By Barbell Logic
4.7
11461,146 ratings
The podcast currently has 998 episodes available.
Building a strong nutritional baseline is the key to sustainable, healthy holiday eating. Don't derail for your health & fitness goals due to the holidays!
How to Build a Nutrition BaselineBuilding a nutritional baseline is the ultimate holiday eating hack that let's you truly enjoy special holidays meals and days without totally derailing from your health and fitness goals.
What is a nutritional baseline and how do you build yours?
A nutritional baseline is a normal, habitual way of eating that you do seven days a week that brings you toward your goals. You know how it feels and looks, you know which foods and in what quantities it consists of.
Essentially, you can mindlessly return to this baseline because it is your nutritional normal or your nutritional north.
Building a Nutritional Baseline: Fearless FeastingHow does this apply to holiday eating, though?
Those truly special days that you want to enjoy and not track, you should do so.
The surrounding days and really the vast majority of the days during the holiday period, however, you need to eat at your baseline.
For some, the holiday season can go from before Halloween through the Super Bowl. That's getting close to half the year. You cannot eat sloppily for half the year.
At the same time, however, you should be able to enjoy meals such as Thanksgiving or Christmas with family and friends.
Andrew and Niki recommend not tracking on these days (unless you have super strict nutritional goals) but rather focusing on enjoying the food.
Walking after the meals can help.
Remember, additionally, that eating so much that you are sick is not enjoyable. Enjoy the whole process: family, friends, cooking, eating, drinking, and afterwards.
Those in-between days should be at baseline.
Building a strong nutritional baseline can help you reach your health and fitness goals, even during the holiday season.
PS - If you're interested in taking online coaching with Barbell Logic for a test run, check it out here.
Connect with the hostsLift your way to a leaner you. Strength training is your secret weapon to leanness, despite the lingering weight loss myth that you should simply diet and do cardio.
Debunking the Weight Loss Myth of Cardio & Caloric RestrictionYou go to the doctor and the doctor tells you that you need to lose a certain amount of weight for your health. He questions why you lift and recommends you perform regular cardiovascular exercise.
What do you do? Lift your way to a leaner you (while ensuring you are in a slight caloric deficit).
You acknowledge that you could be a bit leaner, but you've been lifting for awhile. You look better with more muscle on your frame and you enjoy strength training.
More muscle increases your daily caloric expenditure, as it gives some of your incoming calories an additional place to go beyond fat gain.
Lift Your Way to a Leaner You: Slow & Steady Wins the RaceSlow and steady weight loss, with consistent lifting and a healthy, high protein diet help minimize muscle loss during your weight loss. Ultimately, you want to be leaner, you do not really care about the number on a scale.
The doctor in the above scenario is a bit hyperfocused on BMI. Metrics, however, are supposed to measure progress. In this case, we are concerned about health and longevity.
You want more muscle but you also want to be leaner. Abandoning strength training, reducing calories, and adding cardio is likely not going to produce the body you envision. It is certainly not going to help produce a muscular body.
Lift Your Way to a Leaner You: Cardio for Cardiovascular HealthConditioning or "cardio" is not really the best way to help increase the calories out part of the calorie equation. A better method would be to increase your daily low-level activity, such as increasing your steps.
Regardless, conditioning is really about improving your performance for certain tasks and improving cardiovascular health.
Lift your way to a leaner you.
PS - If you're interested in taking online coaching with Barbell Logic for a test run, check it out here.
Check out the Barbell Logic podcast landing page. Get Matched with a Professional Strength Coach today for FREE! No contract with us, just commitment to yourself: Start experiencing strength now: https://store.barbell-logic.com/match/ Connect with the hostsBuy back your time with a professional coach. Coaching yourself means less progress in the gym and more time learning to become a coach.
Buy Back Your Time: Grocery Delivery ExampleYou probably need to value your time more. Too often, people avoid certain purchases because they deem them as too expensive. Sometimes this is true, but often buying back your time - a non-renewable resource - is the best thing you can do.
Grocery delivery for most people is a no-brainer. You spend little money to avoid the headaches and time needed to go to the grocery store.
Mowing services for grass are another great example. If you do not enjoy doing these tasks and need more time, pay money to someone who will do it for you to earn back your time.
Buy Back Your Time: Home GymHaving a home gym is another great way to save time working out. In this case, you will probably also save money over a long-enough period of time.
