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The Amir Fazeli Podcast — 157 episodes

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Cutting Weight In Comp Week Without Affecting Performance

2

5 Tips For Overcoming Anxiety & Fear In Competition

3

The Carnivore Diet For (Combat) Athletes: A Good Solution or a Recipe for Disaster?

4

A Simple Way PTs Can Get More Leads On The Gym Floor

5

Fitness Isn't The Same Thing As Conditioning

6

Why Feeling 'Meh' On Any Day Shouldn't Stop You from Performing

7

Powerlifters: Are We Focusing Too Much On The Micro Instead Of The Macro?

8

Fighters: The Most Important Drills You're Not Doing

9

Gym Owners: Are You Busy Doing The Right Things Or Are You Just Busy?

10

Powerlifters: 4 Things You Can Do Between Sets That'll Improve Your Confidence & Your Total

11

Why Do People Who Don't Really Care About Something Tend To Actually Get It Kind Of Easily?

12

Fighters: Do You Underperform In Competition Compared To Training?

13

Coaches/PTs: Charge For Results Not Your Time

14

Powerlifters: 6 Questions You Can Ask Yourself To Easily Determine Your Recovery

15

Fighters: Doing More Of Your Combat Sport Is Not Ideal For Improving Your Conditioning

16

Gym Owners: How Well Do You Follow Up Your Leads Really?

17

Shortcast: What You Measure In Your Business Gets Managed. What You Don't Is Left Up To Luck

18

One Of The Biggest Mistakes I Made When I First Opened My Gyms

19

Woke-Life Balance: Just An Illusion?

20

Personality Matters: Be A Better Coach By Understanding The 5 Personality Traits

21

My Training Methods Are Better Than Yours

22

Confidence Is Something You DO. Not Something You ARE.

23

For Combat Athletes: "If gorillas don't eat meat and they're strong then why do I need to eat meat?"

24

Do you ever get anxious on the way to training?

25

Training hard is important, but recovery is importanter

26

This Is How You Deal With Competition Anxiety And Fear Of Losing

27

The Physiotherapist Who Actually Lifts - Tom Roncone

28

Nutrition Simplification Wizard Mackenzie Baker

29

The Builder of Elite Crossfit Athletes Mr Luke Starr

30

The President Of The ASCA Dr. Dan Baker

31

King of Finance Ryan King

32

3DMJ Super Coach Alberto Nuñez

33

Renaissance Periodization's Chief Sarcasm Officer Dr Mike Israetel

34

Sleep Scientist Barry Bridges

35

Fitness Business, Online Coaching & Stuff With Will Berkman

36

Mental Health, Contemplating Suicide & Turning It All Around With Tareq Ahmed

37

BJJ Coach & Brown Belt Winston Hong

38

Physique & Bodybuilding Coach Paolo Baja

39

Does Meal Timing Matter?

40

The Thicc Stoic: On Death - Seneca's 4th Letter

41

How Many Weekly Sets Per Muscle, Protein During Diets, Can You Build Muscle With Heavy Weights?

42

The Thicc Stoic: What Is A Friend - Seneca's Letter #3

43

The Thicc Stoic: Single Minded Focus - Seneca's Letter #2

44

The Thicc Stoic: Figure Out What You Have Control Over & What You Don't

45

Winner's Mindset: Working Hard, Burnout & The 80/20 Rule

46

Winner's Mindset: Comfort Is A Progress Killer

47

Does Your Training REALLY Need to be Individualised?

48

Winner's Mindset: Commitment

49

The Winner's Mindset - The Opposite Of Fear Is Not Courage

50

The Winner's Mindset: Your Purpose In Life

51

Should You ALWAYS Stick To Your Program?

52

Motivation is overrated

53

Self Belief Is #1

54

How you feel can accurately indicate your recovery state

55

A good coach knows how to adjust to the client's type of personality

56

Constantly perform worse in competition than your training?

