Choose Hard with Cody McBroom

Today’s guest is the training legend, Todd Durkin! If you’re a personal trainer or coach that has been in the game for longer than a few years, you likely know who Todd is. And if you don’t... go do your research!   He’s a CSCS trainer, owner of Fitness 10 (notorious gym in San Diego), coach to NFL Champions, X-Games and Olympic Gold Medalists, and so much more. But he’s also someone who has and c...

Today, I do a deep dive into my favorite macro.... CARBS! Tune in and learn the top 7 things you need to know about carbs (and why you shouldn’t neglect them).   Topics Covered:   Carbs and hormonal output Carbs boost muscle growth Carbs reduce stress Carbs can help sleep Carbs are harder to store as body fat Carbs and micronutrients Carbs ARE your fuel source   THINGS MENTIONED:   - 7 Things You...

Today’s Q&A Podcast is brought to you by The Boom Boom Elite! The ONLY membership site that provides periodized, result-based, training programs EVERY single day AND educates you on how they’re built. To get access to programs, coaching, and the Elite Community –  CLICK HERE NOW .  Topics Covered: 3:10 - Photo Shoot Prep Recap and New Goal Being Set 34:30 - Could creatine supplementation lead...

Grab Your Copy of "Built For You: The Autoregulated and Self-Individualized Hypertrophy Training Program" RIGHT HERE =>  https://bbp.securechkout.com/builtforyou Sale Price Available ONLY This Week (9/9-9/15) Today I have my close friend and mentor, Jason Phillips. Jason runs NCI (Nutritional Coaching Institute), iN3 (Coaching), and The All iN Mastermind (biz development), successfully. He’s be...

Grab Your Copy of "Built For You: The Autoregulated and Self-Individualized Hypertrophy Training Program" RIGHT HERE =>  https://bbp.securechkout.com/builtforyou Sale Price Available ONLY This Week (9/9-9/15) Topics Covered: - Programming A Full Body Plan The Pro’s of Full Body Training Is The Hormonal Effect of Full Body Effort Legit? Movement Patterns > Body Parts Exercise Selection and Va...

Today’s Q&A Podcast is brought to you by The Boom Boom Elite! The ONLY membership site that provides periodized, result-based, training programs EVERY single day AND educates you on how they’re built. To get access to programs, coaching, and the Elite Community –  CLICK HERE NOW .  Topics Covered: - Talking about Built For You, The New Ebook Training Program - First off man just gotta say than...

Today’s episode is with Greg Potter - Sleep Scientist! Greg has his PhD in circadian biology, sleep, diet and metabolism, while also having his MSc in exercise physiology. In other words, he’s the absolute best person to discuss how sleep improves body comp, productivity, and performance with! Check him out on twitter and Instagram at @GDMPotter - Come to our LIVE Podcast Q&A, in Seattle with...

Today’s Podcast is ALL About Building Muscle! Learn the in’s and out’s of how you need to design your nutrition plan for maximal muscle growth. COVERED TODAY: Calories Protein Carbs and Fats Digestive System Watch this on YouTube, RIGHT HERE . Check out The Nutrition For Fat Loss Series, HERE . ---- Apply For Coaching:  bit.ly/Coaching-App   Get Your  Free Copy of The Nutrition Hierarchy, HERE Lea...

Today’s Q&A is brought to you by The Boom Boom Elite - Our membership platform where we provide daily training, weekly education, and constant access to science driven and application based coaching. Join The Elite, Now. ---- QUESTIONS ANSWERED: 1:15- 4 meals per day or 5? With 5 I feel they’re super close, with 4 they’re more spread out but I’m adding 45g of fat in a single meal to hit my tar...

Today’s Guest is Gut Health Specialist from Renaissance Periodization, Dr. Gabrielle Fundaro - who is, in my opinion, the leading educator in the gut health space because she not only has scientific backing behind her name and ideologies… but she tells nothing but the blunt truth! Which is unfortunately rare in the fitness and nutrition field, as well as in the gut health space. Find her on instag...

Today we dive into ALL THINGS Nutrition! Topics Discussed: 10:30 - I’m 54, 6’ and 205. Would like to get down to 185 – most of that coming from my midsection. After listening to you for some time, I’ve split up my workouts to upper and lower on different days and added more sets. I was just doing a full body workout twice a week with only 1 set per exercise. I do cardio the day before and after th...

Today I stole the show! Literally, took the episode from my friend Matt McCloud’s show and threw it in our library so that you could listen, learn, and understand a bit more how my mind works outside of training, nutrition, and coaching. Really enjoyed this convo and I think you will too! Check out Matt on instagram @mattmccloud and his podcast, where he interviews a lot of really great names in t...

