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Online Coaching -- June 2016
Hey everyone! I've decided to devote additional resources to my coaching business in an effort to reach and help more people. I've also added an assistant to help me with some administrative tasks to allow me to become more efficient. As such, I have capacity to take on a few additional clients. Here are the services I…
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How do you learn to love yourself?
This is an important topic for many people. I started a facebook post on this with some simple recommendations for people. But I also asked for other people to chime in and the thread has some great replies. I would encourage you to go into this post and add yours, or just go into it to read it and read the replies, if…
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Podcast with Eric Helms
My friend Lawrence Judd and I interviewed coach Eric Helms from Team 3DMJ. You can listen here: http://sbsradio.libsyn.com/
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HALP! My sandwich isn't CLEAN!
Often times the topic of "clean" eating shows up on the forums. What is Clean Eating? Clean Eating is somewhat of an ambiguous term that, depending on the group or dietary philospohy behind it, might have different definitions. A paleo dieter will likely have a different definition of clean eating vs a non-paleo…
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Client progress -- Elizabeth
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/SideSteel/view/the-incredible-shrinking-woman-860168
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James Krieger on the Biggest Loser study that's going around
My friend James Krieger posted this on facebook so I wanted to share it here since there's a lot of buzz going around about this. James is a researcher and quite brilliant. He also recently spoke at the PTC conference in the UK on Non Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (it was outstanding). Anyway, dude is brilliant so…
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Online Coaching -- May and beyond
Hey everyone! I've decided to devote additional resources to my coaching business in an effort to reach and help more people. I've also added an assistant to help me with some administrative tasks to allow me to become more efficient. As such, I have capacity to take on a few additional clients. Here are the services I…
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March Q and A thread
Got questions? Post them in here and I'll do my best to answer. Other people are welcome to chime in if you feel like you've got a good answer =)
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Shredded by Science Radio
Hey! Just a quick little announcement and question. I was recently invited to take a host seat on Shredded by Science Radio. Of course I accepted and we just got done recording another podcast today. So this will be a great opportunity both for exposure and also education for me. You can see the previous podcast here:…
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So I've been blogging a bit.
Just wanted to link it here. Please feel free to dig around and I hope you get something of value from it. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/SideSteel
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Side-Quest Fitness Podcast
Hey! Robbie Farlow of Side Quest Fitness Podcast had me on the show recently. NSFW for mild language. We talk about a variety of fitness topics and there's also some fun banter. I hope you enjoy! http://sidequestfitness.com/patrick-umphrey/
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Online personal training and coaching
Hey everyone, I have a few slots open for my online coaching. I meet with my clients at least every other week on Skype for approximately 30 minutes. During this conversation we cover a variety of topics all relating to client needs. To list some general points that I provide or cover or assist you with: - program design -…
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February Q and A
Got any general questions? Feel free to post them in this thread!
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Building muscle AND losing fat at the same time!
This question pops up a whole buttload of times in the main forums. Lyle McDonald is basically brilliant and you should listen to him for the most part. In fact I'd recommend spending a lot of time on his main site reading the free articles. This one addresses the topic above:…
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Online client progress: Sun_Fish
A while back when I had made a thread advertising my online consulting, a few people had asked if I would post an update on some online client results. Here is one such thread. I'm posting here with her permission so that you can see what work we've done in the past few months. Her user name is sun_fish and per her request…
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March Online Coaching
Hey everyone! I have availability for 4 additional people to join in March for my online coaching services. Basically, here's how it works. * I will design your training program based on your needs and goals. * I will assign and manage your calorie and macronutrient guidelines. * I will provide you will unlimited Q&A via…
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Success leaves clues. What clues do you leave?
Hey MFPers! Let me first kick this off by saying that I firmly believe that the following things are true when it comes to fat loss, both on an individual level and as a coach: a) Biologically we are basically governed by the same rules. Yes, a calorie deficit is a mandatory feature of a fat loss diet or program. (Whether…
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Eat, Train, Progress form check thread
Just wanted to post a quick mention of this since there are plenty of people asking about technique. This is a thread in a group I run here on MFP -- you are welcome to post videos of your lifts and get feedback from myself and others. Feel free to join the group and check out other threads as well. Mods-- please delete if…
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A great discussion on successes and failures
I think this discussion could help many people so I'm posting it here. Please add your comments to this facebook post if you're on it and give it a like/share or tag people in your life who you think may benefit. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1756863704536764&id=1451299741759830
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So I was on a podcast or two...
And it was fun! Here I am with my friend Lawrence Judd of Shredded by Science. We talk about food environment and some other stuff. Also available on iTunes. http://sbsradio.libsyn.com/food-environment-magic-and-a-cheeky-nandos
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Eat, Train, Progress Interview with Steve Troutman
Hello everyone! Welcome to our first of hopefully many interviews. Sara and I are both big fans of Steve Troutman. He's not only been a useful resource here on myfitnesspal, but he's also taken his time to personally help me with various questions I've had about fitness and training. Steve owns and operates…
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December Q and A
Hey everyone! This is the (early) Q&A thread for December. I'll do what I can to check this thread regularly for those of you that have questions. In return, please join my facebook group if you haven't already. You can find it here, and please do me a favor by sharing some of the posts. Thanks!…
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An outstanding post by Molly Galbraith
This won the internet. Hopefully this link works. https://www.facebook.com/mollymgalbraith/photos/a.140617146061704.25312.137577139699038/802956603161085/?type=3&theater
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A very random post
I just got done arguing with people in the fitness community on the internet and it really struck me how bad things are. I wanted to mention some things. This post might be controversial but that's ok. Discussion is great. Obesity is a complex condition. There are physiological components to it. There are environmental and…
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January online coaching
Hey everyone! First- This thread is posted in our Eat, Train, Progress group and as such this is not violating forum rules. I'm going into year number 3 of online coaching and it's really going well. I love it. I have capacity to take on a couple more clients beginning in January/February of 2016. In a nutshell here's what…
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Eat, Train, Progress form check thread
Hey everyone, Just wanted to make this thread known in case it benefits people here. This is a thread in a group that I run -- the thread is for form checks, you can post your videos and get some feedback from a few of our members. Have a great holiday!…
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Building muscle in a deficit, client observation.
First of all this is anecdote, but I'm mainly posting this for discussion. I've been closely monitoring clients both in terms of strength (not a measure of hypertrophy, and of course I get that), body composition, and circumference measurements. Because it's part of what I do. I've got some interesting results but the one…
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The Gym Rat thread
Hey everyone! Let this thread be for posting any of the following: - Brag about a PR you just hit! - Post any random videos of yourself lifting, including but not limited to said PRs - Talk about what you did in the gym today - Support others - General chatter about your training Keep it civil of course. But this will be…
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This one challenges my beliefs
It's highly likely that you'll hear a lot of discussion from some experts on this. http://bayesianbodybuilding.com/energy-balance-myths/
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Holiday Eating
Sometimes viewpoints on this can get polarizing with people believing that they should diet as planned, follow calorie and macronutrient goals, and skip the pie. Others are in the YOLO camp. Anything and everything gets shoved into the face hole. And I think there's plenty of room in between, but one piece of direction…
