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Masterclass on Muscle Building | Dean Turner | Ep 516

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Brad Barrett | Choose FI Media

Financialindependence, Investing, Firemovement, Passiveincome, Frugalliving, Personalfinancepodcast, Daveramsey, Careers, Business, Earlyretirement, Habits

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode: building muscle for health, sacropenia, consistency and proper form, routines, and recovery.

This episode is a deep dive into muscle-building strategies, with actionable advice for beginners and experienced fitness enthusiasts alike. Brad and Dean Turner share practical tips on workout programming, nutrition, and recovery, making it a perfect masterclass for anyone looking to improve their health and strength.

Dean Turner:

🔑 Key Themes Discussed:

  • The importance of building muscle for health, longevity, and independence in later life
  • Overcoming age-related muscle loss (sarcopenia) through resistance training
  • Simplifying muscle-building techniques for beginners and experienced individuals
  • The role of proper form, progressive overload, and consistency in muscle growth
  • Common misconceptions about muscle growth and the science behind it
  • Customizing workout routines based on individual schedules and goals
  • The importance of recovery, rest, and nutrition in maximizing gains
  • Practical advice on workout programming and exercise selection

🕒 Chapters:

  • 00:00 – Introduction: The Importance of Muscle Building
  • 02:00 – Age-Related Muscle Loss and Why Muscle Matters
  • 06:00 – Customizing Workouts: 3-Day vs. 5-Day Programs
  • 09:00 – Exercise Selection: Upper/Lower Body, Push/Pull
  • 13:00 – How Muscle Growth Actually Works: The Science Explained
  • 18:00 – Importance of Progressive Overload and Rep Ranges
  • 22:00 – Common Workout Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
  • 27:00 – Listener Questions: Setting Goals for Muscle Growth
  • 33:00 – Understanding Rest Times and Recovery
  • 40:00 – Importance of Nutrition: Protein and Macronutrients
  • 45:00 – Creating a Sustainable Workout Routine
  • 51:00 – Final Tips: Staying Consistent and Tracking Progress

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Chuzafi. Today in the show, we have a follow up to my healthiest year ever episode, which is episode 480, where I had my personal trainer, Dean Turner on.

0:10.2

We asked for a lot of community feedback and questions, and boy, did we get it. And this is the natural follow-up to that episode where I'm viewing this as a masterclass on getting started with muscle building.

0:22.9

It's so important for all of us as we get older to really, really prioritize keeping up our

0:29.7

strength and building muscle because it is just an absolutely critical part of health and longevity

0:36.0

and living the lives that we want to as we age. And we are all

0:39.9

aging no matter how old we are now. So this is of absolute critical importance. So we talk

0:45.6

through that and we're going to go through questions that you sent in. Dean really dives into it.

0:50.8

You're going to love this episode. With that, welcome to choose that five.

1:02.0

Dean, my friend, welcome back to the show. Brad, thanks for having me on. Pleasure to be here.

1:06.9

Yeah, this should be fun. So, okay, this is round two. We did the first episode, which is shocking. It was all the way back in March. That was episode 480, and it was the update on my healthiest year ever. So in it, we went over a little bit of the methodology that I've been using, basically working with you hand in hand as my

1:29.2

personal trainer for the last almost two years now. But it was a little mishmash of like,

1:34.4

okay, here's some updates on my healthiest year ever and et cetera, et cetera. But a lot of people

1:40.0

wrote in with specific questions about, hey, Brad, okay, this is all well and good. You've

1:45.5

experimented, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But what are you doing to build muscle? And I think

1:51.6

we're all aging, right? Whether we like it or not, no matter how old, no matter how young,

1:55.7

we are all aging. And like we said in episode 480, there's this age-related muscle loss, which is called

2:02.6

sarcopenia. And we need to constantly fight against that. And building muscle is a critical

2:10.0

part of living a healthy life. And I think part of this entire financial independence mindset

2:15.3

is optimizing life. And I think all of us, if we're honest

2:19.5

with ourselves, we want to be able to do things into our 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond, like lift up a

2:26.8

grandkid or walk up and down flights of stairs or put a suitcase and overhead bin. We don't want to be unable to do things. And I think that is

2:38.0

part of why muscle building is so, so important for longevity purposes, just for living a healthy

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