Garage Gym Athlete: From Our Athletes To Jocko Willink, Tim Ferriss, & Rich Froning There’s One Thing In Common: Garage Gym

We have a NEW format for our athlete talks this week. And we kick things off with Dr. Chris Morrissey, long time athlete and no stranger to this podcast. 

This week we look at a study with possibly the most diverse and broadest group of people. This study had male females ranging from 8 weeks old to 95 years old! And in this study they measured energy expenditure, which showed that we pretty much all burn the same amount in relation to muscle. This was a fantastic study and a must listen. 

This study looks at if its best to train in the morning, evening, afternoon, When?

We finally get to chat with long time athlete Ryan Hill. He talks about changing his mindset and goals over time and the process of fitness.

This weeks study looks at how tracking food can either cause a complex toward food or even an eating disorder. So which comes first, tracking food or a bad relationship with food?

This weeks study look at one of the most common missing element in strength programs, and that is speed/power.

We sit down with Chris Bennett and how he manages to get his training done while juggling his big family and work life.

Hydration and supplementation are two huge areas when it comes to doing an event and probably the more asked about part, even more macros. We already covered carbs, protein in fat in the previous parts so now we talk about hydration and supplementation for your endurance even fueling needs.

So to compliment last week with burning fat, we talk about how to gain muscle and get stronger. 

This week we are taking with Scott Suttles and how he gets his training done. He has gone through our coaching course and this is the first time we have chatted with him but he's been a garage gym athlete for a long time.

Fueling series for your endurance event continues, this time with protein and fat. Protein is largely viewed as muscle building and recovery, but if you are in a multi hour event, you should still be getting protain. Then fat is the most overlooked or neglected macro nutrient so we go into why fat is needed and how to best use it.

This is one of our most popular studies we have gone over and made a huge impact on our training. This is all about zone two and low intensity conditioning. 

We have a three part series we will be doing which is completely focused on endurance events. So if you have a spartan race, half/full marathon, etc on the books definitely check this out. We are taking one very large study and breaking it up into 3 episodes. This first part is all about carbohydrates.

We have spoken a lot about how too much high intensity training can be bad. So is low intensity training the secret?

This is our first episode of Garage Gym Problems. We asked our athletes what their biggest problems and struggles were with having a home gym so we will start to tackle those.

This week we are looking at how probiotics can effect your body composition and your performance with your workouts. We love gut health ere so we talk a bit more about our thoughts and applications to this.

Its all in your mind, with phototherapy. 

We finally get Marco back on the podcast and catch up with him. Jerred also takes this opportunity to dive deep about mental toughness and coaching.

This weeks study actually looks at 5 studies on the same topic, minimum effective dose. This looks at specifically power lifters, but what is the minimum amount one can lift and still see strength progress?

This week we have a debate about a study and if Heart Rate Variability is a useful metric to track.