what is going on guys welcome to another episode of the boom boom performance podcast today's guest

is lauren conlin there is a lot of people listening to this show

who will know exactly who Lauren Conlin is. She is the owner of Loco Fit. She is a coach,

specifically in the physique world. She has also been an NPC figure competitor and an IFBBB

pro bikini competitor for quite a while now. She has her master's in exercise science from the

University of South Florida working in Dr. Bill Campbell's lab, which is well known in the physique

space, which is actually one of the coolest things about that lab specifically is that they do

things that are so physique oriented, which is rare because a lot of things are centered around

performance or

athletes or really taking studies about calories and intermittent fasting and macros and protein

and all these things that we love to learn about. And they're testing things on sedentary

individuals, elderly individuals, people who will let us study them. Essentially, it's really

hard to get bodybuilders to

step out of their routine and do something for a research study. Like, hey, I want you to stop

eating so much protein, follow this meal plan, and train this way because we're going to do a eight-week

study. Most people who are gym rats, like myself, like probably you listening, will say, no,

I'm cool. I'm going to stay in my routine because this is getting me results.

So it's hard to find studies that do this.

But Lauren and the people in Dr. Bill Campbell's Lab do a lot of the physique science stuff,

which is one of the reasons why I respect and love their content so much.

Specifically, one study they did, she ran on flexible dieting it was actually one of the only ones

ever done on flexible dieting which is something we're going to dig in today actually comparing

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