Carbs & Curls: Recent Episodes
Carbs & Curls
We like lifting iron objects up and down again and eating fine goodies. Thrown in with a dash of fitness chat, real life and a big handful of chocolate chips.
We are back after a summer break.
Catching up on Tough Mudders, summer shredding and midnight hunger tomatoes.
Return of the C&C cookie ratings and we rate Creme, London.
How the body fights being lean, rants about trainers trying to sound more clever than they are by using long words and more.
We are back and we are ranty. More so than usual. We go in on virtue signalling as well as an in depth look of what it is currently like to travel to and return from an Amber list country. Jack also discusses his holiday in the Falkland Islands.
We go over all of our go to diet hacks. Tactics, food choices and how to pump up the volume.
Plus a full analysis and ranking of the super markets.
The one where we open up on our own experiences of body dysmorphia and insecurities.
After a grim round of 'guess who's dead' and our own bucket lists if we had a year left on this mortal coil, we delved into:
- The PT who shamed burger eating client
- Looking at ourselves in only a certain light and focussing on flaws
- The impact of getting very lean/competing on body dysmorphia
- Always comparing ourselves to our best
- The 5 stages of lean
- The false image portrayed by fitness influencers and its impact on people
- Being objective with ourselves rather than emotional
oh and more waffle as usual!
Joined by MNU certified nutritionist, the wonderful Sophia Taylor of Apollo Nutrition for this very open, honest and no holding back conversation.
We covered her experiences of eating disorders and mental health, leading her to the path of becoming a nutritionist and mindset coach to help others.
A really interesting one where we covered a range of topics ranging from:
- Influencers and social media
- Tracking and intuitive eating
- Relationship with food
- Impact of childhood and upbringing on body image and eating
- Mental health and its impact on eating issues
- The anti diet, fit at any size movement
- Bad coaches creating a bad relationship with food
- Babies called Keith
And many more in this insightful and thoroughly enjoyable episode. More to come from Sophia with her upcoming live podcast series.
Find her at instagram @apollo_nutrition
IG: @carbsncurlspod
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqFvhz3v6ojUgyUoSYBz-Cg
We design the most fool proof of zombie apocalypse plans in addition to some overall genuflection of the phenom that is Costco.
Also covered:
- When people want to 'tone' up but not get 'too big'
- The benefits of weight training and building muscle
- Our worst jobs we've had
- How mid 30s male can lose the 'shelf' overhang bit of belly
- If we had unlimited money to start our own business
We kick off with our general chit chat; dissecting Jack's 30k calorie challenge in one hour https://youtu.be/3NEishkgZx4 plus a bit of BeardMeetsFood fanboying.
Talk Easter chocolate and how its far better in October. That pec tear video (shudders just typing that). Desperation for a leg extension on 12th April.
Then your questions for us to waffle about in the Qwaffle section.
- What are your favourite apples?
- Is it harder to do a cut or to build muscle?
- Do I really need to walk 10,000 steps a day?
- Why should I go with a coach when I can get a set time transformation program for a fraction of the price?
We are joined by NABBA bodybuilder Matt Doyle in this truly honest, insightful and inspiring account of how he came back from ulcerative colitis, having his bowels removed and to take the stage again with a stoma bag.
Matt openly delves into his life, training, diet, and how it has been affected along with battling depression.
An excellent, hilarious and candid episode exploring the important topics of mental health, stomach issues and health, as well as bodybuilding, competing, being a doorman, gyms, steroids/drugs in sports and how to get the best hospital food.
We go back to when we were young, starting out in fitness, inexperienced, impressionable and our brains didn't work properly. If we could go back in time equipped with what we know now, what would we do differently?
We pick the bones of one of our truly awful first prep diets along with our past methods fixes for:
- Diet plans
- Nutrition
- Training
- Cardio
- Sources of information
And that naturally lead to Messi or Ronaldo?
We give our take on some of the worst fat loss methods and all things fitness out there.
Just some of the things not safe from our wrath:
Influencer live hiit workouts Meal Plans- shocking coaches named and shamed Ketones Juice cleanses Diet (sh*t yourself coffees)
In addition to our usual ramblings, plans for Valentine's day including our menus and Jack sourcing properly raw fish.
Straight into the new year with plenty of rants and rabbit holes.
Our plans for the new year, our festive season damage, worst Xmas presents and the best advent calendar in the history of humanity.
Predictions and plans for 2021; or the inherent lack of point in doing so.
We delved into reality tv shows, Jack3d, meal frequency, whilst meandering in and out of serious topics such as binge eating, lockdown depression and the US Capitol Building siege.
We go full throttle festive and delve into all things Christmas in this seasonal instalment.
Our days, traditions, the big meal, films, chocolate, festive eating challenge and Christmas cookie sampling.
We get all techie and test out Myfitnesspal's new meal scan feature and talk chiliPADs.
Men's style advice, our lead up to Christmas, our current eating habits, intermittent fasting and how you currently need a blue tick to be admitted entry to Dubai.
We rave about our new gyms and take opportunity (not that we ever need one) to bash Puregym.
Rant about the ubiquitous articles of 'How to avoid festive weight gain' and what our approach to Christmas will be.
Jack divulges how he still can't run and his knowledge of suspect steam rooms. We further meander around several goes of the worst game of 'guess who', Lord of the rings, sprint intervals and tapas is not for sharing.
Lockdown lifting and how Boris has changed our training goals leading up to Christmas (again).
We delve into our lockdown mental health and other important topics such as FIFA 98, Goldeneye and cookie pies.
Drugs in sports, impact of steroids and we go in on fitness influencers again who are full of gear and have no idea.
The second instalment of our debut episode. We delve into life's real issues of the moment; the cookie scoring system and sampled goodies from Finch Bakery, Arrival Cookies and The Cookie Dealer UK.
A bit more chat and fitness waffle in our cookie coma sugar rush state. Enjoy
Welcome to the Carbs & Curls Podcast!
In our debut episode we make an intro by dipping our toe in a wide range of fitness topics.
We discuss how 2020 (covid) impacted our year and training goals. Why fitness influencers are the worst example to look up to. But more importantly we delve into the cookie scoring system and start rating and sampling a selection of baked delights.