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🗓️ 30 September 2025
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In this episode of the Choose Hard Podcast, Cody McBroom and Tailored Coaching Method’s Coach Kyle team up for another listener Q&A, tackling some of the most common (and controversial) questions in fitness and nutrition. From programming strongman-style training like farmer’s carries and sandbag work, to breaking down whether weight loss goals should focus on total weight or body fat percentage, this conversation delivers both science and practicality.
Cody and Kyle also dive into the accuracy of body fat testing methods, whether insulin spikes really impact fat loss goals, and how to approach the heated debate around seed oils with your nutrition clients.
Plus, they tackle rapid-fire segments on the hard things more people should be doing, the one piece of advice they’d give to their kids in high school, and what they’d like to see more people doing in their fitness journeys.
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- How to incorporate strongman training into your workouts
- The truth about body fat % vs. scale weight for fat loss goals
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- Whether insulin and blood sugar spikes really affect fat loss
- What you should (and shouldn’t) worry about with seed oils
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Welcome to the Choose Hard Podcast. I'm your host, Codd McBroom. And with me, I have coach Kyle Johnson once again. Kyle's moving to Florida in November. So if he's in the office and I'm podcast, I'm like, might as well come on, bro. Might as well. Let's do it. So today we're going to do a Q&A. We got five questions. Yeah. Basically all fitness and or nutrition focused. These came from, I had a couple from Instagram. |
| 0:23.3 | One was actually from a client of mine. five questions. Yeah. Basically all fitness and or nutrition focused. |
| 0:40.5 | These came from, I had a couple from Instagram. One was actually from a client of mine. And then one was from a buddy who is just, he was just texting me questions. And I was like, I'll answer that on the podcast. But here's a brief idea of what the answer is. Because I didn't want to be the guy. It's like, listen to the podcast and I'll tell you because he's a friend friend. But, but yeah, we're going to get into, I think they're going to be good ones for everybody |
| 0:40.1 | listening because they're kind of touching on the basics of, I mean, really, some of them hit |
| 0:44.7 | on like the seed oil one, for example. Like, I haven't, I just realized I haven't talked about that |
| 0:48.1 | at all. I've had it asked quite a few times in messages, but I've never actually talked about it on the podcast. And I feel like that's |
| 0:54.3 | such a big, like hot topic right now. Huge. So this will be good. And then we'll be able to kind of go on |
| 0:59.3 | little mini rants throughout it. So dude, let's get started. The greatest things in life all start |
| 1:06.1 | with a challenge. You must accept that everything is hard before it gets easy. Every must accept everything you want in life begins with a hard path. |
| 1:15.4 | All right. |
| 1:16.8 | So question number one, do you program strongman work like farmers carries and or like sandbag work specifically? |
| 1:25.1 | This was such a random question. |
| 1:27.9 | But I guess a good one. |
| 1:30.3 | I mean, I think that, so there's two ways I look at this. |
| 1:35.3 | Strongman conditioning, strong man training. |
| 1:38.9 | It really doesn't serve a huge purpose outside of the specificity of strongman competition. |
| 1:44.4 | But I don't even include sandbag work or farmers carries as strongman training. |
| 1:49.8 | At this point, I don't. |
| 1:50.9 | It's so commonly used as just functional fitness now. |
| 1:54.1 | When I think of strongman stuff, I think of like yoke carries and log presses. |
| 1:59.3 | I used to the gym I trained out for a long time. They, |
| 2:01.9 | we had a log there and we used to use that. And it's actually fun doing like cleaning presses |
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