242: Strength Training for Optimal Health and Longevity with Christian Thibaudeau
Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life
Ted Ryce
4.8 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2017
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, our popular returning guest, Christian Thibaudeau, combines his 18+ years of training experience with his strength & conditioning knowledge to give you an easy-to-listen, science-based guide to optimal health and longevity. You will learn: how he got back in shape after a serious health issue - and how you can too. Five ways to stay lean for life, no more fads or crazy diets. Anti-aging exercises that will keep you young, strong and leaner. The importance of a healthy lifestyle and how carbs and fat fit into a healthy diet and much more. Listen Now!
Brief Bio:
Christian Thibaudeau is a Canadian bodybuilder, and strength coach. He's successfully trained a wide array of athletes from Olympic lifters and strongmen to hockey players and figure skaters. He's also a former competitive Olympic weightlifter, football coach, and has his M.Sc. degree in exercise science. Chris gained notability in the online bodybuilding world in the late 1990s as a key contributor to the online bodybuilding magazine, Iron Magazine Online (or IronMag). He is currently a frequent contributor to Testosterone Magazine and has been applauded by fellow trainers for his willingness to accept and incorporate other ideas into his training program.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- How Christian got back into shape after a health issue (3:40)
- 4 Reasons you can't out-exercise a bad diet (10:38)
- Staying Lean: 5 Tips for Staying Lean for life (17:12)
- Anti-aging exercise routine for 40+ years old (18:19)
- How to keep your muscles strong as you age (23:34)
- Training frequency – how often should you train after 40 (32:23)
- The benefits of high-frequency strength training (41:29)
- Exercises to reduce systemic inflammation (56:23)
- How much protein do we really need (58:02)
- Acid Alkaline Balance Diet (1:01:57)
- How carbs and fats fit into a healthy diet (1:05:59)
- Pro & cons of glutamine (1:12:05)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the Legendary Life Podcast. I'm your host Ted Rice. This is the show |
| 0:14.8 | that's all about taking your health, body, and life to that next level. I've got an amazing |
| 0:19.9 | interview for you today. I have Christian Thibode, the world-renown strength coach, back on the show. |
| 0:27.0 | Before I get to that, I want to ask you, have you checked out our free course on getting in the best shape of your life for 2017. |
| 0:36.7 | If you haven't, go to Legendary Life Podcast.com |
| 0:40.8 | forward slash free, that's F R E and download the course there on to today's episode. |
| 0:49.6 | I had Christian on the show for episode 211, the seven most common fitness mistakes you're making and what to do about it. |
| 0:57.0 | It was an epic two hour episode that I think is the most downloaded episode that we've had on the show. |
| 1:05.0 | It's certainly the most shared on Facebook. |
| 1:08.0 | If you haven't listened to that, I highly recommend it. |
| 1:10.0 | We'll link to that in the show notes for this episode, but 2-11, the seven most common |
| 1:15.5 | fitness mistakes you're making and what to do about them. |
| 1:18.5 | So today Christian is back on the show and we dig a bit deeper into some personal struggles that he's had |
| 1:28.0 | to go through Healthwise and I also share a little bit of what I've had to go through Health |
| 1:32.4 | Wise. The reason is I believe |
| 1:35.0 | there's this misconception that so many people have outside the health and fitness industry |
| 1:40.8 | when they're looking at strength coaches like Christian, when they're looking at strength coaches like Christian when they're |
| 1:44.0 | looking at people like me like oh those guys those guys live and breathe health well |
| 1:48.6 | you're gonna hear how Christian was doing a lot of the wrong things and how some health scares got him to change his ways. |
| 1:58.1 | Yes, he was strong, he was athletic, he was muscular and built, but he wasn't healthy and today it's all about like |
| 2:06.7 | this new approach Christian is 39 I'm 40 old, we're more concerned with living a badass life well into our |
| 2:17.8 | 40s, 50s, 60s, etc. And we talk today about how to do that and Christian brings it like always. |
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