In the final installment of the Looking Good, Feeling Good miniseries, Coach D lays his case for training as the lynchpin of fitness, looks, and health. As we’ve made the case for many times, barbell training is the most efficient and complete method of training for achieving muscle […]

Journals aren’t just for recording your feelz… they are a useful training tool too. Even in today’s frenzied technology age, good old pen and paper are the best tools for logging your training and developing a deeper understanding of how well your training is driving you toward your […]

Coach D invites Dr. Steve Lawson back on the podcast to recount his death-defying journey to Siberia and back. While on a mission to Nigeria, Dr. Lawson contracted cerebral malaria — a particularly deadly expression of the disease — however his symptoms did not manifest until arriving in […]

Continuing from Episode 23, Dr. Steve Lawson recounts his harrowing tale of contracting cerebral malaria while on a mission in Nigeria, then falling ill a few days later in the middle of Siberia on another mission. In Part 2, Steve describes how weak and frail he had become […]

In the first ten episodes — the “Foundations” series – we discussed the Stress Recovery Adaptation cycle, a simple yet powerful model that describes how organisms, including ourselves, adapt to stressors in their environment. It also helps us understand howwe go about creating the change we want in our bodies. There must be […]

Last week Coach D discussed the signs and symptoms of overtraining. Today he talks about strategies for preventing overtraining and treating it when it does happen.

1. Nutrition– this is one area that blocks the progress of many novice trainees. Your eating habits need to support your training. First and foremost, make sure you […]
   

There’s a saying that goes “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” Well if you don’t sleep, you might be dead sooner than you like! We all know intuitively that sleep is very important, and this intuition has been reinforced by the volumes of data […]

In Part 1 of a new miniseries on lower back pain, Coach D and Trent dive into the causes, treatment, and prevention of back pain, the most common form of pain reported by patients and trainees. First, however, they lay down the foundation for understanding back pain: the anatomy and function of the […]

In Part 2 of the back pain miniseries, Coach D and Trent discuss the science of pain. The traditional pain model describes pain as pain messages (nociception) delivered to the brain as a noxious stimulus in response to tissue damage. While this model works well to describe acute pain, such as smashing your […]

Competition is deeply woven into the fabric of our world. It drives the animal and plant kingdoms; it is the very beating heart of Nature. Removed as we are from physical competition in the modern world — our survival needs long ago taken care of by industrialization — it’s easy to become disconnected […]

Coach D and Trent are back on the topic of back pain, this time tackling the treatment* of back pain. As discussed in previous episodes, many people experiencing back pain lack both strength in their back musculature and proper control over the motor patterns the back was designed to move through. Back pain […]

Coach D discusses a recent experience observing the “coaches” at a highly regarded (and premium priced) gym while training on the road. These coaches, while well-intentioned, often serve as little more than rep-counters and, essentially, babysitters for their clients, in the absence of a clear, logical training model, intelligent programming for their clients’ […]

Trent and Coach D return for round 4 of the series on lower back pain, wrapping up the topic with a meaty discussion about exercise for treating chronic low back pain as well as acute pain from injury.

As mentioned in previous episodes, it’s very important to first get […]

Coach D and Coach Trent discuss how routine and habits can impact your mindset and sometimes get in the way of good training. As the saying goes, humans are creatures of habit, and that holds true for training. Whether it’s a pair of lucky underwear, a rocking tune, or doing the haka before […]

Everyone’s got one, and they all stink. We’re not talking about opinions. We’re talking about excuses. As the New Year approaches — and along with it new resolutions and promises to change old habits — it’s easy to imagine yourself six months or a year later with exactly the body you want, performing […]

Coach D sits down with dietician and Starting Strength Coach Robert Santana to talk about the million dollar question: how do you lose fat, and keep it off? First, it’s important to understand why we get fat — the body chemistry of fat […]

Robert Santana is back for part 2 of a deep conversation on nutrition, dieting for bodyfat loss, and fostering healthy eating habits for sustainable weight loss. In this episode, Santana breaks down the roles of the macronutrients in a weight loss situation, and explains why carbs are NOT evil (and in fact do […]

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Last episode we posed the question: why do our workouts have to be so hard? The scientific answer to this question lies in the concept of the stress-recovery-adaptation cycle, or SRA cycle, derived from Hans Selye’s work in the first half of the twentieth century. Simply put, in order to generate an adaptation, […]

It’s an innocent question… when is strong, strong enough? For most people, the answer is never. They will never be strong enough. Because most people aren’t actually training, and if they are training they are not training for strength. Those of us in the 40fit Nation aren’t most people […]