Side Quest Podcast

If you are a fit and active man, you know how hard it can be to find shirts that fit and show off  your hard work. Enter Mike Zeller of Trim. Mike has created a clothing line that provides fit and active men with shirts designed to fit their bodies. No longer do you have to wear baggy shirts that swallow you, nor do you have to wear slim cuts that bunch up your shoulders and chest. Trim fixes that by making the shoulders and chest wider with a more narrow waist that accentuates that V-shape you have worked so hard to develop. The fabric is high quality, made in the USA, and the fabric is flexible and provides movement even if it is tucked in. Did I also mention they have a 5-year return policy?

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Eric Bach is a strength and conditioning coach out of Denver, CO. He is a former college athlete and collegiate strength and conditioning coach and has been published on numerous sites around the web such as CNN, T-Nation, Elitefts, Muscle and Strength, and many more.

When Eric is not front squatting, cleaning, or sprinting, he can be found by the dumbbells pumping his biceps.

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In the final episode of Coaches Corner for 2015, I am joined by Tanner Baze, Travis Pollen, Joseph Brigley, Matt Dustin and Nick Sorrell to discuss the year that was 2015.

We dive deep into motivation, fear, accomplishments, and, of course talk about what we loved or hated in the year.

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Andy Van Grinsven is Nashville based personal trainer and strength coach.

Andy grew up playing a variety of sports, but lacrosse became his passion in high school. He played on the lacrosse club team at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and helped lead them to a division playoff spot, which hadn’t been done in 10 years.

Andy studied Exercise Science in undergrad at UT, then pursued a Master’s degree in Exercise Physiology.

Upon returning to Nashville in late 2012, the gym he had been hired at four months prior decided to close its doors.

Andy decided to go independent and train clients on his own schedule.

Andy enjoys heavy weight training, and reading a host of articles, books, and studies related to his field.

His interests are injury prevention, corrective exercise, and helping his clients build strong, athletic, and able bodies through heavy weight training. He believes that hard but simple, effective programs are the best to help his clients build strength, improve body composition, and boost confidence.

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Roz "The Diva" Mays has dedicated many late nights at the gym to becoming a stronger and healthier athlete. Pole dancing is her sport of choice but she is also a NASM certified personal trainer. 

Roz lives and works in NYC where she trains at Brooklyn Fit Lab, Crunch, Incredipole, and Body and Pole.

Her "fitlosophy" can be defined as, "simple is sexy." She believes in no cleanses, no bullshit, just sweat. And a bomb a$$ playlist.

She was a featured performer on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, Season 10 and has seen a huge reaction from the internet since Howard Stern's initial reaction to her.

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Jill Coleman of JillFit.com stops by the podcast to talk about how she helps women create a healthy lifestyle. Jill started her fitness career as a babysitter for a local gym when she was 15. Since then she has competed in bikini contests, explored fitness modeling, and is the co-founder of Metabolic Effect.

She grew up in Boston, went to college in NC and now resides in beautiful sunny California. Jill has been featured in publications such as SELF magazine, SHAPE, Women’s Health magazine, Yahoo Health, LiveStrong.com and AOL’s That’s Fit.

In the last few years with her success in fitness, she has launched her own business coaching for aspiring female entrepreneurs called The Best of You Mentorship.

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Jason Maxwell of JMax Fitness returns to the show. Jason comes on to talk about growing cool moustaches in Movember as well as his one-month bulking program called Decembulk. In his pilot program for this, one of his clients gained 5 pounds of muscle all while enjoying the holiday feasts that trip many of us up during this time of the year. If gaining muscle and not fat is your goal this holiday season this is the program for you.

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In this episode of Coaches Corner, Adam Fisher, Greg Nuckols, and Nick Sorrell and I discuss, strength. We chat about how having more muscle mass gives you the potential to stronger and also why strength matters to us. When it comes to fat loss, longevity, or build an amazing physique, strength is key.

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Anytime I find a fellow nerd, video game lover, and weight lifter I get really happy.  This week's podcast guest is one of those guys.  Adam Ali of Physiqonomics is a writer and fitness coach.  He has been featured on sites like BroBible, Strength Theory, Health Living, Heavy Lifting, JMax Fitness and more.  Like myself, Adam finds inspiration for his content from all the geeky and nerdy things he grew up on like Super Mario, Dragonball, and video games.

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Stuart MacDonald is just a regular guy who in 2008 decided that he wanted to lose his unwanted body fat and try to look like the guy you see on supplement ads.  Luckily, for him a local gym owner in his hometown in Michigan was a winning natural IFBB bodybuilder.  

Jeff Willet, coached Stuart through the process and helped him finish in the top 5 in a bodybuilding competition.  Stuart is my guest on this episode and he is now embarking on a sequel as he gained much of his lost weight back and then some.  

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