Discussing how to eat for performance across all metrics. Timestamps below:
Episode 2:
0:25 Alex is hungry!
1:00 Semiglutide discussion.
1:38 ‘Base Camping’ during dieting phases.
1:55 Thom’s season.
2:38 ‘Dig and Fill’ approach.
3:20 Knowing when to back off.
4:06 Tracking steps in contest prep.
5:10 The need for decent time lines.
6:40 Unrealistic time frames.
9:50 Eating to thrive.
12:00 Thom’s Child Therapy
13:40 Eat good quality whole foods you enjoy.
16:56 Pay attention to biofeedback when considering what foods to include in your diet.
19:55 The importance of quality fats in a diet.
20:55 The types of fats to lean into.
22:00 Alex didn’t feel good when anyone macro was too high/too low.
24:00 Thriving across a spectrum of eating styles.
24:50 Don’t marry yourself to a template.
26:50 Hard to make rats obese off a whole foods diet.
28:20 NLP and reward pathways.
29:20 ‘Big boys with big goals don’t eat Dominos’
30:00 Don’t set up a diet so that you have a carrot dangling at the end of the week.
31:24 Auroregulating a whole foods diet.
33:00 Don’t equate suffering with progress.
36:20 Generally people don’t know how to exit a fat loss phase correctly.
