The essentials for success in bodybuilding and body transformations with Muscle Nerd Luke Leaman #159
Muscle Intelligence
Ben Pakulski
4.7 • 761 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Over the past 12 years, today's guest Luke Leaman has taught thousands of personal trainers and coaches how to get better at their craft, and how to build great careers.
The co-founder of Muscle Nerds first picked up a barbell at 8 years old and never stopped. After attending a Poliquin seminar, he was hooked and eventually ended up working for Charles and travelling the world teaching. Helping others and this industry are his passion.
Luke's seen it all, has coached high level athletes as well as gen pop, has an endless thirst for information and is an absolute wealth of knowledge. In this conversation we get into programming and periodization, client assessment, the application of aerobic fitness, exercise selection and more.
If you're a coach, I highly recommend you get out your pen and paper for this conversation and check out Muscle Nerds via the link below.
To find out more about Luke and Muscle Nerds, visit:
@musclenerds_health
www.musclenerds.net
Muscle Nerds on YouTube
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Timestamps:
[1:14] Today's guest: Luke Leaman
[2:03] Sponsor: Bioptimizers
[4:26] Periodization and programming
[7:23] Exercise Selection
[10:46] German Body Composition training
[14:53] Programming for Hypertrophy
[16:11] Least mode
[18:22] The art of coaching
[19:16] Client assessment
[26:18] Gut infections
[34:02] Essentials for success in bodybuilding
[37:37] Putting on mass vs. getting fat
[40:04] Getting good at the basics
[49:46] Aerobic fitness
[1:12:25] Where to find Luke and Muscle Nerds
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the muscle intelligence podcast. I'm your host, Ben Pekolsky. As always, another amazing guest coming at you right now. This podcast has evolved over the years, but continues to have its roots grounded in ultimately |
| 0:27.6 | living your greatest life in a body you love. |
| 0:30.1 | And today's podcast is very much going to help empower you to live your life in a body that |
| 0:35.1 | you absolutely love. |
| 0:36.6 | The internet, the media is blasted day to day |
| 0:42.3 | with endless amounts of information that becomes very, very hard to sift through. |
| 0:47.3 | It's hard to differentiate what's actually right, what's wrong, what's accurate, what's not, |
| 0:52.3 | what will work for you, what might work for somebody else. |
| 0:55.0 | Learning how to make decisions in the fitness industry with your health outcomes ultimately |
| 1:00.5 | is imperative to your success. Simply following a plan or following someone else's plan |
| 1:05.9 | may not always work unless you're getting real time up to the minute changes and adjustments from somebody who is an expert. |
| 1:13.6 | And today's guest is absolutely an expert. |
| 1:16.6 | Luke Lehman joined me once again, a second time guest to the podcast to talk about everything to do with muscles and body transformations. |
| 1:24.6 | An absolute wealth of information being passed to you through this podcast. |
| 1:29.3 | And I know you guys are going to absolutely love it. |
| 1:32.3 | Sometimes it can become challenging in the fitness industry to find people who don't only project their biases onto their audience, onto their followers. They have some agenda that they're trying to push |
| 1:46.7 | and they push it. And that's, it is what it is. And Luke is definitely not one of those guys. |
| 1:52.3 | I think I love about Luke, he's a sad as it is kind of guy and does an incredible job conveying |
| 1:57.3 | complex information in a way that's relatively simple and actionable. So I know you're going to love this podcast. |
| 2:03.6 | Today's podcast is brought to you by by optimizers. |
| 2:06.6 | Their new product, P3OM, is absolutely imperative to boosting your immune system. |
| 2:11.6 | So obviously, as you guys know, there's never been a bad time to boost your immune system, |
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