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

You workout regularly so you can be lazy the other times, right? WRONG. This week we look at a study that compares international competitive athletes and compares their sedentary lifestyle and finds the more sedentary athletes tend to have larger fat mass. Then this weeks topic is our fitness fails and what we fail at when it comes to fitness.

This week we are back with Dr Dan Siegel and his Wheel Of Awareness. 

This week we are talking to Darren Gaunt and his training. Also, what he did last year which was 43 IRON MILES! including an iron 5K. No big deal. So if you want hear more about that then great. 

This week we were asked which of our training tracks is best to do if you are on a running program or adding additional running to your fitness.

This week we are talking again about caffeine, but if your genes matter for a caffeine response. Most people have heard that there are some people that are responsive the caffeine and some it doesn't effect, but how do you know which you are? and if thats even true. Then we are doing our monthly book review, this months is The Obstacle Is The Way By Ryan Holiday.

This week we are back with Dr. Lepley and how eccentric training can help with muscle growth and recovery. 

We have Zach Eason on this week updating us from the last time we spoke with him. He is also preparing for a challenging event. Care to join him?

This week we were asked about why we program iso holds, and also why they never seem to get easier. Iso holds are fantastic accessory work, especially for the core and we like to program them especially in our deload weeks. 

This weeks study is looking at how incorporating strength training can improve your hypertrophy. We are always training for performance verses aesthetics, but there is a place for hypertrophy to help with strength gain and resilience. Well those can go both ways to help each other. Then we are sharing the best fitness advice we have ever received.

Evan Brand has a a lot go great information to share about being a nutritional practitioner, and getting into the science of nutrition. 

This week we are back with Chris Morgan. Its been about a year since we chatted with him last. He has some great mindset advice and we also talk about his epic Murph goal and training. 

This week we were asked how we use the data we collect from our baseline testing and how it effects each cycle of programming. 

This weeks study is looking at if you should do resistance training to failure or just shy of failure. We have discussed this in the past doing max effort sets or just shy of max effort and it may be best to stop training to failure. Then we are each talking about out favorite ways to kill comfort. Killing comfort is not a new concept here, we love physical and mental toughness challenges. And this weeks workout may be one of the physically and mentally toughest ones we have, which is Broken Arrow.

This weeks cooldown comes from an interview from Dr. Dan Siegel and how to build a better mind. 

This week we are talking with Brian Liu and his long garage gym journey. We talk about some of his training challenges, the programs he hoped around on and more. 

This week we were asked if we under sell our warm up routines and if we could focus more on pushing those. Every day our programming has a warm up but we also know everybody warms up differently before they workout. So we go into our warm ups here, some tips on warming up, and why we may be underselling our warm up. We always want our athletes to warm up and give a pathway on how to best warm up because it is very important to do.

This weeks study is examining the difference in muscle protein synthesis between vegan protein and animal protein. The results may surprise some. Then this weeks topic is on our morning drinks and what we drink in the morning or before we workout. 

This weeks Cooldown is from an interview with Dr. Lepley and how to rehab knees and joints. 

This week we are talking with Stephen Bowers about how his training impacts his job and vice versa. We also talk about his training goals, obstacles and more. 

This week we are talking about when it is best to take certain supplements like vitamin D, magnesium, fish oil and more.