Eat To Perform Podcast

This is a deep dive of the most important concept in dieting. Diets are only effective when you weren't dieting BEFORE you started dieting. One way to know you are on a REALLY BAD diet is if they don't up your calories at some point. This podcast is about that and that is what separates us from the pack allowing you to have more will when you need it and defined times to start and end.

This is the first of a 2 part series we are doing on what we call the "adaptation prevention" phase, reversing and ultimately recomping (build muscle, not fat). Paul walks you through a lot of the pitfalls people make and helps you think differently about the approach as food normalizes, workouts improve and life gets back to normal.

Our children get a lot of information related to diet even at a very young age. Meredith talks about an experience with her 10 year old daughter and Paul talks about his 17 and 18 year old daughters, both of which are vegetarians and have been vegetarians for years.

This is technically for the first 20 days of fat loss but gives tips and tricks to manage things better. Great Q&A at the end

The main emphasis on this podcast was to talk about how people use advice from trainers wrong. Weight lifting as an example should correct problems you may. We covered a lot of ground because there were a lot of topics that came up.

In the middle we get into a lengthy discussion about coming back to fitness after time off, some of it without working out but mostly with and just changing your routine. A stop and go is where you do a fat loss, cycle, long pause and resume later. Always interesting around the holiday's.

Let's face it, most of us make meal planning harder than it needs to be. I have never met a group of ninjas better than the meal preppers we have on staff. Here are their suggestions on making your life easier.

I have to be honest, I never know how good or bad these are but we walked through Meredith's Fat Loss phase to talk about why you might need to gain a little weight to get as lean as you might like. So I felt like this was a good one.

A lot of us have been down the good food versus bad food path and it left us a little broken (including Meredith and I). In this episode we talk about that experience and making food an ally in your journey.

People invest a lot of mental energy into Body Fat tests but are they reliable and how should you mentally approach the information?

At the core of who we all are is who we want to be as we age and mobility is a big piece of that, here are some ideas on how to incorporate that to have an abundant life.

Diets basically come in two forms, the form that eliminates food groups (low carb) to get to a deficit and the form that is more balanced (macros). I think a lot of are going to be surprised at my comments on both sides.

There is a lot of conjecture on insulin, so much so that there has been research going on for years and luckily we have one of those researchers on staff to give you what you need to know.

The first half of the podcast we talk about summer parades and Mardi Gras and in the second half of the podcast we get into focusing for the best amount of progress with whatever protocol you are doing and adjusting to find what you love.

Today's discussion was about low intensity and how to use that (and sometimes not)to reach your goals.

With the holiday week we were a bit scattered but it was a great conversation on how having fitness as a priority in your life looks like and how that changes over time.

High fat diets like Ketogenic Dieting are very popular right now, initially their role was very niche for diseased populations and now they are being used much more widely and have experienced a big resurgence. Brad talks about whether or not this attention is warranted and more importantly is a Ketogenic Diet superior to balance factoring in lifestyle factors?

For years Paul has talked about how naps worked against your night time sleep based on his personal experience. Find out why he changed his mind and Meredith and Paul dissect a clients body fat readings and why they lost so much fat without losing much muscle at all.

This was a podcast that was taped in May but never made it to upload. It was a review of Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker but that's not why people will remember this episode. Towards the end I had to clarify why I would intentionally choose brain damage for sex and dancing around that topic I suspect will be pretty funny to listeners.

In this episode we explore why or why you wouldn't intermittent fast giving you some of the science and our personal experiences along the way. We try to present both sides because it can be both a useful tool or a destructive tool depending on how it's used.

Most people don't have a macro or calorie problem, what they have is a life management issue and holiday's and vacations don't cooperate so the building blocks team tackles this and gives some advice that will change the way you think about how you have done things most of your life.

The main topic happens at about middle of the episode, previous to that Meredith and I chat about our kids, their driving and our life. Once that is done we talk about the summer and summers that changed our life completely, what that looked like and why it was important.

Most people go on diets for the summer or vacation without a real organized plan or after over doing it over the holiday's. At Eat To Perform we know your calories and soon we will have a fat loss calendar, this podcast goes over why planned cycles are better than spontaneous cycles.

Meredith has an article this weekend that looks at the want to constantly be less and ties it to the recent women's empowerment movements of the last few months.

So if this seems out of order that's because it is, we actually did this one as the first Building Blocks and it was a test but it was so good that people kept asking for it so we re-did it in the style that has become the norm for these sessions. Mike has designed all but one of our training templates and runs a group specifically on designing your training around your personality type.