SNR #202: Andrea Valdez: Insights About Coaching, Training & the Fitness Industry

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Danny Lennon

Sigma, Dietetics, Evidencebased, Nutrition, Training, Health & Fitness, Science, Diet, Fitness, Evidence, Bodybuilding, Health

4.8 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Andrea Valdez has been an athlete her entire life. As a former competitive gymnast and long-time coach in the sport, she developed a discipline and respect for the powers that strong minds and bodies can achieve. This led her to continued success in competitive cheerleading and bodybuilding throughout her journey in higher level education.

She received a Kinesiology degree from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi with an emphasis in Sports Management and a Minor in Business Administration. Upon graduation, she worked as a Marketing Intern for a Major League Soccer organization, the Houston Dynamo. Andrea then continued on to teach and research at the University of Oklahoma, where she earned her Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology. Her scholarly development and professional experiences in training, coaching, teaching and mentoring lead her to begin a career as an author and video content provider for her own personal website and YouTube channel, both of which began in 2012.

Andrea became a 3DMJ athlete for her next figure season in 2013 and for powerlifting in 2014. She continued her journey with the team by teaching alongside the other 3DMJ coaches at posing clinics, and helping to create digital products and content for the 3D Muscle Journey website. After months of collaborating as a project manager and writer, she was officially added as the fifth 3DMJ coach in September 2015.

Also in 2015, she had the pleasure of co-authoring a pair of books with Eric Helms and Andy Morgan titled The Muscle and Strength Pyramids. These nutrition and training guides have become the industry standard for anyone trying to gain strength or manipulate body composition.

During her current figure off-season, Andrea has begun training in Olympic weightlifting and gymnastics-based movements to pursue competition in a new sport called GRID. She continues to journal her athletic experiences on all of her social media platforms and throughout her personal website at AndreaValdez.com.

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0:00.0	So I think my first big, like, oh shit, okay, so when I give these people the numbers, like, say their macros of what they're supposed to eat because they want to get on stage, the first difficulty is, oh, they don't all just blindly follow them.
0:21.6	And like, you know that in your head, but it's different why people miss adherence,
0:27.6	or why people lose their adherence.
0:30.6	The cause of that is very different for a lot of people.
0:33.6	Sometimes it is physiologically like it, we've been diving a long time,
0:36.6	and it's really hard and they're starving.
0:39.3	And sometimes it's like they can't break from their social life
0:42.3	or they don't know how to say no to their friends and it's social pressure or they're depressed. Hello and welcome to episode 202 of Sigma Nutrition Radio.
1:10.0	As usual, I am your host, Danny Lennon, and you're very welcome back to the podcast,
1:15.1	or maybe if this is your first ever episode listening, you're very welcome to the podcast
1:19.6	and hopefully you stick around for a while longer.
1:23.3	First, I want to just mention a big thank you to everyone who was commented and sent in their
1:28.8	feedback regarding last week's episode with Eric Helms, where we were exploring and trialing
1:35.0	a new setup for an episode that I'll hopefully try and run occasionally from this point on
1:41.4	of a research breakdown episode, as I termed it, where we rather than look
1:47.1	at one topic and explore some kind of general themes and subtopics within that, instead we
1:52.6	look at two specific research papers, break them down individually, so look at the methodology
1:57.6	behind them, the study design, the results that were found, and then
2:02.1	not only the conclusions, but looking at some practical implications or what this actually means
2:06.9	for practice, if anything at all. And so we started that last week with Eric's episode, where we did
2:12.2	two papers in that. There seems to be an overwhelming positive response from you guys.
2:18.3	So first of all, thank you for that.
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