Truth Not Trends

Join us as we welcome Andrei Yakovenko and Philip Shepherd, authors of Deep Fitness.

Deep Fitness brings a much-needed evolution to our understanding of what fitness can mean. Deep Fitness identifies and lays out a very compelling argument for the benefits of brief, intense, and infrequent bouts of high-intensity movement, or what they call Mindful Strength Training To Failure.

Learn why the inclusion of strength training is evidenced to improve your health markers, increase your quality of life, and reduce your risk of mortality.

This book will guide you through some of the science of strength training using a time-efficient approach that even the busiest person cannot excuse themselves from. Mindful Strength Training to Failure (MSTF)—the core of this text—encourages a mental and physical submission to your understanding, appreciation, and improvement of your body and its function.

Boyer Coe competed in bodybuiliding competitions from the 60's to the 90's, entering 88 competitions and winning a total of 26 titles (15 professional and 11 amateur). Today, at 75 years old, he is still in the gym every morning at 5.00 A.M.

This week join us as we sit down for a candid conversation with Boyer. We discuss his life in bodybuilding from his early inspiration from mentor Red Lerille (owner of the first serious gym Boyer trained at), to owning a health food store, running a gym, prototyping exercise equipment, and co-hosting a fitness program on ESPN.

Boyer shares his insightful and accurate thoughts on many of its major events, including training, nutrition and even the controversial 1980 and 1981 Mr. Olympia's.

Social media brings with it instant access to tons of health and fitness information. On the surface this may seem like a positive thing.

In truth we are inundated daily with millions of words and images that are not posted for our benefit but merely to beguile us into spending our hard earned money on useless supplements, over-complicated workout routines, and gadgets lauded to improve performance but ultimately destined for the landfill pile.

Join us this week as we discuss some of our favorite and least favorite fitness fads, gimmicks and trends that have popped up over the last few years on social media and beyond.

Dr. Ben Bocchicchio has been an advocate of slow strength training and a low-carb diet since 1973. He was on the leading edge of Nautilus training and had a professional relationship with Arthur Jones as the world became familiar with the exercise machines Jones called "the thinking man's barbell".

In this interview Dr. Ben Bo is fresh off giving a lecture at the Low Carb USA conference in San Diego. Topics discussed include the anti-inflammatory effects of slow resistance training and an in-depth look at how a low-carbohydrate diet contributes to health and longevity.

Strength training is the most important and effective exercise that anyone can do. Virtually everyone, from teenagers to the elderly, can and should engage in it regularly. It's important for both gaining new muscle and the maintenance of existing muscle mass.

Unfortunately, beginning (and even veteran) strength training enthusiasts can get a lot of bad advice about volume, frequency, duration, load, repetitions etc.

Join us this week as we take a look at what we have found to be the most effective program for combining strength training and conditioning methods when working with both our competitive athletes and fitness participants of all ages and abilities.

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Jim Schmitz, owner of The Sports Palace, a weightlifting and weight training gym and club established in San Francisco in 1968. His accomplishments in the field of Olympic-style weightlifting are numerous.

He has twice been selected as head coach of United States Olympic weightlifting teams, in 1980 and 1988, and was selected as assistant Olympic Team Weightlifting coach in 1992. He was head coach for the 1979 Pan American Games Weightlifting Team and the 1977, 1985, and 1987 US World Teams. He was Competition Director for Weightlifting at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. He was president of USA Weightlifting 1988 to 1996 and a member of the International Weightlifting Federation's Executive Board and Chairman of the IWF Scientific and Research Committee, 1992 to 1996.

His Sports Palace weightlifting team has won the US National Team Championships in 1982, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, and 1989.

He has coached the following US National Champions, record holders, and Olympians:

Ken Patera, 110+, 1972, Dan Cantore, 67.5, 1972-77, Bruce Wilhelm, 110+, Jim "Butch" Curry, 90, 1978-86, Mario Martinez, 110+, 1977-96, Rachel Silverman, 52, 1982-88, Anne Lehman, 52, 1994-2008.

Jim presently coaches weightlifting in the Sports Palace "dungeon" of the gym Physique Magnifique in South San Francisco. He also teaches USA Weightlifting's Coaching Certification Courses, as well as CrossFit Olympic lifting courses. He has written and published his own book and DVD on Olympic-style weight-lifting, and authored numerous articles including an excellent collection for MILO Magazine and IronMind.com.

This week our guest is Strength Coach and H.I.T. entrepreneur Carl Johnson. Carl attended Brigham Young University and completed a degree in Exercise Science. He became a certified tennis teaching pro and a Certified Health Fitness Specialist through the American College of Sports Medicine. While at BYU he had the opportunity to complete a tennis coaching internship to enhance both his coaching and playing skills. In his professional life he worked as a healthcare manager/hospital administrator in the United States Air Force for 20 years. He left that position to pursue his interests in health and wellness, but due to some unforeseen health issues was out of commission for awhile. Carl worked his way back to health, lost 100 lbs, and decided to focus his passion and energy on helping others become their best versions of themselves.

Join us as we celebrate 20 years in the strength coaching biz with our guest, Dwayne Wimmer.

Dwayne is the founder and head trainer of Vertex Fitness. With professionalism, expertise, and personal attention as his hallmarks, and the utmost concern for his clients' fitness and wellness as his vision, Dwayne has fulfilled his ultimate dream in running his own physical fitness training center.

His caring and patient, yet guiding one-on-one approach encourages individuals to achieve their fitness goals at their own pace, all the while pushing them to the limits so they reach top physical condition.

Nutrition. Is there anything out there that is more confusing? High carbs, low carbs, good fats, bad fats, don't eat at night, don't eat anything but fruit until noon…It's enough to make you scream.

How can we possibly decipher all the nutritional mumbo-jumbo that is thrown around every day? Each time you turn around there is a new diet telling you what to eat and what to avoid.

Well, take a deep breath and let's see if we can make some sense out of all this confusion. By the time your done reading, you'll have at least a basic set of ideas that should work for you.

It still won't be easy. We have been coaching people for over thirty years and we call nutrition, the ultimate discipline.

Join the TNT crew as we discuss 10 Things we know about strength training, a.k.a. what we've learned after years and years of experience.

When science looks at various strength training techniques, muscle protein synthesis, frequency of training, and the like, these are the conclusions, and they form our base of knowledge as it relates to resistance training.

Many of these recommendations may seem at odds with common training methods (the kind that you hear from a trainer or gym bro). Listen closely, and more importantly, apply what you've learned. You're likely to be pleasantly surprised.