Don't wait for equipment, don't worry about the broccoli hair Zoomers, lift when you want at your house.
Buy Back Your Time: Professional CoachThis is really the benefit of hiring a professional coach. An expert takes something off your plate, allowing you to not worry about it. That expert will move you to more progress than you otherwise would have gotten. Additionally, you do not have to learn some level of the expertise.
Any time you decide to "do it yourself," you are taking on the burden of learning a certain skill that someone else is an expert or professional at. Sometimes, the task is quick, so it's fine.
You should consider buying back your time, however, by hiring a professional online coach.
PS - If you're interested in taking online coaching with Barbell Logic for a test run, check it out here.
Check out the Barbell Logic podcast landing page. Get Matched with a Professional Strength Coach today for FREE! No contract with us, just commitment to yourself: Start experiencing strength now: https://store.barbell-logic.com/match/ Connect with the hostsPain and setbacks can derail progress. Overcoming pain and setbacks requires addressing your why and acknowledging how you feel when you perform healthy habits.
Overcoming Pain and Setbacks: Oh Snap!A client finds himself making progress in all areas of fitness, at the lightest bodyweight in years and working toward specific barbell numbers.
He has a week of stressful work, where sleep was out-of-whack, he sat more than normal, and his schedule was off.
He returns to the gym and during his warm ups feels a tweak and hears a pop.
Training has to change now. Right before he crested the mountain top, he was cutoff at the knees. Suddenly, he found himself letting nutrition, alcohol, and sleep slip too. After all, why was he training now that the clear goals were unachievable?
Overcoming Pain and Setbacks: What is Your Why!?This client's why had really become the weight on the bar. It is easy to get emotionally tied to seeing the numbers go up. The numbers cannot (and will not) always go up.
It is critical to touch on your deeper whys for training. Even if you signed up for coaching or began training with specific numbers in mind - even if you are an elite lifter chasing numbers - you certainly actually have a deeper reason than seeing a larger amount of iron go up.
Overcoming Pain and Setbacks: What Feels Good!?Remembering how you feel when things are going well matters. Yes, the numbers were going up. That was fun. Did you feel good when you were eating healthy, drinking less, and ensuring you got sufficient high-quality sleep?
How did it feel to check off your nutrition, fitness, and health tasks every day?
When considering how you feel and how you felt, think about over a long period of time. Yes, staying up late with alcohol and processed food feels good in the moment. How do you feel that next morning? How does it feel to check your bodyweight on the scale? What do things look like after a couple weeks of these behaviors?
Overcoming Pain and Setbacks: Think of February & March!Think about the future. You may think about running this process through your head - what will things look like if the sloppiness continues for weeks and months?
You might also think about a specific time or place in your future. How do you feel in February after months of excess calories? How do you feel in March (or insert your time here) at that beach vacation?
What feelings arise when someone who has not seen you in awhile sees you and you've gained weight?
Overcoming Pain and Setbacks: Love the ProcessLoving the results without loving the process will cause problems.
Enjoy exposing yourself to discomfort through training. Maybe the weight on the bar is not challenging, but you get to feel a pump. Maybe you don't get a pump, but you have to complete high-repetition exercises you hate - this is voluntary hardship too!
Overcoming pain and setbacks is challenging, but you can do it.
PS - If you're interested in taking online coaching with Barbell Logic for a test run, check it out here.
Check out the Barbell Logic podcast landing page. Get Matched with a Professional Strength Coach today for FREE! No contract with us, just commitment to yourself: Start experiencing strength now: https://store.barbell-logic.com/match/ Connect with the hostsMastering fitness habits is the key to crushing your goals and gaining lasting results to boost your health and quality of life.
Mastering Fitness Habits: Actions You Do No Matter WhatHabits are things you do without making new decisions. For Andrew, his four healthy habits are walking, food choices, sleep, and training.
He can go on auto-pilot in these areas, which automatically bring him toward his health and fitness goals.
Niki's dog died recently. No one would have blamed her for not training. For Niki, however, it was not only important to maintain the habit but it actually provided an emotional outlet, where she could get out of the house and get out of her mind and do something healthy for herself.
Mastering Fitness Habits: Applied Principles Not Rigid RulesThis does not mean black-and-white rigid programs. It does not mean if you do not do your 3x5 low bar squats, 3x5 bench press, and 1x5 deadlift with at least 5 minutes of rest you are not doing the program and have failed and are a bad person.
