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Decided to do an interview that ventured away from the usual science, exercise, and venture more about a topic that isn't always talked about that pertains more towards spirituality. Broadening my views and seeing what others have to say and their experiences, it brings about more of the human experience that just only viewing life and health through one point of view. Its a bit different that the usual. But I hope you guys can enjoy and learn some new things, despite what is going on currently in the world.

-Talk about spirituality, Wim Hof Meditation, Yoga, Qigong

-PTSD from military service to journey to fixing self

-Masculinity ideals for joining the Marines (Structure and Discipline)

-Addressing PTSD, usage of Ayahuasca

-Esoteric Yin-Yang viewpoint to describe Joe's experience

-Hypothalamic Burnout

-Masculine and Feminine and Concept of Balance of Both

-Red Pill Mentality, Joe's Experience and Positive Aspects and Problems of Red Pill

-Young men getting turned into "a**holes" from exposure to Red Pill as a tendency

-Tempering Masculinity with Spirituality (Grounding and Staving away from the Toxicity)

-Rite of Passage for Men (Boys to Men), Problems of Modern Society and Culture

-Talks about Sexuality, Traumas, Suicide, Emptiness of Hookup Culture, Vulnerability

-6 Years of Service, Listening to Your Body, Self Awareness

-Childhood and Traumas, a Cultural of Trauma Making, Putting in Work in Yourself, Invitation to Innerwork

-Inner Work, Singlemindness, Zen, Reaching the Re-connected State of Being

To contact Joe and check out his stuff:

-Unforkyours3lf on YouTube.

-joejoe_romero IG

-FB

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Last part of the three part Interview with DH Kiefer. Forgive for some parts of the audio breaking up and becoming sorta robotic and cut off ending. Hope you enjoyed the show and stay tuned. Also to checkout and check into Kiefer's material and reaching out to him.

-Social Media (Real life vs Instagram) and Anecdotes

-Mentions about Noether's work, Her Story and Significance (Passion and Gift)

-Intelligence regardless of IQ on paper

-Kiefer and His Guiding Principles of Life, Talk about Confucianism, Philosophy, The "Prince" and Machiavelli

-Decision Fatigue (Processing Power) and Dealing with People

-Storywriting (Rick and Morty Mention) Within Series (Geeking out with Kiefer on R&M and him defending Rick's character)

-Reflections on Marriage and Relationships from Kiefer's view

-Kiefer on ARX prototypes usage and his views on commercial ARX vs the prototypes

-Kiefer's on machines and equipment. Hammer Strength mention, gyms, and quality of gyms.

-Mike Mentzer, Dorian Yates, and Kiefer usage of Heavy Duty during his bodybuilding phase.

-Kiefer's honest talk about his bodybuilding days and experiences (even with PEDs).

-Body.io

-Kiefer's Twitter

-Body IO and His Products

-Athlete.io

-Body AI™

-Body IO's Youtube Channel

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Part 2 of DH Kiefer Interview

Topics we covered:

-Hormones and Exercise Performance

-Transgender HRT and Body AI™

-Coaching and Trust

-Exercise Physiology Prescription (Berger in Introspect) Godfather of "Sets, Reps in Resistance Training", Arthur Jones, and etc

-Problems with "Evidence Based Community". Evidence Based Movement and the Anti-science in it.

-Bottom-Up versus Top-Down Viewpoint towards Science and Data

-Philosophy, Truth Seeking and the Matrix and the Importance of "Story Telling"

-Geeking about Harley Quinn and Cartoons

-Narrative Research, Existential Crisis and Reason of Being

-Body IO Coaching and The Story Behind That

-Turning Away from the Spotlight and the "Popularity Game"

-Body.io

-Kiefer's Twitter

-Body IO and His Products

-Body AI™

-Athlete IO

-Body IO's Youtube Channel

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I'm joined by the author of Carb Nite Solution®, Carb Backloading™, Shockwave Protocol™, and the soon to be released Body AI™, Dangerously Hardcore Kiefer. This interview is split up in three parts is rich in a lot of content. To Kiefer fans, I hope you enjoy this, and to people first tuning in first to Kiefer's work, the content he has released is quality. So I'll be super excited about the future content he'll be releasing in the near future.

