The Esoteric Anomalies Podcast

In this episode, I interview Eric Salazar. Eric won his pro card at his NPC bodybuilding show utilizing a weighted vest for artificial weight, giving his body the sense that he was heavier than he actually was, thus burning more calories. We also discuss non-exercise activity thermogenesis and tracking step counts.

Eric's Instagram: @ifbbpro_ericleesalazar

In this episode, I chat with Bill Campbell PhD. Bill Campbell is a professor of Exercise Science and director of the Performance and Physique Enhancement Laboratory at the University of South Florida. Topics discussed include new refeed research, diet break research, protein, and optimizing fat loss.

Bill's instagram: @billcampbellphd

Riley Deveau is the owner of Trinity For Change, a company dedicated to people suffering from mental health disorders, in which 25% of their profit is donated to finding alternative treatments. In this episode, Riley tells his story of dealing with OCD, dysthymia depression, panic disorder, and attempting suicide at a young age.

Instagram.com/RileyDeveauu

Instagram.com/TrinityMindsetPodcast

Instagram.com/TrinityForChange

Website: Trinityforchange.com

Sauna study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5941775/

Tiffany Nguyen is a competitive powerlifter and online training coach. Originally, Tiffany was pursuing to be a dental hygienist until she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in her hands, making her unable to work in this field. She soon decided to pursue fitness full time with fantastic success as a coach and athlete.

In this episode, we get into Tiffany's strict, Asian upbringing as she had to make it on her own, opposing her parents in many instances. We also discuss interracial dating as a Vietnamese girl since is something that comes up very often for her.

Morgan Bartley is a mental health advocate and social media influencer that focuses on helping and inspiring others by sharing her weight loss story and struggles. With the help of dietitians, therapists, and her vertical sleeve gastrectomy, Morgan was able to lose 115lbs total, even dealing with binge eating disorder. She shares her whole story in this episode. Enjoy!

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In this interview, we get into numerous topics which include, Jeff’s status as a natural bodybuilder, James Krieger’s meta analysis on dose-response relationship between weekly resistance training volume and increases in muscle mass, showing superiority for 10+ sets per muscle group per week compared to lower sets; high frequency and lower frequency training when volume is matched, minimum effective volume, maximum recoverable volume, maximum adaptive volume, maintenance volume, and how they play into routine design, and a brief discussion on Christian Guzman’s peak week, since Jeff was able to help him during that time.

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Chris Barakat is a natural bodybuilder and educator who holds degrees in Exercise Science and Nutrition. He also works as an adjunct professor at the University of Tampa and runs his online coaching business, Competitive Breed. In this episode we talk about hypertrophy, his training routine, MaX Hype, protein intake and timing, his experiment with fasting 72 hours, ketogenic dieting, and much more!

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Website: www.competitivebreed.com

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Armando Nava, more commonly known as Nava The Beast, is a United States Marine and CEO and founder of his supplement company, Fuego Supps. Finding himself going down the wrong path in life, he was encouraged to join the Marine Corp. During his enrollment, he decided to document his life in the military for YouTube. Despite being severely criticized for filming, Nava remained resilient in his endeavor and is now one of the biggest military vloggers on YouTube with over 365,000 subscribers on his channel at only 21 years of age.

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Christian Guzman is the founder and owner of Alphalete, Alphalete Gym, Up Energy Drinks and runs a successful YouTube channel in which he documents his life. Millions of people look up to Christian as an inspiring, successful entrepreneur, achieving prosperity in his mid-20’s, but not many are aware of his past growing up as a shy, silent and reserved teenager that took a leap of faith by dropping out of college to follow his dreams. In this episode, we delve into his past, how he broke out of his shell and stuck to his passion to build his multi-million dollar empire.

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2. Screenshot a pic of you listening to the podcast episode and tag the three profiles above.

3. *Giveaway deadline has been extended to Friday, June 1, 2018*. I will choose one winner on June 1, 2018 at 8pm CT to win a Ghost Lifestyle product of their choice.

Bret Contreras is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) who earned his doctoral degree in Sports Science from Auckland University of Technology in 2015. Though Bret is heavily involved in the research of exercise science, he also has over 20 years experience in personal training, giving him great capability of combining practical work with the influence of research. He is widely known as, “The Glute Guy”, because of his obsession in glute training and conducting research in regards to glute hypertrophy. He also has a profound knowledge in biomechanics. In this interview, we briefly touch on his past, discuss functions of the glutes, training frequency, mechanisms of hypertrophy, and why telling people they’re dysfunctional can steer them in the wrong path.

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