Rather, you incorporate walking regularly as part of your day. Most of the time that means at least 10,000 steps for Andrew, but sometimes that is unrealistic.
On vacation, for example, he continues to train, but workouts will tend to be shorter with less volume and less weight.
Sleep may become a lower priority on vacations, but it is not completely ignored and certain actions that help Andrew sleep better will be maintained.
Mastering Fitness Habits: Find FreedomHabits do not restrict freedom they create it.
Do you feel free when you cannot say no to the office donuts or that second or third drink or have to go through the drive through on your way home from work? Is this freedom?
No, freedom is not choice. Freedom is the ability to do what you want, in line with your values. If you want to be healthier and more capable, and be able to do more, you have to regularly train, sleep, and eat well.
Mastering fitness habits is not complicated, but it's not easy. Learn some tips to crush your health and fitness goals.
PS - If you're interested in taking online coaching with Barbell Logic for a test run, check it out here.
Check out the Barbell Logic podcast landing page. Get Matched with a Professional Strength Coach today for FREE! No contract with us, just commitment to yourself: Start experiencing strength now: https://store.barbell-logic.com/match/ Connect with the hostsLearn why you should walk more, how it improves your health, mindfulness, and quality of life. Don't eschew this pedestrian but effective fitness tool.
Physical Fitness Benefits of Walking MoreA good reason why you should walk more is because it provides many health & fitness benefits.
Andrew mentions a study that shows that the benefits of walking 10,000 steps a day equates to, essentially, a "change in effective years" of 8 years. To simplify, it equates to making you 8 years younger than you otherwise would be.
Now, it is easy to draw too much from studies, but what is clear is that walking was correlated with positive health outcomes. Walking is accessible to almost all people, usually exposes you to the sun and gets you out from behind screens, and gives you time to think about things.
Mental Health Benefits of Walking MoreAnother reason why you should walk more is the benefits to your mental health. Walking gets you away from screens and your everyday problems. Creating this time and space to do something else let's you think or do other important activities such as think, talk, or listen to a podcast or audiobook.
Walking is a great activity to do with deep work. You can decide to take a break from the urgent and focus on the important, while doing something physical.
Why you should walk more!? Because it's all-around good for you.
PS - If you're interested in taking online coaching with Barbell Logic for a test run, check it out here.
Check out the Barbell Logic podcast landing page. Get Matched with a Professional Strength Coach today for FREE! No contract with us, just commitment to yourself: Start experiencing strength now: https://store.barbell-logic.com/match/ Connect with the hostsLearn about how Jack Armstrong, BLOC client, completed the Three Peaks Challenge for charity. You can donate to the cause here: https://www.justgiving.com/page/daniel-surphlis-1718352507474
Three Peaks Challenge for CharityJack Armstrong, BLOC client, competed the Three Peaks Challenge. The challenge involves climbing the 3 highest peaks in Scotland, England, and Wales, along with driving to the peaks, within 24 hours.
Jack's training had to change, with much higher volume at low intensity and ensuring that his back (which can act up with heavy deadlifts and squats) was healthy.
He also hiked regularly.
The event itself was one long, hard day, and the team only failed to complete the challenge under time because they got stuck in traffic (but they ascended and descended the hills under their planned time).
Despite the rain, wind, cold, hail, and physical pain, this - being stuck in traffic - was the most painful moment of the day.
If you want to help donate to the hospital where Margot, who has cancer, is being treated, you can give here: https://www.justgiving.com/page/daniel-surphlis-1718352507474
PS - If you're interested in taking online coaching with Barbell Logic for a test run, check it out here.
Check out the Barbell Logic podcast landing page. Get Matched with a Professional Strength Coach today for FREE! No contract with us, just commitment to yourself: Start experiencing strength now: https://store.barbell-logic.com/match/ Connect with the hostsSubscribe to the Build Your Business podcast hosted by Matt & Chris Reynolds, who help you overcome the fears, unknowns, and challenges of business ownership.
Learn more about Ryan Matt Reynolds.
Learn more about Chris Reynolds, CEO & Founder of Surton.
Subscribe to the Build Your Business PodcastIf you have a skill or passion you're good at, you may have been told, or you may have considered, turning it into a business. Many coaches began as fitness enthusiasts who wanted to help others get stronger and healthier. That's great.
