How to Calculate Your Macros
The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle Podcast
The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle
5.0 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Links:
Show Notes/All Resources from Episode:
https://www.flexibledietinglifestyle.com/podcast-show-notes/
- Zach’s Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theflexibledietinglifestyle/
- The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle website - https://www.flexibledietinglifestyle.com
- Miguel’s Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mblacutt/
- Miguel’s website - https://miguelblacutt.com
- Miguel’s coaching - http://revivestronger.com/online-coaching/
Time stamps:
- 2:25 - How do we figure out our calories? Recap from episode 2.
- 5:52 - How to figure out your calories
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- 10:08 - Female example
- 15:43 - Figuring out and setting your macros
- 27:28 - Less or more protein in a gaining phase
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the flexible dieting lifestyle podcast. I am your host, Zach Rushlow. I am with my co-host, Miguel |
| 0:18.2 | Flakut. I'm getting better at the intro. |
| 0:21.1 | Like, I'm not having to think about it as much. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm excited. |
| 0:24.6 | This is episode three of season one. |
| 0:28.4 | And today we're going to teach you guys how to calculate your macaronies, your macros. |
| 0:33.6 | And if you listen to episode two, please, if you didn't, please listen to it because this is not going to make any sense if you do not understand macros and understand calories, which we talked about. |
| 0:46.0 | And we gave the concrete definitions of each and why they're important and why you need to be hitting certain amounts. |
| 0:51.5 | And if you didn't listen to that podcast yet go back to episode two |
| 0:55.0 | and listen to that because today it's today is irrelevant if you do not understand those those topics |
| 1:01.6 | the literally what those are because yeah if this is going to be more concrete like giving you guys |
| 1:07.7 | exact numbers and percentages to go off of and I want to |
| 1:11.9 | preface also that there's going to be a downloadable PDF in the show notes with all these |
| 1:17.1 | examples that we're going to be able to give you the exact percentages there's going to be |
| 1:20.6 | an actual worksheet that you can kind of well not kind of you can go in there and fill out |
| 1:26.3 | exactly like your total calories. |
| 1:29.7 | Okay. |
| 1:30.7 | Then you figure out your protein, et cetera. |
| 1:32.3 | It's going to walk you guys exactly through that. |
| 1:34.0 | So just listen. |
| 1:35.5 | Just listen. |
| 1:36.6 | Take this as an overview that's going to help you whenever you go and fill this information |
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