Ep. 18: 5 Minute Mindset: Post-Holiday Guilt
Overrun with post-holiday food guilt? Feel like you’ve derailed your training progress, and flushed your physique away? In 5 minutes you’ll be back on track mentally and physically.
Ep. 17: How to Get Arms of Envy
This podcast is all about arm training! Learn about your biceps and triceps, learn the hand positions and joint angles, and discover the exercises to mold them into your best arms yet.
Ep. 15: My Crossfit Perspective & 5 Critiques
In this episode I elaborate on my 5 Crossfit critiques and give context as to why the majority of folks who undertake a fitness endeavor and choose Crossfit as the method, don’t choose the appropriate vessel to take them from point A, to point B.
Ep. 14: 5 Minute Mindset: Excuses
In this mini-mindset episode, I take 5 minutes from your day to highlight excuses, and get you out of your head and into the gym, the kitchen, or wherever it is that you need to be!
Ep 13: The Vacation Success Guide
No one wants to ruin all the hard work they’ve put into to their body via diet and exercise from vacation. Listen in for my 5 keys to success for vacation!
Ep. 12 – Q&A: Your First Diet Break, Bilateral Vs. Unilateral Training, Trying to Bulk, How My Kids Eat
This is a landmark episode, as it’s the “Dirty Dozen” episode, and it’s the first podcast recorded in the studio!
I dive into some great topics, including how to go about your first diet break, explaining the benefits of unilateral training, and why we should be doing bi/unilateral training during each of our training sessions, how to go about bulking if you’ve been trying, yet unsuccessful, and how I cook for my kids, and how they eat!
Thanks for listening, and share with a friend!
Ep. 11: Alcohol & Your Fitness
Can we really train with intent, eat like an educated adult, and still enjoy ourselves at our pleasure all while getting the results we’re after? We can, and I go in-depth today about how to do just that, with alcohol and fitness.
Ep. 10: How 2020 Has Led to Increased Gains (Blogcast)
2020 has been been…thrilling…thus far, but amidst all this chaos, I have received some variation of the following question, and I believe it’s time to review: “How come I’m progressing, even though all signs should point to the opposite?”
I elaborate on how the situation we’re in, has led to many people seeing the best results with training and nutrition they’ve ever experienced.
Ep. 9 – Goal Setting for Strength & Cardio, Lagging Body Parts
In this episode I cover how to goal plan when you have strength and cardio goals simultaneously, and how to bring up lagging muscle groups!
Ep. 8 – Reverse Dieting Before a Diet & Chasing Performance Over Appearance
In this week’s episode I talk about the often misunderstood, or unheard of topic that is reverse dieting, and then I get into how to focus less on your appearance for better gains, and better self esteem.
Ep. 7 – Q+A: Sleep & Recovery, Nightshades, Training 5+ Days, vs 2 Days, & Wishing for a “Magic Pill”
In this episode we go into a good ol’ Q+A! First I cover sleep & recovery, and how to improve your recovery, and make the absolute most out of working night-shifts. Then I move into the contested topic of nightshades, and whether or not they’re truly the demonic veggies some say that they are.
Ep. 6 – Understanding Exercise: Part 3: Progressive Overload
Today’s podcast serves to educate you on a crucial law of training: progressive overload. I explain what it is, why it’s absolutely needed, and all of the methods we can employ to achieve it.
Progressive overload is the difference between doing the work, and getting no results, to doing slightly more work over time for results, gains, and progress.
Luckily, there are numerous ways to go about this, and I break down the most common ways, the most overlooked, and my own personal favorite methods.
I go into the 2 simplest and overlooked progressive overload methods, intensity based methods, volume based methods, and density based methods.
I know this episode will be impactful; it’s important to keep things fun, but also progressing.
Ep. 5 – Fat Loss Dieting
In today’s episode we’re tackling fat loss. This is the majority of what the fitness and nutrition industry is centered around, and I want you to understand why.
I talk about the long term, and behavioral side of fat loss with food habits, food language, and restriction, and then the short term technical side of fat loss, even going into calories, macros, periodizing, and diet breaks.
Ep. 4 – Understanding Exercise: Part 2: Energy Systems
This podcast is dedicated to educating you on the 3 energy systems in the body: the ATP-PC system, the Glycolytic system, and the Oxidative system, and most importantly, helping you understand them.
Learning your body, becoming fascinated with its intricate workings, and applying it to your own training is when we begin to bridge the gap from “exercise is a dreaded chore, or punishment” to “training for purpose, and enjoyment.”
-The ATP-PC system can be remembered as the “Stored” or “Gain” system
-The Glycolytic system is also referred to as the anaerobic system, and can be remembered as the “Unsustainable” or “Pain” system
-The Oxidative system is also referred to as the aerobic system, and can be remembered as the “Sustain” or “Sustainable” system
Ep. 3 – Q+A: Sympathetic/Parasympathetic Nervous System & Tracking Training for Results
In todays episode, I elaborate on the nervous system in general, how it relates to us everyday individuals and our daily lives, and how we can force recovery. Better recovery means better results, and in this case, less stress, and better quality of life. I also jump...
Ep. 2 Understanding Exercise: Part 1: Movement Patterns
In this episode, we begin our “Understanding Exercise” series with Part 1: Movement Patterns.
I break down which categories common exercises would fall under, to help you understand exercise and see that everything you do inside of a training environment has options.
In order to take our training, our health, our physiques, and our education further, we must understand why we have such exercises. To understand patterns of movement necessary for health, progression, and physique, means better results, more options, and more fun.
Ep.1 – Q+A: Focus & Energy Supplements, Refeed Meals vs. Balanced Eating, Sleds and Concentric Training, Mindset for Change
In our very first (legit) episode, I dive into caffeine sensitivity and supplements for energy and focus, my perspective on refeed meals, why sleds are so popular right now, and mindset for (or not) change. Thank you again for listening, I'm excited to get better with...