16 episodes

Real talk on fitness and nutrition challenging the underlying assumptions behind health claims, zealots, and bro science.

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Real talk on fitness and nutrition challenging the underlying assumptions behind health claims, zealots, and bro science.

    Episode 16: Does Snacking Destroy Your Weight Loss?

    Episode 16: Does Snacking Destroy Your Weight Loss?

    Geof and Todd talk about how snacks can and can't impact your weight loss . Turns out just changing the name snack to something else helps! 

    • 34 min
    How Many Calories do I Burn with My Workouts ?

    How Many Calories do I Burn with My Workouts ?

    This is one of the most asked questions by many people when they start working out.  Geof and Todd take on this question and discuss why this is really a very difficult question to answer with any accuracy and why it might not matter to your ultimate goals.

    • 29 min
    Is Diet Quality Important for Weight Loss?

    Is Diet Quality Important for Weight Loss?

    Intuitively diet quality must be important for weight loss.....but is it?  In this episode we discuss the importance of diet quality in the context of weight loss and why we believe (and the data say) that maybe diet quality is better suited to helping you improve your health AFTER losing weight, and not during your actual weight loss.

    • 30 min
    Episode 13: Is Weight Loss an All or Nothing Pursuit?

    Episode 13: Is Weight Loss an All or Nothing Pursuit?

    In Episode 13: Is Weight Loss an All or Nothing Pursuit, Geof and Todd discuss whether they believe that weight loss can be achieved by incorporating small changes into your life over time or whether drastic changes are necessary to lose weight and keep it off. 

    • 33 min
    Episode 12: Why You Can't Lose Weight with (Just) Exercise

    Episode 12: Why You Can't Lose Weight with (Just) Exercise

    In Episode 12: Why You Can’t Lose Weight with (Just) Exercise, Geof and Todd discuss how exercise, in and of itself, is ineffective for losing weight.  The reason being is that it is far too easy to consume calories and very, very difficult to burn them.  Despite this calories in/calories out relationship, the fitness industry is all too eager to sell weight loss solutions even though weight loss is one of the things the fitness industry is the worst at doing.  So why does the fitness industry sell you weight loss solutions if they are so bad at it?  Because people want to lose weight and people care about losing weight so the fitness industry sells people what they want.  What the fitness industry does not do a good job of selling to people are the hundreds and probably thousands of other benefits that result from an exercise routine.  Geof and I spend a better part of this podcast defining how we think that our relationship with exercise shouldn’t revolve around weight loss but should be about getting stronger to make your day-to-day activities easier, moving without pain, supplementing your active hobbies, relieving stress, and sleeping better.
    If Geof and I were forced to place percentages on how important diet and exercise are to weight loss, we would have to say that diet is responsible for 80-90% of your weight loss results and exercise making up the remaining 10-20%.  Again, it is very easy to consume calories but very difficult to burn them.  The example that I commonly use in class is that the hot do eating champion, Joey Chestnut, can consume 70 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes and approximately 20,000 calories.  Conversely, an ironman athlete who swims 2.4 miles, bikes 112 miles, and runs a marathon (26.2 miles) during 10 continuous hours of highly strenuous activity can only hope to burn 10-12 thousand calories depending on body size and finishing time.  To put that into perspective, people are capable of eating 20,000 calories in 10 minutes, twice the number of calories that an ironman triathlete burns in 10 hours.  Although this is an extreme example, it illustrates just how easy it is to consume calories and just how difficult it is to burn them.
    To lose weight an energy deficit must be created (calories in calories out) and the math just is not on the side of exercise.  Although beyond the scope of these podcast notes, calorie for calorie, it is far easier to not eat a calorie than it is to burn one off.  The old saying of “you can’t out-exercise a bad diet” is completely accurate.  As Geof states in our podcast, you will lose more weight sitting on the couch and not eating anything for two weeks than the weight you will lose while vigorously exercise training for 60 minutes/day for two weeks.
    Exercise has hundreds and thousands of benefits.  There is no doubting that.  But it probably should be viewed as a compliment to diet for weight loss and the maintenance of the weight you lose rather than a primary solution for losing weight.  In and of itself, exercise is terrible at causing weight loss.  

    • 33 min
    Episode 11: Bodies Come in All Shapes and Sizes

    Episode 11: Bodies Come in All Shapes and Sizes

    In Episode 11: Bodies Come in All Shapes and Sizes, Geof and Todd discuss how humans come in all shapes and sizes, how everyone responds so differently to the same exact diet and exercise routine, why it is so important to find exercises you like and foods you enjoy, that your diet and exercise preferences match your goals, and why you should only compare yourself to yourself.

    • 32 min

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