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The Mind Muscle Connection — 794 episodes · page 1 of 8
How to Know When to End a Building Phase, Back Training & More w/ Aaron Straker | Ep. 786
Do You Need to Eat Before a Workout? Pre-Workout Nutrition Explained | Ep 785
Building Discipline, Confidence, and Sustainable Habits When Motivation Isn't Enough With Cody McBroom | Ep 784
Muscle Growth Is a Slow Process and You're Making It Slower (Nutrition Edition) | Ep 783
9 Carbohydrate Mistakes Hurting Your Physique and Performance | Ep 782
Body Recomp Nutrition Strategies with Brandon DaCruz | Ep 781
My Progressive Overload Framework For Building Muscle | Ep 780
Self Inflicted Hunger vs Physiological Hunger (and what to do about it) | Ep 779
Calorie Cycling In a Building and Fat Loss Phase + Examples | Ep 778
How, Why, When I Use Maintenance Calorie Days During Fat Loss For Clients | Ep 777
Muscle Growth Is a Slow Process and You're Making It Slower | Ep 776
How to Get The Most Out Of Your Training During Fat Loss | Ep 775
Four Scenarios Where The Scale Doesn't Tell You What's Going On | Ep 774
Weight stable doesn't automatically = adequately fueled | Ep 773
Exploring Peptides for Health, Recovery, and Performance with Dave Marsh | Ep 772
You Can Build Muscle In a Deficit, But You Need To Know These Things | Ep 771
Training Volume, Progressive Overload & Building More Muscle with Steve Hall | Ep 770
How To Periodize Your Training | Ep 769
Do You Need To Change Your Training Based On Your Menstrual Cycle? w/ Dr. Alysha D'Souza | Ep 768
How Much Training Do You Need To Do Per Week For Muscle Growth? | 767
Check These 7 Things Before Decreasing Calories Further In Fat Loss | Ep 766
A Tool To Measure How Stressful Your Fat Loss Phase Is | Ep 765
3 Reasons You Aren't Getting As Lean As You Want | Ep 764
Why Women Are More Likely To Body Recomp with Brandon DaCruz | Ep 763
Benefits and Trade Offs Of Each Nutrition Phase | Ep 762
Women Often Have a Larger Stress Response to Calorie Deficits | Ep 761
The Three Biggest Factors That Determine Your Maintenance Calories | Ep 760
The Stress Bucket Explained: How Stress Affects Fat Loss, Muscle Gain And Health | Ep 759
15-10-5 Lifting Protocol, Resting Heart Rate, HRV, Muscle Growth and More with Bryan Boorstein | Ep 758
What Determines How Lean You Can Get And Stay? | Ep 757
Workouts Beating You Up Or Not Building Muscle As You’d Like? | Ep 756
A Better Approach to Phases Outside of Fat Loss | Ep 755
Why You Should Run a Fat Loss Diet Every So Often + How Long a Fat Loss Phase Should Be | Ep 754
Body Recomp Deepdive Part I w/ Brandon DaCruz | Ep 753
Why A Single And Short Build Phase Isn't Going To Drastically Change Your Physique | Ep 752
Pre Sleep Nutrition, Protein, Collagen, and more w. Dr. Mike Ormsbee | Ep 751
How To Build Muscle In A Deficit | Ep 750
Eating Under Maintenance But Weight Isn't Going Down or Is Up? | Ep 749
10 Things You Need To Know About Body Comp Change | Ep 748
Why Increasing Calories Didnt Work For You | Ep 747
Is Bulking and Cutting Dead? | Ep 746
Why Your Maintenance Calories Feel So Low | Ep 745
Training In a Fat Loss Phase vs Outside Of It | Ep 744
Does Cardio After Lifting Prevent Muscle Growth, Fat Loss Mistakes, 4 Week Training Cycles and More w. Brandon DaCruz | Ep 743
Can You Lose Fat At Maintenance? | Ep 742
My Case For Periodizing Your Nutrition | EP 741
Body Comp 101: How to Actually Improve Body Composition | Ep 740
5 Most Common High Stress Load Avatars | Ep 739
Hyrox Training, Zone 2 Cardio, Fats In a Deficit, Calorie Cycling, and more | Ep 738
Fat Loss Habits, Hunger, Optimal Body Fat Range and much more w/ Brandon DaCruz | Ep 737
7 Reasons Youre Working Hard But Not Seeing Change In Your Body Comp | Ep 736
