Ep. 864 - Q&A - Why shake diets don't work, Strength vs. Hypertrophy Training, Understanding Weight Fluctuations
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Emma Storey-Gordon
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🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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00:00 Introduction and Overview of Q&A Session
02:51 Transitioning from Fat Loss to Maintenance
06:04 Mindful Eating and Enjoying Food
08:46 Understanding Weight Fluctuations
12:02 Strength vs. Hypertrophy Training
14:59 Caring About Others' Opinions
17:49 Sweating and Fitness Adaptations
20:45 Incorporating Swimming into Training
23:57 Accountability and Long-term Success
26:31 The Limitations of Shake Diets
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness podcast. I'm laughing a little bit because |
| 0:08.0 | it did a huge countdown for me at the start of there. Five, four, three, two, and then obviously |
| 0:14.8 | to one. Anyway, I have many, many questions to answer and still catch up with my incredible Q&A questions from |
| 0:23.7 | the Commit Six groups. I'm going to get through as many of those as possible. In the next 30 |
| 0:28.1 | minutes, you will leave knowing much more than when you started, I hope. Okay, so question one. |
| 0:35.6 | Once you hit your target weight or weight you like the look of, can the |
| 0:40.7 | program be tailored to physique goals? So the answer to this is yes, it can. When the goal shifts and maybe |
| 0:50.1 | you're more focused on like building muscle or performance or maintenance, we can adapt |
| 0:55.4 | the program to suit. What mostly would it realize is what got you here will probably also |
| 1:02.5 | get you there. So by that, I mean if you're like, right, I'm happy with my current body fat |
| 1:08.0 | levels. I don't want to lose any more fat. But I would quite like to build a bit |
| 1:11.9 | of muscle. Okay, your training probably isn't going to change that much. And your nutrition probably |
| 1:18.9 | isn't going to change that much either. You're going to eat a little bit more. But often when people, |
| 1:24.0 | especially if they've dieted in a sensible way and now they've got like to the end of their |
| 1:27.9 | diet, you might be adding on like two to 500 calories on average over the week. So it's not going to be like |
| 1:36.7 | this huge change in your diet. And this is where a lot of people go wrong when they move from |
| 1:40.7 | fat loss maintenance is they think that it's a completely different thing. |
| 1:45.3 | And I've told this story before probably numerous times, |
| 1:48.0 | but I did, I think the last like proper fat loss phase I did was |
| 1:52.3 | after I had back surgeries, |
| 1:54.5 | I put on a lot of weight when I hurt my back. |
| 1:57.4 | I think I put on about 32, not 32 pounds, |
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