If you sell you services, however, you are a business owner. If you are a business owner, you have to work as the owner, manager, and technician in the business.
The technician is the role you're probably thinking about. You're the coach, power washer, baker, etc.
You have to run and oversee the business. This is the management and ownership.
Many businesses fail because they fail to do this.
Don't be saddled with the anxiety that comes from being a new business owner. Learn advice from Matt & Chris, who have nearly 40 years of business ownership between them.
Subscribe to the Build Your Business podcast at turnkey.coach/build
Struggling to get back into the gym after a long break? Learn how to overcome mental and physical challenges and restart your fitness journey with our beginner's guide.
Returning to the Gym After a Long Break: Shift Your Mental MindsetYou went on a vacation, got sick, had a baby, were injured, or had your gym closed down. How do you get back to working out regularly?
Niki and Andrew first, of course, recommend that you probably want to avoid this situation if you can. Even if it's just some light bodyweight exercises, this is significantly better than no exercise.
The hardest aspect of this is in your head.
Once you take a break longer than about 3-5 days, you will find a significant decrease in performance. Because of this, you will have to deal address your expectations for what your body can do based on its past performance versus its current performance.
Focus on the habit of training and identify yourself as a lifter - you are someone who strength trains.
Lastly, remember that you are moving toward your goal, but that it will likely take longer than you would like (but in the grand scheme of things it will not take that long).
Returning to the Gym After a Long Break: Soreness & Other Physical ChallengesAs you have to adjust your mindset, you also need to adjust the weight and volume. Begin with lower volume and lower weight. It is much better to err on the side of too light than too heavy. It will help you ease back into the program, build confidence, and enjoy the quick gains from the lower weight as opposed to quickly missing reps because you tried to begin as close to your limit as possible.
Expect that your second workout or second day at the gym will be harder than the first. Especially with the squat, you will experience soreness.
Remember that movement will help with soreness. Enjoy the shock to your system.
Beginning your strength training routine after a break should not be scary. Take it easy, adjust your mindset, and get back in the gym!
Share your experience with returning to the gym after a long break.
PS - If you're interested in taking online coaching with Barbell Logic for a test run, check it out here.
Check out the Barbell Logic podcast landing page. Get Matched with a Professional Strength Coach today for FREE! No contract with us, just commitment to yourself: Start experiencing strength now: https://store.barbell-logic.com/match/ Connect with the hostsShould I lift if I'm tired? It depends, on your tendencies, goals, experience, normal state, and more. We help you answer for yourself if you should lift today.
Should I Train if I'm Tired? Experience & TendenciesYou're going to feel tired sometimes. What do you do if you feel tired? Should you train?
It depends.
Niki recently felt tired and ended up taking a nap instead of training. She has learned, over years and decades of training, that this occurs regularly, she knows she will train the next day. Niki loves training and knows she will train the next day.
You may begin to find similar patterns. Remember, though, most people seek to avoid training, so know your tendencies.
Andrew shares a different experience, where for a long period of time he was sleep-deprived and always tired. He has had to learn, over time, that he would feel better after training, but he also had to reduce the expectations. If he never trained when he was tired, he would never exercise. Expecting the weight to go up every workout, however, is creates a loop of disappointment, guilt, and can lead to missed training.
Should I Train if I'm Tired? Take Ownership of Your TrainingRegardless of your decision, you have to own your decision and your training. If you skip today, own it, know why you did it, and do not let it break your training habit.
If you train, own that as well. Expecting PRs or the prescribed weight and volume may be counterproductive. Rather, aim to maintain the habit.
This is about behaviors and patterns that contribute to your quality of life and long-term goals. This is not about hacks, short cuts, or other snake oil. You have to put in the work over the long haul.
Should I train if I am tired? Find out!
PS - If you're interested in taking online coaching with Barbell Logic for a test run, check it out here.
Check out the Barbell Logic podcast landing page. Get Matched with a Professional Strength Coach today for FREE! No contract with us, just commitment to yourself: Start experiencing strength now: https://store.barbell-logic.com/match/ Connect with the hostsThe podcast currently has 998 episodes available.
14,159 Listeners
2,593 Listeners
588 Listeners
705 Listeners
1,413 Listeners
1,248 Listeners
1,134 Listeners
1,550 Listeners
666 Listeners
698 Listeners
243 Listeners
497 Listeners
69 Listeners
94 Listeners