Ep. 255: Eric Trexler - Metabolic Adaptation
Choose Hard
Cody McBroom
4.8 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2019
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Today, we have the one and only Eric Trexler on the show. “Eric is a pro natural bodybuilder and a sports nutrition researcher. Eric has a PhD in Human Movement Science from UNC Chapel Hill, and has published dozens of peer-reviewed research papers on various exercise and nutrition strategies for getting bigger, stronger, and leaner. In addition, Eric has several years of University-level teaching experience, and has been involved in coaching since 2009.” To summarize this… he’s a smart dude in the bodybuilding space and he brings A LOT of knowledge to today’s show!
Follow him on instagram @trexlerfitness
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TIMESTAMPS:
3:05 - Eric’s Story
5:25 – Research backed supplementation
11:08 – Citrulline Malate and it’s legitimacy
14:56 – The most interesting studies in Eric’s career
21:40 – Is “Starvation mode” real?
35:25 – Diet based metabolic and hormonal adaptation
45:30 – Multi day refeeds vs. diet breaks
49:00 – Length/duration of a prep and/or cutting phase
52:10 – What it takes for hormonal adaptation to occur.
55:25 – The diet after the diet (reverse vs. recovery, diets).
1:13:40 – NEAT and other lifestyle oriented caloric expenditures.
1:19:40 - Where can listeners find out more about Eric and all his content.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on, guys? |
| 0:13.9 | Welcome to another episode of the Boom Boom Performance Podcast. |
| 0:17.7 | Today's guest is Eric Trexler. |
| 0:23.9 | Eric is a natural pro bodybuilder, a prolific researcher. He just finished his PhD with more than 30 publications, which is a very |
| 0:29.5 | respectable amount of research done and just literature that he's personally been in the works |
| 0:34.4 | with and touched. And he has a lot of coaching experience inside of bodybuilding, |
| 0:38.4 | inside of strength training, so on and so forth. |
| 0:40.0 | He's also one of the directors, I believe, |
| 0:42.8 | or a big piece of the content production over at Stronger by Science, |
| 0:47.9 | which is Greg Knuckles company, |
| 0:49.7 | a really, really reputable source for good information for coaches |
| 0:53.8 | and people just trying to build their physique, build their strength, so on and so forth, be in the gym for good information for coaches and people just trying to |
| 0:55.0 | build their physique, build their strength, so on and so forth, be in the gym for a longer |
| 0:57.8 | period of time. And I'm really excited to have them on the podcast. We talked about a lot of |
| 1:01.6 | different things. We talked about natural bodybuilding. We talked about muscle maintenance. We |
| 1:05.5 | talked about dieting. We talked about what it takes to get extremely lean. And we talked a lot |
| 1:09.7 | about metabolic adaptation and all |
| 1:12.0 | the caveats inside of that, from the diet before the diet, the diet during the diet, |
| 1:16.5 | the reverse diet versus a recovery diet versus refeeds and diet breaks. |
| 1:20.3 | We covered quite a bit about metabolic adaptation and how to prevent it and how people get |
| 1:26.0 | sucked into it, I guess, essentially. |
| 1:28.9 | We also touched on a lot of other things with supplements and both of our past experiences with quote unquote 12 week preps. |
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