Flex Diet Podcast

The importance of sleep. Whenever you talk about sleep, especially around a group of lifters, these questions then come up, "Should I be ingesting protein before I go to bed? Does that mess up my metabolism? Does that gonna make me jacked in four weeks? Is this a good thing? Is it a bad thing? Should I get up in the middle of the night and consume protein?" All very good questions. I did a run many, many years ago of where I got up in the middle of the night and consumed some protein. I would put an insulated cup in the bathroom with ice in it and would set my alarm for around three in the morning. I would get up and consume that and then go back to bed cause I wanted to keep the anabolic response going as much as possible again, an n = 1 experiment. But was that necessary? Visit www.flexdiet.com. Finally, understand nutrition on a whole new level. The Flex Diet Certification only opens 4x a year. Get on the waitlist to get notified for the next class.

This week, we've been talking a lot about sleep, and today I wanted to discuss with you just a very short thing related to the impact of sleep on metabolism. Now, earlier in the week, we talked about how if your quality of sleep is less, it may impair your body's ability to use fat as a fuel source. And I would say that that may have implications on body composition. And unfortunately, physiology is kind of messy and complex. What is the association of short sleep and different aspects of sleep-related to energy metabolism? Research in this area of sleep shows that as you get less sleep right, your body is going to be under more stress. So what? Let me tell you why that matters. . . Visit www.flexdiet.com. Finally, understand nutrition on a whole new level. The Flex Diet Certification only opens 4x a year. Get on the waitlist to get notified for the next class.

AAAAALLL about sleep. Want the # 1 tip for sleep that I found works really well? Now you may be thinking of answers like making your sleep cave, making sure that it's nice than dark, making sure that it's nice and cool or doing different things before bed, having a pre-bed ritual, maybe supplements using melatonin or magnesium or other things to help you relax before bed. Maybe it's some type of super cool bio-hack of sitting in front of your bio modulation photo, blah, blah, blah, red, yellow, purple light, whatever is the latest trend right now. Nope, it's actually not any of those. Listen in to find out. Visit www.flexdiet.com. Finally, understand nutrition on a whole new level. The Flex Diet Certification only opens 4x a year. Get on the waitlist to get notified for the next class.

Aaaah Sleeep. =) We'll chat about the number one problem that I see when trainers and clients discuss sleep . . . and it's probably not what you think, right? So here's how it typically goes (and I am entirely guilty of doing this in the past and probably still do it time to time.) You have a discussion with the client. Their goal is more performance focus. They want to get a little bit leaner and want to see more fat loss. You start talking to them about some of the lifestyle factors and find out that they only sleep about six hours a night, sometimes even five hours . . . So you begin making recommendations. What happens next? Visit www.flexdiet.com. Finally, understand nutrition on a whole new level. The Flex Diet Certification only opens 4x a year. Get on the waitlist to get notified for the next class.

This week we're going to be talking about the effects of sleep. And so sleep is kind of the trendy thing in fitness now. And I would say there are lots of good reasons for that and we're going to explore some different aspects of this. One of the first ones I think is most interesting is related to body composition and especially related to how the body can use fat as a fuel. "What?? My sleep affects my body composition?" you exclaim. Yep. Let's find out why. Visit www.flexdiet.com. Finally, understand nutrition on a whole new level. The Flex Diet Certification only opens 4x a year. Get on the waitlist to get notified for the next class.

Macros redefined -- The concept of macro nutrient matching or macro matching is a concept that not many people talk about. The silence puzzles me. Be it too much coffee or too much research, it appears to almost make too much sense. It may seem basic but it's not well used. To create a more metabolically flexible person, we must match the macronutrient to the work that is going to be performed. I'll give you some examples cause I know it sounds like way too simplistic. Visit www.flexdiet.com. Finally, understand nutrition on a whole new level. The Flex Diet Certification only opens 4x a year. Get on the waitlist to get notified for the next class.

In this episode we are talking a little bit about the framework of metabolic flexibility. So as you've heard in the previous episodes here, metabolic flexibility is how well can you use carbohydrates, how well can you use fat and then how well and how fast can you switch back and forth between those two. And the reason why I think this framework is so important and why you hear me yammering on about this all the time, is that there is actual research on this. It's not a made up concept. Let's dive into the research to build that framework. Visit www.flexdiet.com. Finally, understand nutrition on a whole new level. The Flex Diet Certification only opens 4x a year. Get on the waitlist to get notified for the next class.

Today, I wanted to talk to you about the concept of leverage and how we can use this to figure out what interventions may be best for our clients. You've probably heard of the concept of leverage range from physics, and if you have a big enough lever, you can move huge amounts of load with less effort, right? And it's kind of amplifying the work that you're putting in. This concept can also be applied to when you're working with clients as to what kind of intervention should you do on the recovery side for nutrition and different aspects related to that. Learn more on this show.

Today we're talking about what metabolic flexibility and how it relates to flexible dieting. As I mentioned in podcast episode 1, I sort of fell into the concept of metabolic flexibility by getting it assigned as my research project when I went over and switched to do my PhD in exercise physiology at the University of Minnesota. And what I like about the concept of metabolic flexibility is it respects the dynamic nature of physiology. Anatomy and physiology are fascinating, but at rest they're not all that exciting... but exercise physiology... now a lot more things are in motion. Learn more on this 2nd episode of Not Another Fitness Podcast.

Hey, it's Dr. Mike T Nelson here and this is the very first podcast that I've done solo. Obviously, I've been a guest on many other podcasts. You can find me on most weekends on Iron Radio each week... But for this first solo podcast, I wanted to do a bit of an intro for those of you who haven't heard of me before. Enjoy the show!