Fitness For Freedom Tips
by By Jonathan Chant - Answers Your Fitness & Exercise Questions So You Can Li
Fitness For Freedom Tips is a new type of fitness and health show. We deliver fitness tips that you can apply to your life right away in 10 minutes or less. Lets face it you're busy and life pulls you in all directions. You want to be healthier, but living a healthier lifestyle is hard. It requires you to change and there is a lot of misinformation out there. We work hard to syphon through it to give you the most sound advice possible and set you up for the greatest chance of success. Jonathan Chant has been working with people to live healthier lives for 10 years now and he's seen it all. That's why he founded Fitness For Freedom, your complete online fitness training and lifestyle design community. He pulls out all the stops to help you make the changes yourself. No transformation challenges, no extreme changes just solid strategies to help you make changes that will stick for the rest of your life. Change is constant and you're going to have lots of questions as you go alon
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Episode 343: Creating Better Self-Talk
Change is not going to be easy, you're going to fail, but how you deal with that failure can make all the difference in the world. I've already covered a Growth or Be Better Mindset mindset back in Episode 84 - How to punch failure in the face today we're going to focus on self-talk, with some...
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Episode 342 : A Must Read Episode - Atomic Habits
Today is a must read episode, Atomic Habits: An easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones. As soon as I listened to an interview with the author James Clear I knew I was going to read this book, agree with almost everything inside of it and make it a must read episode. The…
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Episode 341 - Top 5 Strategies for Navigating Holiday Parties
I usually like going to these events, I mean who doesn't want to go to a function where you hardly know anyone and sit in a corner by yourself, while you use wheat thins to slowly shovel brie cheese covered in maple syrup and nuts one mouthful at a time, justifying each bite is okay because you...
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Episode 340 - Is There Value In Fitness Challenges?
I used to hate fitness challenges - 30 Days of Plank, the 12 Days of Lunges, The Burpee Challenge, you know, the ones that periodically show up on your facebook or instagram feed or an over exuberant friend tells you about how they're doing it and it's amazing and you should do it too. Yes, I…
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Episode 339: The Halloween Debacle of 2018
Last Wednesday night was Halloween and even though I'm generally anti-chips and chocolate bars, I try not to be anti-fun and recognize that getting dressed up and going to people's houses, getting candy and chocolates is just that, especially for children and as far as I can tell mothers, at…
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Episode 338 - Are You Honestly Trying As Hard As You Could Be?
About eight months ago I started working with a new client, a woman in her mid-50s who had just gone through several breast cancer surgeries and treatments. She's in remission for now and wanted or wants to get back into shape again, to improve the mobility and flexibility of her shoulders and…
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Episode 337: How Many Sets and Reps Should I Do?
Topic suggestion from Krysta on our Facebook Page. I'd love to hear about set\rep amounts and the weight of the weights for different goals such as losing weight vs building muscle ... I've been told it's different! Thanks for this topic Krysta, it's been a while since I've covered and although…
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Episode 336 - Do You Constantly Feel 'Behind' in Your Fitness and Weight Loss Goals?
Have you ever set a goal and then felt like you've fallen behind on achieving that goal? It's a phrase I hear all the time, I'm behind on my weight loss goal….. I'm behind on my training…... I'm behind on my career……. I'm behind…..I'm behind…..I'm behind…..I'm behind in life Get Our Fitness For...
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Episode 335: Creating the Path to Your Future Self
You are here (x). Your future self is there (y). How do you get from here to there without crashing and burning. Get Our Fitness For Beginners Course For Free! Join Our Fitness Application for Free Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel Follow us On Instagram Like Us on Facebook
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Episode 334: How Come More People Don't Die Exercising?
Today is a must read episode Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson. Hutchinson tries to tackle this complex question, why is it that more people don't die doing exercise or maybe put a different way, if you run a race and give it everything...
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Episode 333 - Stop Wasting Your Time Exercising
Let's picture this for a second, you're in the gym you're exercising, you do a bit of jump rope, then you quickly shift to lunges, then to a plank, you hop up into squats, then you hit the floor to do some push-ups, you're working hard, you feel your heart pounding, you start to feel yourself...