Topics included within part 1:

-Updates with Kiefer

-Science and the Epistemology

-Problems with Research "No Science of Health" Examples of Louis Pasteur, Disapproving Notions in Diet and Health

-Predictive Power and a Scientific Framework

-Still Trashing Paleo, Non GMO vs GMO

-Incentives to Publish as an Academic, Kiefer's View of String Theory and the Ridiculous of Notion of It

-Academic Community Indoctrination

-Insulin Discussion and Revisiting the Hypothesis

-Lactate Metabolism

-Myokines and Myostatin, Male vs Female

Part 2 will be linked into topics beginning the Transgender talk and performance

-Body.io

-Kiefer's Twitter

-Body IO and His Products

-Athlete.io

-Body AI™

-Body IO's Youtube Channel

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I apologize in advance for the audio getting static half way through the interview.

I had the pleasure and privilege to have an interview with Bill de Simone of Optimal Exercise, based in New Jersey, founder of the Joint Friendly Fitness Project and author to multiple books such as Moment Arm Exercise and Congruent Exercise.

In this interview, we go over a range of topics such as Mike Mentzer, Physical Culture history, statements about exercise and the real value of personal training, and current thoughts about the state of affairs.

5:46- Mike Mentzer and Looking into the Context of His Influence

7:58 - Mike Mentzer vs Arnold Schwarzenegger and the thoughts and takes on weight training

8:50 - Muscle Magazines and how most fitness information came from print

11:34 - Why Mike Mentzer stood out as a bodybuilder (His ability to write)

15:13 - Mentzer's aim of training aimed towards bodybuilding and competition vs Jone's general usage of exercise for health

16:20 - Mentzer as a cautionary tale

24:04 - Some people who learn and move on, and others who don't.

24:46 -VInce Gironda, Meat and Eggs, and Physical Culture of Olden Days

27:30 - Marketing Then very similar to Marketing Now

31:05 - Charles Atlas Marketing on the "Skinny Kid getting sand kicked in his face"

33:05 - Marilyn Monroe, Weight Training and Pictures, Women Training Back Then (Women's only gyms)

36:31 - Larry Scott, Supplements, Steroids and Substance Abuse

38:47 - Sylvester Stallone, Drugs and Influence on Impressionable People

41:41 - Why People Work Out and Expectations

44:40 - The value of personal training (The big turning point of Bill's career towards personal training)

46:50 - Body designed for Movement/Speed and not so much for Strength

52:53 - Training, not "straining" and getting caught up with the purpose of exercise

54:01 - Questioning questionable practices and skeptical of safety of "advice", the value of a trainer who can say otherwise to dangerous practices

56:14 - Bruce Lee, Barbell Good Mornings and Exercises are that just inherently dangerous, tales of caution

59:01 - Personal Training Ethics during Trying Times such as now, Virtual Personal Training and etc

67:50 - Value of Personal Training and Problems switching to Virtual Personal Training due to competition against Celebrities and their free training

1:01:00 - Advice for People First Encountering a Crisis

1:18:53 -Best advice to Trainers and everyone, "Be a decent person" "Don't be an asshole"

Signup for the Joint Friendly Fitness Project Newsletter Here
LinkedIn
Joint Friendly Fitness Project
Congruent Exercise on Amazon.com
Bill de Simone's Youtube Channel

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I had a rare opportunity to interview a longtime practitioner and evidence based trainer Ester Lampreave and her daughter Julia. It was unique to have the perspective of training past your 40s and someone younger going to turn 18. An insight of how the usage of resistance training is applied in both older and younger demographics give perspective of how beneficial strength can be. The fact that we have people internationally interested in evidence based training and dose relationship approach to exercise, even in Spain, I find astonishing. Perhaps a global movement of having people do resistance training for health could indeed be the future.

Topics discussed and Marks:

2:02 - Transition from Pilates to High Intensity Strength Training (Problems of Pilates due to Skill Limitations and Age)

4:10 - The shift towards a more scientific framework mindset for training

6:19 - Arguments against doing potentially higher volume training and taking into account limitations of the body

8:23 - Training cannot be the same in 40s than 20s or younger. People getting into exercise wanting to lose weight and getting into excessive "cardio".

13:55 - Crossfit, Genetics, and the Risk to the Majority "Normal" people. Limitations of the body and age being a big factor for results.

19:55 - Views of High Intensity Strength Training in Spain and the global epidemic of people engaging physical activities that might cause injury

21:15 - High Intensity Training brought to Spain by Lucas Leal and the connection to Body by Science by Dr Doug McGuff

26:08 - Opinions about Physicians about Exercise Physiology and Nutrition (Realities and Recommendations)

29:04 - State of Personal Training, "Staying in your Lane"

32:38 - Insecurities, Doing Programs out of Body Image Issues and etc.

