With the holiday week we were a bit scattered but it was a great conversation on how having fitness as a priority in your life looks like and how that changes over time.

High fat diets like Ketogenic Dieting are very popular right now, initially their role was very niche for diseased populations and now they are being used much more widely and have experienced a big resurgence. Brad talks about whether or not this attention is warranted and more importantly is a Ketogenic Diet superior to balance factoring in lifestyle factors?

For years Paul has talked about how naps worked against your night time sleep based on his personal experience. Find out why he changed his mind and Meredith and Paul dissect a clients body fat readings and why they lost so much fat without losing much muscle at all.

This was a podcast that was taped in May but never made it to upload. It was a review of Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker but that's not why people will remember this episode. Towards the end I had to clarify why I would intentionally choose brain damage for sex and dancing around that topic I suspect will be pretty funny to listeners.

In this episode we explore why or why you wouldn't intermittent fast giving you some of the science and our personal experiences along the way. We try to present both sides because it can be both a useful tool or a destructive tool depending on how it's used.

Most people don't have a macro or calorie problem, what they have is a life management issue and holiday's and vacations don't cooperate so the building blocks team tackles this and gives some advice that will change the way you think about how you have done things most of your life.

The main topic happens at about middle of the episode, previous to that Meredith and I chat about our kids, their driving and our life. Once that is done we talk about the summer and summers that changed our life completely, what that looked like and why it was important.

Most people go on diets for the summer or vacation without a real organized plan or after over doing it over the holiday's. At Eat To Perform we know your calories and soon we will have a fat loss calendar, this podcast goes over why planned cycles are better than spontaneous cycles.

Meredith has an article this weekend that looks at the want to constantly be less and ties it to the recent women's empowerment movements of the last few months.

So if this seems out of order that's because it is, we actually did this one as the first Building Blocks and it was a test but it was so good that people kept asking for it so we re-did it in the style that has become the norm for these sessions. Mike has designed all but one of our training templates and runs a group specifically on designing your training around your personality type.