112. Stay Lean Without Overtraining or Under Eating with Pauline Nordin
The Kris Gethin Podcast
Kris Gethin
4.9 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Joining us today is IFBB Pro and the creator of the Fighter Diet, Pauline Nordin. Pauline fell in love with bodybuilding at a young age in Sweden and formed a dream of moving to Venice, California. She overcame the fact that she had never trained in a gym and became one of the first Figure Professionals. In 2007 Pauline turned her unique training and diet style into the Fighter Diet. Tune in to hear more about Pauline's no BS approach to bodybuilding.
Time Stamps
Who is Pauline Nordin and what prompted her fitness journey? [3:30]
What made Pauline want to move to LA? [9:00]
Why Pauline broke the bodybuilder mold when she was competing. [17:45]
Pauline's "feeling" approach to training. [22:15]
Is HIIT necessary? [38:30]
How does Pauline keep her physique even though she isn't competing? [44:30]
Pauline's take on meal timing and portion sizes. [49:00]
Featured Guest
Pauline Nordin [IG @PaulineNordin]
Eat Big, Loose Big, Fighter Diet
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Chris Gethyn here and welcome to another episode of the Knowledge and Mileage |
| 0:06.3 | podcast. Today's guest is all the way from Sweden but now living in Venice, California, the Mecca. |
| 0:14.3 | She is an IFBB Pro and she is the founder of the Fighter Diet., I've known Pauline for many, many years, |
| 0:23.1 | dating back to like 2005 when I was living in Venice, California, |
| 0:28.4 | and we know many of the same people within the industry. |
| 0:31.9 | And what I've noticed with Pauline over the year is phenomenal. |
| 0:36.9 | She is probably the leanest and most muscular |
| 0:40.5 | female in the world today that I know of. She stays in phenomenal shape. Even though she was in |
| 0:47.4 | phenomenal shape when she was competing as an IFBBB Pro, that would usually be in prep. But now |
| 0:53.6 | she maintains this body fat percentage all year round with very little cardio |
| 1:00.1 | and mostly managed throughout the diet. |
| 1:02.5 | And her program has proven very, very popular with females around the world. |
| 1:06.9 | So I wanted to get her on the show to give us all of her secrets. |
| 1:11.3 | So without further ado, let's get into the show with Pauline Nordin. |
| 1:16.9 | As you guys know, everybody is facing challenges with the recent virus pandemic at the moment. |
| 1:24.3 | And that's from stress, financial stress, sickness, quarantines. |
| 1:29.0 | You know, everybody has been touched by it by some way or another. And gut issues are just one |
| 1:35.6 | of the things that are coming up due to this stress. And unfortunately, the gut is under |
| 1:41.4 | assault like never before in human history. |
| 1:45.4 | And this is why I asked my friends at bioptimizers to help people during these hard times. |
| 1:52.3 | So they responded. |
| 1:53.9 | And to help out, bioptimizers is giving away a free bottle of their patented probiotic P3OM until the end of this month. |
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