Ep. 320: Q&A - Sustaining A Lean Physique, Ice Baths, From Cut To Reverse Diet, & More...
Choose Hard
Cody McBroom
4.8 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This was a rapid fire Q&A where I dove in to A LOT of amazing questions!
Make sure you join the Facebook Group before September is up!
Topics Covered:
4:35 - Is it possible to hit a point in your lifting where you truly max out despite continuing to train at it? Specifically I am talking about my back squat, it’s been over two years and my back squat PR won’t move. I back squat often, I train variations like paused back squats, low volume, high volume, I worked on my glute strength and activation, strengthened my hamstrings, worked on bracing...I feel like I’ve done all the things and while my PR has improved as far as coming up out of it faster I feel like I’ve hit a wall. Please tell me I have not reached my true potential?
10:45 - Training - What approach would you suggest to build up hamstrings & glutes for someone who sits a lot for their job? Seems like whenever I try to do squats I’m wrecked for days.
17:35 - Nutrition - Are you putting out any other recipe books in the future?
19:25 - Supplement - At what point would using adaptogens be recommended vs just reducing stress?
21:25 - Random - If you could only drink one coffee for the rest of your life what would it be & how would it be prepared?
23:22 - What are your current physique goals?
28:30 - When is it safe to actively lose fat after you recovered from hypothalamic amenorrhea that lasted years rather than months? What is the safest way to lose some of the weight you had to gain to get your period back providing there’s no deadlines and no performance goals?
32:23 - Proper way of measuring vegetables like squash which has hit amounts of water prior to cooking and is soggy when cooked. Weight changes so it is a bit confusing to be accurate
35:54 - Ok, so I want to tackle a marathon during my 35th year of life, so, January sometime. If so , I want to challenge my bod to do an ultramarathon, relays, maybe a hike to Machu Picchu. Best training plan you have and best way to avoid overuse injuries along the way?
38:10 - I would like to know your opinion on power naps. Are they beneficial after a rough or short night? Or does it hinder your sleep in the evening?
40:00 - Recommendations on lifting for endurance athletes
42:35 - How would you personally go about trying to maintain as close to your recent photoshoot physique as you could?
46:35 - When coming out of a cutting phase and starting a reverse diet, how many cals would you recommend to increase each week to minimize fat gain?
50:07 - Are cold showers every day / ice baths / /cold packs etc. beneficial for someone who's almost always freezing in the cold months ? Is it also beneficial if that's because of thyroid problem?
52:15 - Best approach for an underweight man to build muscle and strength? I feel like the usual recommendation with 100-200 calories surplus per day is way to low to see any noticeable progress
55:25 - I’d like to hear you talk about how the nutrition coaching process works for your team please. Philosophy, how check-ins work, how you pair a client with a coach, etc. thanks!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Boom Boom Performance Podcast, your resource for science-based training and nutrition, |
| 0:07.2 | data-driven coaching, and education-focused content. Before we get into this podcast, I just want to say |
| 0:12.9 | thank you for taking the time to listen and learn with me so that you can apply what you are |
| 0:17.8 | about to learn, take my strategies, use these tools, and finally have |
| 0:21.8 | some serious methods to see sustainable success with your physique, your mind, and your life. |
| 0:28.2 | This podcast was built on the foundation of applied education, and I'm excited for you to be here |
| 0:34.1 | so you can have that experience with me. Now, without any further ado, let's get on to the show. |
| 0:48.7 | Today, we are going to do a rapid fire style podcast. |
| 0:53.6 | We haven't done this in a while where I basically take literally as many questions as I possibly |
| 0:59.1 | can and I try to run through them as fast as possible. |
| 1:01.9 | I say fast as possible, but I don't mean I'm going to rush these questions because I never |
| 1:05.1 | do that. |
| 1:05.8 | So as you will soon see, I am going to go into as much detail as possible, as much detail as needed per question. |
| 1:12.4 | But we have easily over 20 questions today that we are going to get through. |
| 1:16.9 | So what I want you to do, the listener, two things. Number one, shout out to all the people |
| 1:20.8 | who jumped in the private Facebook forum. That is BPP private forum. Originally, it was created as an accountability resource for people who |
| 1:30.1 | bought our books, which it still is. It's a place where when you buy functional muscle or |
| 1:35.3 | density or functional muscle 2.0 or FIT or any of those books, all of them excluding |
| 1:40.9 | built for you, which is the recent one we just launched, because that has its own separate private forum. |
| 1:45.9 | But for all the other ebooks and for people who consume our content on that level, they get access to this group and it's a place to get access to me for help with those books. |
| 1:56.3 | But I did say in a podcast, either last week or the week before, like, hey, for the rest of the month |
| 2:01.0 | in September, make sure you click the link, jump in the group. I'm going to open it up for free |
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