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The Michael Caz Podcast

The Fundamentals of High-Performance Nutrition ft. Brian St. Pierre

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Health & Fitness, Business

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Ever wonder how a nutrition coach approaches their own diet choices? This week’s Brute Strength podcast is your chance to find out, as Precision Nutrition coach Brian St. Pierre joins Michael Cazayoux to discuss his current diet regimen.

Brian is used to working with high-performance athletes, but he’s joining the podcast to share his thoughts on how us “normal” folks can keep nutrition simple, stay consistent, create habits for success and get the most out of doing the least amount of work (cheers to that!).

Topics:

04:30 – The start of Brian’s fitness journey

13:30 – Mindset, Fitness, Nutrition

25:10 – Social media and fitness

29:20 – Current diet

41:15 – Staying consistent & satisfied

58:30 – Habit Design

1:08:20 – Minimal Effective Dose

Links:

The Cost of Getting Lean

Precision Nutrition

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.

0:08.0

We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.

0:12.0

Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach,

0:15.0

2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ,

0:18.0

Michael Kaju.

0:19.0

Mind, Body, Brute. body brute.

0:27.0

Hey guys, welcome back. This is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast.

0:30.0

This week's guest is Brian St. Pierre.

0:32.8

Brian works for a company called Precision.

0:35.1

You guys have heard me interview Dr. John Burardi a couple times.

0:39.4

He's the co-founder of PN.

0:41.2

And his first episode is our most downloaded episode ever at over a

0:45.3

hundred thousand downloads. John reached out to me a few months ago and

0:49.4

introduced me to Brian saying you've got to have this guy on your show he's incredible

0:54.8

and he did not disappoint Brian is not only an amazing human being but he sees

1:00.2

nutrition coaching through a different lens than almost anyone I've ever met.

1:04.0

So we start to show off by talking about the time he passed up sex for leg day.

1:08.8

That's a great story.

1:10.2

We talk about him flunking out of engineering school before getting into nutrition.

1:16.0

We talk about an article that he wrote years ago 4 p.m. called the cost of getting lean

1:22.3

which went on to become the most viewed page on the whole website,

1:27.3

and it's had over a million views. So we dive into the major takeaways from that topic that obviously people just loved so much.

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