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Progressing in both life and training is a tricky hand. On one hand, we need to push the limits just enough to break old barriers and reach new limits. Push too hard, though, and we aren’t able to recover from the stress and end up burning out. Check us out on this week’s episode as we discuss stress, lifestyles, and its effect on training!

Time is of the essence, and many of us fitness enthusiasts would like to get stronger AND become more mobile. Tune in to this episode of Natty News as we give you the three best exercises for your upper and lower body to improve your strength and flexibility all in one!

New year, new goals to make all kinds of natty gains…

On this episode, we check in on the January 25 minute daily cardio challenge. Tune in to find out if whether Pat can run a block yet and if Anwar has survived 15 straight days of running.

In this second half of the episode, we have a really exciting segment on goal setting! While in previous years we have focused heavily on strength training goals, we divide our goal setting this year into 5 categories: strength,cardiovascular, sleep, nutrition, and mental health. As we learn more about how the non-gym aspects of our lives affect our health and even our physical progress, we want to continue to share this knowledge with our listeners!

New year, new goals to make all kinds of natty gains…

On this episode, we check in on the January 25 minute daily cardio challenge. Tune in to find out if whether Pat can run a block yet and if Anwar has survived 15 straight days of running.

In this second half of the episode, we have a really exciting segment on goal setting! While in previous years we have focused heavily on strength training goals, we divide our goal setting this year into 5 categories: strength,cardiovascular, sleep, nutrition, and mental health. As we learn more about how the non-gym aspects of our lives affect our health and even our physical progress, we want to continue to share this knowledge with our listeners!

After a long hiatus, Natty News is back!

We are back in 2023 with an exciting new challenge between Anwar, Pat, and our highschool friends. We outline a daily 25 minute cardio challenge for the month of January.

Tune in as we discuss the benefits of cardiovascular training from a health, mood, energy, and athletic perspective. We will also outline some of the challenges we think we may face, and how we can best overcome them. We welcome our viewers to participate in our challenge (but maybe skip the punishment) to get the year off to a great start!

As our local math and engineering extraordinaire, Natty New host Anwar is a big fan of measuring health to assess his fitness progress. In this episode, we answer the question of whether we should be measuring our health, and how to do it!

We go into our opinions and some evidence behind measuring heart rates, BMI, bodyfat percentage, sleep, blood profiles, and VO2 max.

Do you regularly measure your health? Send us a DM and let me know!

Welcome back to Natty News!  On this episode, we start with a movie analysis of the Netflix doc Ronnie Coleman: The King. It was fascinating to look at the life of a legend after their glory days. This brought us into an opening discussion on the ends of some of our favourite athletes’ careers.

Our main segment this week is on the idea of exercise as medicine! In a world where pharmaceuticals and passive treatments are the first thought when people think of treatment, we believe that exercise deserves much greater praise when it comes to maintaining an restoring health. Tune in for the full discussion!

In this episode of Natty News, we provide an update on the IPF upcoming changes to the bench press rules. Anwar and Pat debate whether strength sport needs to be aesthetically pleasing, as well as ways to make powerlifting and other strength sports more viewer friendly.

To finish off the show, we come back with a little Physio Fun Fact as Pat explains whether bench press truly is a great exercise for the chest.

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It’s been a long time, but Natty News is back! Our apologies for all the delays, as it seems your hosts alternate crazy and busy times in their lives.

We’re back today with not one, but two topics! We start with a talk on volume vs intensity. Can we make good muscle gains doing one set per exercise to failure, ala Dorian Yates? On the flip side, can we make equally good gains doing baby weight but for a hundred reps?

On the tail end of the show, we discuss the concept of improvement. Pat discusses his frustrating return from injury, and the strategy of measuring process based markers of success instead of only outcome measures.

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