Today is the LAST episode of the Individual Training Design Series! We’re diving into Exercise Sequencing, which is the part where we actually put it all together and help you design an actual training session, start to finish.  To Get Your Training "Done For You" (and Learn HOW), Join The Elite: www.boomboomperformance.com/elite Watch this Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fsjuFpfUSCg    ----...

Today’s Q&A Podcast is about ALL THINGS TRAINING! I decided to pick out the top training questions received this week and go off that. Next week will be nutrition focused! As such, this episode is brought to you by The Boom Boom Elite! The ONLY membership site that provides periodized, result-based, training programs EVERY single day AND educates you on how they’re built. To get access to prog...

Today’s guest is the one and only, Hypertrophy Coach, Joe Bennett. Joe is very well known in the industry for being one of the most sought after coaches for pure muscle growth. He has a wide variety of certifications under his belt, ton of real world experience as both a coach and an athlete, and has rubbed shoulders with some of the top names in the industry. It was an absolute pleasure having Jo...

Now we start putting the pieces together to create SUCCESS within our training! This is part 4 of the 5-part ‘Individual Training Design’ Series! Today we dive deep into Progression, Periodization, and Effort (RPE/RIR). Watch to this on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/boomboomperformance Checkout Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 . To Get Your Training "Done For You" (and Learn HOW), Join The Elite:...

Today… I have a MAJOR announcement. Something that is going to change the way we coach, create content, and influence people around the world. Something that YOU are going to benefit greatly from and gain MORE value and education with. I follow up the announcement with what having core values really means, what mine are, and my personal definition of success. Enjoy! Today’s Q&A Podcast is brou...

Today is another Coaching Roundtable where I sit down with two other established coaches and discuss various common (and misunderstood) topics that arise inside the training and nutrition coaching space. In this episode we have Christopher Barakat; Bodybuilder, Prep Coach, Owner of Competitive Breed, and Graduate of the Exercise and Nutritional Science Masters Program at University of Tampa, as we...

Some of the most underrated aspects of successful training are within this episode... This is part 3 of the 6-part ‘Individual Training Design’ Series! Today we dive deep into Exercise Selection, Tempo, Variation and Enjoyment - Despite NOT being in the limelight of training program design; I believe these are some of the most important factors, because without locking these down - volume is irrel...

Today’s Q&A Podcast is brought to you by The Boom Boom Elite! The ONLY membership site that provides periodized, result-based, training programs EVERY single day AND educates you on how they’re built. To get access to programs, coaching, and the Elite Community – CLICK HERE NOW . TIMESTAMPS: 2:20 - Testing MRV without prior history of volume in training? 20:15 - can you build muscle while reve...

Today’s Q&A Podcast is brought to you by The Boom Boom Elite! The ONLY membership site that provides periodized, result-based, training programs EVERY single day AND educates you on how they’re built. To get access to programs, coaching, and the Elite Community – CLICK HERE NOW . Today’s episode is with my good friend and fellow coach, Josiah Novak - owner of The True Transformation. We dive D...

This is part 2 of the 6-part ‘Individual Training Design’ Series! Today we dive deep into Volume, Intensity, and Frequency - which are debatable the most important aspects of building a training program. Their focus dictates the direction of your aesthetic results and today I show you exactly why and how. Tune in every Monday for the next 5 weeks, to fully understand what it takes to master your t...

Grab your copy of The Completely Updated and Revamped Version of The Nutrition Hierarchy, FREE, Right Now: https://bbp.securechkout.com/nutritional-hierarchy   TODAY’S QUESTIONS: 6:55 - I have been strength training for 3-4 years, currently competing in amateur powerlifting. (I’m a female). I have dieted down about 15-17 pounds for my competition. (Have kept strength, had some new PR-s on the diet...

Today’s guest is Dr. Amy Bender, sleep scientist from Calgary Counseling Center. She is one of the leading experts actually studying the science of sleep and it’s affect on performance, body composition, and cognitive function. Find her on instagram and twitter @sleep4sport P.S. - IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! And I want to give YOU something for free; my Nutrition Hierarchy, completely Revamped and Updated....

This is part 1 of the 6-part ‘Individual Training Design’ Series! The FIRST Module, which is all about Assessments (the fundamental first step in training success) and Execution (how to properly perform the lifts, which comes before ANY of the technical programming methods). Tune in to this episode and stay tuned in, every Monday for the next 6 weeks, to fully understand what it takes to master yo...