Wise Lifting with Luke Tulloch

What's the best training split? How often should you train a muscle group? Is the best training frequency different for strength, muscle growth, fat loss? Is there a limit on the amount of productive volume per session? My IG My Website

I discuss the strengths and limitations of research - and practical experience. How do you know if a study is actually any good? When should you rely more on your own training experiences? And how can you use each to make your training and nutrition better? My IG My Website

Learning to cook, budgeting, being a Charles Poliquin fanboy, calisthenics training, travelling (and more)...these things all changed the course of my fitness journey. My website My Instagram

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How do you know you did enough (or too much) in a workout? Muscle soreness? The pump? Sensation? Performance? Subjective recovery? Instagram My website

Most goal-setting approaches focus on the wrong things, which is why it's so common to lose the initial momentum and excitement of goal setting so quickly. Check out Foundation here.

I give my thoughts on Milo Wolf's quad exercise tier list. Instagram Sign up free for in-depth emails

How often should you train a muscle group? It's a question that leads into the most important aspect of program design. Thanks for listening. When you're ready, here are some ways I can help you:   1. You can DM me on IG. ⁠Here's the link .⁠ 2. Work with me 1-on-1. ⁠ Fill out this questionnaire ⁠ to see if we're a good fit.

Thanks for listening. When you're ready, here are three ways I can help you:   1.  You can DM me on IG . Here's the link. 2.  Get free access  to my  Training Program Secrets Mini Course . 3.  Work with me 1-on-1 .  Fill out this questionnaire  to see if we're a good fit.

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In today’s world, we have more accumulated knowledge available to us as individuals than entire generations did not so long ago. It’s great to have the world of knowledge at your fingertips but knowing how to make best use f it is another thing entirely. Here are 10 guidelines/rules to help you read and understand fitness science. IG: @_luketulloch Website: luketulloch.com

How does your brain choose which muscle to use during an exercise? The nervous system ‘matches’ the areas of the muscle with the best leverage to the task. But there are also individual differences, even when using the same exercises. We don’t always recruit the same muscle or even the same muscle regions with an exercise. This has been shown in studies. Different parts of the same muscle can...

The holy grail. Lose fat, build muscle at the same time. Recomping is hard, but possible. The biological processes that grow muscle and burn fat compete with each other. The fastest way to lose fat is via a calorie deficit. Building muscle is fastest in a surplus. But it is possible to hit maintenance calories and do both. It's much easier under some circumstances. Free mini-course: Training Progr...

Exercise selection is a rabbit hole. And once you've found your 'perfect' program - how and when do you change it? It's all about finding balance between personal preference, making progress, and optimising for performance over time. Thanks for listening. Here are other ways I can help you: Sign up for my Free Training Program Secrets Mini Course . Follow me on Instagram (I lost my old account, by...

I have a new instagram account: @coachluketulloch I've been answering questions on my stories and thought I'd do a podcast to go a little more in depth on some of them. Enjoy!

Forget everything else for a second. This is the one thing you MUST do if you want long term muscle growth. Progressive overload simply means training must stay challenging over time. It makes sure your training stays effective as you get bigger and stronger. Why? Because it maintains the number of stimulating reps in each set as your progress. The reps closer to failure are the most stimulating t...

As we approach muscular failure, muscle fibre recruitment goes up. This stimulates the motor units that contain the majority of the large, highly-responsive fibres to grow. So in simple terms, the idea is that the last 5ish reps before failure are “stimulatory reps” because they involve both full motor unit recruitment and a high level of tension. But recent research indicates training to failure...

One of my biggest frustrations with the fitness industry is confusing terms. Often there is a mix-up with technical definitions and colloquial use of terms - words like progressive overload, protein synthesis, fatigue, lean mass, intensity, failure/training to failure, hypertrophy, water, bloating, and so on. In this episode I try to clear up what we mean by these terms, because it has implication...

I challenge some conventional wisdom around injuries and touch on the biopsychosocial model of pain. There's a lot we can do to manage pain that doesn't involve training, posture, stretching and so on. I also give some practical ideas for using movement and exercise to recover from an injury. Most of this information is inspired by and summarized really well in Greg Lehman's Pain Science Workbook...

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Answering more questions in this episode. -- Training volume: why 10-20 sets per week isn't a perfect individual recommendation. Circadian rhythm: how exposure to light, exercise, and food affects your daily physiology. Coaching styles and self-efficacy: how hands on should you be as a coach? Signals for muscle growth: there are several signals that converge to turn on muscle growth. Matching trai...

In this episode I talk about: 3 critical aspects of a habit Willpower and self-efficacy Benefits and drawbacks of habits Types of goals, breaking down goals and chunking Intrinsic and extrinsic goals, and how to reinterpret an extrinsic goal My website My instagram

Welcome to another listener Q&A. You can submit your questions at the Google form here. If someone prefers to eat more carbohydrates in his/her diet after setting up protein , what should be the fat sources for completing a minimum requirements? I was just wondering if it’s important to have both a pre and post workout meal and what the timing windows are? I train at 6am and sometimes struggle...

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