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Today Lawrence is looking at a big question. What does it actually take to become a successful personal trainer? From the outside it looks easy. Work when you want and make a packet just showing people what to lift or what cardio machines to run. The reality couldn't be further from the truth. So what do you need to do? 0508: Hard, smart work. 0629: Continued professional development. 0752: Get good at personal training first. 0922: Have a client centred focus. 1039: People skills. 1152: View your first few years as an apprenticeship. Now, if you're thinking about starting your journey to becoming a PT, what should you do? 1310: Start helping. 1350: Get yourself qualified. 1431: Invest in learning. 1447: Start loving the process. While you're listening you can find SBS on Instagram and Snapchat @ShredByScience, the Judd is @LozJudd on Snapchat and @SBS_Lawrence on Instagram.

The Ginger Ninja and Harry Squatter  The Punisher are back for another Fireside Chat! Lawrence and Patrick take on the big topic of - Common Mistakes With Programme Design. 0351: What are your trouble shooting steps when a lift has plateaued for someone who has the goal of gaining strength? 1033: Additionally, what are some common mistakes you see when people design their own programmes? 1932: What are some things to do when I've plateaued? I've lost 50lbs, but I'm stuck at 295lbs. 2434: Can you discuss the pros and cons of taking a flexible approach to training and dieting? 2937: Where do you see technology, wearable or otherwise, going in relation to the fitness industry? While you're listening you can find SBS on Instagram and Snapchat @ShredByScience, the Judd is @LozJudd on Snapchat and @SBS_Lawrence on Instagram. If you're interested in the SBS Academy you can get more information and sign up for early bird offers below. http://shreddedbyscience.com/academy/

Lawrence and Patrick are back to answer your questions once again. Lawrence is pretty buzzed as he's been taking cold medicine, so it adds a nice extra level of excitement. 03:46 What are your thoughts on the benefits of cardio on overall health? 11:35 Will a sedentary person and a person actively resistance training get the same benefit from adding cardio to their life? 13:35 Is there a disadvantage to not taking complete days off? 19:40 When in a calorie surplus phase do you employ any tactics to prevent fat gain? 25:34 I'd like to know about recoverable volume. How do you know when you're at the right level for you? 29:51 If a client is looking to drop a weight class should you look to do it towards the beginning or the end of the training cycle? 37:36 How many exercises/sets would you go for if you were doing three full body workouts a week on an eight-week cycle?  While you're listening you can find SBS on Instagram and Snapchat @ShredByScience, the Judd is @LozJudd on Snapchat and @SBS_Lawrence on

Harry Squatter and The Ginger Ninja throw down in this episode and take on some more of your questions. 02:32: If you had 5-10 minutes to spend on mobility every day, how would you program it? 05:20: Do you have a set plan for the year? Do you give yourself a periodisation schedule? 08:25: Is there a point at which someone powerlifting should consider a training block focused on hypertrophy? 12:50: How do you approach powerlifting meets in terms of attempt selection for your clients? 12:59: How does this differ to your own approach? 13:34: Do you change based on the individual client? 13:50: How do you approach a meet if you won't physically be there? 31:47: Which of the main variations of lifts do you prefer for improving strength or breaking a plateau? While you're listening you can find SBS on Instagram and Snapchat @ShredByScience, the Judd is @LozJudd on Snapchat and @SBS_Lawrence on Instagram. If you're interested in the SBS Academy you can get more information and sign up for early bird offers bel

Welcome to this episode of SBS Radio! Today Lawrence is joined by Dr Mike Zourdos and Eric Helms as they discuss Stress, Exercise Oncology and RPE-Velocity Relationships. 01:51: Cardiovascular Reactivity, Stress and Physical Activity. 07:42: Your body will mediate the stressor effect of exercise.  10:46: Is there any data for a similar effect on psychology? 13:00: How has our understanding of stress developed? 18:10: How obesity affects the stress response. 22:00: How does exercise compare as a stressor to general daily obesity stressors? 26:55: What needs to be researched further for a clearer picture on exercise and stress? 29:20: Why is resistance training useful during cancer treatment? 32:24 The current recommendations for cancer sufferers. 41:25: In the context of excersise oncology, how do you figure out what training should be specific to? 43:55 Would you be willing to speculate as to any other disease states that would a flexible DUP model would be appropriate for? 47:45: Eri

Lawrence and Luke are joined by Heather J Wynn. Heather has been part of the fitness industry for over 17 years now  Heather talks about her career progression and how she realised that someone's level of fitness or body appearance wasn't as important as their self-esteem and self-worth. A couple of times something happens with Luke's audio. Lawrence forgot to mute his when Luke was talking, so sorry about that. You can find Heather around online: Facebook: www.facebook.com/Heather-J-Wynn-1628134340746249/ Twitter: www.twitter.com/hjfitness Instagram: www.instagram/com/hjcoaching You can also find Heather's podcast Mindset Mastery: itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/mindset-mastery/id1076192757?mt=2# And don't forget to check out Heather's book, Enough Already: Finding Happiness Now in a World Which Wants to Sell You Perfection Later.  While you're listening you can find SBS on Instagram and Snapchat @ShredByScience, the Judd is @LozJudd on Snapchat and @SBS_Lawrence on Instagram. If you're

