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In this talk, your Host William Grazione visits with Chris and Eric Martinez. These two brothers are  #1 International Best-Selling Authors are founders of Dynamic Duo Training, an online exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle consulting business.  Today Chris and Eric fill us in on how they achieved their success in the noisy world of health and fitness and the reason why they went from coaching people on their personal nutrition and fitness journeys to teaching health and fitness coaches how to improve their business.  The two discuss the importance of the 80/20 rule, which involves being a Badass fitness marketer first, excelling at sales, and being a good coach simultaneously. They also touch on what they believe should be a person's motivation in business.  Lastly, we have sound advice for new nutritionists and trainers looking to break into the online space. Hear about the system of Discover, develop, and deploy from Chris and Eric, as well as how to get over the fear of selling your skills and your product. 

In this episode, your host William Grazione is joined by Coach Gillis Pellegrin and Coach Zach Richie. This is episode 39 - and it's all about New Year's Resolution Fatigue. The three talk about what you can do to get back on a healthy track to reaching your goals for 2022 without burning out. If you have gone full ham and adopted the "all gas, no break" mentality regarding your diet and fitness routine, know that you're not the only one. Many people start their new year goals with aggressive elimination diets or too low of calories with way too much cardio. This is a recipe for disaster that can lead to negative health consequences. Let William, Gillis, and Zach steer you in the right direction with action items you can implement now to change the course and get you the results you're looking for. They'll teach you how to check in with yourself to become self-aware of how you genuinely feel during your fitness journey. These tips will guide you on intuitively changing your nutrition and activity as your body adapts during your improvement season. Keep listening to learn more!

Have you heard or read any of these statements before? The Keto Diet is Magic!  You can't eat carbs and lose fat! Intermittent fasting is king if you want to lose weight! The alkaline diet is a legit protocol for health and wellness.   Well, today your Host William Grazione along with Coach Gillis Pellegrin and Zach Richie, do some serious myth-busting on those topics.  With that, the three over when it's appropriate to be on a low-carb or ketogenic diet for a period of time and the reason why men can tolerate and respond better to the protocol vs. women. The team will also discuss the role carbohydrates play in mood and sleep. When it comes to fasting, you'll learn how it's more about the lifestyle you live and if it's the right approach for you and your training. To round out the nutrition myths, William, Gillis, and Zach explain why the Alkaline Diet has zero validity to it and why. As a bonus, they'll touch on what to eat and drink to avoid discomfort and make sure you have enough gas in the tank if you have to rush into an early morning workout. 

Have you ever measured your blood glucose before? I know you may be thinking, "Why would I need to do that. I do not have diabetes," and that's a legit question. The reason to consider making it a habit lies within optimizing your health. In this episode, your host William Grazione along with Coach Gillis Pellegrin and Coach Zach Richie, go over why it is valuable to monitor your blood glucose as a general health marker for pre-diabetes and the connection between high blood sugar and metabolic dysfunction. The three will also discuss how monitoring to improve your insulin sensitivity can be the perfect tool for improving your body composition and preventing weight loss resistance during fat loss phases.  Learn how to use a glucometer to take your blood glucose readings accurately and what range you want to be in. This will help assess whether you need to slow down your carb intake during a muscle gain program or reverse diet. We'll also clue you into other factors outside of food intake that can spike readings. Last but not least, William, Gillis, and Zach will tell you what to be on the watch - and feel for during your workouts that are telltale signs if you're taking in the right amount of carbs or not.

Welcome back to Hey Coach Radio! In our last episode - 5 Ways to Improve Insulin Sensitivity Part 1, we went over the importance of monitoring your blood sugar to gauge how well your body utilizes its carbohydrate intake and signs and symptoms of metabolic dysfunction. In this episode, your host William Grazione, and Coach Gillis Pellegrin, go over steps you can start taking now if your blood sugar readings are coming in high. Part of this increase in blood glucose numbers comes down to stress and its impact on cortisol. The two go over how eliminating carbs altogether is not the answer and clue you in to ways to re-arrange your macros to make a healthier impact on your metabolism. William and Gillis will also teach you about the changes you can make in your activity levels, and swapping out types of carbohydrates can affect things and some essential supplements you can take. Keep listening to learn more. 

Being prepared is key! Making sure you have a game plan when it comes to your food plan leads to sticking to your nutrition and, ultimately, your ideal health. Today, your host William Grazione, and Coach Zach Richie take on 3 Steps to Meal Prep For Any Goal. Whether you're looking to maintain your physique, shed some weight, or in a muscle gain phase - the best way to stay on track is to plan your meals and have them ready to go for the week.  William and Zach fill you in on what goes into their grocery carts and their method when shopping for protein, carbs, and produce. Then they give you insight into how they prep and measure their food out once they get home.  You'll also learn tasty tips to make your meals and snacks flavorful, nutritious and balanced. The coaches also fill you in on how preparing your meals will save you beaucoup bucks in your budget.

