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516 | Masterclass on Muscle Building | Dean Turner

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Brad Barrett | Choose FI Media

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4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode: building muscle for health, sacropenia, consistency and proper form, routines, and recovery.

This episode is a deep dive into muscle-building strategies, with actionable advice for beginners and experienced fitness enthusiasts alike. Brad and Dean Turner share practical tips on workout programming, nutrition, and recovery, making it a perfect masterclass for anyone looking to improve their health and strength.

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🔑 Key Themes Discussed:

  • The importance of building muscle for health, longevity, and independence in later life
  • Overcoming age-related muscle loss (sarcopenia) through resistance training
  • Simplifying muscle-building techniques for beginners and experienced individuals
  • The role of proper form, progressive overload, and consistency in muscle growth
  • Common misconceptions about muscle growth and the science behind it
  • Customizing workout routines based on individual schedules and goals
  • The importance of recovery, rest, and nutrition in maximizing gains
  • Practical advice on workout programming and exercise selection

🕒 Chapters:

  • 00:00 – Introduction: The Importance of Muscle Building
  • 02:00 – Age-Related Muscle Loss and Why Muscle Matters
  • 06:00 – Customizing Workouts: 3-Day vs. 5-Day Programs
  • 09:00 – Exercise Selection: Upper/Lower Body, Push/Pull
  • 13:00 – How Muscle Growth Actually Works: The Science Explained
  • 18:00 – Importance of Progressive Overload and Rep Ranges
  • 22:00 – Common Workout Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
  • 27:00 – Listener Questions: Setting Goals for Muscle Growth
  • 33:00 – Understanding Rest Times and Recovery
  • 40:00 – Importance of Nutrition: Protein and Macronutrients
  • 45:00 – Creating a Sustainable Workout Routine
  • 51:00 – Final Tips: Staying Consistent and Tracking Progress

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Chisify today on the show we have a follow-up to my healthiest year ever

0:05.7

episode which was episode 480 where I had my personal trainer Dean Turner on.

0:10.3

We asked for a lot of community feedback and questions and boy did we get it and this is the natural follow-up to that episode where I'm viewing this as a master class on getting started with muscle building.

0:23.0

It's so important for all of us

0:25.0

as we get older to really, really prioritize

0:29.0

keeping up our strength and building muscle

0:31.0

because it is just an absolutely critical part of health and

0:35.5

longevity and living the lives that we want to as we age and we are all aging

0:40.3

no matter how old we are now. So this is of absolute critical importance. So we talk

0:45.6

through that and we're going to go through questions that you sent in. Dean really dives into it. You're going to love

0:51.5

this episode. With that, welcome to choose

0:54.2

that by.

0:56.5

Dean, my friend, welcome back to the show.

1:04.0

Brad, thanks for having me on.

1:06.0

Pleasure to be here.

1:07.0

Yeah, this should be fun.

1:08.0

So, okay, this is round two.

1:10.0

We did the first episode, which is shocking, it was all the way back in March.

1:15.0

That was episode 480 and it was the update on my healthiest year ever.

1:20.0

So in it we went over a little bit of the methodology that I've been using basically working

1:27.0

with you hand in hand as my personal trainer for the last almost two years now. But it was a little mishmash of like, okay, here's some

1:35.2

updates on my heaviest year ever and etc, etc.

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