Ep. 833 - Q&A - When to Stop Tracking Calories + The Truth About Supplements , Can You Build Muscle While Marathon Training?
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Emma Storey-Gordon
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Questions covered in this episode:
How to retain mental resilience when life feels overwhelming and stop stress impacting your workouts
Why exercise can actually help build resilience and increase your capacity to cope with stress
How to manage tiredness and fatigue during office work without constantly turning to snacks
Why movement, fresh air and proper lunch breaks improve mood, focus and productivity
Whether feeling really hot in the evening after a workout is due to metabolism or just a normal response to training
What to say to clients taking unapproved peptides and why the evidence just isn’t there
Whether Emma has ever been tempted by big money supplement deals and why she stays sceptical of the supplement industry
When it might be a good time to stop tracking calories and how to know whether tracking has actually taught you anything
Why tracking should be a tool, not a lifelong dependency
Whether you can still build muscle if you also love endurance running and are training for half or full marathons
Why strength and endurance can absolutely coexist for most people, and how they can even support each other
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this episode of the EFG Fitness Podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | I have Haley and Maddie with me today. And it's Optimal's Week. So Maddie, how are you? How are you doing with your optimal targets? I'm good, thanks. Yeah, they're going well. I've actually been like trying to focus a bit more and having a bit more me time because I've been quite busy recently. So one of my targets was just to try and have an hour every evening, just like chilling, |
| 0:25.0 | not working. |
| 0:26.4 | And so far, for three evenings in, I've stuck to it. |
| 0:30.2 | So it's good. |
| 0:30.6 | And what have you been doing with it? |
| 0:33.4 | Honestly, I've been watching TV, but I actually don't watch a lot of telly. |
| 1:17.6 | So it's literally been one hour in the evening, like, because often I'm working until like 9 o'clock. But just an hour, just chilling. And also importantly, not looking at my phone, just like phone on the other side of the room, laptop on the other side of the room, and just, yeah, hanging out with my boyfriend and just watching TV. Nice. Cute. And you get anything good? Yes. It's called, it's on Apple TV. It's called, I think it's called your neighbours and friends. And it's got, do you know John Hamm from Mad Men? It's so good. Have you been watching it? I've watched the first series. I've not watched the second one. Yeah, yeah, we're on series one. It's so good, isn't it? So good. What's it about? It's about a man that, well, it's his family. They're very, very wealthy. And then he loses his job. And so he decides to start |
| 1:23.8 | stealing from all his rich neighbours. So he starts by like stealing a watch and then |
| 1:28.5 | he steals like some artwork or just like bits and then but then it like gets really messy and |
| 1:33.7 | it's like yeah what happens and his relationship and his family and yeah, it's good. Wow. It's so good. |
| 1:40.8 | I really is like dark comedy isn't it? Mm. That's interesting. So all I get to watch at the moment, we never really watch anything. And then last week for some reason we started watching something and it was like about these religious, this like religious cult. Do you remember what it's called? Something the Prophet was on like Netflix. But anyway, that was, and I fell asleep in |
| 2:01.8 | every single one. So I think we watched each of them like twice because I kept falling asleep in them. |
| 2:07.0 | But then it was just quite strange because like every night before I went to bed, I was just |
| 2:10.6 | watching this like, he was this big pedo. Like it was like an awful documentary. I mean, |
| 2:15.7 | the documentary was good, but it was like quite like dark to watch before you go to bed every single night to fall asleep to. And then all Molly likes to watch is murder mysteries. Or for mysteries, but like true crime, you know, like an act. Yeah. I'm like, well, as you go to sleep, she's like, yeah. Yeah, I do love to play that as well. But yeah, maybe not right before bed. Yeah, I do. But this is the Married at First Sight Australia season, so I'm absolutely dedicated to that. It's literally the only TV I watch at the moment. Monday to Thursday. Yeah. I'd love to understand Beck more. If I could get inside anyone's brain, it would be Beck's. I'd love to understand her. Why you're so angry, Beck? I. Yeah, but it has to be, like, you are pre-selecting some of the strangest people to go on that show. Who on earth would think, oh, do you know what? Getting married to a complete stranger on TV, everyone must have, like like some kind of other agenda. |
| 3:07.9 | And I know that always comes up on it. |
| 3:09.1 | It's like, oh, I'm just wondering if you're here for the right reason. So I'm here for love. Come on. No, you're not here for love. Like, no one goes on national TV for love, do they? I know. I hate to say it. There's loads of personal trainers on it this year. because they're probably like |
| 3:23.0 | oh this will build my online profile |
| 3:24.5 | okay anyway |
| 3:25.8 | Haley how are you |
| 3:26.6 | how's marathon prep and how is |
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