Win the War on Fat Loss & Muscle Building w/ Charles Poliquin
High Intensity Health with Mike Mutzel, MS
Mike Mutzel
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🗓️ 21 May 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Charles Poliquin shares key insights from his four decades of experience training elite athletes and Olympians.
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Show Notes
0:00 Intro
4:19 To win the war on fat, you need to win the insulin war.
5:43 Athletes’ Alzheimer’s propensity
6:19 Profound benefits of strength training
7:39 You don’t need carbs.
8:41 Risk/benefit of peptides like SARMs (Selective Androgen Receptor Modulator)
10:12 The beneficial hormonal influence of doing squats
11:30 DHEA Sulfate, the mother of all androgens
13:50 DHEA for women
15:37 The best anabolic agent is sleep.
17:03 Screen time affects androgens, sleep, weight gain, fitness, and information retention.
21:50 Carbohydrates are not for everyone.
26:20 Managing stress hormones with carbohydrates
26:40 Meat, wild and domestic, sources of protein
29:06 Meal timing and frequency
31:13 Athletic performance with intermittent fasting and protein/fat consumption
35:39 Regular blood work is a lie detector.
39:18 Leucine and branch chain amino acids for hypertrophy
42:08 Fish oil for weight loss
44:26 GLA (Gamma-linolenic acid), the healthy Omega 6
45:05 Periodization for burning fat and building muscle
51:23 Mindset and quality over quantity
59:55 Charles’ morning routine
01:04:04 Charles’ favorite nutrients/foods are brain-ready carnitine, curcumin and water buffalo.
01:05:54 Charles’ elevator pitch would be to ban soda and look to the Finns for education reform.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Strength training is like learning a foreign language. |
| 0:02.9 | If you repeat Donde Estato de Venos forever, |
| 0:05.6 | your Spanish is not gonna improve, right? |
| 0:07.6 | Because the only way you know, |
| 0:09.3 | you speak a language fluently |
| 0:11.8 | is that you can be funny in that language. |
| 0:14.3 | But to get weedy in strength training, |
| 0:16.0 | it's less to say the 700 pound bench press, |
| 0:18.4 | that it takes years. |
| 0:19.8 | But it's more simple, you can say the program |
| 0:23.0 | that gets you from 100 pound bench press to 200 pound bench press |
| 0:26.2 | to 500 to 600 is not the same program at all. |
| 0:29.6 | So things have to increase in complexity. |
| 0:32.2 | What I call a 70% rule, something that works. |
| 0:34.8 | 70% of the time is change your workout every 46 workouts |
| 0:39.1 | for that body part. |
| 0:40.1 | If you do that, that alone, |
| 0:42.3 | you'll be way ahead of everybody. |
| 0:44.0 | Hey guys, welcome back. |
| 0:53.9 | So today's show at Charles Pollacklin |
| 0:55.2 | is brought to you by myocides nutrition. |
| 0:56.9 | As you can tell, we're talking a lot about protein, |
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