In this episode, we discuss a controversial and critical topic regarding the world of competitive bodybuilding. Learn about the dangerous advice still floating out there. Your host William Grazione along with Coach Gillis Pellegrin and Coach Zach Richie, cover the most popular contest prep red flags in an engaging multipart series. The three coaches go over a common mistake - cutting calories too fast. When this happens, the client has a faster rate of muscle loss, metabolic damage occurs, and gym performance can take a hit. William, Gillis, and Zach discuss how and why a person's hormone levels can take what seems an eternity to recover. The adverse outcomes can lead to hair loss, trouble sleeping, and much, much more. You'll also learn insight from all three coaches' challenges they met with their bodybuilding preps in the past. Keep listening to learn more.

In this episode, your host William Grazione along with Coach Gillis Pellegrin and Coach Zach Richie, continue the conversation and examination of the Top 5 Red Flags in Contest Prep. In the previous podcast, the three tackled the dangers of taking calories too low from the start. Today, we pick up the subject with how much cardio is too much cardio and excessive supplementation, what is necessary vs. what is too much. Some supplements you want to take with caution as the amount you ingest can seriously affect how you feel and perform - good or bad. Coach Will, Gillis, and Zach also discuss the importance of re-feeds. If you have ever dieted - competitor or not, and you have not implemented a re-feed period - that's a red flag. Not utilizing mitigation strategies to avoid negative dieting consequences is risky on a weight loss journey. Keep listening and ask yourself if you have ever encountered any of these red flags.

Are you ready to start a competition prep for bodybuilding? It seems like a strange question, but hear me out. Some people jump into deciding to compete without first knowing if their body is in a good place composition wise, metabolically, and hormonally. Contest prep is different from a regular fat loss phase. Many people invest a ton of money and get pigeonholed into an unrealistic timeline. In today's episode, learn if you are ready to consider competing. Your host William Grazione along with Coach Gillis Pellegrin and Coach Zach Richie, go over realistic timelines for fat loss and where you need to be nutritionally first with your insulin sensitivity before committing to compete. The three also discuss the importance of where you should be with your lean mass development first and how long you have been training in a muscle-building phase. You'll also need to keep in mind how your digestive system responds before you take on a challenge like a bodybuilding competition. Other overlooked things to consider are your mindset and lifestyle and your reasons for competing. If you plan on participating in more than one competition, you also need to keep tabs on your weight after you step off the stage. We'll teach you why this is essential information to know right now.

Welcome back, listeners! In this episode of Hey Coach Radio, we continue with the second episode of our 5-part series on Bodybuilding Contest Prep. Your host William Grazione is joined by Coach Gillis Pellegrin and Coach Zach Richie. The three delve into the fear new coaches encounter in dropping calories to the necessary amount at the start of a bodybuilding contest prep or fat loss phase to ensure an adequate drop! William, Gillis, and Zach also review what percentage of carb difference there needs to be between low days and high days when it comes to seeing an impact on metabolism vs. just a nudge in carbs for better gym performance. Keep listening as our coaches let you know their approaches to handling a plateau in weight loss during competition prep and how they approach it with macro adjustments and changes to cardio. William, Zach, and Gillis also give you tips for trainers on handling clients who struggle with adherence to their dietary guidelines while taking on a fat loss phase to get shreddy and stage-ready. Listen to learn more!  

Welcome to Hey Coach Radio! This episode is 3 of 5 in the contest prep series.  Listen as the coaches talk about the different ratios of testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone between males and females, how it ties into thyroid health, and how each sex's body responds in a fat loss phase because of these differences. They also go over the importance of why clients should have their bloodwork drawn for hormone levels checked before, during, and after a diet phase to understand how someone's body responds during a fat loss transformation. William, Gillis, and Zach tackle the topic of Implementing refeed strategies, carb cycling, and diet breaks during the cutting phase for the body to recover optimal health and hormone levels once heading into a reverse diet. They also go over creating annual diet plans for clients and what that entails. Other great information you will hear discussed is the link between progesterone and stress management in dieting with females, side effects of extreme male dieting, and what can be done to help preserve testosterone levels during a bodybuilding prep.

Welcome Back to Hey Coach Radio! We are delving into part 4 of 5 in our Bodybuilding competition Prep series as we discuss Peak Week Mistakes. Your host William Grazione is joined by Coach Gillis Pellegrin and Coach Zach Richie. The three discuss how many weeks out from stage time a fitness competitor should be to best prepare for a successful showing. The reason for having a buffer time window? It gives you and the client time for mitigation techniques in case things get tricky, and it reduces the stress and cortisol response on the competitor when they know they are on target for bringing their best physique to the stage. William, Gillis, and Zach also discuss the dangerous peak week mistakes coaches make with their clients. If you're a competitor, you should be wary of water depletion techniques, sodium cutting, and potassium loading that can complicate your heart health. Last but not least, the three coaches go over the uncomfortable and unfortunate circumstances of GI complications related to messing with sodium, water, and potassium. If you're a coach, listen. If you're a competitor, take heed. Keep listening to this informational episode with that has your health or your client's health in mind.

