This is part 1 of a 4-part series that will outline ‘The 4 Doctors’ as taught by Paul Chek. This episode will be all about Dr. Diet, how to figure out your individual needs, learn what works for you and learn how to listen to your body. By learning these things and putting them into practice, you will learn how to nourish yourself for optimal health, function and performance.
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With January 1st fast approaching, I want to share the 3-step approach to setting goals that has helped me over this past year. We’ve all been there - we set goals, we try our best for a few weeks and then we give up because we get frustrated. It’s happened to me too - a lot. But something changed during the summer of 2019. I finally acknowledged that my success depends on how consistently I can do the things that I need to do on a DAILY basis. Let me share how I arrived at this realization with this 3-step approach.
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2:30 - Lessons We’ve Learned From Leaning Out
13:00 - Defining Food Volume and Explaining it’s Importance
21:00 - Protein Intake MATTERS
26:30 - “Does a bigger calorie surplus equal faster muscle growth?”
36:00 - A Brief Technical Difficulty
39:00 - It’s a Long Term Game
42:00 - How to Calculate Your Maintenance Calories and Protein Requirements
48:00 - Experience > Theory
51:00 - “How can you eat (insert donuts or ice cream) and still be so lean?”
58:00 - Food is Meant to be Enjoyed
60:00 - Another Technical Difficulty. Thanks for Listening!
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4:00 - Tracking our training, food intake, finances, sleep and biz performance
12:00 - Tracking your training
17:00 - Tracking your food
25:00 - Tracking your finances
38:00 - Quality sleep is key
40:00 - The more you do it, the better you will get at it
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3:00 - Sharing my Staple Meals
8:30 - Essential Tools for Efficient Meal Prepping
10:00 - Sharing my Meal Prep Recipes
18:00 - Nobody’s Perfect Rant
26:30 - Grocery Store Tips
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1:00 - Intro
5:40 - Book Recommendations
12:00 - How I’m Getting Leaner
30:00 - How to Create a Mobility and Stretching Routine
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1:00 - Intro
2:30 - Asking for your help :)
7:00 - Lessons learned from tracking macros
14:00 - Food volume is key
20:00 - Weight will fluctuate
27:00 - How to calculate your starting macros
37:00 - Business for Unicorns
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1:00 - Intro / Show Breakdown
5:00 - Theo’s 6-Week Nutrition Challenge
17:00 - Hiring my Good Friend, Coach D
23:00 - My Mental Health in May
28:00 - Breaking Down Body Image
Read MoreOften times I get questions about meal timing, fasted training, going keto and many other minor items. Here's the thing - most of us (myself included) simply need to focus on a few major items.
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2:00 - My gameplan for April
3:30 - What is a high quality meal?
8:00 - It’s all about compliance and sustainability
14:00 - On cheat meals
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1:00 - Prioritize and focus on principles - not methods
3:00 - Is a body part split more effective than push, pull, legs for gaining strength and mass?
10:00 - Training principles that I focus on for myself and my clients
Read MoreIn this episode, I answer some questions regarding my favourite exercises for overall health and I share my philosophy and outlook on nutrition and movement variability and how that affects our performance inside and outside of the gym. I also share what I learned as a coach by having my clients push heavy ass sleds back and forth last week. Lastly, I talk about the importance of mastering the basics when you’re a beginner in the gym and how that will help you build a strong foundation so that you can continue to make progress for years to come.
Read MoreIn this episode, I deep dive on a set of listener questions based on strength training, how to establish and work towards certain goals, nutrient timing, supplementation and learning new skills. I am trying out a new format for this podcast and I think this will be very beneficial for my listeners. If you have a question or multiple questions, please send them over and I will dedicate a full episode to answering them.
Read MoreIn this episode, I share how I recover from my training through proper programming, sleep and nutrition. I dive into the importance of sleep and how it affects my performance in the gym but more importantly - outside of the gym. I also talk about what I’m currently doing for my training and how I am managing my recovery throughout the week.
Read MoreIn this episode, I share my experience with meal prepping and what I’ve learned over the last 8 years. Over the last 8 years, I’ve teared down the process to make it as efficient and effective as possible. This episode is for those who are looking to shake up their meal prep process or even for those who are looking to start cooking for themselves but don’t know how to begin.
Read MoreIn this episode, Coach D (@powerphysique) joins me and proceeds to drop knowledge bomb after knowledge bomb regarding training, coaching clients to successful transformations, how neurotyping has changed the way he trains and his biggest piece of advice for aspiring lifters and coaches. Do not sleep on this episode. I knew D was going to come on here and crush it and that is exactly what he did.
Read MoreI’ve been training myself for about 10 years now and I want to share 5 lessons that I had to learn the hard way so you don’t have to. Let’s get right into it…
Read MoreOur minds are unreliable, emotional and inconsistent. Numbers, statistics and photos provide hard, objective facts. As always, the best time to start was a year ago. The second best time to start is now.
Read MoreJD Roth absolutely stunned me when he said, "There is no way anyone is hungry enough to eat themselves to 400 lbs. Hunger pains are usually not due to hunger. Hunger is usually a result of emotional pain." I was in the middle of driving and I had to pull over to really absorb this statement. I had to write it down so I could revisit it when I had a chance to sit down and write about it. My mind was in shambles.
Read MoreThe most important aspect of training is very simple. It's not the amount of weight you do. It's not the sets and reps that you do. It's not the program you're on. It doesn't even matter if your coach is the best or just average. The most important part of training is your consistency.
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