37:01 - Advice to younger women or others about training, Genetics, "Choose your Parents"

39:20 - Women not having the physical advantages, and needing to work intelligently because of it.

44:23 - Hard Realities and Expectations

50:47 - Julia's experience from resistance training as a student. Realities of balancing doing training and having other things to do.

52:28 - Spending way too much time in the gym and Julia's experience with efficiency and open-mindedness

57:51 - Younger generations being more sedentary now than ever and lack of physical activity within children on a global scale.

1:00:29 - Exposure of exercise to children and advice to parents

1:08:40 - Younger people being exposed to resistance training

1:27:37 - Profoundness of Resistance Training at different ages

Ways to Contact Ester:

Facebook
Instagram
LinkedIn

Direct email: esterlampreave@gmail.com

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I had a great interview and dialogue with Dr Ralph Cornwell Jr. We cover a lot of topics in this long discussion and hope you can enjoy this talk and learn something.

Marks:

1:50 - Current state of strength training research, being a researcher and funding etc.

11:01 - Usage of the rep as a unit of measurement in strength training and possible ideas of a newer way to measure for strength training research.

12:07 - Quantifying effort

16:02 - Problems with translating strength protocols to "cardio" machine

18:03 - Supercompensation effect from strength training

19:01 - Crossfit, Injury, and Rhabdomyolysis, Selection Bias

21:40 - Social Experiment of Crossfit (Genetics, Intelligent response of the organism, Genetic duds)

27:35 - Response to Exercise Modalities (Risk to Benefit Ratio)

30:20 - Shocking Experience of High Effort of Training Experiment

34:20 - Rise of HIT Influenced strength training facilities

39:50 - Problems of "Experts" giving "Advice"

43:39 - Dilution of the Knowledge Base of Personal Trainers, Being a Personal Trainer Then vs Now

58:45 - Potentially Good Study of Thermoregulation and Work Capacity During Resistance Training at Controlled Temperatures

1:01:50 - Potential Dangers of Cryotherapy Trend used in Sports Training and Athletics due to Thermoregulation

1:09:01 - Bodyblades and Oscillation Training

1:14:50 - Consequences of Applying only Epidemiological data only to making large scale recommendations and Discrepancies in Hypotheses

1:20:10 - Problems of BMI and Measurements and Causation vs Correlation

1:26:26 - Cognitive Bias, Lack of Critical Thinking and Mitigation of Symptoms

1:30:40 - Manufacturing of Disease, History and Farming Industry and Government Bailouts

1:33:04 - "Perpetual State of Sickness" and Documentary Idea

1:37:30 - Closing Thoughts from Dr Ralph

Ways to Contact Dr Ralph Cornwell Jr:

Concussion Prevention Protocol
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Direct Email @ trainhrd@vt.edu
Youtube of The Truth About Concussion Prevention

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A great talk with an infield practitioner and owner Melinda Hughes. I had great time talking with her.

Topics we covered:

-Flexibility and Adaptability

-Expectations, Adjusting to conform to demands of reality

-Customization vs One-Size-Fits-All

-Using Education to overcome barriers

-Views about "Running" and "Running marathons"

-Exercise selection for health

-Training men and women or "masculine" and "feminine"

-Balance between approaches to workouts

-S-O-R in application and views on how training being influenced by the person

-Entrainment and Pavlovian Conditioning

-Novelty workouts and using different approaches to a workout

-Science Literature and problems associated with vested interests

-Misinformation in Health and Fitness "Wild West"

-Good Science and Bad Science

-Observational data being used to make recommendations

-Physiological difference in men and women in response to diets

-Different responses to a stimulus

-Listening to your body

-Arrogance and the consequences of that in science and recommendations

-Redefining "Health"

-Image Privilege

-The Power of Love and Caring for Yourself

Ways to contact Melinda and Strength Shoppe:

-The Strength Shoppe (Official Website)

-The Strength Shoppe on Facebook

-The Strength Shoppe on Instagram

-The Strength Shoppe on Twitter

-The Strength Shoppe on YouTube

-Melinda Hughe's Linkedin

-Melinda’s Comedy Channel

Email: info@thestrengthshoppe.com

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Excuse my frequent usage of "general" and other phrases. I try to articulate myself. Also so I don't end up going onto a long rant.

The first episode is just the intro and purpose and to touch upon why it was created. Be on the look out for the next episode! Enjoy!

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