739 - The WRONG Way To Train Abs, Cortisol and Testosterone, and Online Macro Calculators
Choose Hard with Cody McBroom
Cody McBroom
4.9 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this Q&A we start by talking about the problem with online macro and calorie calculators, as well as how to actually determine how to set up your intake based on your goals. Then we get into training abs, the WRONG way - while of course explaining a better approach to developing your core. And finally we finish off with a discussion on stress and how chronically elevated cortisol levels can disrupt testosterone levels.
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Timestamps:
7:30 - In an online macro calculator I don’t know whether to put fat loss or muscle gain when calculating macros… I want both, so which way should I go?
17:15 - Thoughts on doing abs between sets of larger muscle group exercises, like squats and other compound lifts?
26:00 - Can chronic stress and elevated cortisol levels decrease testosterone levels?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the tailored life podcast, the one and only fitness and nutrition |
| 0:09.7 | podcast. |
| 0:10.3 | It goes way beyond just training and nutrition and helps you create a life by design. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm your host, Cody McBroom. |
| 0:17.2 | And with me is my co-host. |
| 0:18.3 | Travis McQueen. |
| 0:20.4 | And the McQueeninator. |
| 0:22.9 | McQueen-Nator. |
| 0:24.6 | No, just Travis. |
| 0:26.7 | Just Travis. |
| 0:27.4 | It's just I'll stop. |
| 0:29.5 | I was doing that too. |
| 0:30.9 | Bubba was going upstairs. |
| 0:32.3 | And I don't know where this is from, but maybe it's like American Pyr or something. |
| 0:36.2 | But he was going up and I was like come on bubba |
| 0:38.3 | bubara bubba runy the bubunator bubba and i was like doing it and blakely was just like that |
| 0:45.1 | i looked and she was like don't it's like okay awkward um when i said that intro i thought about |
| 0:53.3 | uh the help you create a life by design. |
| 0:57.8 | I just filmed a reels. And it was based off of a conversation I just had with the client. |
| 1:03.0 | So I was shooting the like intro video for my client to get started with his, his training and |
| 1:08.6 | nutrition program. And it was cool because, like, he, he sent me his questionnaire, and his diet is not looking |
| 1:19.1 | good. |
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