Eat Train Prosper

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...

This week’s episode is about finding that proverbial middle-ground or “balance” for each of us. One of the most common misunderstandings for many attempting dieters, new lifters, their significant others and family members is being limited to black and white thinking. In this episode, we use a swinging pendulum as a metaphor to walk through spending time at both “extremes” before settling into a b...

This week we have Kassem Hanson back on the podcast to graciously shine a light on the state of what the current literature suggests for training at short and long muscle lengths. Kas covers variance in the degree of lengthened position in biarticular vs monoarticular muscles, theoretical and practical benefits for maximally training the lengthened position, and reasons you should also still train...

Our (mostly) monthly Instagram Q&A episode is here. This is another really fun Q&A episode with fun questions from Instagram. Here are the top 10 questions covered in this episode. How to do a strength phase to support hypertrophy  How would you fuel and plan around hiking a 14er? Which is better for Hypertrophy, DBs or cables?  How do you avoid burnout as a coach? 12+ years into coaching...

Unfortunately along your fitness/training journey dealing with an injury is something that you are almost guaranteed to have to deal with. Dealing with many between the two of us over the years we’ve put together some approaches (both mental and physical) for navigating minor and more serious injuries in a productive manner that helps you recover from them as quickly as possible, whilst making the...

Heads up! In the introduction of this episode, we were planning a conversation around dealing with training injuries and setbacks. But as our conversation unfolded there was a lot of great context in the conversation on the backend of Bryan’s recently wrapped up calorie deficit and photoshoot. Specific periods of nutritional periodization such as dieting to uncommonly low levels of body fat and at...

Today’s episode topic is all about how we approach coaching clients, and in what ways we account for these three components: evidence-based, personal preference, and anecdote. Do we tend to use all three equally? Or do we put more credence in one more? We break this topic into our two main pillars, of course, training and nutrition. And detail our coaching approaches respectively for each. This ep...

We kick off this week’s episode of Eat Train Prosper with Bryan detailing some of the challenges this diet has presented him. Then, we move into some not-so-commonly discussed factors influencing when you might take a deload. Psychological fatigue versus waiting for a loss of performance. We also talk a little bit about approaches for ending “very hard” sets. Grinding through reps vs. cutting a re...

This week on the podcast we are covering our top 5 important aspects to consider implementing to create the most productive gaining period you possibly can. We go into depth on the reasoning behind each of these top selections and important considerations for each. This episode ranges from gaining based on your training age, how much muscle you are attempting to put on, what changes to your traini...