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

We had Julie from PaleOMG, and this week she is talking about wanting to help people and starting her blog. 

This Athlete of the Week features Courtney Morse. We talk about starting his Physical Therapy practice for athletes. He also shares his athletic journey from playing football to cycling and endurance events. We also talk about movement therapy for the mind, and searching for new PR's

This weeks AMA is about balancing our different training tracks to get the best results and attack your goals. Specifically over the course of a year, how to plan out your cycles for the year and be the most well rounded. 

This week on the Garage Gym Athlete podcast we dive into a study that explores how high intensity training can effect strength, or does it? We touch on when it can fit into your training and how to best go about programing intensity. We also talk about best practices for warm up and on our Block Zero in our training. This weeks workout is Stairway to Heaven. 

This weeks Cooldown has Allison Brager talking about sleep and making your brain more fit. 

The Athlete of The Week is Chris Morgan. We chat about being a basement athletes, finding your plan and sticking with it, and going back to your roots. 

This weeks Ask Me Anything is on how much running or conditioning is too much. This is completely individual on the person but also depends on your goals. Jerred gives a breakdown on how you should toe that line. 

Hey athletes, this week we are going over a study that examined how the time of day at which you train can effect strength and conditioning gains. This weeks topic is about gut health and some of our tips on how to improve your gut health. This weeks workout is "Backbone". 

This weeks cool down is with Dr. Anthony Jay about Low Testosterone and Estrogen.

This weeks Athlete Of the Week is Ryan Caswell. We talk about something a lot of garage gym athletes can relate to, and that is making do with lots of different equipment and adjusting accordingly. We also talk about stopping programming hopping, and having fitness plans while traveling. 

This weeks Ask Me Anything is about intermittent fasting. Some of us coaches and a lot our athletes already do IF, but we always get new athletes in wondering more about IF and how best to do it with their schedule, goals, etc. 

Hey all, this weeks study we are talking about becoming more powerful. The study we go over looked at the effects of velocity metrics, lifting faster and how it can increase performance. Next we have our first book review! We do a deep nutrition dive, about Deep Nutrition, by Dr. Catherine Shanahan. This weeks workout is 1/4 mile for humanity. 

This weeks snippet is why our training is not crossfit and should not be considered crossfit. 

This weeks athlete of the week is Greg Isenhour. Greg has been up the podcast before and is still crushing it, doing crazy events and still living his best life. We talk about keeping up with events, him doing the Baton Death march again, and recovery. 

This weeks Ask Me Anything are are talking about having goals that may seem conflicting and talking about how to pursue goals that may seem conflicting. A lot of people think you can only do on thing at a time and only focus on one area but that is not sure, that is why we do whats called concurrent training. But Jerred dives more into this topic and the science behind it.

Hey athletes, this week for our study we are slightly stray away from the actual study but for good reason. We will be talking about gaining muscle even when in a caloric deficit and what you really need to build muscle. Also why the "if it fits my macros" approach doesnt really work. This weeks topic we share our tips and practices on downregulation. This weeks workout is Sallys Revents. 

This week is from Dr. Anthony Jay talking about Epigentics and Heavy Lifting.

This weeks athlete has been around for a while, Trampis Beatty. We do some reflecting on the recent Spartan Beast. We also dive into some of his lifestyle changes, his overall improvement from his first Spartan to the most recent one, and keeping with out community. 

This week Jerred talks about what has happened with Betterhumanology podcast. He had several years of interview from leaders around the industry and some want to know what his take aways from having that podcast. Submit your questions at Garagegymathlete.com/AMA.

Hello athletes, this episode has some great stuff for all athletes and especially our athletes. The study we go over talks about the benefits of zone two training and when is best to burn fat. so if you want your body to burn fuel more efficiently and how to burn fat the best definitely check this out. We also each talk about best tips for training and using our programming. This weeks workout is new and interesting. Zone 2 Murph. Yes thats right, doing Murph without going above 70% of your HR.