“I believe that lifestyle and stress drive your behaviour” – Nick Paterson
Nick Paterson is an engineer, former RAF and commercial pilot, blogger, and Owner of Ultimate Fitness. In 2008, the financial crash took down Nick’s business in Finite Element Analysis Design, which catalysed Nick’s decision to become a house husband and focus on raising his young daughter. It was during this time that Nick realised his health was in rapid decline.
In 2012, Nick bumped into a friend who had experimented with a high-fat low-carb (HFLC) diet and lost some body fat. Nick was very skeptical, but watched from the sidelines as his wife did the same and lost a significant amount of fat over several months and vastly improved her health. Not able to ignore it any longer, Nick took the plunge and went low-carb. Despite some good fat loss in the beginning, Nick soon hit a plateau and discovered that low-carb wasn’t the entire answer. This led him to invest a ton of time to figure out the optimal diet for himself to help him lose his excess body fat and optimise his health. Eventually, Nick came across high intensity strength training via Body By Science, and coupled this with his nutrition knowledge to provide a Personal Training, Diet and Biometric Monitoring service.
Nick Paterson’s before (243lbs) and after (194lbs) ….. DAMN
Nick is currently taking on new clients. To get a free high intensity training trial in Helsinki, Finland, contact Nick here. Also, I encourage you to follow Nick on Twitter to learn about his crazy outdoor adventures!
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In this episode, we cover:
- How to break through fat loss plateaus by removing inflammatory foods
- Nick’s unusual bodyweight high intensity training regimen
- How to start a personal training business from scratch
- How to raise prices in your personal training business
- … and much, much more
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Selected Links from the Episode
- Cheshire
- Cranfield University
- Tucano
- RAF Brize Norton
- Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
- Pan American World Airways
- British Airways
- Rolls-Royce RB211
- Gulf War
- Bosnian War
- Finite element method
- Airbus
- Joint Strike Fighter
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Kegerator
- Zero carb
- Ketosis
- Insulin sensitivity
- High intensity training
- Rest-pause
- Myo-reps
- HITuni.com (High intensity training courses and certifications)
- Ultimate Exercise (Dr Doug McGuff’s training studio)
- 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 )
- MedX
- Nautilus
- David C Series exercise machines
- What happens after 5 months of LIHF Living & 15 mins HIT strength training per week? (Client A)
- Thyroidectomy
- Thyroxine
- Myopathy
- Big-3
- Doug Holland – How To Start And Grow A Strength Training Business
- Luke Carlson – How To Generate More Revenue In Your High Intensity Training Business
- Galway
- Big-5
- Fire striker
- Pemmican
- One Year of Calisthenics, 4 Months of Meat & Water & a Stool Chart!
People Mentioned
- Dr Doug McGuff (Listen to my episodes with Doug here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5)
- Dr Ted Naiman (Listen to my episodes with Ted here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3)
- Hippocrates
- Ad Ligtvoet (Listen to my episode with Ad here: Part 1 and Part 2)
- Wendy McGuff
- Luke Carlson (Listen to my episodes with Luke here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5)
- Doug Holland (Listen to my episodes with Doug here: Part 1 and Part 2)
- Steve Maxwell (Listen to my episodes with Steve here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3)
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Great podcast. Wise advice overall.
Lawrence, you see your solution to your habit changes are to be found in growing older and wiser (not a common characteristic these days). So this makes sense, when young and robust one can tollerate the punches and if one has been there and done it the need for it vanes away. My difference with Nick in these matters are that I did drink at a (To) young age and was done with it around age 21. Never looked back. So the same with all the rest of junk for the body and mind. Feel the benefit of non disrupting behaviour and it all becomes easy. But it starts with a intellectual insight.
This is how I see all this health/nutrition stuff anyway. Benefit from our modern life regarding “allowing” to age to a decent amount of years and behave so you don’t damage yourself during the process.
Congratulations to Nick for getting control of his health issues. His story is interesting and inspirational in several ways. However, some of his theories seem controversial.
Inflammation is a very popular topic on health and fitness sites these days. It seems that almost every ailment associated with modern living gets blamed on inflammation, and the cure almost always involves a restrictive special diet, often backed by a new diet book. The very popularity of the topic leaves me wondering how much of this stuff is really evidence based.
Great episode I enjoyed it.
The one thing I will say as a mental health professional is that it does worry me slightly people advocating eating no junk food or even carbs. I think it is unrealistic and could lead to an unhealthy relationship with food or even develop an eating disorder.
Don’t get me wrong I think we should all strive to eat healthy on a daily basis but I don’t think having the occasional mars bar or alcoholic beverage should be seen as a bad thing.
Hi Matt,
That I do not agree with. Ofcourse there is nothing inherent wrong with sometimes eating garbage. But do you suggest the manufactures of this junk keep us sane and that all those years before the garbage was around we humans developted eating disorders? Control urges will do so, sure but that’s different from just wanting proper human nutrition.
And what about those that got away from meds by eating without junk but will fall back after the first mars bar?
You state that you are slightly concerned, but is it maybe overly concerned?
For me, I have no mentall issues by eating the way I do and not feeling a urge to eat junk or drink now and then alcohol or under social pressure.
Again, if one want to do so I see no problem with it. But the body gives most often the sign of “bad choice” and the guuilt sets in too.Maybe something is wrong if one needs the junk/alcohol once in a time or every soccer game or being with friends etc just to feel good or better. Isn’t the company by itself not enough??
Excellent podcast! Nick’s story of turning his own health around then beginning a journey to help others was incredibly inspiring. I’d love to go on one of his Lapland camping expeditions some day!
Over all an interesting interview. I really identify with fatherhood catalysing a personal transformation. The longer the podcast went on though, the more my views diverged!
Every health/lifestyle niche harbours and promotes it’s own delusions (veganism/CrossFit/ultra-endurance etc etc) but find it fascinating that we all listen and go along for the ride. While it’s compelling to listen to “extreme” opinions that conform to your biases, especially from charismatic sources, I really think that we risk giving a soapbox to people with “eating (or more properly, maybe “lifestyle”) disorders”. One person may have had what they feel to be “success” by following a certain path but one person’s experience may not reflect objective reality and should not become an epiphany to be preached to the world. Correlation does not equal causation, N=1 “findings” are meaningless. These super restrictive exclusionary diets are bordering on insane, having more in common with eating disorders than anything.
On a more positive note it was interesting to hear that Nick trains one exercise to failure daily. I’ve been toying with the idea of doing something similar myself recently. I wonder how it would change the “feel” of recovery and my nutrient requirements. Interesting to think of how it might change one’s biomarkers too.
I don’t think that training on a daily basis under any circumstances is a good idea with respect to recovery/health/longevity .
What you “think” and reality aren’t necessarily the same thing. The specifics of training stimulus combined with individuals response/recovery ability can produce wildly different results.
Of course individual recovery ability varies i’m very well aware of this , i’m simply saying that one must consider cumulative stress/wear & tear on the body . Just because one can tolerate something doesn’t necessarily mean one should do said thing with respect to longevity .