Garage Gym Athlete

This weeks Cooldown has former New England Patroid Setema Gali talking about a well known Patriots mantra, Do Your Job. 

This weeks Athlete Of the Week is Marco Rosa. This was a great chat talking about all of the events he does and his training. 

This weeks Ask Me Anything is comparing concurrent training with Crossfit. 

This weeks podcast we get some good updates and dive into one of our few discussions of supplementation, but this one being caffeine. How caffeine can improve performance for both male and females, but when should you implement it? This weeks topic we discuss our own take and activities for building mental toughness. And speaking of mental toughness, this weeks workouts may be the toughest of them...

We have Dr. Cate Shanahan talking about her book Deep Nutrition and four fat burning systems. 

This weeks athletes is known pretty well in our facebook group, Keith Vance. We get into a deep conversation about building a fitness community. He also shares how he tried to become a better human and lifting people up. 

This weeks AMA is about MURPH, something we talk about a lot around here. Pretty self explanatory but we have done the 52 Weeks of murph challenge twice around here, listen for more on that. 

This weeks podcast we talk about one of our favorite things, and thats concurrent training! this week is also time for our second book review, Why We Sleep. This weeks workout is Under Pressure. 

Dutch Lowy talk about owing his gym and competing in olympic lifting. 

This weeks Athlete of the Week is a repeat on the podcast and no stranger to our group, Dominic Decker. He maps out all of his events linked up for the year and the new challenge he looking forward to. We also talk about being resourceful with equipment and being a garage gym athlete. 

This weeks AMA is on a more personal note and about End Of Three Fitness and Jerred starting the company. How it got started, if he ever thought of giving it up, and more. 

This weeks podcast we jump back to nutrition and talk about how intermittent fasting, or time restricted feeding, can effect muscle gain or if it does. This was a cool study but also made us want more. Keeping with nutrition we also talk about our food prep tips and what we do as far as meal prepping. This weeks workout comes from an old guest and former super bowl camp, its called Patriot. 

We had Julie from PaleOMG, and this week she is talking about wanting to help people and starting her blog. 

This Athlete of the Week features Courtney Morse. We talk about starting his Physical Therapy practice for athletes. He also shares his athletic journey from playing football to cycling and endurance events. We also talk about movement therapy for the mind, and searching for new PR's

This weeks AMA is about balancing our different training tracks to get the best results and attack your goals. Specifically over the course of a year, how to plan out your cycles for the year and be the most well rounded. 

This week on the Garage Gym Athlete podcast we dive into a study that explores how high intensity training can effect strength, or does it? We touch on when it can fit into your training and how to best go about programing intensity. We also talk about best practices for warm up and on our Block Zero in our training. This weeks workout is Stairway to Heaven. 

This weeks Cooldown has Allison Brager talking about sleep and making your brain more fit. 

The Athlete of The Week is Chris Morgan. We chat about being a basement athletes, finding your plan and sticking with it, and going back to your roots. 

This weeks Ask Me Anything is on how much running or conditioning is too much. This is completely individual on the person but also depends on your goals. Jerred gives a breakdown on how you should toe that line. 

Hey athletes, this week we are going over a study that examined how the time of day at which you train can effect strength and conditioning gains. This weeks topic is about gut health and some of our tips on how to improve your gut health. This weeks workout is "Backbone". 

This weeks cool down is with Dr. Anthony Jay about Low Testosterone and Estrogen.

This weeks Athlete Of the Week is Ryan Caswell. We talk about something a lot of garage gym athletes can relate to, and that is making do with lots of different equipment and adjusting accordingly. We also talk about stopping programming hopping, and having fitness plans while traveling. 

This weeks Ask Me Anything is about intermittent fasting. Some of us coaches and a lot our athletes already do IF, but we always get new athletes in wondering more about IF and how best to do it with their schedule, goals, etc. 

Hey all, this weeks study we are talking about becoming more powerful. The study we go over looked at the effects of velocity metrics, lifting faster and how it can increase performance. Next we have our first book review! We do a deep nutrition dive, about Deep Nutrition, by Dr. Catherine Shanahan. This weeks workout is 1/4 mile for humanity. 

This weeks snippet is why our training is not crossfit and should not be considered crossfit.