Max Shank is a trainer and coach who has a passion to not just get people stronger but to help them move better, become more flexible, have more fun training and improve all aspects of their life.
Aside from being able to do a host of incredible gymnastic feats, Max has excelled at a range of sports from Highland Games, to wakeboarding, to tennis, all the way to jiu jitsu. In this episode you’ll learn about Ultimate Athleticism and Max’s philosophy to training and why fun is an often forgotten element of a successful training plan.
Max explains his 5 minute flow and why it’s a great way to start the day, why the handstand is a great exercise and how you can learn to do one, ways to gauge your own strength, other fun exercises you can try that are a bit different, how to minimise injury and prevent boredom with training and why juggling, yes juggling can be a great addition to a training programme.
FFF 054: Zero To Hero Guide To Strength, Health & Flexibility - with Max Shank is a post from: Food For Fitness
Yvette ‘SciBabe’ d'Entremont is a science blogger, speaker and former analytical chemist with a background in both forensics and toxicology. When she isn’t speaking at conferences, writing for magazines or battling health gurus, she runs her website full time where she busts pseudoscience with a great mix of humour, real life stories and science.
In this episode we’ll chat about why some people often become emotionally attached and harbour illogical and unsubstantiated fears over seemingly insignificant issues. Why do some nutrition and health issues stimulate such emotional responses? If someone eats gluten and drinks diet coke, is it that big a deal? What’s with the dietary tribalism.
We’ll look the suggestion that pharmaceutical companies are keeping cures from the general public, Yvette explains why all studies aren’t sponsored by multinational corporations, exactly what are ‘toxins’ and why they’re everywhere and her thoughts on ‘biohacking’ – is it legit or pseudoscientific BS?
Yvette also talks about her experiments with homeopathy and she’ll shed some light on many other exaggerated, unscientific crazes that people love to get sucked into.
FFF 053: Toxins, Diet Cokes, Pseudoscience & Fighting The March Of Unreason - with Yvette ‘SciBabe‘ d’Entremont is a post from: Food For Fitness
This week’s guest has an extremely varied background which saw him start out as a physiotherapist and competitive bodybuilder referring transitioning into the role of a strength athlete.
He is now a leading coach, writer, speaker and authority on kettlebell and bodyweight training. In this episode, Scott Iardella explains why he feels that strength is the foundation for not only a solid training plan but for life in general.
He’ll explain his 5 levels of strength, how he tests his clients in the gym and his ethos towards training. We’ll then move onto kettlebells and Scott shares why they’re such a badass training tool, the benefits, the best exercises you can do, how often to train with them, how they can be used for not only strength training but conditioning too and what the latest research is saying about kettlebell training.
FFF 052: The Edge Of Strength, How To Get Stronger With Kettlebells & Discover Your Greatness - with Scott Iardella is a post from: Food For Fitness
In this episode you’ll learn the finer points on how to get lean, like really lean, as in physique athlete and natural bodybuilding lean!
Eric Helms is highly respected a physique coach, athlete, author, educator and researcher who has been involved in the fitness industry since the early 2000’s. Eric has published multiple peer reviewed articles in exercise science and nutrition, writes for many commercial fitness publications and is currently finishing his PhD at AUT in New Zealand.
In this episode of the Food For Fitness podcast, you’ll learn how Eric manages his clients expectations, the physiological and psychological negatives of achieving very low body fat levels, how he tracks progress, the pros and cons of meal plans and macro tracking, his thoughts on diet breaks and refeeds, reverse dieting, the lowdown on reverse dieting and his top tips for adhering to a plan and staying on track.
FFF 051: How To Get Super Lean: Nutrition For Physique Athletes & Competitors - with Eric Helms is a post from: Food For Fitness
In this episode, Scott answers a range of questions submitted by the listeners.
We’ll cover nutrition topics including daily recommended fibre intake, protein and carb intake for different goals, Scott’s thoughts on carbohydrate cycling, are pre-workout supplements good for improving gym performance, how to break fat loss plateaus and are fat burners effective.
There’s exercise questions too including how to fix lagging body parts, walking vs running, fasted or fed cardio and much more.
