On the topic of the effects of exercise, we need to chat about the difference in aerobic exercise versus anaerobic exercise. Now for some of you, those may be a very simple review, but I think these concepts get a little bit mixed up and for good reason. So just like when we're talking about metabolic flexibility where the body is using this mixture of fat and carbohydrates at any one time, we can kind of think of that in terms of aerobic and anaerobic. These things (fuel & exercise) are not so much a hard switches per se, but are more like dimmer switches. We're always turning to a little higher percentage of aerobic capacity or metabolism or returning to a little bit higher portion of anaerobic metabolism. Let's research this further.

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As of this recording, you may hear some different noises in the background. I'm in South Padre Texas doing some kiteboarding. You're probably wondering what kiteboarding has to do with the topic of exercise this week (other than it is a very good exercise). And if you know me, you know I could probably do multiple podcasts and yammer on about why everybody should learn to kiteboard. But the reason for kiteboarding is recreation -- in addition to me getting out to go ride, hang out with friends, be outside. The wonderful wifey took a road trip from Minnesota to Texas. Today's topic is exercise versus recreation.

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Today I have something super cool for you. This is an interview with my good buddy Dr. Andy Galpin from Cal State Fullerton. If you've been listening to some of my stuff for quite a while, or possibly some of Andy's stuff for quite a while, you may notice that this interview was originally aired a couple of years ago on the Eat to Perform podcast. As I was combing through some of the archives here, I found it and I just really loved all the information that Dr. Andy gave. Rerunning it again because I think it is still very valid and fits in with the topic this week as we are discussing more about exercise. So check out the show here. Thank you very much. And if you want more information you can go to www.flexdiet.com

The importance of sleep. Whenever you talk about sleep, especially around a group of lifters, these questions then come up, "Should I be ingesting protein before I go to bed? Does that mess up my metabolism? Does that gonna make me jacked in four weeks? Is this a good thing? Is it a bad thing? Should I get up in the middle of the night and consume protein?" All very good questions. I did a run many, many years ago of where I got up in the middle of the night and consumed some protein. I would put an insulated cup in the bathroom with ice in it and would set my alarm for around three in the morning. I would get up and consume that and then go back to bed cause I wanted to keep the anabolic response going as much as possible again, an n = 1 experiment. But was that necessary?

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This week, we've been talking a lot about sleep, and today I wanted to discuss with you just a very short thing related to the impact of sleep on metabolism. Now, earlier in the week, we talked about how if your quality of sleep is less, it may impair your body's ability to use fat as a fuel source. And I would say that that may have implications on body composition. And unfortunately, physiology is kind of messy and complex. What is the association of short sleep and different aspects of sleep-related to energy metabolism? Research in this area of sleep shows that as you get less sleep right, your body is going to be under more stress. So what? Let me tell you why that matters. . .

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AAAAALLL about sleep. Want the # 1 tip for sleep that I found works really well? Now you may be thinking of answers like making your sleep cave, making sure that it's nice than dark, making sure that it's nice and cool or doing different things before bed, having a pre-bed ritual, maybe supplements using melatonin or magnesium or other things to help you relax before bed. Maybe it's some type of super cool bio-hack of sitting in front of your bio modulation photo, blah, blah, blah, red, yellow, purple light, whatever is the latest trend right now. Nope, it's actually not any of those. Listen in to find out.

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Aaaah Sleeep. =) We'll chat about the number one problem that I see when trainers and clients discuss sleep . . . and it's probably not what you think, right? So here's how it typically goes (and I am entirely guilty of doing this in the past and probably still do it time to time.) You have a discussion with the client. Their goal is more performance focus. They want to get a little bit leaner and want to see more fat loss. You start talking to them about some of the lifestyle factors and find out that they only sleep about six hours a night, sometimes even five hours . . . So you begin making recommendations. What happens next?

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This week we're going to be talking about the effects of sleep. And so sleep is kind of the trendy thing in fitness now. And I would say there are lots of good reasons for that and we're going to explore some different aspects of this. One of the first ones I think is most interesting is related to body composition and especially related to how the body can use fat as a fuel. "What?? My sleep affects my body composition?" you exclaim. Yep. Let's find out why.

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