Garage Gym Athlete

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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Episodes

156: What To Do For A Warm Up To Better Perform

This weeks study we take a bit of a detour and talk about the uses of foam rolling and why you should do it. Spoiler, its not to enhance performance.

Aug 08, 2022•56 min

Avoid Injury When Increasing Training Volume

This week we are helping you to get better by not getting worse!

Aug 05, 2022•8 min

How To Workout.. When You JUST Don't Want To

Jerred gives three tips on how to workout when you JUST dont feel like it.

Aug 03, 2022•13 min

155: Maintaining Explosive Power After HIIT

Were always trying to test the boundaries of concurrent training and learn more. This study examines how explosive strength is immediately after a HIIT session. Its not surprise that power is effected, but how much?

Aug 01, 2022•55 min

Lifting To Failure

When should you be lifting to failure or leaving reps in reserve?

Jul 29, 2022•9 min

A Conceptual Look at Energy Systems

We have broken down energy systems straining, but how should you apply them to your training? How should you attack these and distribute these in your pogromming?

Jul 27, 2022•14 min

154: Does Beta Alanine Actually Work?!

We don't take a lot of supplements here, but we do like to dive into the research because athletes ask a lot about them. Beta alanine is marketed a lot to strength athlete, but does it actually help with strength and lifting? Or is it better for endurance?

Jul 25, 2022•1 hr

Velocity Lifting - A Case for a Garage Gym Training Partner

Dynamic liting is often the missing element in alot of strength programs. But how do you know when you are being dynamic and losing velocity?

Jul 22, 2022•8 min

How To Add Skill Practice To Your Routine

We are all about getting better and there is a learning curve to everything. So how do you get better and develop new skills, especially when working out at home alone?

Jul 20, 2022•15 min

153: Get Stronger & More Explosive JUST with Glute Practice

This study was simple, straight forward but so important. The glute is such an important and sometimes neglected muscle when it comes to strength and power. This study and another shows how just adding some glute activation exercises and increase your performance.

Jul 18, 2022•59 min

Fat Loss - How fast is too fast?

Fatloss needs patience, everybody wants those results fast. But how fast is too fast?

Jul 15, 2022•9 min

TOP 4 Underrated Core Exercise You NEED To Be Doing

In our program we have what's called the "daily" which is basically the core. Since the core is so important to everything you do and goes way beyond sit ups. So where we talk about 4 core exercises you need to be doing in your program.

Jul 13, 2022•10 min

Recast: How To Burn Fat

This is a classic episode and one of the top episodes we tell all athlte to listen to. If you have heard us talk about zone 2 training or seen it in our programming, this episode is the origin of all of that.

Jul 11, 2022•49 min

The Science on Knee Wraps and Knee Sleeves

Should you wear knee sleeves or knee wraps? What do they ACTUALLY do?

Jul 08, 2022•10 min

One Month Concurrent Training TEMPLATE

**check this out on our YouTube to see the template** We did one week detailed breakdown for concurrent training, now we show you how we play a single month of concurrent training.

Jul 06, 2022•13 min

152: How Much Volume Should You Lift While Cutting?

This week we actually had some issues with the study on a long term and health basis. So we say needs to be said about the volume you are lifting while you are trying to cut or lose weight and preserve muscle mass.

Jul 04, 2022•40 min

Does Caloric Restriction Help With Strength?

everybody wants the unicorn approach to figtness, lose fat and gain muscle. Well how can you do that? Can you get stronger while in a caloric deficit?

Jul 01, 2022•7 min

TOP 4 WaysTo Increase Strict Press

Strict press can be one of the hardest movements to improve on and one that a lot of athletes struggle to increase. Here to talk about out TOP 4 tips to incase your press.

Jun 29, 2022•15 min

151: How to STICK to a Program

This week we are looking at a study on motivation, intrinsic motivation verses extrinsic an creating autonomous athletes. This is great from a coaching perspective but also for athletes.

Jun 27, 2022•52 min

Red Meat + Fruits + Veggies = ??

We talk about nutrition a lot on here, but what is clean eating? what should you be eating? Why?

Jun 24, 2022•8 min

Energy Systems: Creatine Phosphate Workouts

On to our last energy system, the phosphagen energy system. This one is all about power and max effort. Many athlete will do these and feel they havnt done much work or was very hard because the work to rest ratios are so high. Check out this video for more on that and how to program it.

Jun 22, 2022•14 min

New Cycle WEBINAR- Breaking Down Each Of Our Programs

These webinars are good for current and new athlete. Here we break down each training track we have and what the focus will be for the next 12 weeks. This is also how we deliver big updates and reminders to things we have going on.

Jun 20, 2022•28 min

What is "Clean Eating"?

Nutrition study! We dont get a lot of these but when we do we are always excited and this one is especially good. It trys to define what clean eating is.

Jun 17, 2022•11 min

Energy Systems: Programming Glycolytic Workouts

Continuing the energy systems training, we have glycolytic or glycolic system. We refer to this as PAIN intervals, and I you have experience with them you would agree. Here we break down further about what it is, how to train it and how to program it.

Jun 15, 2022•16 min

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