Kia Khadem on Cheating or Not Cheating, That is the Question

In this episode I interview Kia Khadem.  I met Kia at the KC Fitness Summit and after chatting with him knew he would be a great guest to get on.  He is also doing some great work in his writing as well as around Toronto and more people should know about him.  Kia has three principles that guide his fitness philosophy with his clients: get back to the basic, address habits one at a time, and have fun.

In this episode we discuss:

• How he got into fitness
• His philosophy of fitness
• His hardest habit he has had to build into his own life
• Jordan Syatt's 8 Rules of Productivity
• The struggle of working when we should be eating
• His time competing as a bodybuilder
• How he learned to not use a scale with everything
• His almost year long streak on myfitnesspal
• Changes to your diet don't have to be so severe 
• His biggest struggle in his dieting process
• Fitting his cravings in small ways each day
• Cheat days and how they ruined his fat loss
• Spending $75 on a cheat day
• The epic hamburger I ate in Richmond 
• If you enjoy and dont feel like you cheated, its a lot healthier way to look at things
• Our bodies are on a continuous clock
• Pre-workout versus fasted workouts
• The Hero that taught him a lot about goals
• The craziness of weight fluctuation 
• The liberation of getting away from the scale
• Where does he start people who have never been in a gym
• How coming into the gym is like taking a cooking class
• The Robin to your Batman
• Coming up with your own coaching cues with clients
• Nick Winkelman
• Keeping it simple
• His favorite superhero
• His guilty pleasure track
• Backstreets Back vs Bye Bye Bye
• What famous person he would have dinner with
• McDonald's Apple Pie in Scotland

Links

Kia Khadem

Fitocracy