#124 // Taking Time Off The Gym
Fitness Stuff (for normal people)
Tony and Marianna
4.9 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
What happens when you need to take time off from the gym? One of your hosts, Tony, is in the thick of this experience due to surgery and eager to help others that might be in the same position currently or in the future. In this episode, all aspects of how to stay healthy during a break from the gym or moving your body will be covered. A variety of changes need to be considered during this time such as diet, lifestyle, movement, psychological affects, and so much more.
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Timestamps:
(14:00) How fast do you lose muscle?
(18:46) How fast do you lose strength?
(21:57) What to do to SAVE muscle (calories)
(28:15) What to do to SAVE muscle (protein)
(35:13) What to do to SAVE muscle (movement)
(47:09) What to do to SAVE muscle (supplements)
(50:01) How fast does muscle/strength come back
(55:25) The psychology aspect
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is up? Everyone, welcome back to the fitness stuff for normal people podcasts. I'm Tony. |
| 0:05.0 | And I'm Mariana. And the fitness industry right now, it's not that great. It's become something built on |
| 0:10.7 | unrealistic expectations, aesthetics, and external validation, everything directing attention away |
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| 0:21.5 | change the fitness industry for the better. By giving you the knowledge and tools, so you have |
| 0:26.1 | the confidence in applying the best possible training and nutrition into your own life, where |
| 0:31.7 | today we are talking about what happens when you need or are forced to take time off the gym. |
| 0:38.3 | I just had surgery this past Saturday, and I'm not going to be able to work out for a full month. |
| 0:43.8 | So today, we're going to take you through every last thing that I'm going to be doing |
| 0:47.3 | and what you would need to do from a diet, a lifestyle, a movement, a supplemental point of view |
| 0:52.8 | to make sure that you hold on to as much |
| 0:55.0 | muscle, strength, and progress as you can when you need to take time off, along with the |
| 0:59.7 | psychological side of all of it, messing with your head along the way. And as always, the easiest |
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