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Episode 332 - What Good Is It If It's Only Around The Block?
I was training a client the other day and she was talking about how dissatisfied she was with how she felt, she wasn't happy with how things were going, as in how she's not able to do some of the things she could do even as recently as last year and she still can't find the motivation to do some...
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Episode 331: Breaking Through Your Infuriating Plateaus
I started hitting the gym back in September 2017, I was very weak back then so I started with 30 lbs overhead press and now have made very little progress, that is after 11 months I've reached 80 lbs now and the progress seems to have halted . What should I do? M 19 Started at 140 lbs now after…
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Episode 330: Jonathan, What Motivates You To Exercise?
I was working with one of my clients the other morning and they were talking about how during the week they had tried to or had good intentions of doing some exercises on their own, but they were unable to 'drum up' the motivation to do anything. Before I could get in there to ask my questions,...
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Episode 329: I Will Be Happy When I'm Skinny
I've lost some weight, but when I look in the mirror all I see is my fat and how fat I am. I'm in smaller clothes, but I'm still disgusting. If only I could lose all my weight then I would be happy. Betty, can you take me through your inner monologue, what else do you tell yourself when you look…
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Episode 328: Punching Status Quo in the Face
'I'm not as strong as I used to be. I really need to start exercising, but exercising is so hard' 'I know I shouldn't eat this, but it tastes soooooo good' 'I wish I could get out of bed early, I know I would get more stuff done, but staying in bed is so cozy' Does any of this sound familiar? Of...
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Episode 327: Are You Being Honest With Yourself?
I have a client I've been working with for about 6 months now, she had been working with another trainer for about a year before that and lost a lot of weight right out of the gate, but had plateaued and she contacted me to switch things up or get a new perspective. This is a common problem for a...
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Episode 326: My stomach has gone down, but after strength training for 40 days shouldn't I look more muscular?
Here's the email question from Slow Progress Sam we'll call him, I'm a 33 year old male that weighs 167 lbs. and is 28% body fat. I've been dieting for 71 days and lifting weights for 40 days, following a very basic beginner strength training program. My stomach has gone down, but after strength...
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Episode 325: How to make a change stick when you're maxed out all the time
Of course this is all well and good, but what if you're red lining all the time or you're maxed out from the time you wake up in the morning until the time you go to bed at night? If that's the case you can zoom out as far as you want, but that's not going to be helpful for you. Today we're going...
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Episode 324: How To Deal With The 'What The Hell Phenomenon'
When we do an assessment or an initial intake with a new client we go through their goals, expectations and generally what they're looking to get out of our relationship and an exercise program or fitness routine. Through this assessment we usually cover how much the person may or may not have...
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Episode 323 : What is Flow and How Can You Find It
Athletes will sometimes call this the zone, I know that one time a sat down to write a blog post and I wrote 3 or 4 pages in about 45 minutes, but it felt like only a few minutes had actually passed. I'm sure most of you have experienced this in one form or another, this almost magical feeling...
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Episode 322: How To Deal With Your Saboteurs
As many of you know I work with a lot of clients that are trying to lose weight, I have one client in particular that has really been struggling, her struggles are bothersome or upsetting (I'm not sure if that's the right word, but it's the one I'll use) because there was a time when she had made…
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Episode 321: Taking Action on Your Health and Wellness Goals
Last Thursday night I went on a bit of an eating binge, which happens from time to time... Start learning about exercising in a sustainable way or Connect with us! Get Our Fitness For Beginners Course For Free! Join of Fitness Application for Free Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel Follow us On...
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320: Figuring Out Where to Aim Your Changes
A couple of weeks ago I got a phone call from a potential client. Like many of these phone calls it went something like this, Hi, I'm out of shape and I need to lose weight, I'm really interested in the services you offer I have kids and I don't have time to get to the gym, but if someone could...
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Episode 319: How close are you to your highlight reel?
Now, this past week was my first full week back working, working out and running and it was really tough, I managed to keep my upper body strength close to the same, but I'm tiring much more quickly and my muscles are much more sore than they were in the month before Christmas, on top of this my...
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Episode 318: How do I get and stay motivated?
