#24 -Optimal Workout Design For Less Fat, More Muscle & Fewer Injuries
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2014
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Learn the best way to structure your workouts for physique transformation and enhanced performance. In this episode Jay answers your questions including:
· Should you combine cardio with weight training
· What type of program should females follow to gain muscle and strength
· Thoughts on HIT training and why is training to failure something to avoid
· How to improve speed
· The best exercises for back development
· How to get and stay motivated
· Optimal training frequency
· What to do when progressive overload stops working
· Nutrition advice for the skinny-fat hardgainer
· Overtraining and CNS fatigue
· How to train on the road
· The benefits of yoga and soft tissue work
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Renegade Radio. I am Jay Fruj here with my good friend Allison Hagenorf. |
| 0:17.0 | What's up, Alice? What is going on Jay? |
| 0:19.0 | Not much, great to have you back here. We missed you're off in Chicago living it up at |
| 0:23.3 | Lala Palusa I was doing my thing but back in LA and psyched to be here I |
| 0:27.5 | missed you I missed you I missed you. |
| 0:28.9 | I missed you. Good to have you. |
| 0:30.3 | Love Fest. So today we're going to do another episode strictly for you guys. We do the show for you guys so you like the last Q&A that we did so we're going to do another one today keep it it short and sweet, about a half hour. |
| 0:43.6 | So we have a bunch of questions. |
| 0:45.0 | Allie's going to read them and I'm going to do my best to provide you guys with an answer. |
| 0:49.2 | Damn straight. |
| 0:50.4 | And guys, I'm going to do my best to pronounce your names correctly, but feel free to yell at me at Ali-Hagen-Dorf if I have not done a good job. |
| 0:58.0 | All right, Jay, the first question we have is from Mario Reyes, and he says, what do you think of cardio in between sets replacing |
| 1:04.6 | rest periods of 30 seconds to one minute of cardio with the ultimate goal of |
| 1:08.5 | burning fat and gaining muscle? I hate it. I don't like it I like to keep cardio and slash conditioning and |
| 1:17.8 | strength training separate so I think the goal of being in the weight room or if |
| 1:21.0 | you're just doing body weight the goal of strength training is to get |
| 1:23.8 | stronger to build muscle and then you do your conditioning separately. |
| 1:28.1 | So your conditioning could be playing your sport, it could be hiking, it could be getting |
| 1:31.8 | on the mat if you're a fighter or wrestler |
| 1:35.0 | Whatever or it could just be you know doing a circuit of of battling ropes and pushing a sled into a kettlebell swings and jump rope but when you mix it in with strength training, you are |
| 1:45.4 | compromising your results. |
| 1:48.6 | The goal of strength training, always remember to keep the goal the goal, keep the main |
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