Eat Train Prosper

In this episode, we discuss recent blood work results and concerns about Aaron’s genetic predisposition markers. We share our experiences with traditional doctors and the challenges we faced to find a healthcare professional who understands both our fitness and medical needs. We underscore the importance of understanding our bodies and being proactive with our health, including preventative testin...

Over the past few months we have been loosely flirting with some of our own more recent experiences with incorporating cardiovascular training into our predominant resistance training. With this episode Bryan walks us through the two “zones” of cardiovascular training you may wish to consider incorporating and how to most-optimally incorporate these types of sessions whilst minimally impacting the...

This week we cover the ironic timing of lower body injuries we both sustained this past week and our immediate action plans for making the best of the situations. After that we round out the remaining questions from last week’s January Q&A episode. Instagram Questions: When doing cardio, should I do it by minutes or calories burned? How will this new approach to “cardio for healthspan” play in...

Today we have the first episode of our Instagram Q&A series for 2023. We cover a number of different topics ranging from low calorie sauces for dieting, to spotting poorly designed training programs, and what the best reasoning would be for a DB chest fly vs a seated machine fly. Next week we will cover Part 2! Instagram Questions: What are good upper body exercises on the Smith machine? Are S...

Today we talk about the “Prosper” leg of ETP. As entrepreneurs in the health and fitness space, we have had our high’s, our low’s and everything in between. We know that many of you listeners are also coaches in this space, and hopefully by us sharing some insight into our journey’s thus far (both the good and the bad) we can provide helpful insight for navigating the rough patches along your jour...

Research has dramatically helped to drive the industry forward over the last 10+ years. Thanks to this research we now feel quite confident about some things, such as longer rest periods are better for hypertrophy, frequency is mostly a means of partitioning volume etc…  But there are many studies which have extremely small effect sizes or state conclusions where it doesn’t seem to matter what we...

In our first episode of 2023 we take the high road on typical January first nutrition advice. After covering some year end updates and some of our own personal outlooks for 2023, we detail one training question: “Any reasoning (practical or theoretical) for why certain rep ranges would work better for shortened vs lengthened movements?”, before diving into our less commonly discussed approaches fo...

After a week off, we have a number of big updates. Bryan discusses new programs starting in January on “Bryan’s Program” as well as new cycles across the Paragon family of programs. Then Aaron drops an amazing new service/product he’s been working on with Jackson Peos.  The main topic for the day is a review of some things we’ve changed our minds on this last year. These are not necessarily things...

Today’s episode is on the topic of taking an Individualized approach to optimizing your own nutrition. Within the personal pursuit of optimizing you may very likely find that certain approaches might end up being different from the generally recommended “population level” averages or suggestions even from meta analyses and systematic reviews. These help us provide great places to start, but you li...

This is a discussion around training volume (and effort) with a twist. Instead of looking at it from the perspective of trying to MAXIMIZE gains, what if we look at it from the viewpoint of “minimum effective volume?” (the least you can do to still make progress over time). Or to take it even further, the “maintenance volume” (where you would not gain or lose muscle). Does the literature provide u...

It is our Monthly Instagram Q&A episode! Today’s episode is PART 2 of two parts this month. This is definitely one of the most fun episodes we record each month and look forward to helping our listeners better understand various principles within the health, training, and nutrition space. We hope you learned something new this month! Instagram Questions: 1. For shortened biased exercise, is it...

It is our Monthly Instagram Q&A episode! Today’s episode is PART 1 of two parts this month. This is definitely one of the most fun episodes we record each month and look forward to helping our listeners better understand various principles within the health, training, and nutrition space. We hope you learned something new this month! Instagram Questions: 1. What are your eating styles? How hav...

This week we invite our friend Adam Neth onto the podcast! We dig into Adam’s background a little bit and the evolution of mentors and sources he has found useful to get him to where he’s at. We touch on Adam’s decision to go all-in on himself and build out a private training studio in his garage during recent uncertain times, and then we jump into a conversation around Natural Hypertrophy, and ho...

