FFF 051: How To Get Super Lean: Nutrition For Physique Athletes & Competitors - with Eric Helms

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Scott Baptie

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4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode you’ll learn the finer points on how to get lean, like really lean, as in physique athlete and natural bodybuilding lean!

Eric Helms is highly respected a physique coach, athlete, author, educator and researcher who has been involved in the fitness industry since the early 2000’s. Eric has published multiple peer reviewed articles in exercise science and nutrition, writes for many commercial fitness publications and is currently finishing his PhD at AUT in New Zealand.

In this episode of the Food For Fitness podcast, you’ll learn how Eric manages his clients expectations, the physiological and psychological negatives of achieving very low body fat levels, how he tracks progress, the pros and cons of meal plans and macro tracking, his thoughts on diet breaks and refeeds, reverse dieting, the lowdown on reverse dieting and his top tips for adhering to a plan and staying on track.

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0:00.0	Are you tired of falling off the proverbial fitness bandwagon?
0:04.1	Join us as we share simple, realistic, and above all, achievable weight loss advice
0:09.5	based on evidence gathered from helping hundreds of people look, feel, move, and perform better.
0:15.5	You don't need to starve yourself or hop on the latest fitness craze.
0:19.1	We'll show you how the smallest change can give you the largest impact.
0:23.1	Now join your healthy living host, Scott Bapti, for the Food for Fitness podcast.
0:33.7	Welcome to episode 51 of the Food for Fitness podcast.
0:38.7	It's good to be back after an unscheduled break last week.
0:41.7	I had a bit of a mix up with several guests,
0:43.9	which meant we couldn't actually get a show out.
0:45.8	So rather than me just waffling for an hour,
0:48.2	I thought we'd skip it and then pick up with a high quality guest this week.
0:53.0	So my guest is Eric Helms. Eric is a hugely
0:57.2	respected physique coach. He's someone I've looked up to and I've followed his work for several
1:01.6	years now. He's an athlete, an author, he's a researcher. He's published multiple peer-reviewed
1:08.1	articles and exercise, science and nutrition, and he's just finishing
1:11.7	off his PhD in New Zealand. This episode is going to be looking at how to get super lean,
1:17.9	and Eric is going to be sharing his experiences from working with physique athletes, competitors,
1:24.2	and natural bodybuilders. So it's a really interesting insight into some of the
1:29.0	nutrition considerations for people getting that lean. So if you are thinking about competing or
1:34.6	doing a show and you are getting really, really low levels of body fat, then you'll find this
1:40.0	interesting. If not, you're still going to get a lot from it and it'll just allow you to see some
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