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1970 - Nutrition – Are Specific Food Choices Holding You Back?

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!

1969 - Q&A - Do Partial Reps Help Muscle Growth?

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!

1968 - Mindset - How to Approach Nutrition and Training When Feeling Overwhelmed

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!!!

1967 - Training – Where to Properly Apply Intensity in Strength Training

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!

1966 - Nutrition - How to Eat Carbs Without Getting Fat

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!!!

1965 - Trainer Education - Why Runners Need to Strength Train

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!!!

1964 - Trainer Education - Programming Adjustments When Peaking for a Powerlifting Meet

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!

1963 - In Depth - I Love Working Out But I Cant Stop Eating

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!!!

1962 - Q&A - Managing Poor Recovery - Client Example

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!

1961 - Mindset - Tips to Improve Discipline

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!

1960 - Training - Push Day Workout Template for Under 60 Minutes

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!!!

1959 - Nutrition - What You Eat Must Match What You Want

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.

1958 - Trainer Education - Exercise Selection to Address Weaknesses – Lower Quads in the Squat

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!!!

1957 - Mindset - Where Are You Willing to Do Less?

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!!!

1956 - Training - Does Running Cause Muscle Loss?

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.

1955 - Nutrition - The Best Foods for Muscle Growth

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!

1954 - Q&A - Can You Out Train a Bad Diet - Fat Loss, Muscle Growth, and Strength

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!

1953 - In Depth - Trainer Education - Exercise Selection Discussion

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!!!

1952 - Mindset - Creating Mental Balance

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! 

1951 - Training - My Thoughts on the Training Style of Sam Sulek

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.