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1731 - Mindset - The Sunday Scaries

Do you struggle with the "Sunday Scaries"?  When thinking of the week ahead do you feel anxious and overwhelmed?  Do you struggle with fear of what's to come?  In today's podcast we discuss how you can fight against the Sunday Scaries and feel more in control and prepared for the week ahead!!!

1730 - Training - Compounding Circuits

Do you want to feel better and look better but you only have a few hours a week to train?  One method to help you achieve all of your goals in less time is... using Compounding Circuits!!!  In today's podcast we explain what they are and provide examples that you can use!!!  Listen in to learn more!!!

1729 - Nutrition - Fine Tuning Requires Trial and Error

When you start towards a goal, you often have a plan that you think will help you achieve your desired results.  Too often we think the plan will work, challenge-free, from A to Z... but, unfortunately, it rarely does!  Fine tuning your approach, personalizing it, requires trial and error.  We want to be mentally prepared for those challenges and learn to fight through them.  Listen in to learn more!

1728 - Q&A - Conceptual Programming - Set Intensity Sequence

What is the proper sequence of intensity per exercise throughout a workout?  Should you start with the heaviest, most aggressive work first?  Or, should you work on priming the target muscle(s) to improve mind-muscle connection and recruitment first?  In today's podcast we discuss the best set intensity sequence to ensure you achieve the best results!!!

1727 - with Meredith - Weight Change Impact on Mental Health

If you've struggled with your body weight and it's impact on your self-perceived value as a person, today's podcast will help!!!  In today's podcast Meredith shares her weight change journey throughout her life and how she's overcome the emotional connection to weight along the way!  Great stuff!!!

1726 - Mindset - How Would You Keep It?

If you could snap your fingers and be given exactly what you wanted... would that be a good thing?  You may think so, but, it may actually be the worst thing to have happened to you!!!  How?  Why?  Find out in today's podcast!!!

1725 - Training - Weight Load vs Weekly Volume

If you want a specific muscle grow faster or to a greater extent than other muscles... you may consider training it more often, or with a higher overall weekly volume, BUT, what's the correct frequency?  What's the correct weekly volume?  In today's podcast we discuss the relationship between weight load used and weekly volume and how you can design the best program specific to YOUR needs!

1724 - Nutrition - Is This a Good Diet?

Are you considering a specific diet?  Are you overwhelmed at the possibilities of all of the diets there are?  In today's podcast we discuss 4 questions you can ask to better understand if a specific diet will be the right diet for you!

1723 - Q&A - How Long Should I Rest Between Sets

Ever wonder if you're resting long enough between working sets?  Or, are you resting too long?  What's the right rest period to blend ALL of your goals?  In today's podcast we discuss rest periods and how they should change per exercise depending on the desired outcome of the exercise!  Listen in to learn more!!!

1722 - Mindset - Be First

Who doesn't want to be first?!?!  We all like being first... or do we? haha.  In today's podcast we discuss how to improve our communication and interactions with others, how to lessen frustrations, how to calm expectations, by... being first!  Listen in to hear more!!!

1721 - Training - Should You Train with Full Range of Motion?

Have you heard that training through full range of motion can be dangerous?  But, have you also heard that it's the only way to achieve optimal muscle fiber recruitment?  You may have heard both that you must ALWAYS or must NEVER train through full range of motion... so, which is it?  What range of motion is both safe AND effective?

1720 - Nutrition - To Find the Best Diet, You Must Fail

When trying to refine the best diet for your goals you will face challenges, and in each of those challenges you have a choice.  Do you stop, or, do you find a way to keep going?  If you do decide to try to find a way to continue to progress, to work through the challenge, in what you try, it may not work.  You may try a solution, and it fails!  In today's podcast we discuss that moment.  What do we do when what we do fails?

1719 - Q&A - How to Make Proper Caloric Adjustments

Have you ever decreased calories wanting to lose body fat BUT felt a horrible crash in energy and intense cravings so much so that you gave up?  Have your increased calories trying to gain muscle but felt that you only gained fat?  In today's podcast we discuss how to properly adjust calories when you're wanting to achieve great results BUT also sustain the process and KEEP the results long-term!

1718 - Mindset – Stop Trying to Make Change Comfortable

Are you facing a new goal, a new challenge, and it's making you feel... uncomfortable?  GOOD!!!  It's supposed to!!!  You actually NEED to feel uncomfortable when facing a change!  Listen in to learn why AND how to overcome that feeling!

1717 - Training - Conceptual Programming - Chest Workout for Growth

Want a chest workout structure that will allow you to write effective, personalized workouts... and with unlimited workout variations?  Essentially great chest workouts for the rest of your life?!  Well, you're in luck!  In today's podcast we discuss a chest growth workout structure you can use to achieve great workouts with unlimited variations!

1716 - Nutrition – The Carnivore Diet Podcast – Comment Response

In podcast 1708 we discussed the Carnivore Diet; what is it, why do people follow it, and do I recommend it.  A viewer on our YouTube channel responded to that podcast disagreeing with some of the information presented in that podcast so I thought, through today's podcast, it would be fun to respond to their comment and discuss the various points they made!  It's a great learning opportunity that I hope we all can benefit from!!!

1715 - Q&A - Push Phases and Holding Phases for Optimal Weight Loss

Do you struggle with intense cravings when dieting?  Do you struggle with always feeling the pressure of the diet?  Do you struggle with adherence?  Frequent cheating?  In today's podcast we discuss how using dieting phases can help decrease all of these issues to increase your adherence which will help you feel better through the process and increase your chance of success!!!

1714 - Mindset - Important vs Urgent

Are you doing what's important?  Or, what feels urgent?  Aren't those the same thing?!  Often... they're not!!!  We all often feel overwhelmed with a million things to do and they all seem important, but, if we stop and think of the future we want, there are some things that we begin to realize have greater significance than others!  Make sure you're investing into those more significant things!!!  Listen to learn more!

1713 - Training - Determining Proper Working Set Intensity

How hard should you push yourself during a working set?  If you're too controlled are you doing enough to stimulate proper adaptation from the body?  But, if you're too aggressive are you overstressing your body and risking injury?  Finding the right working set intensity can be challenging, but in today's podcast we give advice on how to streamline that process!

1712 - Nutrition - Why Even Bad Diets Work

Have you ever wondered why there are SO MANY diets that reportedly work?  Why there can be diets for low fat AND low carb?  Diets that are meat only or plant only?  How can ALL OF THESE DIETS WORK if they're all so different?!