Push Pull Legs Podcast

its that time of year where we will get bombarded with "swaps" on food and how to keep the weight off during the holidays... so we though we would off our thoughts before December and the holiday party season is in full flow. also, dan john gave a great statement about overkill, love it lastly the list...tiers... are back!? christmas chocolate selections anyone?

we discuss, why endless cardio and circuit classes might not be the answer to your body composition goals, the three lift solution for leg training and what do we think is coming back on the fitness trend merrygoround discussing a post from a great coach, sohee lee. saying that for body composition should have a training hierarchy of strength training top... then anything else afterwards... not these endless cadet classes and cardio that you seem to peak after 4 weeks. and then plateau. also we chat the 3 lift method for legs... and lastly what do we think in terms of fitness trends will be coming back around... from the last 10 years or so

We.... well Tom welcomes back the ultimate substitute teacher in Josh Silverman as Dan is on holiday, we invited josh to fill his small angry man shoes and talk about fitness and nutrition methodologies and how they can turn into a cult if you not careful. further more we dive into performance nutrition and the application of that looking at weight gain and loss...

A show full of interesting advice....not given by us! well, critically evaluated by us anyway. an article about fast weight training was given to us to have a browse through, we give a few considerations that the authors thought they had written... about... but maybe left out on purpose. we have a little look and share a bit of advice on how to order exercises in your own programmes. oh... stupid things... prunes... fibre and.... our favourite fitter food

ITS TOM'S BIRTHDAY! .... but in other news, there was some questionable advice given out this week on amylase, orange juice, coffee and caffeine by a fun duo of a popular strongman and the truly awful DNA testing company.

Soooooo... we have a show filled with info... mirth... and some slight rants.... haha a listener put an interesting poll about kcal and holding onto body weight. we will explain why and how of each answer, with a bit of fun! also cold marketing? does it ever work? randomly contacting on linkedin? let us here your stories!? as tom has an interesting one contact him

on the back of the weekend, both dan and tom were at seminars, for a change... dan was delivering and tom attending... we discuss, muscle building in a deficit what is the best surplus? is there a optimal? does your metabolism get damaged? slow down or adapt!?

Recording on the THURSDAY! madness... We chat or just give our thoughts on mental health awareness.. how lucky we really are to be in the UK and the position we are in to have a device to even listen to us! Like seriously doesn't compare to some but on a lighter note! we outline the times and moments we had where we realised certain aspects of training or nutrition were the way forward and a must do... this comes from 12 years since the first publication of the hip thrust for glute training. also... vegans?! are you really doing it right?!

This week the boys talk about common ways to get better essentially. so reflecting on your own practice of programming, exercises, nutrition and behaviours around and with clients. also tom shares some absolute gold... that to be honest he wishes he knew when he first started training clients...

this week we summarise a paper by kreiger and schoenfeld on maximal sets for hypertrophy. but also look at the critic by lyle macdonald. we offer our opinions and what we took from the research... also we have a light chat on being open and honest about taking assistance for lifting and training. also a couple of ideas and questions were raised for being trends in 2019... will they or won't they!?!?