Warm Up Sets, Exercise Selection, Rep Range, Cardio Recovery, etc. w/ Bryan Boorstein & Jordan Lips | Ep 735
If Youre Above These Body Fat Ranges, You Don't Need a Surplus to Build Muscle or "Reset" Metabolism | Ep 734
Body Comp > Scale Weight, Women and Maint Cals, Thyroid Issues, Postpartum and more w/ Lindsay Parker | Ep 733
Strategies To Keep You Leaner, Stronger, and Feeling Good In Your Building Phase | Ep 732
What Losing 160+ Pounds Taught Him About Health w. Garret Query | Ep 731
How to Actually Approach Body Recomposition | Ep 730
How to Keep Making Progress During Busy Seasons w. Dr Eric Helms | Ep 729
How Long Should a Training Cycle Be for Muscle Growth? | Ep 728
Managing Fat Loss During Performance Training, SIBO, and more w/ Laura Savino | Ep 727
Fat Loss Plateau? Here Is The Decision Process I Use With Clients | Ep 726
The Benefits of Eating At Maintenance w. Brandon DaCruz | Ep 725
Cardio For Lifters Over 30 (Benefits, Splits, Progressions) | Ep 724
What Causes Cravings + How To Manage Them | Ep 723
How Nutrition And Body Comp Can Add To Your Stress Load | Ep 722
Resting Heart Rate, Alcohol and HRV/RHR, How to Speed Up Recovery and more w. Dr Peter Tierney | Ep 721
Update On My Health/Fitness/Bloodwork | Ep 720
What To Dial In Before Fat Loss, Under Recovery, Training At Night & More w/ Brandon DaCruz | Ep 719
Finding the Body Fat Range Where You Feel and Perform Your Best | Ep 718
My Thoughts On How Many Sets For Muscle Growth + What Impacts This | Ep 717
Progressive Overload for Cardio, High vs Low Carbs, and more with Dr Mike T Nelson | Ep 716
When Carbs Help With Recovery and When They Dont | Ep 715
45% of Active Women May Be Underfueled. Here’s the Real Fix | Ep 714
Bro Splits, TRT, Tracking Blood Glucose and more with Bryan Boorstein | Ep 713
Circadian Rhythms 101 For Body Comp, Health, and Performance | Ep 712
Artificially Low Maintenance Cals + How To Increase Your Maintenance Cals | Ep 711
Circadian Rhythms Explained: Light, Food Timing, and Metabolism with Alan Flanagan | Ep 710
Intermittent Fasting 101 For Body Comp | Ep 709
Why Carbs Are Different for Everyone | Ep 708
Performance, Recovery, and Nervous System Regulation with Dave Marsh | Ep 707
Strategies To Preserve Muscle and Accelerate Recovery During Injury | Ep 706
Post Workout Nutrition, The Framework I Use With Clients | Ep 705
Performance vs Aesthetics, Calorie Needs, and Gut Health’s Role in Performance and Physique with Dr. Mike Molloy | Ep 704
What Can and Cant Happen At Maintenance Calories | Ep 703
Why Some People Gain Less Fat on 1,000 Extra Calories | Ep 702
Reverse Dieting, Muscle, & Metabolism After 30 (appearance on the The Allison Pavone Show) | Ep 701
Review of New Dietary Guidelines + My Foundational Nutrition Habits | Ep 700
Ignoring These Signs? You Could Be Making Fat Loss/Muscle Gain Tougher | Ep 699
Dr. Eric Helms - How Your Current Body Composition and Stress Dictate Your Strategy | Ep 698
Gut Health 101 For Body Comp | Ep 697
2025 Fitness Lessons/Learnings | Ep 696
How My Fitness Changed Since Becoming a Father (Guest Appearance on The FIT FATHER CODE) | Ep 695
Fat Loss Misconceptions To Leave Behind in 2026 | Ep 694
7 Common Cardio Mistakes Lifters Make In a Body Recomp | Ep 693
The Science of Muscle Growth: Mechanical Tension, Hormones, and The Pump with Derrick Van Every | Ep 692
How To Improve Your Metabolic Flexibility For Better Body Comp and Performance | Ep 691
Sleep Biofeedback Markers, Low vs High Reps, Progressive Overload, Can Maint Cals Change | Ep 690
Bodybuilding vs Gen Pop Fat Loss, Fat Loss Sustainability Thresholds, Reverse Dieting and more with Peter Fitschen | Ep 689
Unpopular Opinion: More Muscle Isn't Always Better | Ep 688
New Research: What Actually Builds Muscle and What Doesn't | Ep 687