FFF 050: Nutrition And Fitness Q&A, Listeners Question Time is a post from: Food For Fitness
Since being diagnosed with diabetes as a teenager, Phil Graham set out on a quest to learn more about his condition. What he discovered was a fascination for learning everything about the human body, nutrition and training. Fast forward to the present day and he has now become a leading authority on nutrition and training for diabetics.
Phil’s career started in the NHS in Northern Ireland as a dietician while he was also competing as a champion bodybuilder. He then went on to set up his own business working with people from all walks of life who want to build muscle and improve their body composition.
In this episode, Phil explains the different types of diabetes, the nutrition considerations for managing the condition, why nutrition timing becomes ever more important, the benefits of training and muscle mass for insulin control, the facts about low carb dieting and his top tips on how to reverse or minimise the risk of type 2 diabetes.
FFF 049: Muscle Building Nutrition & Diet Considerations For Diabetics - with Phil Graham is a post from: Food For Fitness
Cancer is something that will have directly or indirectly affected almost everyone who has listened to this podcast. But despite it’s prevalence, lot’s of us know so little about it.
This week, cancer researcher and sport scientist – Dr Ian Lahart – is on the show to talk about exercise and cancer and why exercise can reduce your cancer risk. He’ll explain how different lifestyle factors can contribute to cancer, the types of cancer that respond best to exercise interventions, why exercise can reduce instances of certain cancers but not others, how exercise can benefit patients, why physical activity affects cancer survivorship and lots more.
FFF 048: Running For Your Life – How & Why Exercise Helps Fight Cancer - with Dr Ian Lahart is a post from: Food For Fitness
Dr Brian Wansink is a leading behavioural economist, food psychologist, bestselling author and Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University.
On this episode of the Food For Fitness Podcast, Brian shares some unique insights from his latest book – Slim By Design – that will make it easy for you to eat healthier-without even noticing that you’re making changes! Brian explains that the easiest, quickest, and most natural way to reverse weight gain is to work with human nature, not against it.
He believes the best way to lose weight isn't to tell people what to do; it's to change their living environments so it becomes mindlessly easy for people to eat healthier.
In this episode, Brian shares some incredibly insightful findings from his lab. For example, did you know that serving your food from the stove away from the dining table will prompt you to eat 19% less food! Or that a person who has breakfast cereal sitting on the worktop on average weighs 21 pounds more than their neighbour who doesn’t? Or that a messy kitchen causes you to snack 44% more often!
It doesn’t get better at work either, Brian explains that people who have snacks in or on the desk reported weighing 15.4 pounds more than those who didn’t. This is an incredibly interesting podcast episode that will make a huge difference to how you set up your home and workplace to help you lose weight! .
FFF 047: Slim By Design, Is Your Home & Office Making You Fat - with Prof Brian Wansink is a post from: Food For Fitness
Robin Sieger is a Scottish professional motivational speaker, former stand-up comedian, cancer survivor, world-record holder (for the coldest round of golf ever played, 18 holes at -26°C), author, and a leading success strategist. His bestselling book Natural Born Winners has been translated into over 20 languages and sold in 90 countries.
In this episode of the Food For Fitness Podcast, Robin shares his top tips on how to achieve success with your health, your fitness, in your relationships and in all aspects of life.
He’ll explain the impact your beliefs have on outcomes, why you shouldn’t be afraid of failure, how to deal with setbacks, how you can beat the fear associated with risks, the secrets used by peak performers tackle to take goals and overcome obstacles, why belief without action is just dreaming and other realistic and insightful mind hacks on how you can achieve success in everything you do. .
FFF 046: How To Create The Life You Want & Deserve, Practical Advice For Achieving Success & Happiness - with Robin Sieger is a post from: Food For Fitness
What is emotional eating? From a craving that won’t go away, to eating when stressed at work, to celebrating success with a piece of cake, we all are emotional eaters.
However, some people turn to food for the wrong reasons and it can result in growing waistlines and unhealthy food associations.
In this episode of the podcast, Sport and Exercise Psychologist Dr Tracey Devonport explains the causes of emotional eating and how you can combat it. We’ll cover food cravings, being mindful, tips to combat eating when stressed, how to prevent children becoming emotional eaters, the difference between overeating and binge eating, the causes and symptoms of binge eating, the willpower consequences of being overly restrictive, why chronic dieting can lead to cycles of poor eating and lots more.
