Robert Santana

Weights and Plates Podcast

Health EN ↓ 106 episodes

Starting Strength Coach and Registered Dietitian Robert Santana shares his knowledge of all things diet, training, barbells, and more.

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#5 - Your Back Is Never Off the Clock 26.06.2021 1:16:08

Robert and Trent discuss the role of the back and the trunk musculature in lifting weights and in developing a good physique. As Robert says to all his clients, "your back is never off the clock!" The back and trunk (or core as many people are fond of calling it nowadays) comprise a large part of the body's muscle mass, and are perhaps the most important and least understood of the body's levers....

#4 - Nutrition 101 for Training and Fat Loss 12.06.2021 1:05:16

Today Robert and Trent demystify the nuts and bolts of nutrition for productive training, fat loss, and health. Weights & Plates: https://weightsandplates.com Robert Santana on Instagram: @the_robert_santana Trent Jones: @marmalade_cream https://www.marmaladecream.com

#3 - Why You Need to Lift Heavy: The Physiology of Muscle 28.05.2021 1:07:49

Today Robert and Trent discuss why you need to train for strength, and why your lifts MUST be heavy to build muscle mass. It's popular these days to train for "hypertrophy" -- the fancy term for increasing muscular size -- utilizing sets of 10-12 reps on a large variety of exercises, many of them single joint lifts such as curls, tricep extensions, and hamstring curls. The problem with this approa...

#2 - Where Does Your Diet Information Come From? Context Is Everything 14.05.2021 40:05

Starting Strength Coach and Registered Dietitian Robert Santana continues the introduction to Weights & Plates with a "plates" episode, this time about the source of your nutrition information. Where does it come from, and have you considered the source of your information? These days we are inundated with information about what we should eat and how we should train, from trainers, from celebrity...

#1 - Bodybuilding Idols, Lifting Gurus, and Misinformation: Robert Santana Cuts Through the Fitness Jungle 22.04.2021 1:11:47

Starting Strength Coach and Registered Dietitian Robert Santana kicks off the Weights and Plates Podcast with an episode charting his journey through the jungle of fitness and nutrition information. Though he's taken a number of wrong turns along the way, Robert's journey has taught him the value of some basic principles for fitness and body composition. Robert is joined on the podcast by Starting...

Welcome to Weights and Plates! 19.02.2021 1:28

Welcome to the Weights and Plates podcast! Starting Strength Coach and Registered Dietitian Robert Santana aims to bring you practical advice about dieting, nutrition, barbell training, and more based on his 17 years of experience. Life isn't a science experiment. Training and eating well doesn't have to be either! https://weightsandplates.com