Iron and Carrots - حديد و جزر

Send us Fan Mail In September 2013, Aly Mazhar did his first-ever group training session on the roof of fibers gym. A couple of weeks later, he was able to kick off a fitness entrepreneurship journey with the first-ever BeFit branch on the tennis court in Katameya Heights, New Cairo. Eight years later. There is no doubt that BeFit is leading the fitness scene in Egypt with 15 locations in Cairo an...

Send us Fan Mail After the pandemic in 2020, there was an increase in the number of people who suffer from eating disorder. Probably due to the changes that happened in our social behavior. Right now there are almost 70 million people who suffer from an eating disorder. In this episode, Bayoumi speaks with Salma Ghazzawi who shares her personal experience with an Eating disorder and her biggest le...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Bayoumi is joined by Mohamed Khatib, the founder of iCoach. They discuss the journey that took khatib from working as the sales manager of the food service in Unilever Mashreq into starting his own company in the fitness industry and building it from scratch.  في الحلقة ديه، بيومي كان معاه  محمد خطيب اللي ابتدي رحلته كموظف في شركة من اكبر الشركات في مصر و العالم و...

Send us Fan Mail Creatine is probably the most well-known supplement in the fitness field, and there is a valid reason for its reputation... numerous studies have shown its efficacy among strength and power athletes. In part one of this episode, Bayoumi explains how Creatine works in the human body, the most "effective" types and doses of creatine, and the common claims & myths aroun...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Bahaa Hashem walks us through his annual goal-setting routine, the common mistakes when deciding which goals to pursue, and how to control and change our perspective towards success and failure. في الحلقة ديه، بهاء هاشم هايكلمنا عن الطريقة اللي بينظم و يختار بيها أهدافه في أول السنة، الغلطات اللي ممكن تحصل في إختيار الأهداف و كمان إزاي ممكن نتحكم و نغير إدراكنا لل...

Send us Fan Mail Nutrition has a major role to play when it comes to aesthetics and training performance, in part one of this episode I discuss the updated nutrition recommendations to optimize training adaptations, and in part two I respond to some questions regarding bulking, diet setup , and body image. الأكل بيلعب دور مهم لو هدف التمرين الشكل أو حتي الاداء، في الجزء الأول من الحلقة، هاتكلم علي...

Send us Fan Mail Low Back Pain is the number one leading cause of years lived with disability (2017 data from lancet GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE),  it's so prevalent that there are more than 500 million people worldwide experiencing low back pain at any point in time, in the first part of this episode I discuss an editorial from the BJSM highlighting 10 facts everyone should know about back pain...

Send us Fan Mail We don’t know what we don’t know, embracing the uncertainty, and what do I need to do to work and succeed in the fitness industry. إحنا مانعرفش، إن إحنا مانعرفش، تخويف الناس من الأكل اللي مش "صحي" و "الحركة الغلط"، وايه اللي أنا محتاجه عشان أشتغل في مجال الفيتنس. Resources: Self-selected vs. Fixed Repetition Duration Volume and Muscle Mass                      ...

Send us Fan Mail The Low Carb advocate claims that obesity is primarily caused by the ability of carbohydrate to increase insulin secretion, which makes us fat, hungry, and sluggish and there is a metabolic advantage of adopting a Low carb diet, as it will definitely lead to weight loss, how true is this claim and what does really influence weight gain and obesity?  الفريق المدافع عن تقليل الكربوه...

Send us Fan Mail We are often consumed with trivial things when it comes to fitness, which might get us distracted from the important things that need to be done to enhance aesthetics and training performance, what role does sleep play in such a context? معظم الوقت بنستهلكو إن نهتم بحاجات مش مهمة، بالذات في الرياضة والأكل، ده ممكن يشتت تركيزنا عن الحاجات اللي فعلا اللي فعلا ليها تأثيركبيرلما يكون...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I am answering a few questions from Instagram  What inspired me to start iron and carrots podcast? The relation between strength and hypertrophy if any? My take on Keto diet How to manage sugar cravings? How to motivate yourself for training   في الحلقة دي هاجاوب على شوية أسئلة من انستجرام إيه اللي حفزني إني أبدئ بودكاست حديد وجزر؟ هل فيه العلاقة بين القوة والعضلا...

Send us Fan Mail  In-depth discussion/Monologue about social media and how it can affect our approach to the Standard “physique” goals set by the new reality we are living in مناقشة  حول وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي وازاي ممكن تؤثر على أهداف الصحة و شكل الجسم القياسية التي يحددها الواقع الجديد الذي نعيش فيه Resources:   Obesity and Fitness 1-      Prevalence of obesity in adult males, 1975 to 2014 2- ...

Send us Fan Mail It's commonly known that the things we believe affect how we feel, but to which extent can this influence extend to our bodies and to the training performance من المتعارف عليه أن معتقداتنا تؤثر على ما نشعر به ، ولكن إلى أي مدى ممكن يمتد هذا التأثير وهل فعلا جسم الأنسان ممكن التأثير ده يظهر عليه؟    Resources:  1-      Anabolic steroids: the physiological effects of placebos 2...

Send us Fan Mail It's true that weight gain is caused mainly by eating extra calories, yet from a different point of view eating extra calories might be a result of certain habits, so it can rather be regarded as a reason more than a cause. صحيح أن زيادة الوزن ناتجة بشكل أساسي عن تناول أكل زيادة، ولكن من وجهة نظر مختلفة، ممكن تناول السعرات الحرارية الزائدة نتيجة لعادات معينة، عشان كده هيا ممك...