Lawrence is once again flying solo.  This episode is a quickfire selection of tips for Personal Trainers. They've been on the SBS Facebook page, but Facebook's algorithm means you might have missed a few. So for those of you who may have missed them, Lawrence is about to whisper some wonderful tips into your ears. 01:53: Use cloud storage. 03:11: Create nice looking training plans. 05:22: It's all about client consultations. 08:05: Employ different methods of progressive overload. 10:43: How skill and motivation should affect your coaching. 12:53: The transtheoretical model of change. 14:40: Have a strategy to deal with clients who aren't making progress. 18:53: Structure check ins. 21:50: Call exercises pre-gressions, not re-gressions. 23:36: Never marry one approach. While you're listening you can find SBS on Instagram and Snapchat @ShredByScience, the Judd is @LozJudd on Snapchat and @SBS_Lawrence on Instagram. If you're interested in the SBS Academy you can get more information and sign up for early

In this episode of SBS Radio Lawrence is joined by Kris and Will. Kris and Will work for Beyond The Ultimate, the company behind 4 gruelling 230-250km Ultra Marathons across Desert, Tundra, Jungles and Mountains. As well as being an SBS Academy lecturer, Kris King is the Race Director for Beyond the Ultimate and Will Roberts works in content production. The two decided to document the journey of Kris training a novice from scratch to one of the Beyond the Ultimate Ultra Marathons. Will became that novice. 02:55 - Why Will? 05:40 - How on Earth do you train someone with literally no experience for one of the toughest races in the world? 08:06 - How do you work with the distance progressions? We're talking 230 kilometres. 09:21 - How have you managed to balance long training times around a full time day job? 10:47 - What's been the hardest part of training so far? 14:14 - Was there any part you thought would be difficult, but wasn't as bad as you thought it'd be? 15:36 - How long does this race u

It's a huge episode today for SBS. The LJs are together to tackle the question of what you should be doing in a chain gym to stand out from the crowd. Listen up. This is really important stuff you can't afford to miss. While you're listening you can find SBS on Instagram and Snapchat @ShredByScience, the Judd is @LozJudd on Snapchat and @SBS_Lawrence on Instagram. If you're interested in the SBS Academy you can get more information and sign up for early bird offers below. http://shreddedbyscience.com/academy/ ---- This episode was originally broadcast on September 30th 2016

The Juddernaught and The Ginger Ninja are coming at you once again with your questions from the Eat, Train, Progress Facebook Group. With our new improved timestamping you can leap ahead to each of these great questions. 04:02 If you had to bet on one common belief in the evidence based fitness community being wrong, what would it be? 20:57 What are you top five go to resources for training and nutrition? 31:58 What would you say is the biggest differentiating factor between a powerlifting/strength program and a bodybuilding/hypertrophy program - assuming when the big three - squats, bench and deadlift - are programmed into each? 37:45 What do you eat in a day and how do you make those food decisions? Do you have any weird food habits? 43:04 BONUS How Lawrence brews coffee. While you're listening you can find SBS on Instagram and Snapchat @ShredByScience, the Judd is @LozJudd on Snapchat and @SBS_Lawrence on Instagram. If you're interested in the SBS Academy you can get more information and sign up for early

In this episode of Shredded By Science Radio Lawrence is joined by the man himself, Luke Johnson. Lawrence turns his usual wonderful interview charm to the man who knows more about online coaching than virtually anyone and gets some golden nuggets of information back for it. Here are the questions if you want to skip ahead! 03:16 What made you want to do natural bodybuilding?  05:53 How are you finding working with Eric Helms and being on the other side of the PT/Client relationship? 07:12 What did 3DMJ do to make you feel so welcome? 11:58 Can you talk us the Skype consultation when you start training with SBS? 22:34 In person trainers are used to selling blocks of sessions. What do you recommend for online? 27:42 Talking about analysis forms, what's the basics you'd recommend? 31:16 Once you have all the information and have created the program how do you recommend keeping things up to date for your clients? 39:37 Has Instagram Stories killed Snapchat? While you're listening you can find SBS

Lawrence and Luke are joined by another SBS Elite member in this episode. Mike Waywell has been in sport his whole life, including playing Rugby professionally and owning a gym.  Today Mike is talking to the LJs about group training and its benefits.  You can find Mike online:  www.steelhabitat.co.uk Instagram @Steelhabitat While you're listening you can find SBS on Instagram and Snapchat @ShredByScience, the Judd is @LozJudd on Snapchat and @SBS_Lawrence on Instagram. If you're interested in the SBS Academy you can get more information and sign up for early bird offers below. http://shreddedbyscience.com/academy/ ---- This episode was originally broadcast on June 27th 2016

