Welcome to the Garage Gym Athlete podcast, where we explore the world of functional fitness and performance training in the home gym. Join us as we talk to coaches, athletes, and experts about their experiences in building strength, endurance, and athleticism outside the traditional gym setting. In addition to sharing practical tips and strategies, we'll also delve into the latest scientific research on topics like exercise physiology, nutrition, and recovery to help you optimize your training and achieve your best results. Whether you're a seasoned garage gym veteran or just getting started on your fitness journey, this podcast is for you. So if you're ready to unleash your inner athlete and take control of your training, tune in to the Garage Gym Athlete podcast.
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This week we have Amy Lyman and this was such a great episode. Amy has a great story to tell from her volunteer fire fighter duty, to raising 6 kids, staying active and learnign to stuggle. Highly recommend this episode espeically for a look at mental toughness.
This weeks study we look at a systematic review directed toward carbs before workout and your output. How much should you get and how much of an impact does it have?
This is Tylers second time on the podcast, and the first time we came up with the oh so awesome workout "Plank You Tyler." Is there another one this time?
This week we are doing somethign different and going over a peer reviewed opinion paper but this made for a very good discussion. How misinformation and disinformation in the health and fitness community is hurting it.
This week we are talking with long time athlete Richie Boardman. He tells us how his garage gym got started, why finding a training group is so important, and accountability.
This is a new way to do our new cycle webinar. You will get an overview on our programming, how we program, the goals of each track and even a birds eye view at each training track for next cycle
Athlete interviews are back! This week we have Mark Bishop. Long time athlete first time guest and we have a lot of great things we talk about. Training in the elements, finding your tribe, and getting workouts done with lots of travel.
Should you always give full effort every workout? Or do you need to dial it back? How sustainable is your workout program? If you have been hitting a wall you need this episode.
We talk about the importance of sleep a lot and we don't plan on stopping, thats how important it is. This weeks study was done on mice and tumor grown, showing that disrupted sleep more than tripled sizes of tumors. Then we talk about the best sleep practices.
This study was a systematic review on how strength training can make you much healthier and lower your rise for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and even some cancers. doing strength AND conditioning more than doubled those results, aka concurrent training.
Weight loss will never not be talked about and debated. This study aimed to compare which type of bread was better for weight loss but really they were just proving how important fiber is.