Truth Not Trends

Join us this week as we discuss High Intensity Strength Training with our guest Richard Chartrand of Sustainable Success.

Richard first discovered "high intensity strength training" around 1981, when reading The Nautilus Bodybuilding Book by Ellington Darden PHD.

After years of training with a "More is Better" approach Richard began immediately applying these principles to himself. Along the way he ended up competing in and winning or placing in a few natural bodybuilding contests (while strength training less than 20 minutes per week),

Almost 40 years later, the scientific evidence has reinforced that these ideas expressed in the writings of Ellington Darden and Arthur Jones were far ahead of their time. Richard decided to pursue his passion of helping people to achieve their optimal physical results by starting his own personal training business.

Richard is confident that these methods can help athletes young and old to maximize their performance, but for many of his clients their goal is to "age gracefully" ensuring that their physical independence is maintained well into their golden years.

This week Liam and Jesse are joined by Ninja Warrior Athlete recently turned Natural Bodybuilder, Verdale Benson.

Join us as we dig down into the details of training and nutrition for competition in Natural Bodybuilding.

We discuss such details as making weight, carb manipulation and macronutrient profiles.

Above all, we discuss the differences between training to be a competitive Ninja Warrior Athlete and training to be a Natural Bodybuilding Champion.

This week we are joined by our friend and professional colleague Logan Emmet Herlihy.

Logan is an evidence-based resistance exercise specialist, host of "The Discover Strength Podcast", published fitness author (www.how2lookgoodnaked.com), blogger, and online coach.

Join us as we hang out and talk shop with Logan as he shares his ideas and experience in the world of personal training, exercise coaching, and beyond.

This week our guest is Richard "RJ" Hicks. RJ is a strength coach with a Masters Degree in Exercise Science: Fitness and Performance, a B.S in health, exercise, and sports science, and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) with the NSCA.

RJ has worked as a strength coach at both the High School and college level including as Physical Training Director for the Corp of Cadets at The Citadel where he developed a new physical fitness program for the South Carolina Corp of Cadets for the 2014-2015 school year.

Since 2015, RJ has been actively working full time within the Airforce as well as working as a strength coach and personal trainer part time.

Among his many accomplishments RJ was a standout Division 1 wrestler with The Citadel.

This week join Liam, Jesse, and our newest strength coach Rosie as we discuss the importance of strength training during menopause.

Menopause is the most important time in a woman's life to do resistance exercise.

During the menopause years, women typically experience double the muscle loss of their younger years. Between the ages of 50 and 60, women can change from a half-pound average muscle loss per year to a one-pound average muscle loss per year (largely due to estrogen reduction). Bone loss follows a very similar pattern.

Strength training (along with sufficient sleep and protein intake) can help maintain and even increase muscle mass and bone density during this same time period.

At TNT Strength we recommend brief, intense, infrequent strength training workouts as the foundation of a total fitness program. This style of training is safe efficient and effective for everyone.

This week Liam and Jesse discuss what it means to strength train As safely and efficiently as possible. Join us as we dig into the details of strength training programing.

You will learn wow many sets to do, how many reps, and how often you need to strength train for optimal results.

Today we finally have a chance to sit down with our friend Strength Coach Erik McKay of No Bull Strength and Performance, Michigan. Erik has an incredible facility and years of real world coaching experience working with people of all ages and abilities.

Join us as we talk about Erik's thoughts on the "No Excuses" concept seen everywhere on social media.

We also dig into how No Bull Strength and Performance applies strength training safely and efficiently. The basis of their program is full-body high intensity training, which ensures maximum stimulation of all major musculatures of the body in a minimum amount of time.

The cornerstone of No Bull Strength And Performance intensity-based exercise is about finding the right amount of exercise the body needs to create positive adaptation (muscle growth, fat loss, strengthening of joints, etc.) It is not about doing countless sets of the same exercise or just moving through an exercise without purpose. In their programs, they make sure you are getting the most out of each set and each rep.

Finally, we wander off the path a bit to hear all about Erik's journey to lifting the legendary Dinnie Stones.

This week we are joined by our good friend and coach, Steve McKinney. Join us as we discuss simple strategies that may help us to reach our maximum potential as we age.

Steve feels in order to optimize our health as we age we must adhere to these four pillars of a healthy lifestyle: 1) get meaningful exercise with a focus on strength training, 2) enjoy restorative sleep, 3) follow a balanced personal eating plan which includes periods of caloric restriction, and 4) find some sort of spiritual practice or support community that works for you.

Between discipline, motivation, and habits, which one is the most important for your long-term fitness success?

James Clear, David Goggins, Tony Robbins, and many more offer their suggestions on this topic. In this episode Jesse and Liam break down the different schools of thought and give their opinions on what will work best for you.

In this week's solo round we join Liam and Jesse as they offer some brief and simple solutions that will help solve your one hour fitness problems in a matter of minutes.

Learn how to get all of your fitness components such as cardio, flexibility, & strength training all done in an hour or less per workout.

Learn how to easily incorporate stretching it into your existing strength training plan without adding any additional time to your routine.

Find out how to get maximum conditioning benefit with only 12-minutes of hard cardio at the end of your training day. Tune in to learn all of these things and more from Team TNT. Boom Baby!!