FFF 045: Understanding Emotional Eating & The Psychology Of Food Binges - with Dr Tracey Devonport is a post from: Food For Fitness
Brad Schoenfeld PhD, is an internationally renowned muscle building expert, researcher, speaker and lifetime drug-free bodybuilder. He is a best-selling author of multiple fitness books and has published over 70 peer-reviewed research articles on exercise and sports nutrition.
In this episode of the podcast Brad will explain what the latest research says about muscle building. He’ll explain how often you might want to train if maximum muscle gain is your goal and why it might be more often than you expect, how much volume is needed per workout, the science on high repetitions vs low repetitions, why tempo may not be that important, the importance of de-loading and rest weeks, why you don’t need to ‘confuse the muscle’ as often as you think and lots more. If you want to make gains, then this podcast is going to help you avoid the broscience and make serious improvements to both your training and your physique.
FFF 044: The Science Of Maximum Muscle Building & Making Gainz - with Brad Schoenfeld PhD is a post from: Food For Fitness
This episode is packed with everything you need to know about sleep. Dr Ian Walshe is a sleep researcher at the University of Stirling and in this episode he’ll explain all about how sleeping or a lack of sleep impacts your body composition and recovery.
He’ll explain why sleep is so important, if a lack of sleep leads to fat storage, the optimum number of hours you need per night, if excessive sleep is detrimental and why the quality of your sleep is more important than the quantity of sleep.
We’ll examine if long term sleep deprivation has any detrimental health consequences, how shift work can impact sleep patterns, if you can catch-up on sleep or if it’s just a myth, the science of power napping, if the time of day you exercise impacts sleep and whether you need more or less sleep if you want to lose fat or build muscle. .
FFF 043: The Skinny On Snoozing, How Sleep Impacts Your Body Composition - with Dr Ian Walshe is a post from: Food For Fitness
This week, Georgie Fear is our expert guest. Georgie is a US-based sports dietitian and nutrition coach.
In this episode, Georgie explains how long it takes to develop a habit, the difference between thought habits and behavioural habits, why being hungry isn’t always a bad thing and how you can shape your social and physical environment for greater success.
FFF 042: Lean Habits For Lifelong Weight Loss - with Georgie Fear is a post from: Food For Fitness
Josh Hillis is a nutrition coach who specializes in habits-based, positive changes. LoseStubbornFat.com, his popular fitness and fat-loss blog, has tens of thousands of regular readers, and his fat-loss and kettlebell-training ebooks continue to help people reach their personal goals.
FFF 041: Fat Loss Habits For The Real World - with Josh Hillis is a post from: Food For Fitness
This week Laura Turner-Allenye is on the show to chat all about how sprint training can benefit not only sprinters but footballers, triathletes and casual runners alike.
Laura has an impressive background as a GB athlete and her 12 year international athletics career saw her compete at the Beijing Olympics, win 5 UK titles and a Commonwealth Games Gold Medal. These days, she is a top coach.
With an MSc in Sport Sciences (High Performance Physiology) she works with professional athletes, weekend warriors and every day folks who want to get fitter, stronger and faster.
FFF 040: The Benefits Of Sprint Training & How To Incorporate It Into Your Exercise Routine- with Laura Turner-Alleyne is a post from: Food For Fitness
This week Professor of Sports Psychology – Andy Lane (PhD, CPsychol, CSci, FBASES) – is on the podcast to chat about the psychology behind eating.
We’ll look at the effects eating has on emotions, why people comfort eat, how to improve self-control when it comes to eating, emotional regulation, the importance of reinforcing positive behaviours, why it’s important to focus on behaviour change and not just the outcome and why rewarding change can make a huge difference to your long term weight loss success!
FFF 038: The Psychology Of Eating – with Andy Lane is a post from: Food For Fitness
In the first show of 2016 we are talking all about binge eating. Nia Shanks, online trainer and fitness coast is this week’s guest and she is joining us from Kentucky in the USA.
Nia completed her degree in Exercise Physiology from the University of Louisville and she’s earned a load of awards including being listed as one of The 100 Most Influential People in Health and Fitness by Greatist.com.
In this episode, Nia share’s her story about how she suffered from binge eating cycles and disordered eating. She explains how it came about but most importantly, the steps she took to beat it!
FFF 038: Breaking Free From Binge Eating – with Nia Shanks is a post from: Food For Fitness