Ruston's Boneyard Podcast

Episode 11 - Most Common Exercise Mistakes With Holly Skinner


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Holly Skinner is a former competitive olympic weight-lifter and Crossfit affiliate owner. She has extensive experience both as an athlete and a coach, and is currently enrolled on the prestigious MAC Nutrition course. Holly currently provides in-person and online coaching and programming through a new venture, Platform Brighton. If there's one person I would trust for advice when it comes to training, it would be her.


In this episode we talk about the most common training pitfalls for novice and experienced athletes alike. We discuss over-training, under-fuelling, trying to buy food calories with exercise, the advantages of strength training, the importance of non-exercise activity thermogenesis, fasted vs fed training, the effect of body fat on strength, periodisation, training strategies for peri-menopause and menopause, and much more.

Chapters

00:00 Intro.
01:55 Trying to earn food calories through excessive cardio. NEAT. Energy expenditure is dynamic.
08:05 What to do instead.
11:52 Working to set points, with no periodisation.
13:20 Periodisation and cycles.
16:30 Trying to get too lean and under-fuelling.
20:00 Females concerned about bulking-up if they strength train. The importance of strength training for women, bone-density and muscle mass.
24:15 Does weight-lifting make you fat?
26:25 Goal setting. Process-oriented goals.
28:15 Do you need a gym?
29:20 Women are stronger than they think.
31:13 Top 3 exercises.
32:46 Sets and reps. Maybe we don't need the extremes.
35:42 Lifting to failure.
36:38 Training fasted or fed. Metabolic flexibility. Training with carbs.
39:44 What to look for in a coach.
41:14 What does Holly's training look like?
43:50 Platform BTN and contacts.

You will likely come away from this wishing that Holly was programming for you. Get in touch with her via Instagram @platformbtn @hollyplatformbtn, or via the Platform BTN website www.platformbtn.com.

The video version of this episode is available on YouTube.

Please like, please subscribe and please comment - I always reply. Come and find me over on Instagram @rustonsboneyard  - I'd love to get to know you, and see what's happening in your kitchen, and with your nutrition and training.


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