Flex Diet Podcast
Dr. Mike T Nelson gets geeky with the latest research and scientific findings in the fitness world. Visit www.flexdiet.com to get Flex Diet Certified and www.miketnelson.com for more geeky goodness.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 349
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Ep 29: Daily - Fasted Cardio - It's Easier to Do Fasted Cardio
References:
- Study 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27459862
00:04:07 |
Thu 26 Dec 2019
Ep 28: Daily - Fasted Cardio - Long Term Effects of Fasted Cardio
References:
- study 1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25429252
- study 2 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27609363
- study 3 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22248495
- study 4 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih…
00:19:28 |
Wed 25 Dec 2019
Ep 27: Daily - Fasted Cardio - Why You May Suck at Using Fat as a Fuel
References:
- Study 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25763515
- Study 2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11093921
- Study 3: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10490806
00:11:53 |
Tue 24 Dec 2019
Ep 26: Daily - Fasted Cardio - Fasted vs Fed cardio for fat loss and health
References: https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jappl.1990.69.5.1849?journalCode=jappl
00:17:46 |
Mon 23 Dec 2019
Ep 25: Daily - Long Term Weight Loss - Metabolic Flexibility and Energy Flux - Keys to Long-term Weight Loss Success
Once you’ve lost weight, how do you keep it off? How does Metabolic Flexibility fit into energy flux? We cover all of this in today’s episode.
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00:13:55 |
Fri 20 Dec 2019
Ep 24: Daily - Long Term Weight Loss - Why Walking More and More Will Not Help
If I all of a sudden just take up walking like a madman and walk all day, am I going to cover my exercise requirements? Will I get significantly leaner? The answer is… kind of. We cover the research …
00:16:35 |
Thu 19 Dec 2019
Ep 23: Daily - Long Term Weight Loss - Energy Flux Concept - Low vs High - Adherence
What is the #1 key to long term weight loss? Our argument is that it’s exercise and even more specifically is looking at the concept of energy flux. Can you pull more energy through the system. And b…
00:17:05 |
Wed 18 Dec 2019
Ep 22: Daily - Long Term Weight Loss - The misunderstood role of muscle and calories burned
What are one of the misunderstood keys to long term weight loss? If you look at the statistics, most people are good at achieving short term weight loss but they’re horrible at maintaining it. In the…
00:14:51 |
Tue 17 Dec 2019
Ep 21: Daily - Long Term Weight Loss - Why Exercise and not just cut calories?
This week, we’re talking about a concept called g-flux. The first time I heard about this was from Dr. John Berardi in the early 2000s. G-Flux represents the relationship between the amount of energy…
00:17:29 |
Mon 16 Dec 2019
Ep 20: Daily - Protein - Myth 5: Eating Too Much Protein Makes You Fat
Let’s just jump right into the last protein myth of the week. I’m going to cover some very interesting, massive, protein overfeeding studies where they’ve tracked the effects of consuming a high prot…
00:10:22 |
Fri 13 Dec 2019
Ep 19: Daily - Protein - Myth 4: There is No Data That Says Athletes Need More Than the RDA for Protein
We’re covering another zombie myth of protein that just won’t die today. Now it appears that protein itself is considered a negative thing in some circles. Yikes. I was at the ancestral health societ…
00:11:50 |
Thu 12 Dec 2019
Ep 18: Daily - Protein - Myth 3: As You Age, You Need Less Protein
One of my favorite shows on TV, other than Seinfeld which most of my students don’t even know existed… which is crazy, was MythBusters. Myth #3 is “as you age, you need less protein. This is false. F…
00:06:57 |
Wed 11 Dec 2019
Ep 17: Daily - Protein - Myth 2: Too Much Protein Will Damage Your Kidneys
Too Much Protein Will Damage Your Kidneys? For the average healthy person listening in, this is not true. You need to understand the difference between “work” and “damage”. It is true that if you hav…
00:11:38 |
Tue 10 Dec 2019
Ep 16: Daily - Protein - Myth 1: You Can Only Use 30 Grams of Protein per Meal
This week I've been talking about that protein or bro-tein, depending upon how you want to pronounce it. What I wanted to do this week is give you a very brief primer on why protein is useful and why…
00:21:01 |
Mon 09 Dec 2019
Ep 15: Daily - Exercise - Cardiac Adaptations - Concentric vs Eccentric Hypertrophy
00:20:12 |
Fri 06 Dec 2019
Ep 14: Daily - Exercise - Why you can NOT just lift weights faster for cardio
00:12:11 |
Thu 05 Dec 2019
Ep 13: Daily - Exercise - Aerobic (Cardio) vs Anaerobic (Lifting stuff) Exercise
On the topic of the effects of exercise, we need to chat about the difference in aerobic exercise versus anaerobic exercise. Now for some of you, those may be a very simple review, but I think these …
00:14:56 |
Wed 04 Dec 2019
Ep 12: Daily - Exercise - Exercise vs Recreation
As of this recording, you may hear some different noises in the background. I'm in South Padre Texas doing some kiteboarding. You're probably wondering what kiteboarding has to do with the topic of …
00:13:04 |
Tue 03 Dec 2019
Ep 11: Interview - Doc & Doc - Interview with Dr. Andy Galpin
Today I have something super cool for you. This is an interview with my good buddy Dr. Andy Galpin from Cal State Fullerton. If you've been listening to some of my stuff for quite a while, or possibl…
01:28:37 |
Mon 02 Dec 2019
Ep 10: Daily - Sleep - Research on Sleep and Pre-Bed Protein
The importance of sleep. Whenever you talk about sleep, especially around a group of lifters, these questions then come up, "Should I be ingesting protein before I go to bed? Does that mess up my me…
00:15:17 |
Thu 14 Nov 2019
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