It's a new year and for me this is a time of reflection, thoughtfulness and trying to figure out if I'm living the way I want to live and accomplishing the goals that I want to accomplish. Not only in my own personal health and fitness, but also in the health of my relationships with my family…
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Episode 317: I Have COPD What Exercises Should I Do? Short Answer - The same ones as everyone else
MrTwinkz is a middle aged man that works in an office environment, he's 6'2" and weighs 106kg or about 230 lbs which is probably a little bit overweight depending on how active he is. Back in March he was diagnosed with pneumonia and now from that he has asthma and COPD, aka. chronic obstructive...
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Episode 316: Do You Self Sabotage Your Progress
Fast forward to two days ago and she comes home after a workout while I'm making dinner and she comes into the kitchen to tell me how it went and I hear rustling in the living room, like whiskey our dog is getting into something he shouldn't be getting into. So I ask her if she bought any food he...
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Episode 315: The Obesity Code - Who's the Biggest Culprit
I just finished reading the Obesity Code by Dr. Jason Fung and as the title suggests this book is about obesity, more or less how it happens, the nuances around it and what you can do about. It's a long book, but it's not a heavy read and although he covers a lot of very well researched…
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Episode 314: The Best Diet Plan You Can Go On
After I put my son to bed I often come down to my little home office to get a little more work done before I put myself to bed. Usually I save mindless admin tasks for this time because I have trouble focussing on anything that is deep and meaningful and I can't do anything that requires research...
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Episode 313: Endings Bring New Beginnings on Reflection and Meditation
I've had the opportunity to reflect a lot over the past few months about what it means to change and redirecting my priorities, and I've had to look back at why I do certain things out of habit or in other words how did I create a habit the way that I did, and what were the steps I took. And the...
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Episode 312: Is Dumbеll оvеrhеаd рrеss еаsіеr оn your јоіnts thаn bаrbеll?
I'm a really skinny guy, always have been, 6' 145 lbs, high metabolism/high energy. So I'm naturally skinny plus I mountain bike/run regularly. This spring/summer I worked canadian tree planting in BC which if you don't know is basically hiking and throwing a shovel for 8 hours a day planting...
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Episode 311: How to Pick Your Treadmill Running Speed
I have a client that I've been training for a few years now and just this past summer she's taken up running and she's improved a lot, at the beginning of the summer she was doing 2 or 3 minutes of running then 1 to 2 minutes of walking to complete 5km, but with her hard work and consistent...
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Episode 310: Is it possible to slowly lose body fat% and gain muscle mass while consuming calories around maintenance?
I want to lose fat and gain muscle, but I don't want to put on any more weight, is it possible to slowly lose body fat % and gain muscle mass while consuming calories around maintenance? How much slower would this be than a bulk and then cut cycle? Wants to be leaner - Luke Is it better to do...
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Episode 309 : Changing How You Look at Goal Setting
I've done a few episodes about goal setting usually under the premise that goals in and of themselves are more or less a waste of time, at least in the standard way that most people think about goals - I want to lose 40 lbs. in 6 months or I want to be able to do 10 push-ups in 10 weeks. I know...
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308: How did you break through your plateau on overhead press?
I overworked out. I pushed myself way too far than i should have in weight training. Now i'm feeling quite broken. But I'm currently on a cut so I'm tracking my calories and keeping them low. Should I eat more today? Would it help my recovery? Or do I just have to deal with it. I'm not talking...
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Episode 307: The human metabolic response to chronic ketosis without caloric restriction, the blood work episode
In last weeks show I reviewed a study about the effects of a ketogenic diet on endurance athletes and whether or not it had an effect on their ability to cycle for extended periods of time, at around 60 to 65% of their maximum capacity, if you're interested in hearing about my thoughts and the...
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Episode 306 : When trying to lose weight, do you add extra calories to account for exercise?
When trying to lose weight, do you add extra calories to account for exercise? For some context, I'm 22 year old female trying to lose weight. I downloaded MyFitnessPal and entered in my stats. I was given 1750 calories to work with and my macros I split to 40/30/30 for Carbs/Protein/Fat. My...
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Episode 305 : Does a Ketogenic Diet Help or Hurt Your Endurance?