Today, we have the frontman of the Elevated Coaching System, coach Jeremiah Bair to talk about misconceptions, uses, and misuses of Reverse Dieting. The idea behind this episode came from receiving numerous questions and inquiries in response to the Stronger By Science episode titled “Stretch-Mediated Hypertrophy and Reverse Dieting.” Where Eric Trexler and Greg Nuckols discuss what the current bo...

Today on the podcast we are discussing arguments both FOR and AGAINST placing an emphasis on biomechanics in your training and programming. There are a lot of discussions surrounding biomechanics as it is a super hot topic right now. We found that many of the discussions were one-sided and didn’t quite portray both sides of the arguments equally. So that is exactly what we decided to try and do to...

What are our all-time favorite movements for each muscle group and why? It’s been a while since we covered something like this back in episode #70 which was our favorite supersets per body part. So this one will be a little different. This is a banger of an episode that will be very informative. We cover our favorites, why each is our favorite, and then for most situations provide a secondary for...

The monthly Instagram Q&A episode is here for October. We had a lot of fun running through these questions and were really able to provide quality contextual feedback and solutions to the following questions. During reverse, cals go up, and cardio down. Increase cals fast or weekly? Is this good? Opinion on interset stretching How do I know that I’m recovered for a specific body part? What do...

In this episode, we discuss rep ranges for hypertrophy. So long as you are training hard do they even matter? Some people will say they do not matter. However, here on Eat Train Prosper, it’s quite clear that making blanket statements isn’t how we do things. So we cover the commonly bracketed rep ranges, the pros and cons for each and in what circumstances we think the rep ranges matter in pursuit...

Following up on episode #86 from last week looking back through the years of our time spent lifting weights, this week we have a very similar episode but instead covering what our nutrition has looked like throughout different phases. I think this episode can be of a lot of help to see that we both had large periods of where our nutrition was far from perfect and how we evolved independently to fi...

If you could do the training career all over again, with your current knowledge, how would you do it? A deep, thought-provoking question that had been sent in that we wanted to give a full episode to cover in depth. We are definitely in the midst of a very interesting time in the world of lifting weights and the minds and science being given to training. Looking back on 20+ years spent training, h...

This week we have part 2 of our August Instagram Q&A that we didn’t quite have enough time to cover last week. Covered in this part two follow-up: 1. Is there evidence suggesting that some whole foods are better than shakes? 2. Thoughts on nutrition protocol for high school wrestlers? 4 months of 1.5% BW loss per week. 3. During bulk do we need to decrease fibre from fruits/veggies because of...

The (mostly) monthly Instagram Q&A episode is here for August. We had a lot of fun running through these questions and were really able to provide quality contextual feedback and solutions to the following questions. Have you tried the lengthened drop sets as their own set? i.e. taking a full rest before the set?  5 weeks post cut, 12 lbs up, but can't lose weight on lowest calories of cu...

This week on the podcast we have Milo Wolf. Milos is currently in the process of completing his PhD in Range of Motion for Hypertrophy. This is a very hot topic right now in the lifting world and what an opportunity we have to talk with someone so well versed in the specifics of the current literature around this. Listen up if you’re looking to improve optimality in your quest for gains. Thanks fo...

During this week’s episode, we cover details about our own personal nutrition and training-related periodizations. Diets are ending, outlooks for upcoming training programs, and what we are excited to explore with these. If you would like an inside look into what and why we are planning for ourselves this episode is for you.  Thanks for listening Coaching with Aaron ⬇️ https://strakernutritionco.c...

In today’s episode Bryan and Aaron have an honest conversation about some of the ambiguity sometimes found even in evidence-based research info. Specifically, surrounding the stimulating/effective reps model for hypertrophy. It appears that multiple experts looking at the same exact data sets will come to varying versions of conclusions. Which can then become very confusing for the lifters and hyp...