You may be thinking the 3 step domination plan for gainz is to eat all the foodz in sight and lift all the weightZ. That works; but since you are reading here, I know you want something beyond the basics to do next. In my experience, the next key target is to bring up your
What's my most hated recovery tip? You may be guessing it is some horrible cold water immersion or boring AF treadmill work. Good guess, but nope. My #1 recovery tip..... …..sleep more! It's a paradox since clients universally hated it when I talked about sleep with them; however, they loved the results when they actually did it. Sleep
…dem's fighten’ words to bros! In the red corner weighing in at 156 lbs looking like an eel shaped rake, posting on forums as “KingDingling78” and suffering unconsciously with a mad case of DunningKrugeritis, is Bro #1. In the blue corner weighing in at 230 lbs at an internet-professed 8% body fat and benching 400
Dr Eric Helms and I talk about setting up your training for maximal gainZ on the podcast today! We chat about how to set up training around goals, periodization and start off with our adventures getting home from Costa Rica as airports and borders started shutting down. https://flex-diet-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/... In addition, I cover: Getting creative with
I'm back! Join me for Season 2 of the Flex Diet Podcast - formerly known as Not Another Fitness Podcast....for fitness geeks only. I also have a tip on how to use aerobic training to maximize performance and body composition, even if you only enjoy lifting weights. In addition I cover: How to use aerobic
During this time when everything is "different" than life before COVID 19, every chance I've had to think and talk about managing stress . . I take it. We may be feeling more worry and anxiety than ever, but there are some simple ways to control your response to stress. We are in this together
There I said it. I am not a fan of motivation. I am not against motivation; I don't count on it - either with my training or with clients who train with me. Why? It's not needed. Ask yourself - how many training sessions would you do if you only train when you're motivated? I bet it
*from Muscle for Life podcast. Incredibly honored to be interviewed by Mike Matthews on Muscle for Life podcast about one of my all time fav topics, HRV. Even though he was originally skeptical of HRV as some weird biohack, Mike wanted me to tell him why using HRV makes a difference in training and recovery.
Collagen / gelatin before training can help with soft tissue remodeling. The main study(Shaw et al.) had 3 groups 1) placebo, 2) 5 grams and 3) 15 grams. I looked up the amino acid content of gelatin vs collagen and both will work as they are virtually identical. Here is the quote from the study:
HRV Data from 7 Days of Intermittent Fasting (n=1) Here is some data from a client that did a medically supervised, water only, fast for 7 days in a row. We had a great baseline before too. You will notice that HRV went down and resting heart rate went up. This is to be expected
