Today, I wanted to talk to you about the concept of leverage and how we can use this to figure out what interventions may be best for our clients. You've probably heard of the concept of leverage range from physics, and if you have a big enough lever, you can move huge amounts of load with less effort, right? And it's kind of amplifying the work that you're putting in. This concept can also be applied to when you're working with clients as to what kind of intervention should you do on the recovery side for nutrition and different aspects related to that. Learn more on this show.

Today we're talking about what metabolic flexibility and how it relates to flexible dieting. As I mentioned in podcast episode 1, I sort of fell into the concept of metabolic flexibility by getting it assigned as my research project when I went over and switched to do my PhD in exercise physiology at the University of Minnesota. And what I like about the concept of metabolic flexibility is it respects the dynamic nature of physiology. Anatomy and physiology are fascinating, but at rest they're not all that exciting... but exercise physiology... now a lot more things are in motion. Learn more on this 2nd episode of Not Another Fitness Podcast.

Hey, it's Dr. Mike T Nelson here and this is the very first podcast that I've done solo. Obviously, I've been a guest on many other podcasts. You can find me on most weekends on Iron Radio each week... But for this first solo podcast, I wanted to do a bit of an intro for those of you who haven't heard of me before. Enjoy the show!