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Ep. 187: Dr. Mike T. Nelson - Simplifying The Science of Training and Nutrition

Choose Hard

Cody McBroom

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness:fitness, Nutrition, Fitness

4.8812 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Ketogenic Dieting? Fasted Cardio? Metabolic Flexibility? Stress? What does the science say for all these hot topics? Well, I today I brought the one and only Dr. Mike T. Nelson on the show to provide us with some answers. Mike is one of the smartest people I’ve had the pleasure of knowing over the years and it’s an honor to get him on the podcast – get a notepad for this one!

You can find more about Dr. Mike and what he does with his company “Extreme Human Performance”, at http://miketnelson.com/

 

- (3:09) 1. Mike’s “Story”

- (7:54) 2. Mike Working With Athletes

- (10:10) 3. How Does Mike Go about “Fixing” His Clients (Metabolic Repairing)

- (15:51) 4. Mikes Philosophy Behind Programing Training

- (21:23) Does fatigue go hand in hand with the central nervous system?

- (24:19) What HRV is, how Mike is tracking it with his clients, and how HRV determines how Mike programs.

- (44:50) If Mike Doesn’t Track HRV, how does he split his training programs up?

- (47:20) Is Mike a Fan of Fasted Cardio?

- (57:49) Periodizing Nutrition To increase Metabolic Flexibility.

- (59:45) How to Improve Metabolic Flexibility

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's going on, guys.

0:11.8

Welcome to another episode of the Boom Boom Performance Podcast.

0:15.0

Today's guest is Dr. Mike T. Nelson.

0:18.2

Dr. Mike T. Nelson is one of the smartest people I have had the pleasure with knowing

0:22.4

in the fitness space, in the nutrition space, just in this industry period. I met him should have had to

0:28.1

been two or three years ago at the physique summit seminar in Springfield, Missouri, which was held

0:33.4

by Cliff Wilson and John Gorman, which I think they still do. So I met him out there. He was

0:38.2

familiar with some of the people that I have worked with and some of the work I've done. I was

0:42.4

very familiar with his stuff. So we got to chat. And then we got to link back up, obviously,

0:46.1

for this podcast. So we've stayed in touch. And I'm glad I did because he's literally, the dude

0:50.9

is so smart. It's insane. And it's such a pleasure to be able to learn from colleagues like this that are just at the top and at the forefront of what science is doing today.

1:00.2

So I brought him on the show because I wanted to show you guys a little bit of the science that he's working on, a little bit of the training stuff that he's working on.

1:05.8

And what he's studied over the years, because I mean, like literally this guy has spent 18 years in university.

1:13.0

18 years. university 18 years it's crazy as a PhD has so many certifications so many credentials behind his name back and everything up

1:18.5

that he does and he's in the trenches of science so today we brought him on we talked about

1:22.5

conditioning we talked about metabolic flexibility we talked a lot about HRV and how that can help

1:27.0

you manage your training manage your deal loads manage your delos, manage your stress levels, build better results.

1:31.5

We talked about his go-to training splits and programming for physique competitors,

1:36.2

athletes, general population, everybody he works with. Man, we got into a lot of different topics

1:41.4

and we broke down the science of it. Sorry, he broke down the science of it. And I got to sit here like a fly on the wall and ask him questions and pick his brain,

1:48.3

which I love doing on this podcast. So this is going to be an episode that you're going to want

1:52.3

to grab a notepad for. You're going to want to really slow down and just think about what's

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