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Barbell Shrugged

[Metabolism] Nutrition, Exercise, and Lifting Weight to Improve Your Metabolism w/ Dr. Eric Trexler, Anders Varner and Doug Larson #719

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Eric started lifting at the age of 12, and has been hooked ever since. Eric has a background in powerlifting and strength coaching, and has been competing in natural bodybuilding since 2011.

Now he's a pro natural bodybuilder with a PhD in Human Movement Science, and serves as the Director of Education for Stronger By Science.

As a scientist, Eric has published over thirty peer-reviewed papers on a variety of exercise and nutrition topics related to performance and body composition.

Some of his studies have evaluated the effects of dietary supplements, including creatine, caffeine, beta-alanine, and nitric oxide boosters.

He has also done research evaluating body composition changes that collegiate and professional athletes experience across a single season, and even across an entire collegiate career.

These studies have observed changes in a wide range of sports and competitive levels, including college and NFL football players.

Eric was also able to blend his research with his biggest passion, completing multiple studies investigating how to effectively prepare for bodybuilding and physique competitions.

 

Eric has been involved in strength and fitness coaching for around a decade. Eric spent about four years working with high school wrestling and football teams, and has spent the last six working with a Special Olympics powerlifting team.

At Stronger By Science, Eric now coaches online clients with a wide range of goals, and provides leadership and educational support for the entire team of online coaches.

Connect with Dr. Eric Trexler

Anders Varner on Instagram

Doug Larson on Instagram

Transcript

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0:00.0

Shruggs family this week on bar bell shrug Dr. Eric Trexler is coming into the pod

0:05.3

we're gonna be talking about metabolisms if there is a single subject that is

0:10.0

I don't know if it's confusing but we like to confuse it as human beings. We like to

0:15.2

think everything we are doing with the body, everything that burns the calories that

0:19.7

we're putting in our mouths. How do we cheat the system so we can eat so much more, build all the muscle,

0:25.2

and of course not put on body fat. So Dr. Trexler is here to discuss all things, metabolism,

0:31.3

resting metabolic rate, and how you can improve metabolic function.

0:36.0

Very cool show.

0:37.0

And he's very local to me over here at Duke, which is cool, which means I need to go to his

0:40.6

lab and do cool stuff.

0:42.6

As always friends, make sure you get into RapidHealth report.com.

0:48.4

That is where Dr. Andy Galpin and Dan Garner are doing free lab and lifestyle

0:52.3

and performance analysis that everybody inside

0:54.4

RapidHealth optimization will receive over at RapidHealth Report.com friends. Let's get into the show.

1:01.6

Welcome to Marl, Charlotte, I'm Anders Varner, Doug Larson, Coach Travis Mash,

1:04.8

Eric Trexler, welcome to the show my man.

1:07.4

You're at Duke University right now.

1:09.0

That means you as well, hanging out in the middle of North Carolina

1:12.3

with me, which is pretty cool I guess.

1:14.9

Absolutely. We don't have many of these Raleigh people on. We're going to talk about metabolism today.

1:20.0

And just to, at the highest level, I would love if you could dive into just what our metabolism is before we break into all of the little pieces that we're going to be working through over the next hour here.

1:38.0

Yeah, so metabolism, kind of the most simple way that people often talk about it is

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