This isn't a must read episode for The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance, it's more of a review of a research article the book cited. That's right there was a citation that I thought was questionable so I tracked down the original study and decided to critically analyze it to see if...
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Episode 304: How do I prevent this dizzyness from happening?
Every time I finish pushing the prowler sled I get dizzy. I'm in a hot climate so I make sure to hydrate religiously so that can't be the issue. Even if I push one plate I still get dizzy after a few sprints. I also make sure to breathe while pushing. How can I prevent or lessen the negative post...
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Episode 303 - How Mobility Training Makes You Stronger
In order to get stronger you have to progressively lift heavier weight, there's no way around it, however lifting progressively heavier weight has it's limits, as in you can only become so strong before you will start to become injured or your strength will plateau, if these types of things…
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Episode 302: How do you go about coming back to training after such illness?
I'm trying to save time on my back workouts, I'm just curious if doing Deadlifts, Bent Over Rows, and Pullups/Chin-ups are enough to build it completely? - Build My Back Bob So here's the deal, I'm looking forward to compete in weightlifting, but I get sick a lot. So here's the question: when...
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Episode 301: What To Do When You Don't Feel Like Exercising
A couple weeks ago when I was away on holidays I woke up one morning with every intent of going for a run and doing a quick strength workout, but when I woke up that morning I still felt tired, I didn't have very much energy, I was reeling from a cold that even today I haven't fully recovered…
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300: Is Swimming Any Good for Burning Calories and Losing Weight?
Danica - What kind of training do I have to do to be able to make more distance while swimming and hold my breath for longer times under water? I want to be able to swim longer and stronger. Too Extreme - When I go to the cottage with my family we like to take the boat out and go wakeboarding,...
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299: The Most Effective Strategy To Build Muscle Without Weight
I just got back from a 'vacation' in beautiful British Columbia, I have to put vacation in air quotes because for the most part it didn't feel that way. We were there for a whole week, but social activities, family get together's and a wedding right in the middle of the trip left us crammed end…
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298: How can I Apply A Reward System to Exercise?
Reaping Rewards Rob - When it comes to everyday life and motivating myself to push to get something done, I like the idea of using a reward system - where I treat myself to something I like when I succeed, as it works to make me want to get that thing done. Is there a way I can apply something…
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297: The Ridiculous Notion of Moderation
Have you ever heard this expression, 'Everything in moderation, except moderation.' I've heard this expression several times and I don't know where it comes from or who started it, but the first time I heard it I agreed with it and thought - you know everything should be done in moderation, but...
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296: what are some beginner pulling exercises?
Master Chef - What are some good foods I can make from scratch at home? We want to eat healthier and I only have so much time to cook, are there any quick meals that can be made easy that are also good for you? Amanda - I'm trying to learn proper movements for exercises, but don't really have...
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295: The Lost Strategy That Will Help You Lose Weight
Last week I made this huge giant salad. I used spinach as the base, with fresh tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers from our garden and then I put some olives cashews, hemp and chia seeds to top it all off with some balsamic vinaigrette. Of course, what I intended to be a modest lunch salad quickly...
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294: How long does it take for weight loss to show?
Mandy - I've been losing weight doing exercise, and I know I have because I've been weighing myself every day, but I can't really see the difference. I feel better, but I want to look better as well. How long does it take for weight loss to show? Sleepy Sally - I work long shifts on my feet all...
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Fitness For Freedom Tips is a new type of fitness and health show. We deliver fitness tips that you can apply to your life right away in 10 minutes or less. Lets face it you're busy and life pulls you in all directions. You want to be healthier, but living a healthier lifestyle is hard. It requires you to change and there is a lot of misinformation out there. We work hard to syphon through it to give you the most sound advice possible and set you up for the greatest chance of success. Jonathan Chant has been working with people to live healthier lives for 10 years now and he's seen it all. That's why he founded Fitness For Freedom, your complete online fitness training and lifestyle design community. He pulls out all the stops to help you make the changes yourself. No transformation challenges, no extreme changes just solid strategies to help you make changes that will stick for the rest of your life. Change is constant and you're going to have lots of questions as you go alon
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