In this episode Lawrence is joined by Darko Botic. His story is incredible and we are so grateful he shared it with us. We're trying something new, so for the first time we'll be timecoding each question Lawrence asks. If you like it, let us know on your favourite social media! Darko tells us when he realised he was about to die: 01:58 Lawrence asks how it felt to see the scale that high: 07:00 Lawrence asks what made Darko turn to lifting: 08:47 Darko tells us what was it like lifting for the first time: 10:11 Lawrence asks did it help not having a target weight:15:07 What did Darko's regime look like, aside from the lifting? 16:21 Lawrence asks was the almost self-punishing training Darko took on an extension of internal feelings: 24:05 Darko's attitude towards himself has changed and improved. What about other people's?: 27:09 With what Darko's gone through, does he think that his maintenance calorie input is different to someone else his weight? 29:11 Has Darko's self indentity ch

In this episode Lawrence is joined by the man behind Sigma Nutrition himself, Danny Lennon. The two talk all about the best ways to cut weight, and how you can do it safely. Subscribe to Sigma Nutrition Radio here. And you can find Danny online at www.SigmaNutrition.com While you're listening you can find SBS on Instagram and Snapchat @ShredByScience, the Judd is @LozJudd on Snapchat and @SBS_Lawrence on Instagram. If you're interested in the SBS Academy you can get more information and sign up for early bird offers below. http://shreddedbyscience.com/academy/  _____ The music in this episode was:  "Volatile Reaction" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 

Lawrence and Patrick are back in the first Fireside Chat of 2017. It gets a bit personal this time as questions with more scientific and definite answers are pushed aside for a few questions that get responses that are bit more personal from the two guys. While you're listening you can find SBS on Instagram and Snapchat @ShredByScience, the Judd is @LozJudd on Snapchat and @SBS_Lawrence on Instagram. You can find Patrick on Instagram, too @EatTrainProgress. _____ The music in this episode was: "Volatile Reaction" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Lawrence is bursting into 2017 waving a banner to gather the fitness industry and lifestyle around him to lay down his 6 Ideas That Need To Die In 2017. Lawrence is joined by a whole host of guests this episode and it's packed full of insight. Let us know what you think of this clip style of podcast on Twitter or Instagram! While you're listening you can find SBS on Instagram and Snapchat @ShredByScience, the Judd is @LozJudd on Snapchat and @SBS_Lawrence on Instagram. If you're interested in the SBS Academy you can get more information and sign up for early bird offers below. http://shreddedbyscience.com/academy/  _____ The music in this episode was:  "Volatile Reaction" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 

This week we're sliding out a record from the vaults, dusting it off and gently laying into onto the record player of the Internet. ___ Lawrence is joined by special guest Adam Ali in this episode of SBS Radio. Adam is the head badass at Physiqonomics.   The two chat about Confirmation Bias, Cognitive Dissonance and Ketogenic Dieting. There's also a quick bit on No-cebos. You've heard of placebos, this is the opposite.  While you're here, don't forget to head on over to the SBS Academy. http://shreddedbyscience.com/academy/ Don't click out of that browser yet though, you can catch Adam online at: http://physiqonomics.com/ facebook.com/physiqonomics And on Instagram and Snapchat as @Physiqonomics  _____ The music in this episode was:  "Volatile Reaction" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 

To kick off the New Year Lawrence is joined by the hero of spreadsheet lovers everywhere, Bryce Lewis. The two talk about how you should plan training long term. As they both love lifting heavy things then putting them down again there is a bit of a focus on powerlifting. While you're listening you can find SBS on Instagram and Snapchat @ShredByScience, the Judd is @LozJudd on Snapchat and @SBS_Lawrence on Instagram. If you're interested in the SBS Academy you can get more information and sign up for early bird offers below. http://shreddedbyscience.com/academy/  _____ The music in this episode was:  "Volatile Reaction" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 

Back for the first time in a long time, HRH ESG is back. Lawrence and Emma have a lovely catch up then talk about Breast Cancer, how it's different to other Cancers then they take a look at the importance of exercising and Breast Cancer. While you're listening you can find SBS on Instagram and Snapchat @ShredByScience, the Judd is @LozJudd on Snapchat and @SBS_Lawrence on Instagram. If you're interested in the SBS Academy you can get more information and sign up for early bird offers below. http://shreddedbyscience.com/academy/  _____ The music in this episode was:  "Volatile Reaction" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 

The week before last we brought a pod out from the vaults and this episode we're bringing you its brother from exactly the same mother. -- Part two of the What Is Exercise Good For Apart From Looking Good series is all about the C word. Lawrence and Emma tackle the very serious topic, looking at what specialists in the field have to say on the matter. Emma mentions Anna Campbell, cancer exercise expert: scientist, lecturer, trainer in exercise and cancer survivorship, you can follow her on Twitter here https://twitter.com/canrehab. And you can find Emma's Sassology page on Facebook here https://www.facebook.com/groups/922130934543373/?fref=ts While you're listening you can find SBS on Instagram and Snapchat @ShredByScience, the Judd is @LozJudd on Snapchat and @SBS_Lawrence on Instagram. If you're interested in the SBS Academy you can get more information and sign up for early bird offers below. http://shreddedbyscience.com/academy/  _____ The music in this episode was:  "Volatile Rea