Garage Gym Athlete

This week we are doing somethign different and going over a peer reviewed opinion paper but this made for a very good discussion. How misinformation and disinformation in the health and fitness community is hurting it.

How does nitric oxide effect strength?

We talk about how important protein is and do protein and water challenges. So how can you hit your daily protein?

Egg whites have been popular for a long time, but should have just have been eating the whole egg the entire time?

Do you workout fasted? Or have a preworkout meal?

This week we are talking with long time athlete Richie Boardman. He tells us how his garage gym got started, why finding a training group is so important, and accountability.

This is a new way to do our new cycle webinar. You will get an overview on our programming, how we program, the goals of each track and even a birds eye view at each training track for next cycle

If your stressful or intensive job effecting your workout perforance?

This week the team is talking about how we reduce soreness and what we do on the days we are very sore.

Anti inflammatories and pain killers can only help you recover and workout more right?.... WRONG.

How do your approach recovery?

Athlete interviews are back! This week we have Mark Bishop. Long time athlete first time guest and we have a lot of great things we talk about. Training in the elements, finding your tribe, and getting workouts done with lots of travel.

Lets talk more about supplements. Do they really help with soreness?

Wondering why you seem Tumric all over the place for supplmentation? does it really help with recovery?

Have you been looking for the SECRET to recovering after workouts? Supplements? Nutrition? We have your top 3 tips for recovery.

This week we are talking about learning and failure. What is the optimal failure and stress to properly learn and grow?

We want to get better and increase our performance, but the long game is more important.

Should you always give full effort every workout? Or do you need to dial it back? How sustainable is your workout program? If you have been hitting a wall you need this episode.

We talk about the importance of sleep a lot and we don't plan on stopping, thats how important it is. This weeks study was done on mice and tumor grown, showing that disrupted sleep more than tripled sizes of tumors. Then we talk about the best sleep practices.

Hydration is one of the most important things you should be on top of. But how individual should you make it for YOU?

We get a lot of questions about Vo2 Max, so just how important is it? How much should your pay attention to it? And what factors effect it?

This study was a systematic review on how strength training can make you much healthier and lower your rise for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and even some cancers. doing strength AND conditioning more than doubled those results, aka concurrent training.

We dont encorage a lot of supplementation, but fish oil is one we do get behind. BUT, to what end?

Most of us workout alone, in our garages/homes and it can be an adjustment to stay driven and motivated.

Weight loss will never not be talked about and debated. This study aimed to compare which type of bread was better for weight loss but really they were just proving how important fiber is.

We get asked a lot about rest times in our programming if they are not listed. Here is another study we have covered on how you should approach your rest times.

Losing weight can seem like a very daunting task and overwhelming with the amount of information there is. Well Jerred is here to talk about how your mindset should be toward it.

This weeks study we take a bit of a detour and talk about the uses of foam rolling and why you should do it. Spoiler, its not to enhance performance.

This week we are helping you to get better by not getting worse!

Jerred gives three tips on how to workout when you JUST dont feel like it.

Were always trying to test the boundaries of concurrent training and learn more. This study examines how explosive strength is immediately after a HIIT session. Its not surprise that power is effected, but how much?

When should you be lifting to failure or leaving reps in reserve?

We have broken down energy systems straining, but how should you apply them to your training? How should you attack these and distribute these in your pogromming?

We don't take a lot of supplements here, but we do like to dive into the research because athletes ask a lot about them. Beta alanine is marketed a lot to strength athlete, but does it actually help with strength and lifting? Or is it better for endurance?

Dynamic liting is often the missing element in alot of strength programs. But how do you know when you are being dynamic and losing velocity?

We are all about getting better and there is a learning curve to everything. So how do you get better and develop new skills, especially when working out at home alone?

This study was simple, straight forward but so important. The glute is such an important and sometimes neglected muscle when it comes to strength and power. This study and another shows how just adding some glute activation exercises and increase your performance.

Fatloss needs patience, everybody wants those results fast. But how fast is too fast?

In our program we have what's called the "daily" which is basically the core. Since the core is so important to everything you do and goes way beyond sit ups. So where we talk about 4 core exercises you need to be doing in your program.

This is a classic episode and one of the top episodes we tell all athlte to listen to. If you have heard us talk about zone 2 training or seen it in our programming, this episode is the origin of all of that.

Should you wear knee sleeves or knee wraps? What do they ACTUALLY do?

**check this out on our YouTube to see the template** We did one week detailed breakdown for concurrent training, now we show you how we play a single month of concurrent training.

This week we actually had some issues with the study on a long term and health basis. So we say needs to be said about the volume you are lifting while you are trying to cut or lose weight and preserve muscle mass.

everybody wants the unicorn approach to figtness, lose fat and gain muscle. Well how can you do that? Can you get stronger while in a caloric deficit?

Strict press can be one of the hardest movements to improve on and one that a lot of athletes struggle to increase. Here to talk about out TOP 4 tips to incase your press.

This week we are looking at a study on motivation, intrinsic motivation verses extrinsic an creating autonomous athletes. This is great from a coaching perspective but also for athletes.

We talk about nutrition a lot on here, but what is clean eating? what should you be eating? Why?

On to our last energy system, the phosphagen energy system. This one is all about power and max effort. Many athlete will do these and feel they havnt done much work or was very hard because the work to rest ratios are so high. Check out this video for more on that and how to program it.

These webinars are good for current and new athlete. Here we break down each training track we have and what the focus will be for the next 12 weeks. This is also how we deliver big updates and reminders to things we have going on.

Nutrition study! We dont get a lot of these but when we do we are always excited and this one is especially good. It trys to define what clean eating is.