Garage Gym Athlete: From Our Athletes To Jocko Willink, Tim Ferriss, & Rich Froning There’s One Thing In Common: Garage Gym

How can your diet and making changes effect your testostrone. 

This week we are looking at a study comparing whey protein and vegan protein and if it has the same anabolic properties. They found the two proteins to be similar, but the most important thing is to focus on the amino acid profile.

Social media and fitness can be laughable with the die hards, influencers and endless "advice" out there. 

Back with another athletes interview. This one with Luis Garcia, he talks about he found accountably and a community to be part of.

Its time to think about weighloss and reaching your goal a bit differently. 

Ah the age old debate, are carbs to blame? calories? genetics? This week we look at a study that compared low carbs verses low calorie diets in weight loss. There is a lot to unpack here and first, everything with nutrition is individual to the person. So if one person said their advice fits all, they just walk away. We're not here to draw lines in the sand but give you the best advice that science and our own testing says.

How can being mobile improve your performance and even strength?

Recovery is something we cover a lot on this podcast because we know how important it is. We have covered a lot of different recovery techniques including cold immersion in the past. This study take another large look at cold immersion comparing it to other recovery techniques in strength, power and hypertrophy.

Were getting close to hotter weather, have you thougth about how the heat will affect your workouts?

How do you gain muscle without always having to do MORE volume or HEAVIER weight? Now, there's nothing wrong with heavy lifting and more volume, but sometimes those two things come at a cost. So what do we do when we still want to gain muscle but we don't want to beat our body up more? And can we do these things without having to change our program? All that in this episode!

This week we are looking at how music can effect the type of workout you are doing. 

Back again with more on Beets. If you have started using them now, what's stopping you? This time we are covering a systematic review on beets lookin gat strength and muscle hypertrophy. Beets are becoming one of the best supplements you can take for concurrent training. It's low risk, low cost, super easy.

If you are looking to change your health and nutrition the best you can do is work on your habits not necessairly the small details. 

Everybody wants to gain muscle and lose fat. But those are oppsing forces. But when losing fat you can still maintain muscle mass and not just waste away when losing weight. This episode we will go over a study that examined weight loss in women and not only preserving muscle mass but regaining weight after the loss because of the loss in fat free mass. 

This weeks study examined the timing and frequency at which you eat. There are a lot of opinions on meal timing and frequency, but do any even matter much?

This week we have on Paul. He has a great story on how he started his garage gym and built up the equipment in it. Then we talk about motivation and how to stay active.

We speak about the interference effect with concurrent training, but is it impacted differently at different fitness levels?

This week we are looking at a study that examines the effect on NSAIDS and hypertrophy. This actually looked at two different studies, one on young athletes another on older athletes. Then we talk more about inflammation ad recovery in training.

Another athlete interview, and this will be Tim's 3rd time on the podcast. Each time it's great to catch up with athletes and see how they have grown and changed with training and lift. Tim talks about his career switch going into active fire fighting, a grueling surfing story, and how he stays motivated.

Vegans can get flack for protein and lack of nutritnes. So how can they get the most from their strenght training?