be doing it the wrong way. Listen in and learn!!!
I am starting a new offering through our podcast and YouTube channel! I'll now be offering free live consultations 1-2 times per month! In the consultation you and I would meet via Zoom and discuss your goals, your struggles and past efforts, and I will provide advice and resources that will help you make progress to get you from where you are to where you want to be!!! Are you interested? If so, sign up on our website!!!
Do you want to build muscle... but you're afraid of gaining unwanted body fat? If so, in today's podcast we share 5 tips on how you can maximize your muscle growth while minimizing body fat gains!!!
