Me climbing mountains with friends in Wales, UK.
In this episode, I am interviewed by the host of the Addicted To Fitness Podcast (website), Nick Burch. This was a really fun conversation where I got the opportunity to tell my fitness story, how I stumbled across HIT and how it changed everything!
Check out the Elemental Training Tampa blog post for this episode – HERE
In this episode, we cover:
- How high-intensity training changed my life
- My favourite Corporate Warrior podcast episodes
- How I got more ripped effortlessly
- What is HIT?
- TUL vs repetitions
- … and much more
During the episode, I go into a fair bit of depth regarding my diet, and the following image courtesy of Dr Ted Naiman will serve as a useful reference and heuristic:
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QUESTION(S) OF THE DAY: What concerns do you have about starting high intensity training? Let me know in the comments below.
Selected Links from the Episode
- High Intensity Training
- Galway (in Ireland)
- About me
- High-intensity interval training
- Paleo Diet & Strength Training Biochemistry | Doug McGuff M.D. | Full Length HD (The 21 Studios)
- Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body Building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week by Dr Doug McGuff and John R. Little ( Amazon US / Amazon UK )
- Joe Rogan Experience #1050 – Dr. Shawn Baker
- Episodes with Dr Doug McGuff:
- Body By Science Author, Dr Doug McGuff on Strength Training Fundamentals, The 4-Hour Body and How to Train to Succeed at Obstacle Races
- Body By Science author, Dr Doug McGuff: Advanced HIT Concepts, How Excessive Nutrition Might Not be Necessary for Muscular Growth and How to Become Superhuman
- Dr Doug McGuff on Multiple Sets, How To Beat The Plateau and How To Grow Your Personal Training Business
- Dr Doug McGuff on Workout Volume and Frequency, Neck Training, Exercise Science, Entrepreneurship, Cryptocurrency, and Relationships
- Episodes with Dr Ted Naiman:
- My eBooks:
- Decision fatigue
- Intermittent fasting
- Example high-intensity strength training workout
- The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss ( Amazon US / Amazon UK )
- The 4 Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman by Tim Ferriss ( Amazon US / Amazon UK )
People Mentioned
- Dr Doug McGuff (Listen to my episodes with Doug here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4)
- Nick Burch
- Mark Sisson (Listen to our episode here)
- Steve Maxwell (Listen to my episodes with Steve here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3)
- Dr Shawn Baker (Listen to my episodes with Shawn here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3)
- Joe Rogan
- Dr Ted Naiman (Listen to my episodes with Shawn here: Part 1 and Part 2)
- Rhonda Patrick
- Arthur Jones
- Tim Ferriss
429 – A Deep Dive into Joint-Friendly Fitness with Bill DeSimone: A New Paradigm in Exercise Safety
426 – Dr Doug McGuff — Expanding ‘Ultimate Exercise’, Navigating the Realities of Running a HIT Studio on Autopilot, Crafting the Ultimate Client Workout Experience, and Delving into Muscle Hypertrophy and Steroid Side Effects
422 – HIT Collision: David Landau and Lawrence Neal’s Explosive Showdown!
Hey Lawrence, nice job! I find it funny, that TUL is more accurate than reps for assessment of a workout, but is equally inaccurate when one tries to measure it accurately by himself , when training alone. And being nothing more than a measurement, it becomes completely useless if it becomes a major focus point, thus distracting, from the real objective of exercise etc.
Thanks Kamen. If unsupervised and assuming you think it’s important to track TUL (many advanced trainees don’t like Skyler and Dr Steele) one should make it as easy as possible. I like tracking performance and find using a Casio stop watch or iPhone stop watch pretty easy to measure TUL without impacting my concentration.
Hi Lawrence, I’m glad to hear it works for you. For me though, tracking TUL, when training alone seems like a distraction. TUL is an important measurment and could be useful when workout is supervised. Otherwise, when training alone, I found only one way of using it’s value, e.g. to determine roughly my load/set duration/inroad mixture. I’ve posted my practice with regards to this application before. Besides that though trying to measure it consistently every workout, every exercise, for ME quickly deteriorates to focusing too much on something, that really is not all that important, rather than deliberately “addressing the muscles”.
Cheers!
P.S. How’s Minnesota treating you these days? 😀
That’s great advice Kamen. Thank you for sharing.
REC (Minnesota) was amazing. Definitely one of the best weekends of my life. Met so many great people and learnt a ton. You should definitely come in 2019. The return on investment is huge, especially now that you’re looking to go into the fitness business. REC attracts the top HIT business owners, amazing speakers, and HIT / RT enthusiasts. You’d love it!
Glad to hear that, really! I was beggining to worry what it will actually be like, seeing the initial movie clips/trailers from REC’s. Nevertheless, it was probably just the missleading nature of media. I find your first hand impressions of the event most reliable 😀 Otherwise, I am pretty sure that I would have enjoyed Minnesota. I spent 3 months there and in neighbouring Wisconsin way back in the summer of 1996, working for a BSA training exchange program. So part of my heart is there :)))