Wise Lifting with Luke Tulloch
Fitness industry myth busting, research review, and tips for personal trainers and serious lifters.
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How to make your workouts shorter without losing progress (opens the original)
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"My workouts take forever." If you've only got 3 or 4 hours a week to train, that's a problem. Every session runs over, or gets cut off wherever the clock runs out. The answer isn't squeezing a longer program into less time. In this episode I go through how to split 3 to 4 hours across your week, the habits that save the most time once you're in the gym, and a full 60-minute session laid out start to finish. Instagram
How to tell which fitness experts to trust (opens the original)
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Nobody can be an expert in everything they care about. So whether you mean to or not, you're choosing who to trust with your training and nutrition. And at the moment that choice is harder than it should be. A lot of fitness content has turned into dunking on other people. The loudest voice sounds the most certain, and certain feels a lot like trustworthy. In this episode I go through five signs that someone is worth listening to, why so much of the loudest content fails them, and what happens w
Worst case scenario (opens the original)
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Evidence-based fitness is built on population averages. that means personal progress requires individual experimentation to discover what is truly optimal for you...which means taking risks. But how do we know what risks to take? When is it worth trying something new? What if you don't want to lose progress you've already made?
Why your injury keeps coming back (opens the original)
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If you're dealing with a nagging injury that keeps flaring up every time you get back into a groove, the way you're managing it is probably why. In this episode I cover the biggest mistakes experienced lifters make when something hurts, why complete rest makes the problem worse, and how to use the same progressive approach you'd use in your programming to actually build your way out of it.Survey link: https://tally.so/r/OD2YEa
What to do when you can't train properly (opens the original)
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You've made the time, got yourself to the gym, and your knee's hurting again. Or you haven't slept properly in a fortnight. And the thought turns up: not again. Most of us write the week off at that point. We'll start again properly when things settle down. This one's about what to do instead. I go through what actually happens to the muscle you've built when you cut right back, which is usually a lot less than people assume, and the four things I'd focus on while a rough patch runs its course.
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