#446: The Insider's Guide to Optimal Strength Training
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
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🗓️ 29 July 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
You've got questions.
And you know, I've got answers.
I'm back with another jam packed Q&A to help you live and train optimally, feel your best, and crush your goals. A few of the questions I address today are:
- How can you avoid the inevitable elbow, forearm, and shoulder issues that come with chin-ups? [3:00]
- Can you make significant progress on a 4-day, push pull legs split? [7:20]
- What is clean failure? And how many sets should you be taking to failure? [9:18]
- What's the easiest way to fix poor posture? [11:12]
- How much protein should you be eating per day? [13:47]
- How do you navigate multiple rep ranges? [16:42]
- What's the best way to do drop sets? [28:52]
- How many days should you train per week? And what to do on off days? [31:18]
- Who are my recommended kettlebell training pros? [34:52]
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| 0:00.0 | What is up everybody, Jay Frugio, Renegade Strength Show back in the house with another powerful |
| 0:15.9 | episode to help you unleash your stronger self. |
| 0:19.1 | We are sponsored today by bio optimizers. |
| 0:21.4 | I recently received a question from a listener he wanted to know if it was possible to avoid |
| 0:25.4 | digestion problems by eating only organic healthy food. |
| 0:29.3 | It's a nice thought but unfortunately it's just not possible. |
| 0:31.5 | You see your natural ability to digest food declines with age. |
| 0:35.5 | This is because your body produces fewer enzymes which are the proteins responsible for |
| 0:39.6 | digesting food. |
| 0:41.3 | Fewer enzymes means more difficulty digesting. |
| 0:45.1 | Even organic foods won't provide enough enzymes to properly digest them. |
| 0:49.0 | This is especially true of cooking food because cooking kills enzymes. |
| 0:53.0 | This is why you may have digest the problems even after a healthy meal. |
| 0:56.9 | Your body just can't produce enough enzymes to get the job done unlike big daddy can't. |
| 1:04.1 | This is where supplementing with a high quality enzyme supplement can be a huge help. |
| 1:09.0 | I personally recommend mass enzymes by bio optimizers. |
| 1:12.0 | It is a best in class supplement loaded with full spectrum enzymes for digesting proteins, |
| 1:17.8 | starches, sugars, fibers and fats. |
| 1:20.6 | Taking mass enzymes daily helps top off your enzyme levels and replace the enzymes your |
| 1:26.2 | body is no longer producing which means you'll be able to eat all sorts of delicious foods, |
| 1:31.4 | digest them quickly and effortlessly. |
| 1:34.2 | After you start taking mass enzymes you may notice you no longer feel bloated after meals |
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