Why Focusing on Muscle is the Key to Losing Weight & Building a Healthy Body Composition with Sal Di Stefano

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Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with personal trainer and co-founder of Mind Pump Media, Sal Di Stefano, to get his hot take on all things fitness, mindset, nutrition, and motivation. In this episode, Sal shares how to make fitness a part of your daily routine without wasting too much time or energy. He also breaks down common misconceptions about resistance training, muscle-building, and fat loss. 

Sal Di Stefano started as a trainer at the young age of 18. His passion for fitness and his love of people quickly propelled him to open some of the largest big-box gyms in the California Bay Area. At the age of 24, he opened a wellness-based fitness studio that offered hormone, nutrition, gut health specialists, and fitness trainers. During this time, Sal developed his behavioral-focused approach to helping his clients achieve long-term success and solve their most persistent problems with health and fitness.

Sal is one of the most highly sought-after experts in fitness, and his practical and easy-to-execute communication style. He is the co-host of Mind Pump Podcast, the world's number-one fitness and health podcast, and has been a guest on hundreds of top podcast shows and frequently speaks at trainer and health practitioner events. 

In this episode, Dhru and Sal dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

-Focusing on building muscle instead of counting calories (2:20 /00:00) 

-Eating more to lose weight (6:30 / 6:13)

-How the fitness industry has misled women (13:20 / 11:30) 

-Your metabolism’s natural adaptation to fitness (22:58 / 21:31)

-The perfect amount of stress to allow your body to adapt and get stronger (31:00 / 31:00)

-The proper application of nutrition and exercise (35:21 / 34:30)

-Longevity and building muscle (40:03 / 35:30)

-What everyone should know about diet, calories, sugar, and metabolism (44:13 / 41:52) 

-Easy ways to integrate movement and exercise into your daily life (57:00 / 56:02)

-Dhru’s journey with getting his parents to start strength training (1:06:35 / 1:03:53 )

-Fundamental movements for longevity (1:23:56 /  1:19:00)

-Changing your relationship with food (1:29:11 / 1:25:24)

-Common sources of overeating (1:40:52 / 1:38:00)

-Sal’s health journey (1:53:20 / 1:52:00)

Also mentioned in this episode:

-Mind Pump Podcast

-MAPS Fitness Programs

For more on Sal Di Stefano, follow him on Instagram @mindpumpsal and Twitter @mindpumpsal.

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