The greatest things in life all start with a challenge.

You must accept that everything is hard before it gets easy.

Everything you want in life begins with a hard path.

Welcome to the Choose Hard podcast.

I'm your host Cody McBroom and I'm here to help you think better, do better, and become better.

Today, I am going to put my science hat on, and I'm going to dive into some training and

nutrition research. A little bit of psychology in here as well, but research studies that have

been coming out as of recently, or at least reviewed recently and kind of been on my

radar with regards to

fitness and nutrition. So I'm going to cover four specific studies and I'm really just going to

break down what the study showed in layman terms being simple, right? Really, really simple

terms of trying to break this down in as simple of a way as possible. So you can benefit from the

research itself. And then I'm going to

give you my opinions, give you my thoughts, give you what my anecdotal experience of coaching

people one-on-one for the last 13 plus years has taught me with regards to what the study is saying.

And so the four studies I'm going to be covering in this podcast are going to be exercise variety for hypertrophy.

We are talking about full body splits producing greater fat loss.

We're going to talk about the psychology behind refeeds, diet breaks, or cheat meals.

So really just, you know, being more intuitive or having a free meal, having a cheat day, stuff like that.

And then last but not least, we are going to cover health versus performance.

So does your health improve or decline with greater bouts or volumes of performance?

We're specifically going to talk about endurance running, but there is a part of this.

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