99: Mailbox Monday - Can You Build Muscle On A Calorie Deficit? Life Lessons From Fitness & More
Fit, Healthy And Happy Podcast
Colossus Fitness
4.9 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Mailbox Monday, we answered a ton of questions including: can you build muscle on a calorie deficit and what is one life lesson you have learned from fitness?
Down below you will find the timestamps for this podcast:
➢ Gratitude (0:00)
➢ Can you build muscle on a calorie deficit if your protein levels are still high, or at least hold onto it? (2:45)
➢ I know I shouldn't eat late at night, what are some foods to help recover from the workout that is light enough? (6:40)
➢ Do you have any advice to give to a pint-sized athlete, I'm 4'11 about to start a new job as a police officer. Any tips to keep up with the boys? (9:48)
➢ What is one life lesson you have learned from fitness? (14:30)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on? Welcome to the fit, healthy, and happy podcast. I'm your host Josh here with my co-host. |
| 0:05.5 | KG in the house. And it's a beautiful day. I mean, it's sunny, but at least there's some cloud cover, and we're in the car filming this. So, no way you see you today to get that audio quality up. And we got some exciting news. |
| 0:18.4 | I am, um, was it going to be the microphone. Ah, two exciting news is for the folks today. |
| 0:25.5 | Kyle's like, wait, it's too big. |
| 0:26.7 | You just threw me off. |
| 0:28.3 | We're going to keep it real here. |
| 0:29.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.8 | So the good news is we actually bought a mic. |
| 0:31.9 | We bought a road recording mic. |
| 0:33.6 | It seems to be rated quite well. |
| 0:36.1 | It costs us about two and a half bills. |
| 0:39.0 | $250. A little bit of investment. Invest in the podcast. You know what? That's what's all about. We want to continue to improve this and we said, hey, we're going to put our money where our mouth is and really invest in this podcast and make it as, you know, awesome as it can be. and we're gonna try and eventually actually scale up to three episodes here do more |
| 0:55.7 | collabs so we have some big sites for this podcast. So for all of you who have been listening, just get excited for more content. People are always saying, I can't wait for the next episode. I finished all 90 of them or whatever now. And I just want more and more and we love that like that means so much so |
| 1:11.2 | the goal is absolutely to go up to three episodes and one of the reasons we invested more into the |
| 1:16.4 | podcast is we woke up today with you know over 20 Instagram messages and everyone like we had |
| 1:22.0 | mentioned I guess in one of our previous episodes I don't even remember saying it but just hey |
| 1:25.3 | shoot us a DM on Instagram if you actually like it because it offers a lot of value for us and make sure that we, you know, kind of know that you're all listening and enjoying it. So I'm going to give three shoutouts today, and maybe we'll make this a Monday ritual for the time being. And Kyle's fired up. I am fired up because of these and also because I'm drinking a cup of coffee. But I'm always fired up, especially on these Monday podcasts. |
| 1:47.1 | So Jess Gibson 91 said, just wanted to send a quick message. |
| 1:51.4 | Thanks for the great podcast on Spotify. |
| 1:54.0 | I do a lot of traveling. |
| 1:54.9 | So really enjoy downloading your stories to listen and be inspired. |
| 1:58.2 | So thank you so much, Jess. |
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