Creatine... first of all, what even is Creatine? How does it work? Is it safe and effective? These are all questions that Aaron, CSCS and Dustin, EP-C will breakdown in today’s podcast. Traditionally, Creatine is a supplement used by many gym goers. As you listen in on this discussion, you may find out that Creatine can benefit everyone.

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What even is Bulking and Cutting when it relates to bodybuilding? In this bodybuilding conversation with Ben Case, CPT and Dan Cone, CPT, you can hear from professionals how properly do both. Both of these guys have been training personal trainers for a while. They have been both tried bodybuilding competitions, one online and the other in person.  Their expertise in these areas were extremely insightful in this conversation.  Hope you enjoy the podcast!

Warm-ups are a great thing... But which types of warm-ups are needed or good for you. We cover cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, and psychological warm-ups. A few questions we will be looking into; are cardiovascular warm-ups good for anything? What happens during the musculoskeletal warm-up? Why are psychological warm-ups important?

There are four main ways to approach your weight training, power, strength, hypertrophy, and endurance based workouts. There are many different ways to train your body in the gym. This podcast will break down those different ways to train. The spectrum between power training and anaerobic endurance training is weighted based on your repetitions, rest times, types of exercise and your overall goals. With these categories, it's important to continue to focus on your lactate threshold, 1RM %, muscle fiber type and more specific factors that may impact your training directly. We will be covering warmups in our next podcast!