Iron Hero FitCast

Episode Description:

For some reason, it's easier to prioritize training hard and much harder to prioritize recovering. We associate effort with progress, but what about the other side of that coin?

What We're Covering:

• There's always another program
• Why the perfect program is so appealing
• What makes a program work
• Boring and ineffective
• Your training program
• How do you know when it's time for a change?

Episode Description:

For some reason, it's easier to prioritize training hard and much harder to prioritize recovering. We associate effort with progress, but what about the other side of that coin?

What We're Covering:

• We've been conditioned our whole lives
• Training and recovery are two sides of the same process
• A client's story
• Your life doesn't stop making demands just because you're training
• Recovery is part of the work

Episode Description:

Are you actually developing the skills to manage your health and nutrition as they relate to your goals, or have you simply gotten good at following instructions to a "t?"

What We're Covering:

• You're doing everything right until something changes
• Compliance isn't the same as competence
• The real test is when life doesn't follow your plan
• Good coaching should transfer responsibility
• How do you know you're getting better?
• The plan is a tool and not the finish line

Episode Description:

Let's say you get three workouts done this week, and at the end of the week you still feel like a failure. Why is that?

What We're Covering:

• The 4-day plan vs the 3-day reality
• Your calendar is giving you information
• The adjustment
• Are we lowering the standard?
• How are you building your identity?
• Sometimes your process goal is the problem

Episode Description:

One bad meal or one bad day isn't your problem. But it can certainly turn into it when your headspace is, "well, I'm going to start over on Monday."

What We're Covering:

• One bad day isn't your problem
• The next fixed point
• Momentum works, in both ways
• Consistency is not...
• Getting better at this
• So, don't wait for Monday

Episode Description:

This is not a question we hear a lot because people are usually telling us that they have strong legs, and they run, and they do yoga or Pilates, and they take group fitness classes. But is that enough? Are you missing a big piece of the puzzle?

What We're Covering:

• Different types of training have different jobs
• "But my legs are strong from running..."
• The gym is practice
• You don't need much to start filling that gap
• Don't ask one tool to do every job

Episode Description:

I'm sure you've said this before. Maybe you've heard somebody say it before: "I want to lose more weight, so I need to do more cardio." This seems to be the answer for a lot of these issues: changing body fat - more cardio; I've gained weight - more cardio.

Let's look at why this might not be a great way to go.

What We're Covering:

• How do we look at strength training?
• The problem with the burn more mindset
• What about "the afterburn" aka EPOC
• Body burning versus body building
• What did I just build?

Episode Description:

"I don't understand it. I'm doing the same things I've always done, and now the weight's just coming on. It's got to be my age, right?"

When somebody says, nothing's changed," it probably feels like that to them, but here are some things to consider before going that direction.

What We're Covering:

• I'm not saying you're lying
• Let's go back 20 years
• But I still work out three days a week, and I eat the same
• Here's where metabolism gets interesting
• What actually changed?
• What if it actually is age?
• Here's the good news

Episode Description:

Your coach's job isn't just to give you workouts and a meal plan and send you on your way. And if that's not the whole thing, what's the rest of it?

What We're Covering:

• Let's problem-solve
• Why do pro athletes have multiple coaches?
• Yes, I write workouts
• A real-life example
• Coaching is a shared responsibility
• Client-coach conversations
• The wedding planner analogy
• So, do I need a coach?

Episode Description:

It's easy to get caught up in the ebbs and flows of on the wagon, off the wagon, and whether or not that actually changes anything. Here are some thoughts for you.

What We're Covering:

• If you mess it up, here's what I actually want you to do
• The punishment problem
• What about the scale?
• You didn't erase all the good decisions
• It's a skill. You have to practice that skill
• The takeaway