Rebel Performance Radio

Do you know what things you need to be doing to get the physique you want? Joining me on the show this week is Jesse McMeekin, owner and founder of Adapt Performance. He and I sit down together to talk all things body composition, hypertrophy, getting jacked, and building the physique you want this summer. Listen in as we share our tips and strategies for finding the right training structure and layout to understand and maintain stress complexity in your training in order to see the results you want.

Would you like to discover what weekly training split is right for you and your goals? Listen in to this week’s episode to hear the fellow Rebel Performance coaches and I talk all things training splits and understanding the flow of what a training week should look like to recover. The coaches and I share our tips and secrets behind how we help our athletes experience massive success in such a short period of time. Too many times, we see people putting in the extra work, but the progress they want to see just isn’t there. This all comes down to stress management and knowing what your body needs in your training. We do a deep dive into the nitty gritty of what it means to appropriately balance your stress load over the course of a training week so that you’re in the best position possible to drive the most adaptation from your efforts.

Do you train consistently without seeing the results you want? If your training has hit a wall, today’s guest just might open your eyes. This week’s episode features Luke Vitale, a current trainee on our new Training Team. Luke just finished a training cycle with us and in his words, “The progress I made was stupid. I’ve never seen that kind of progress in such a short period of time.” We dive into Luke’s major progressions and PRs he’s seen throughout this 12-week training cycle: 500 x 5 deadlift (old 5 rep max was 455) and 275 x 5 bench (old 5 rep max was 255). This episode is all about Luke’s journey from getting his training “out of the mud” and how he made it happen.

How much sleep do you average per night? Joining me on the show this week is Dr. Greg Potter, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Resilient Nutrition, a nutrition and supplement company that uses nutrition to help people be more resilient. We dive into the episode discussing why sleep matters, particularly when it comes to your everyday housekeeping and brain functions and understanding how to navigate within both. Listen in as we share a list of action steps to balance sleep in a healthy way. With sleep probably being the most powerful performance cocktail around and has the ability to drastically improve your performance faster than any other intervention, we should all be prioritizing and understanding the why behind it.

On the show today, I have Megan Hall, Scientific Director at Nourish Balance Thrive, an online health coaching company helping people achieve optimal health and peak performance. We intended to focus today’s conversation with Megan on the importance of gut health and how to build a bulletproof gut; but we ended up covering all things nutrition, diets, digestive techniques, and lifestyle factors. We do a deep dive into how overlooked gut health is and why it is so important to understand how your system reacts and adapts to certain lifestyle diets and knowing what works for you. Listen in as Megan explains the factors that go into building yourself a bulletproof gut and how you can actually implement these strategies and techniques in your everyday life.

Joining me on the show today is, Ty Terrell, a good friend of mine and strength coach for the Atlanta Hawks. We discuss the necessity of strength in order to generate force and understanding how quickly you can actually tap into that force pull. Listen in as Ty explains the importance of where you start on the velocity curve and how to implement and execute velocity based training to succeed as an athlete.

On the show this week, I have Zach Kayne, a good friend and former college teammate of mine, and also former Chicago White Sox player. Listen in as Zach unpacks the challenges he faced in searching for a new training outlet as he transitioned from playing ball every day to working in the real world from 9-5. He then shares what the process was like in reclaiming his athleticism as he gives insight on his experience training with Rebel Performance.

On the show today, I have a few of the fellow RP Coaches back in action, Keiran Halton, Ryan Patrick and Ryan L’Ecuyer. The intent of today’s discussion is whether or not you should go overhead and the qualifications for doing so. We dive deep into why the ribs play such an important role in getting overhead and go into the tactic of using unilateral movements as a tool to get somebody overhead by driving rotation and restoring mechanics.

On the show today, I have Kevin Smith, a 13-year special operator in a special operations unit and former Division 1 swimmer. In today’s discussion, we dig past the surface level of what true mental toughness and performance is by discussing the tactics and strategies that largely impact the mind. We do a deep dive into the many exercises we can do to execute mental toughness. In particular, we talk about framing the way you look at certain situations by intentionally removing everything except for the core aspect taking place. Listen in as Kevin explains two mental toughness strategies: chunking – breaking up tasks into simple and digestible pieces and arousal control – bringing your body into more of a balance through breathing.

We’re mixing it up a little bit on the show this week with a few of the Rebel Performance coaches joining me: Ryan Patrick, a physical preparation coach for athletes and powerlifters, Ryan L’Ecuyer, a strength coach with a primary focus on hypertrophy and bodybuilding, and Keiran Halton, a personal trainer and former Division 1 athlete. We discuss core training misconceptions and what the core actually does from a functionality standpoint. We then dive deep into how the core is your foundation and getting your core into a good position will 9 times out of 10 help clear up any pain and issues clients may have, and it will also allow them to actually feel the targeted muscle groups.