Podcast

7 Tips to Training & Eating while traveling as a Powerlifter

By Gus Cooke / September 4, 2023 /

Traveling can be a thrilling adventure, but it often throws a wrench in our regular fitness routines. How do you maintain your gains and stick to your nutrition plan when you’re miles away from your home gym and kitchen? In our latest Lifters League blog post, we’ve got you covered with 10 essential tips. Plus, we dive even deeper into each topic in our latest podcast episode. Whether you’re a powerlifter or a fitness enthusiast, this guide is your roadmap to staying fit on the go.

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Velocity Based Training For Powerlifting

By Gus Cooke / March 18, 2022 /

We talk to Jay Kelly, the High-Performance Officer from GymAware where we discuss the practical application of Velocity Based Training in Powerlifting. Audio Version Below.

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Metabolic Super Compensation

By Gus Cooke / March 18, 2022 /

What an eye-opening episode. We talked to Sports Dietitian Hayley Forrest from Dynamic Body Labs about super-compensation with dieting to manipulate the various metabolic processes to gain a performance advantage. This challenged everything I’ve done with my athletes since… forever. But the beauty of science is that it doesn’t care about your biases, when new…

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Neurotyping for Powerlifting

By Gus Cooke / March 18, 2022 /

In this episode, I speak with Christian Thibaudeau about neurotying, specifically how an athlete’s neurotype can determine the best powerlifting prep and how they peak for a competition. We also just talk a lot of shop on powerlifting training, programming, exercise selection and much more. Below is the audio version.

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A New Method to Spine Rehab

By Gus Cooke / March 18, 2022 /

In today’s episode of the Lifters League podcast we had one of the most sought after rehab spine specialists Dr Andrew Lock. We talk about everything about his new method to spine rehab, dive into neurochemistry, hip anatomy in the deadlift, and his new approach to core activation that involves the glutes and hips. You…

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Training Intent Matters

By Gus Cooke / December 26, 2020 /

A rant on Training Intent. In my research I have seen Training Intent increase your performance up to 20%

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The Wolf’s Den| Powerlifting Secret

By Gus Cooke / December 10, 2019 /

I had the opportunity to talk on the Wolf Den with Mark Ottobre from Enterprise Fitness straight after coaching at the biggest stage in the world of powerlifting ProRaw Big Dogs & Wild Cats. Full episode below… here is what they had to say; In this episode, powerlifting athlete and coach, Gus Cooke joins us…

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Sleep Hack

By Gus Cooke / December 22, 2018 /

Living in the modern western world it is drilled into us to work more, do more, consume more and we sacrifice our poor sleep the most to gain more “time”. But as Dr. Matthew Walker suggest we will massively reduce our life expectancy, more likely to develop diabetes, cancer or alzheimers. So are we really…

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Victoria Felkar | Females on Steroids

By Gus Cooke / August 23, 2018 /

In todays episode of the Muscle Nerd Podcast we have a special guest, Victoria Felkar. She is world leading researcher in womens’s health and female hormone manipulation within sport and medicine. She is a practitioner, consultant, author and educator. She has spoken all over the world including the great SWIS symposium in Canada. She has…

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