Ep. 299: Coaching Roundtable with Christopher Barakat and William Grazione
Choose Hard
Cody McBroom
4.8 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
Today is another Coaching Roundtable where I sit down with two other established coaches and discuss various common (and misunderstood) topics that arise inside the training and nutrition coaching space.
In this episode we have Christopher Barakat; Bodybuilder, Prep Coach, Owner of Competitive Breed, and Graduate of the Exercise and Nutritional Science Masters Program at University of Tampa, as well as a currently teaching professor and published scientist in the Human Performance Lab. We also have William Grazione; Pro Natural Bodybuilder, Coach, Bachelors of Exercise Science, and owner of Metabolic Evolution.
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TOPICS DISCUSSED:
TRAINING:
- Opinions on the volume research that has been published in the last 1-2 years (is more really always better?)
- Effort and intent… how important is mind muscle connection, the individual’s effort inside of each rep, focus, etc. Does it matter or is it all about volume?
- Training to failure - is there a time for it? Or should we avoid it completely?
- Program hopping… how long should someone stick to the same movements? And does this change between compounds vs. accessory lifts?
- Changes in training during a fat loss vs. a hypertrophy phase? And what’s the transition look like between one phase to the next?
NUTRITION:
- Defining nutritional periodization in the aesthetic world (what’s the meaning, to you, but also the application inside your coaching)
- Thoughts on the current state of reverse dieting and metabolic adaptation (these two things have blown up, some great info and some horrid info - what’s your take?)
- Ultra high carb diets… great for retaining muscle mass on a cut and for building new tissue in off season? Or a hormonal crash course?
- When and how to add refeeds and diet breaks
- Applying the research (what to know, look out for, and consider before taking a study and implementing it without reason)
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on, guys, welcome to another episode of the Boom Boom Performance Podcast. |
| 0:20.5 | This is the one-stop shop for all things. |
| 0:24.4 | Coaching, and today is a great example of that. Today I have two amazing coaches, two amazing |
| 0:29.9 | friends on the podcast to do the second coaching roundtable. This is something that I have been |
| 0:36.2 | thinking about for a long time. It's something I've been trying to create for a long time. And it's something that I have always listened to from other people's podcasts. I talked about this briefly on the previous roundtable we did with Austin Current and Steve Hall, which I'll link in the description. It was a really, really good podcast. These usually last a little bit longer, so be ready to listen, learn, take notes. |
| 0:56.2 | There's a lot of information and a lot of practical information |
| 0:59.5 | because again, my whole goal with these roundtable podcasts, |
| 1:03.7 | these coaching roundtables, is to keep it solely focused on coaching. |
| 1:08.4 | In my experience from what I've taken away from so many of the roundtables |
| 1:12.2 | out there, because there are a lot of amazing roundtables, people like Steve Hall, JPS, and a bunch |
| 1:17.2 | of others who do these roundtables with coaches and or researchers, but more often than not, |
| 1:23.6 | it's very specific to a exact topic. |
| 1:28.0 | So example is the refeed roundtable, the diet break round table, the volume roundtable, |
| 1:33.1 | you know what I mean, the training split roundtable, exercise selection, roundtable. |
| 1:36.6 | And we take one topic and we talk about it for one or two hours, which I think is very |
| 1:40.4 | valuable. |
| 1:41.1 | It puts a lot of context into a specific situation. |
| 1:44.1 | Another example is research roundtable. So they a lot of context into a specific situation. Another example is |
| 1:45.1 | research roundtable. So they'll take one exact research study. So the volume study, for example, |
| 1:50.3 | and then they just go in on it. The Matador study, for example, they just go in on it. And I think |
| 1:54.7 | that's great, but sometimes just talking research doesn't allow people to listen, think, consider |
| 2:00.7 | different variables, and then take applicable |
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