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SNR #94: Phil Learney - Nutrition Periodization, Rigid vs. Flexible Dieting & Why Modification Beats Change

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Danny Lennon

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

4.8626 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Episode 94: One of the UK's most successful coaches Phil Learney is on the show to discuss nutritional periodization, rigid vs. flexible dieting, who needs advanced nutritional strategies, what science can and can't tell us & why modification beats change.

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Where do I want everybody that I deal with to be?

0:11.0

Ultimately, I want them to be in control of their dietary intake.

0:15.0

Now, I don't really care too much where that comes from from a perspective of

0:19.0

is it coming from what we define as a clean macro

0:21.4

or a dirty macro or whatever hell it might be at the end of the day i just need someone to regulate

0:26.2

intake because if we look at everything with respect to health and ultimately we are in the health

0:31.0

industry you know whatever happens with any client that i ever deal with i want them to be healthy

0:34.9

but the great thing is that by default,

0:40.2

if we get people leaner and more muscular and et cetera, et cetera,

0:43.3

the byproduct is always 100% of the time going to be a better, healthy person.

0:45.9

It just is, irrespective of how we get them there.

1:12.4

Thank you. Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio, podcast that takes a deep dive into all things nutrition related by giving you access to true world-class experts, be they academic researchers, medical professionals, or in the trenches practitioners each and every week.

1:18.4

I am your host, Danny Lennon, and you are listening to Episode 94 today, and we have Phil Lerney

1:25.2

going to be on the show in just a couple of minutes. And Phil is an

1:29.2

extremely successful coach based out of London. And in the past year, has released his book,

1:35.5

N-Equels-1, nutritional programming, which is aimed primarily at health and fitness professionals and

1:41.3

coaches. So hopefully in today's episode, we can tease out some

1:45.7

key insights that has informed Phil's work both with his own clients, but then other coaches

1:51.2

and personal trainers that he mentors and speaks to and does conferences for. So for those

1:58.3

of you who are new to the show, just some things to make you aware of.

2:01.9

The show notes to this episode will be available at sigmautrition.com slash episode 94.

2:08.0

And at that link, you'll get a breakdown of the show topics, links to everything that we

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