0:14 Talking about maintenance 4:30 Changing goals during maintenance 6:03 How much weight gain to expect during maintenance 11:45 RP diet shows you how to eat sustainably 13:22 How does Mel recommend starting maintenance with clients 15:05 Mel's mega cheat meals 18:16 Don't choose extremely fast weight loss diets 20:35 How to reintroduce food after a cut 29:18 How long should maintenance last 33:03 Mel's current fat loss diet 40:30 Chronic dieting 46:31 Maintenance should be a time to have more fun 51:18 How to avoid eating food you don't actually want to eat 57:00 Dealing with hunger at the end of a cut

Why Maintenance is so DAMN Important

On the RP Strength Podcast, RP co-founders Dr Mike & Nick Shaw breakdown tons of hypertrophy training, nutrition, and other fitness related topics. As a bonus, you'll get plenty of laughs as they go down various tangents on every episode!

Nutrition

Health & Fitness

            RP Diet Coach app                           RP Hypertrophy App             0:50 Watching inappropriate movies w your parents 4:23 Dr. Nathan Jenkins smokes meats 8:10 Balancing alcohol and a healthy life 11:20 Working out with no music 15:22 Motivation in training 20:19 Pacing yourself 27:07 Long term thinking 29:55 Coaching is teaching 38:33 Meeting people where they are in their health journey 49:21 What makes a successful client 52:44 Rapid fire questions

Lessons From RP All-Star Coach Nathan Jenkins

0:27 Mike’s biggest adversary in middle School 1:30 Mike is starting prep 9:22 How do you know when its time to diet 10:45 High diet fatigue 15:29 extreme fatigue 16:36 Sleep troubles 24:41 Aversion to junk food 29:53 Momentum 33:36 Don’t like how you look after a mass 39:15 Health markers are bad 41:50 Don’t cut when beginning your  fitness journey 46:05 Don’t cut around major life events

When Is It Time To Diet?

            RP Diet Coach app                           RP Hypertrophy App             0:48 Endurance expert Alex Harrison 1:55 His app for endurance athletes 4:15 What is a “long” endurance activity 7:48 Do you need nutrients in endurance activities 11:07 What should you be intaking 14:43 What do people get wrong 20:21 Anti water people exist 25:44 Dealing with pain in endurance sports 29:17 Endurance athlete diets 33:57 The 1500m race is the hardest thing to do 37:55 Why you might want to try endurance sport 44:09 Nutrition dogma among runners 52:08 Fan culture in running 54:50 Power to weight ratio 56:30 310 mile bike race horror story

Fueling For Endurance Sport With Alex Harrison

            RP Diet Coach app                           RP Hypertrophy App               0:18 Nick has a good joke 1:14 When Nick and Mike got fat 2:28 Body fat role in health 5:22 25 Percent body fat (males) 9:04 20 Percent body fat 9:55 10 to 20 Percent body fat 13:30 Sub 10 perecent 19:42 Nick’s competition history 21:44 40 percent body fat (females) 22:41 30- 40 percent body fat 25:45 20-20 percent 27:37 Discussions of body fat in media 29:20 15 -20 perecent 35:53 Contest prep effects on women 41:25 Next gen obesity drugs

How Does body fat percentage affect health?

            RP Diet Coach app                           RP Hypertrophy App             1:13 Mike starting contest prep 2:53 Should you stretch 12:17 What supplements are worth it 26:18 General health supplements 27:28 Why are deloads on maintenance calories 36:51 Why bother thinking so much about training

Why Maintenance is so DAMN Important

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