Wise Lifting with Luke Tulloch

Most people have no clue what actually causes training fatigue. But it's important. It's a huge part of the training equation. If we can better understand where fatigue comes from, then we can better manage it - and that means faster progress. For example, CNS fatigue is NOT caused by lifting heavy. In fact, higher rep training is much more likely to reduce the output from brain to muscle. I expla...

Austin's back and he's got a new book coming out! We talk about the process of writing the book - how it forced Austin to delay gratification, to challenge himself, and to turn up every day. We also spent a lot of time discussing how to communicate online, how to ask better questions, and how challenging your own authority in the world can give huge insight. There's a bit of us catching up at the...

4 things I've changed my mind on! Join me as I talk through what changed my mind about these and how. Here's what I used to think: Nothing beats free weights for growing muscle and getting stronger... Intuitive eating just meant guessing the macro content of your food instead of weighing it... You have to eat hundreds of grams of protein per day to maximize muscle... You can accurately give a spec...

4 things I've changed my mind on! Join me as I talk through what changed my mind about these and how. Plenty of research cited! I used to think... Juices are just sugary water with very little micronutrition... You need a lot of carbs to grow the most muscle possible... You need to match a push exercise with a pull exercise to make sure your posture and shoulders stay healthy... A good coach uses...

Questions answered: How do we differentiate quality research from BS? How does periodisation work? Is there any research suggesting what the optimal surplus range is for muscle building? do you think it's necessary to spend a degree of time in a commercial gym working with gen-pop clients even if that isn't your long-term goal? Hitting protein in a deficit - is it a problem if I undershoot sometim...

Spend 15 mins with me as I explain why awareness is the key to achieving your goals. This isn't airy-fairy stuff, it's about having an actual game plan for behaviour change and developing the skills to know if it's working. www.luketulloch.com @_luketulloch

I answer your questions! Science of Fitness 2021 is opening its doors within the week. Tap here and join the mailing list at www.luketulloch.com to learn more. - Do you believe that the quality of food has an affect on losing body fat easier than less nutritional food? - How best to know if you are effectively building muscle in a building phase. - Currently teaching spin classes on top of my weig...

In this episode I revisit meal timing and touch on some of the research showing how biological clocks can affect metabolic rate, insulin sensitivity, appetite, rate of digestion. Article I mentioned My website My Instagram

Enjoy this conversation I had with my good friend Austin Current, an online coach from the USA. Austin and I discuss being in your own head, the phasic nature of life and moving targets, how being an expert doesn't make you immune to cognitive bias, how constraints can push you ahead and allow creativity, going deep on one task at a time, and much more. Austin's website - Austin's instagram My web...

Last episode I spoke about how important it is to weigh yourself daily. But that's just IF you're going to weigh yourself in the first place. This episode is short, but it will give you plenty of food for thought around your fitness goals. www.luketulloch.com @_luketulloch

In this episode, I talk about the emotional hold the scales can have, and one way to overcome it. I also talk about how you can combine different methods for measuring your progress to give you a way better idea of how you're doing, and the pros and cons of various methods of measuring bodyfat percentage. Make sure you listen to the next episode, where I'll discuss whether you even need to use the...

This is a solo episode where I talk about the difficulties in using studies done on training volume to work out your own individual weekly volume. training volume (number of sets per week on a given body part or movement) is a primary contributor to gains in strength and muscle, but I often see the concept misapplied. We don't have an easy way of calculating exactly how many sets are optimal, and...

A great chat with my mate David. He's an intelligent, passionate man who's helping people move better without excessive manual therapy and redundant band exercises. I remember a great little summary of his when describing what the approach should be: "give them what they're missing". We talk about the role of the brain, reflexes, breathing and cueing in coaxing better movement out of athletes and...

I had a really interesting chat with Soph about how she looks after her mental health, how important routine is for her, but most importantly how she actively works on her mindset. I originally reached out to Soph because I thought she was doing a great job building her business and providing fitness info while coming across as genuine. It's a difficult thing to do with an active social media stra...

This episode has some serious cutting edge thinking on how coaching will develop. In this episode, Lyndon and I discuss the direction of coaching in the fitness industry, our own personal development, how we can facilitate all areas of well-being in our clients, and the state of the world in general. Lyndon always provides interesting insights and I think this episode will spur some self-reflectio...

Join Will and I as we discuss progressive overload, how we judge can gains in technical proficiency vs weight on the bar or volume done, training volume and how it drives progression, coaching and language, how to communicate with clients and how experience as a coach can influence your ability to be a good client. Will gives a lot of insight into the nuts and bolts of coaching and how we can prom...

In this episode, I talk about training for endurance while maximising strength, power and muscle at the same time. www.luketulloch.com

This is a just a quick update on my current travel/living situation in Europe. Nothing fitness related in this short episode! Sign up to my newsletter below. You'll get one email per week with juicy fitness info and access to some free course material. www.luketulloch.com

A calorie surplus is probably a good idea if you want to max out your muscle growth. But how much do you need? Most people miscalculate their calorie surplus, because there's more to it than meets the eye. Take 20 mins to listen to this episode and learn more about how to properly set your calorie intake to maximise your muscle growth. Sign up to the newsletter here: www.luketulloch.com

In this podcast, I take you through the pros and cons of each of these indices and show you how you can use them to your advantage. there's a big focus on satiety index in this one, because it's a key component of creating a sustainable diet plan. Sign up to the webinar here: How to diet without tracking webinar

Will is one of Australia's strongest powerlifters and an online coach. He prides himself on his aptitude to research and understanding the lifting style of his clients, his ability to convey clear and concise feedback and his flexibility in coaching protocols. We talk about online coaching, unconventional training methods and balancing specificity with long term performance. Will's website: Nexus...

This is a guided meditation based on the UCLA Health guided meditations ( https://www.uclahealth.org/marc/mindful-meditations , All meditations by MARC's Director for Mindfulness Education, Diana Winston ). I made some minor omissions in the language to suit my preferences, but otherwise followed the published transcripts. www.luketulloch.com

The episode I didn't want to make. What diet, training and lifestyle practices can we use to best avoid getting sick? What do you do if you can't train or if you're quarantined? Luke's website How muscle memory works

Want to boost your bullshit detector in under half an hour? Recently, there was a study done comparing squats with hip thrusts for their effects on glute hypertrophy. Some of the rebuttals were riddled with giant logical fallacies, and in this episode I point some of these out and describe the ones I've come across most commonly in the fitness industry. @_luketulloch www.luketulloch.com Stockholm...

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