Eat To Perform Podcast

We are going to upload three episodes in a row here but they all build off of themselves. The first is (another) review of the book "Burn" by Herman Pontzner. Susan and I walk you through the really interesting parts of the book and some of the parts that aren't all that important.

We start the podcast off talk about Cardio why it should always be in the mix. Then we go into the "Burn" book from Herman Pontzer on why using exercise to lose weight is fools good. Lastly we do Q&A with clients.  This isn't our traditional podcast format, it's a bit more low key exploring advanced ideas. Hope you like it.

We have tackled this topic in various podcast and every time we do people are shocked and frankly a little pissed off. After all, if you are tired, living on pots of coffee each day and you are doing it yourself based on bad diet information. Wouldn't you be more than a little mad?

If you have ever wondered what foods help you live longer? What is going to allow you to keep improving the gym (not to mention) all the other areas of your life you are actually wondering about the role Mitochondria plays in who you are and what you become. I had a passing knowledge on the role of Mitochondria so I intentionally stayed away from the research for this discussion with Susan. I know...

This was a great podcast where we first went over a file where a client met her goals and we went over what next and what the considerations would be as we hit each goal. There was more than once where I think our answers surprised the members listening. Some of the topics included hormone therapy (at the end), how we address aging women with menopause and much more.

This is an audio recording I made of a popular post where I talked about why people eating mostly whole foods stall over time and what the fix is for that situation.

What we talk about in this podcast is not unknown and many sports dietitians have been doing this for a long time. But it hasn't trickled down to the masses and in that way I think Eat To Perform is the first original concept in dieting in over 60 years. If you are struggling reaching your goals or want to understand the most basic rule of dieting (that you shouldn't be dieting MOST of the time)....

It's been a while since we got a podcast out to everyone but this one is a doozy. We start the podcast on why you run, most people start running for various reasons with a small goal of getting better at running. Then we move to a case study of a client that is down over 40 pounds, she diets once a year and I have worked with her for about 7 years. As I talk through her evolution Susan walks us th...

This was a real interesting, here was the premise, this was an Eat To Perform staff meeting. The goal of the meeting was to ask Susan's thoughts on various ideas related to the challenges that people new to fitness (or chronic dieters) have and how we can work to make things better.

We get this question a lot but we got this specific question this week and so we walked through it in depth. The reality is what we say are the habits we help people build daily so that they can succeed. So the answer is no, dieting should be the last option after you have tried all the things we have mentioned in this episode.

"you aren't in a calorie deficit" is the new Paleo. It's a very simplistic answer to what is sometimes a complex problem. The problem gets worse when "science friendly" sites and blogs never address the real problem with being in a calorie deficit too often. So 90% of their content sounds like "you aren't in a calorie deficit" and the other 10% sounds like "pizza is totally fine". If you have been...

I will walk you through my mindset, I think even if you are a long time Eat To Performer you will find a few nuggets you like. Because my last Fat Loss cycle was 2 years ago, the current (and best version) of Eat To Perform was new to me. This was my experience.

If you follow any Health and Wellness advice on YouTube you have likely seen some reference to Stephanie Buttermore's "All in" Diet. Stephanie is a former bikini/physique competitor that got a lot of followers with her EPIC cheat meal videos from the past. As a cancer researcher in real life as she moved more towards health and wellness her ALL IN diet is the first thing I have seen come along tha...

We covered a wide range of topics starting with why noobs fail and why 15 minutes a day for the first 7 days is a game changer. We went in depth on PCOS, what we see and why we think that happens. We also walk through how your training should change as you go through each phase.

To start the podcast I walk listeners through every detail of how I lost 100 pounds and then I walk everyone through the years after. Susan provides the science of why it worked and why it's a better approach than other methods.

Inflammation is STILL the current boogeyman which makes no sense because there is a very big difference between inflammation and CHRONIC inflammation. Susan walks you through how to tell the difference.

Susan starts out the podcast talking about the fires affecting the Pacific Northwest and then we get down to business. We start off with why I think pregnancy often sends women down a dieting rabbit hole and why and then we give real data to make the point. Whether you are about to be pregnant or it was a while ago check this one out. Towards the end of the podcast Susan and I start talking about...

We have done a of podcasts on the importance of sleep and why you need to make it a priority in your life. This is the "highlights" version.

Susan has worked with a few adventure racers and if you haven't watched the show yet one of the aspects they didn't spend a lot of time on was nutrition. That said the part they did it was very clear the role that carbs played.  Other topics covered: Why adventure racers need more muscle and fat on their bodies for the race. The mental part you NEED to complete a race like that. Towards the e...

This was supposed to be part of our short series on the Thermic Effect of Food but once we got into the episode we realized there was a lot to talk about. Everything we said led us down another rabbit hole. If you want to understand your metabolism, why and how it works take the time to listen to this. 

When you talk about weight loss there are some important distinctions that need to happen. Certainly when you lose weight you are losing some combination of fat, muscle and water. How you workout and when pushes things either in the right direction or the wrong direction (maximizes fat loss compared to water and muscle).  If you switch to long workouts too soon and avoid certain workouts you...

Cortisol is a hormone that its heart is meant to tear down tissue. Insulin's role is to build tissue. The problem you run into when you start adding stress on stress on stress. Think, dieting, low carb and working out a lot under fed you are sending a signal to your body that will affect your body's levels of cortisol, wake you up in the middle of the night and your workouts will be awful. That's...

Metabolism is strikingly easy, Susan and I walk you through that and go into Metabolic Rate a bit and the factors involved. In the second half of the podcast we talk about all the things you need to because in case you haven't figured it out you can't push the numbers in and in 4 weeks poof you are down 20 pounds.  In this episode we explain why.

This was the result of a poll that I posted on Facebook. What was interesting about it is that everyone got the answer right but didn't always know why. Susan and I broke it down in this episode which ended up super interesting.

I am a big fan of KidStrong and ParentStrong for young families. Megin and Matt asked my to come and talk to their parents about their nutrition but I also brought some tips from when my kids were young. As you can probably tell we are good friends so I think that made the conversation more enjoyable and hopefully fun to listen to for all of you.