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

165: Are You Properly Fueling For Your Workout?

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?

Oct 17, 2022•40 min

How Body Fat Impacts Immune Response

there is a difinitive bellcurve with fat percent and how your immune system is.

Oct 14, 2022•9 min

Making The Right Changes With Tyler Robertson

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?

Oct 12, 2022•27 min

164: Baseless Claims and Pseudoscience in Health and Wellness

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.

Oct 10, 2022•47 min

Nitric Oxide on Strength

How does nitric oxide effect strength?

Oct 07, 2022•11 min

How Can You Get More Protein In Your Diet?

We talk about how important protein is and do protein and water challenges. So how can you hit your daily protein?

Oct 05, 2022•21 min

Whole Eggs vs Egg Whites- One Is FAR Superior

Egg whites have been popular for a long time, but should have just have been eating the whole egg the entire time?

Oct 03, 2022•36 min

Does Glycogen Depletion Impact Lifting?

Do you workout fasted? Or have a preworkout meal?

Sep 30, 2022•10 min

Why Finding A Training Group Is SO Important; With Richie Boardman

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.

Sep 28, 2022•23 min

BEHIND THE SCENES Look At Our Concurrent Training

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

Sep 26, 2022•41 min

How Can Brain Fatigue Affect Performance

If your stressful or intensive job effecting your workout perforance?

Sep 23, 2022•11 min

How Do We Reduce Soreness?

This week the team is talking about how we reduce soreness and what we do on the days we are very sore.

Sep 21, 2022•18 min

162: How ibuprofen will WRECK your Gains

Anti inflammatories and pain killers can only help you recover and workout more right?.... WRONG.

Sep 19, 2022•40 min

It All Matters: Air, Water, & Mobility

How do your approach recovery?

Sep 16, 2022•17 min

Training For Your Worst Day With Mark Bishop

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.

Sep 14, 2022•35 min

Fact or Fiction: Supplements to Reduce Soreness

Lets talk more about supplements. Do they really help with soreness?

Sep 12, 2022•57 min

Curcumin Supplementation

Wondering why you seem Tumric all over the place for supplmentation? does it really help with recovery?

Sep 09, 2022•17 min

Top 3 Secrets to Wolverine-Like Recovery

Have you been looking for the SECRET to recovering after workouts? Supplements? Nutrition? We have your top 3 tips for recovery.

Sep 07, 2022•18 min

The Eighty Five Percent Rule For Optimal Learning & Fitness?

This week we are talking about learning and failure. What is the optimal failure and stress to properly learn and grow?

Sep 05, 2022•58 min

Training For Longevity

We want to get better and increase our performance, but the long game is more important.

Sep 02, 2022•8 min

How to Know When You are at Your LIMIT in a Workout

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.

Aug 31, 2022•21 min

159: Why Sleep Can Save Your Life & How To Get It

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.

Aug 29, 2022•1 hr 1 min

How Important is Individualized Hydration?

Hydration is one of the most important things you should be on top of. But how individual should you make it for YOU?

Aug 26, 2022•10 min

3 Ways to Think About VO2 Max

We get a lot of questions about Vo2 Max, so just how important is it? How much should your pay attention to it? And what factors effect it?

Aug 24, 2022•14 min

158: Why Strength AND Conditioning Help You Live Longer

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.

Aug 22, 2022•56 min

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