Truth Not Trends

Most personal trainers have a passion for fitness, wellness, and working with people to help them hit their goals. To be a successful personal trainer, to reach more people and actually make a living doing this, you must learn to sell your services. This week Jesse and Liam help you learn to recognize some of the the main objections and excuses people have for not signing up for personal training. Join us as we discuss some of those top objections and insights into how to overcome them.

Over training is a problem for many athletes and non-athletes alike. It is not uncommon for people to under estimate the impact that intense and or frequent training sessions may have on their limited recovery resources.

Join us this week as we talk about developing training tolerances, detecting overtraining, physiological characteristics of overtraining, psychological characteristics of overtraining, responding to overtraining, and preventing overtraining.

In this week's SOLO ROUND Liam and Jesse discuss how to make sure that your exercise program is in shape.

Join us as we discuss training program variables such as intensity, frequency, and duration, how to ensure optimal recovery, what to look out for to avoid over-training, and much more!

Join us as we dive into such topics as Low-Carb eating and the management of Type 1 Diabetes, disordered eating, the high-quality micronutrient profile of pasture-raised meat, customizing eating plans to optimize health, and much more.

All of us want to look and feel our best, which is the main reason most people strength train. As summer approaches, many people's goals shift to aesthetics.

So whether it's for health reasons, or just to look and feel good, we want to give you our best advice on how to reach your summer goals.

In this solo round episode we dive deep on nutrition and also give guidelines on how to train intelligently to get lean and mean.

Our guests this week are Peter and Brian Collins.

The Collins brothers are are the co-owners of a personal training studio called Strength Therapy, situated in the Northeast of England. They have over 40 years of combined personal training experience. They have a thirst for research based training which has been heavily influenced by High Intensity Training principles.

They are also serving police officers and are keen to promote musculoskeletal health for emergency service personnel in addition to the general public and athletic populations.

Join us as we discuss how hey have put together arguably one of the best equipped strength training studios in the U.K. using equipment from Medx, Nautilus, Dynavec and Rogers Athletic.

Our TNT guest this week is Jeff Casebolt PhD.

Jeff is the Director of Biomechanical Research for Dynavec Multi-Directional Resistance Systems.

In this interview we discuss a broad array of interesting topics which include increasing function with strength training across all ages, lower body power development, injury mechanisms, and fall prevention among the elderly.

Our guest this week is strength and fitness legend Roger Schwab.

Roger has been a pioneer in weight training for decades. He was college football's first strength and conditioning coach (Penn State 1964-1965) and the man who introduced the Nautilus training and equipment system to Philadelphia in 1976.

Schwab was head judge of the International Federation of Bodybuilders from 1977 to 1982 and judged five Mr. and Ms. Olympia contests.

He has personally trained many of America's top athletes including U.S. Track Olympian Sydnee Maree, three-time U.S. Amateur Golf Champion Jay Sigel, U.S. Olympic Swim Coach George Haines (and his 1980 U.S. Women's Swim Team) and the 1984 Bronze medal U.S. Olympic Women's Field Hockey Team.

Roger Schwab gained national recognition from the medical community for his balanced approach to exercise in his book, Strength of a Woman – The Truth About Training the Female Body, published in 1997.

In this week's episode we are privileged to be joined by Dr. Sara Oikawa PhD.

Sara is a senior scientist at the Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI). Sara earned her honors Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology, Masters of Science in Kinesiology, and her Ph.D. in Kinesiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.

Dr. Oikawa's area of expertise is protein metabolism, exercise physiology, and resistance training exercise.

Our conversation focused on dietary protein quality and alterations in protein metabolism, specifically muscle protein synthesis, in both inactivity and resistance training models.

This week we are joined by our friend and mentor, Tom Kelso. Tom is a brilliant coach with years of experience at all levels of strength and conditioning coaching. This is Tom's second appearance on the TNT podcast after joining us way back in episode #10.

In resistance training there are many questions that need reasonable answers to help you design the best program to meet your strength training goals. Tom is an expert in finding these answers. Topics covered include: the neuromuscular system, chemical interactions in muscle contraction, energy systems and fatigue, genetic influences in strength training, skill training, and motivation factors.