KeepTalking Podcast

Making improvements in our fitness is something that is valuable for all of us regardless of our experience level. In this episode, I talk about a major mistake that everyone, including myself, often makes.

I, like some of you, am the type of person who likes to work out every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. This is great, but we need to be careful to not overdo it and stall or even regress. In this episode, I explain how.

"If It Fits Your Macros" is a concept that suggests that as long as the foods you eat have appropriate macronutrient content (proteins, fats and carbs, and therefore total calories), it doesn't matter how natural or processed the foods are. In this episode, I explain my gradually shifting views on this topic.

Most personal trainers will say that the "80/20 rule" where you do healthy things 80% of the time and let yourself have a little fun 20% of the time is a good way to live life. I agree... however, after 35 years of life on the earth, I've realized that the 80/20 rule just ain't for me.

Being in a "recomp" (body recomposition) where you are building muscle and burning body fat at the same time is the golden zone of fitness (lol). In this episode, I talk about my own experimentation with body recomp and share whether or not it appears possible even for advanced lifters.

The inconvenient reality is that changing our body composition requires us to view food as fuel rather than as a source of joy or pleasure. In this episode, I talk about why my taste buds have all but disappeared (lol).

Bodybuilders typically optimize their physique by eating 4-6 meals per day, each of them containing an appropriate amount of protein and other macronutrients. In this episode, I make the case that other athletes should maybe eat the same way, using anecdotal and practical evidence.

As personal trainers, it is often very difficult for us to relate to the "average person" when we talk about fitness, since many of us, like myself, are "fitness psychos".

In this episode, I talk about how to structure a workout if you are going to train multiple systems in the same day.

As a personal trainer, I have found that the percentage of people willing to diligently track calories in order to lose weight is very low. In this episode, I offer a different strategy for changing body composition.