57

APU Nationals Observations

58

Observation From USAPL Nationals

59

Your Identity Determines Your Improvements

60

Stress & Recovery 101

61

Vintage: Mike T. of RTS

62

Vintage: Greg Nuckols

63

Vintage: Dr Mike Israetel

64

Everything I Know About: Flat Shoes Vs Weightlifting Shoes For Squats

65

Fat Loss & Muscle Gain: If You Don't Track It You Can't Change It

66

Stoicism - Who Are You Now & Who Do You Want To Be

67

Everything I Know About: Male Vs Female Training Considerations

68

Everything I Know About: Muscle & CNS Both Influence Strength

69

Everything I Know About: How The CNS Effects Your Recovery 🤯

70

Everything I Know About: How Fast Should I Bulk? 💪

71

Everything I Know About: Autogregulation & It's Application

72

Everything I Know About: Calories & Protein Are #1

73

Everything I Know About: What Adonis Athletics Is

74

Everything I Know About: How Fast Should You Lose Weight

75

Everything I Know About: Training On Holidays

76

Everything I Know About: Where To Look During Squat & Deadlift 🏋️

77

Everything I Know About: Deadlifts - Bar Positioning & Distance

78

You Don't Need To Increase Weight Every Session To Progress 💪

79

How Stress & Busy Lifestyle Effects Your Recovery

80

Managing stress & regaining your energy - Part 2 - Sleep

81

Manage Stress, Regain Your Energy - My Journey - Part 1

82

Upper Back Strength For Deadlift Improvement

83

What's The Point, I Can Only Train Once A Week

84

Building Confidence In Lifters Is Paramount

85

How Low A Calories Is Too Low?

86

Shotgun Approach To Picking Exercise Variations

87

Myo-Reps For Muscle Growth

88

Fear, Self Development & Environment

89

HIIT vs LISS For Fat Loss

90

Does Your Coach Need To Be A Champion?

91

Importance of Fitness for Strength Athletes

92

Resiliance

93

Dont do this during your deload week

94

Why I do what I do

95

Short term gratification or long term sacrifice

96

Shins dont have to be vertical for deadlift

97

3 Tips For A Shorter Workout

98

Is DOMS neccessary?

99

Importance of anecdotal evidence

100

You can train some muscle groups almost everyday

101

How often should i deload?

102

No need to increase weight every week

103

Setting up a muscle building long term plan

104

Introducing the Adonis Athletics Sport Psych

105

My history of injuries

106

Set goals, crush them

107

Increase calories and get protein to lose fat

108

Multiple sticking points in a lift

109

How important is tempo?

110

Smarter way to warmup

111

Gotta pay the cost to be the boss

112

Too much theory not enough practice

113

Detach yourself from your training

114

Constantly grinding reps in training?

115

How fast should i cut?

116

How fast should i bulk

117

Conviction in your goals

118

Paralysis by analysis

119

Conditions for individualized programming

120

Foot angle in the sumo deadlift

121

Keto vs Carbs for performance

122

Deadlift question: how many times a week should you train it

123

Common mistakes people make when struggling to stay lean

124

Be positive and surround yourself with positive

125

Case study on reverse dieting

126

Rethinking offseason training

127

Common mistake athletes make during the season

128

S&C for field and combat sport athletes

129

Improving recovery capacity

130

Motivation vs Discipline

131

Fitness Show recap

132

Do fats and carbs matter?

133

Keep in touch with intensity

134

Deload weeks

135

Shin angle in the deadlift

136

Make sure you give yourself credit

137

Leg press for squat improvement

138

Your expectation is hindering your progress

139

Importance of diet breaks

140

Focus on cues instead of the details

141

Bulking will make you lose definition - dont panick stay on course

142

Striving for technique perfection can be a waste of time

143

You dont need to progress workload every single session

144

Buffer zone with your calories and macros

145

Forcing your body weight to stay down when you shouldn't

146

How to peak for a strength sport

147

Mixing RPE and percentage based training

148

Throwing out the baby with the bath water

149

If its not working get help

150

I Wanna Bulk & Shred At The Same Time

151

Dont Take Feedback For Granted

152

Recovery & Adaptation Simplified

153

Variation Work Vs Specific Work

154

Find Your Niche & Be Relevant

155

NPS Score For FitBiz Owners

156

March 1, 2018

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Light touch and go bench press