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It's Q&A Thursday's and our question is in from Triple Threat Kay who asks: Jonathan, what kind of food do you eat? This is an interesting question because I'm alway's evaluating how I eat, how I can eat better, and why I eat the way I do, it if that makes any sense at all. This is very personal to me, but hopefully you can find some strategies and tactics that will work for you as well.

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We are 131 Episodes deep and over 100,000 downloads strong, which I need to thank you all for listening, learning and supporting us, making us your chosen resource for your fitness and health information. Posting all these episodes has given me the opportunity to see some really interesting patterns that have emerged with respect to what you the listener and active audience member are most interested in, ironically the episodes that have the most downloads are the one's about when you can and/or should stop exercising, which I find really interesting since this is a show about fitting exercise into you're daily life.

Today we're not talking about stopping exercise, because exercise is so important you should always do it at some level. We're covering our second most downloaded topic, losing weight. Even if you are a 'healthy' bodyweight, you still probably wish you had a little more definition in the backs of your arms or to have a slightly firmer and more shapely behind or hey wouldn't it be nice to see even a slight outline of your abs which are definitely there, just slightly hidden. If these are things you want, you really you need to start with exercise first not how you're eating, even though changing how you eat plays a far greater role in losing weight, that's what we're covering today!

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A few years ago I started working with a client that was a little bit over-weight, maybe 20 pounds. Most people would not consider her over-weight at all because although she was 20 lbs. overweight, she still weighed less than the average 50 year old. Over the course of our few years together she lost about 5 pounds and more importantly she started exercising 3 or 4 times a week on her own...

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Spring is in full swing and if you're like most people you're getting out to enjoy the weather! Maybe you're gardening, playing a little tennis or doing some spring cleaning, moving out all that junk that's piled up in your garage and attic. Of course this requires moving a lot of stuff upstairs, downstairs, off of shelves and out of garages. Regardless of how you're activity changes with the weather, there's a good chance you ended up moving and lifting a lot more than you normally would through the winter. What you probably didn't realize is that all these activities are functional strength training at their best. When you do activities like this, you're actually doing exercise, which is a really interesting concept for a lot of people.

Now let's say for a minute that you're more sore or more sore than you think you should be, doing all this new found exercise. Even if you regularly follow a structured exercise program you're probably a bit sore and that's because functional exercise is functional and you move your body in different ways than your used to! Now wouldn't it be nice to not be sore after a weekend of gardening or to not have to take several breaks moving your old fridge out of the basement? Today we're going to talk about what functional training is and how you can effectively do it in very little time. I know you don't want to be sore next Monday.

Today's an important episode about your shifting landscape and how exercise will change as you age, sometimes this means you used to be a competitive athlete and now you're just trying to be healthier, it could mean that at some point you followed a bodybuilding style program, but now you have kids, a career and not nearly as much time or it could mean you're getting older and you officially no longer care about having a '6 pack' and just want to be strong and mobile enough that you can outdrive your friends on the golf course. As you get older and your abilities and goals change you're exercise program needs to change as well and we're going to get introspective about your exercise program so you can ask yourself the right questions to make sure you're doing the right types of exercise routines.

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It's Q&A Thursday's and our question is in from Bryce who asks: Jonathan, what kind of exercise do you do and why? We're going to get a little bit personal on this one, because I want you to understand why I train the way I do and why I think it's the best way for the vast majority of people to train as well.

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One of my Pull Workout's

This episode was inspired by a client that said these exact words to me 'I really don't feel like exercising today, can we sit, visit and drink coffee instead?' to which I responded 'Sure, but let's sneak in a quick workout first' so she begrudgingly did her exercise program, but by the end to her surprise said she felt great. We can't show up at all of your houses, so we're going to talk about what you can do when there's no one to nudge you along but yourself.

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Today's show is about the good, the bad and the ugly of fitness challenges. Fitness challenges are all the rage, usually they take some form of single exercise or circuit of exercises and you do them over a pre-determined course of time documenting your improvement and sharing it with the world. The most common example I can think of is the plank challenge that circulated a few years ago where you would plank everyday for a month and try to go from 30 seconds to 3 minutes over the course of that time.

There are many things to consider when deciding whether or not you should do a fitness challenge and today we're going to cover all of those things.

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Today is a must read episode and we're covering one of my favourite fitness books of all time, Intervention by Dan John. He takes a simple and straight forward approach to health and fitness. If we all took a page out of this book we would all be a lot healthier for it. Get out your thinking cap, because we're going to reshape how you think about health and fitness.

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If you're trying to eat less, eat healthier and/or trying to lose weight and you don't have enough time to cook or you think it's too hard you should listen to this episode. We're going to give you the silver bullet to help you with all of these things.

These are some really common comments that we hear from clients, eating healthy takes a long time because it takes so long to prepare the food, I get really hungry through the day and sometimes I just don't know what to snack on so I eat cheese and crackers or trail mix, because what else can you really snack on, right? These are valid concerns, but there is one thing you can do that is the silver bullet to all of these problems...

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