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#109 // The 10 Training Commandments (10 rules for making progress in the gym)

Fitness Stuff (for normal people)

Tony and Marianna

Health & Fitness

4.9644 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Today, your hosts are bringing you their top 10 rules to follow to have a well-rounded, successful fitness journey. This list contains rules to follow inside and outside of the gym as well as mentally and physically. Take a listen and see if your routine is missing a few.. if so, that could be what is currently holding you back from your full potential.


Other episodes mentioned in today's episode:

Ep 103 // Top 10 Reasons Your Workout Isn't Getting You Results
Ep 88 // Body Recomp: Lose Fat & Build Muscle At The Same Time (a complete guide)

Ep 83 // How To Fix Your Sleep

Ep 48 // Progressive Overload 101


Quick Links / 10 Fitness Commandments:

Thou shalt not skip cardio (6:28)

Thou shalt follow a training program (14:24)

Thou shalt train using progressive overload (18:36)

Thou shalt leave thy ego at home (24:30)

Thou shalt honor thy rest days (28:21)

Thou shalt not skip thy warmup (38:30)

Thou shalt fuel your body (42:37)

Thou shalt lift heavy enough / RPE scale (51:12)

Thou shalt keep it simple (56:29)

Thou shalt stop comparisons (1:00:00)




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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's going on, everyone? Welcome back to the fitness stuff for normal people podcasts. I'm Tony. And I'm

0:05.7

Mariana. And the fitness industry kind of sucks right now. It's become something built on really

0:09.9

whatever drives clicks and sales at this point and has just moved attention away from what actually

0:15.1

matters. So we're not just trying to provide another fitness podcast, but actually act as a resource,

0:20.4

giving you the knowledge and tools so you have the confidence in applying the best possible

0:24.2

training and nutrition into your own life, where today we are bringing you the 10 training

0:29.8

commandments.

0:31.7

More specifically, the 10 rules that you need to be following if you have any hope of making

0:36.3

meaningful progress in the gym.

0:38.2

If you're missing one or more of them, it could be one of the reasons why you've hit a plateau

0:42.4

or stop making progress altogether. One is all that it takes. These are the aspects that you

0:47.3

need to dial in both inside and outside of the gym. This episode has been a long time coming.

0:53.3

Before we get into that though, y'all know how to make

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us smile. Rate us five stars on whatever platform you are listening to us on. And if you're

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1:05.1

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Episodes every single Friday where we answer your own questions.

1:18.4

You also get access to all of our complete 12-week training programs, including our glute growth Bible.

1:25.9

Tony calls it that we just dropped.

1:28.4

Was that last week or two weeks ago? It was last week and it is freaking brutal. My glutes, like just sitting down hurts right now

1:34.6

because yesterday's workout. It's, it's brutal. I think that's a good side. You can get those

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