Welcome back to our final episode in our 5 part series on Bodybuilding Competition Prep. Your Host, William Grazione along with Coach Gillis Pellegrin, and Coach Zach Richie go over the dreaded YOLO that many competitors face after a competition. If you ever planned a post-competition meal where you were prepared to shove everything in your mouth that you did not eat over the prep period- we want you to know - you're not alone. The coaches have been there too, and they will share their craziest rebounds ever. We want you to avoid that horrible feeling we felt and the nasty weight gain that can happen. Our coaches will go over how to make sure you have a game plan before you step on stage when it comes to celebrating afterward. Making sure you don't have a rebound comes down to how your nutrition is handled during your prep, your action plan for show day, and the steps you take following the minute you get off the stage. Keep listening to learn more.

In this episode, William Grazione, Coach Gillis Pellegrin, and Coach Zach Richie continue discussing Bodybuilding Competition Prep with actionable steps to take after the competition. This bonus content includes examining a reverse diet vs. a recovery diet to implement immediately after competing, along with the pros and cons of each. Another point within this is setting up expectations that people will - and should gain weight after a competition. What is critical is setting up parameters for that. Will, Gillis, and Zach will also touch on whether or not you can start building muscle right away after a competition and how to shift your mindset from focusing on the scale to focusing on athletic performance and bringing your body back to hormonal balance.

On this episode of Hey Coach Radio, your host William Grazione along with Coach Gillis Pellegrin and Coach Zach Richie go further into the methods of recovery diet vs reverse diet when it comes to the general population.  Maybe you're an over-dieted woman  seeing zero results, or perhaps you're just looking to make a change in body composition to bring it to a new level by building muscle and strength while improving your metabolism. If so, you'll want to listen in as we provide you all the applications on how to do just that with reverse dieting in this episode.  Learn how to start and end a reverse or recovery diet for yourself or your clients and what kind of caloric reduction will be needed to illicit a weight loss response. 

In this episode of Hey Coach Radio, your host William Grazione, Coach Gillis Pellegrin, and Coach Zach Richie embark on a new series called The Basics. Today's topic - Creatine Monohydrate.  The three will fill you in if you should consider using creatine monohydrate, go over how it works, what to expect, and what to look for in stores when purchasing it. William, Gillis, and Zach will explain how Creatine Monohydrate has benefits that are not limited to just better muscle recovery and maintaining lean body mass. Other topics the three discuss are whether the need to have a loading phase with creatine monohydrate is necessary or not, how much is too much, and the importance of staying hydrated while supplementing with it. LIsten in to learn more.

 In this episode - we continue with our series on The Basics, which includes fundamental advice to help you achieve your best health.   Your host, William Grazione, along with Coach Gillis and Coach Zach Richie, fill you in on how walking is incredibly effective for fat loss. Yes! Walking!    You still need to monitor your caloric intake and take into consideration your baseline of daily activity and your schedule.  You may be asking yourself, who is this effective for? How many steps are necessary, and what is the time commitment to add the amount of movement required to produce results? How does one get into the habit of committing to making walking and time for their health a habit?  When adding walking into your plan, timing should be a consideration. Is it better to split up your time for movement throughout the day or do it in one shot? The coaches will answer all these questions and cover the therapeutic benefits of increasing your step count to help achieve your weight loss goals.

In this episode, your host, William Grazione, and coach Gillis Pellegrin go over everything you need to know and have in place to start a successful fat loss phase. The two cover fundamentals like sleep, movement, removing dependency on caffeine, life balance, the ability to count macros, and even being comfortable in a gym. Most importantly, a person needs to be metabolically healthy enough to take on a caloric deficit.   William and Gillis also go over managing reasonable weight-loss expectations during a diet and the perception of strength when calories are lower. Keep listening as our two coaches fill you in on the habits their most successful clients implement and how you can diet smartly and safely to keep you on track for success.

In this episode of Hey Coach Radio, we are taking your questions! The coaches delve into inquiries submitted through their Instagram and email boxes. Your host, William Grazione, Coach Gillis Pellegrin, and Coach Zach Richie, discuss which is more important, calories or exercise? They also tackle gym session frequency and how the length of workout sessions is not a one-size-fits-all approach. The three also go over the importance of consistency vs. motivation when it comes to being dedicated to health goals. Lastly, the three coaches discuss whether the time you choose to work out makes a difference and how to approach your gym time if you practice intermittent fasting. 

Welcome back to Hey Coach Radio! William Grazione and Coach Gillis Pellegrin, along with Coach Zach Ritchie are back covering more of the basics with more of your frequently asked questions. Listen as the three cover whether or not you should use Creatine Monohydrate during a fat loss phase, if weight gain is inevitable during a reverse diet, and how much protein your body can absorb in one meal. Will, Zach, and Gillis also discuss if it's true that you will gain weight as you increase your carbohydrate intake. The three also discuss if you can lose fat with cardio alone and whether or not you can spot train areas of your body with the intent of conditioning just a specific area. Get ready to have your questions answered in this episode!