In this episode our hosts, Managing Editor Becca Borawski Jenkins and Coach Chet Morjaria, speak with CrossFit veteran Patrick McCarty. Pat is a three-time CrossFit Games masters-level athlete, finishing in a world-class sixteenth place this year.

Pat is now part of the commentary team for the National Pro Grid League. His knowledge of both CrossFit and Grid allows him to draw interesting parallels between these two forces of the fitness world, and predictions about the future of each.

Patrick’s fitness journey has taken him from traditional weight training to marathon running and ultimately, to CrossFit, where he found the perfect balance of strength and conditioning, nutrition, and proper goal setting. This has allowed him to find levels of fitness and well-being that eluded his twenty-year-old self.

00:13 - Intro to Patrick McCarty
00:50 - Criticism does not equal hate
03:36 - The main "what-if" for CrossFit as a movement
07:40 - The key to the continued expansion of CrossFit
12:40 - Explanation of Grid
17:00 - What is going to make the NPGL stick
23:19 - The inclusivity of masters athletes in fitness-related sport
28:08 - Drugs and steroid use by masters athletes
31:42 - How Grid is handling drug use in competition
32:30 - Explosion of CrossFit competition scene in UK
36:14 - What is great about CrossFit
39:50 - What Pat likes to do in his spare time
42:05 - Short questions related to training and fitness
47:50 - Pat's details and upcoming projects.

Stirring the Pot With Patrick McCarty: Breaking Muscle Radio, Ep 5

In this episode, Breaking Muscle Radio speaks with biomechanist Katy Bowman. Katy has earned an international reputation for reducing pain, increasing bone density, improving metabolic health, and solving pelvic floor mysteries.

00:13 - Introduction to Katy Bowman
01:05 - Katy's journey from bookworm to natural mover
06:43 - Our innate human instinct to not move
08:17 - Movement as nutrition
11:45 - Exercise versus movement
14:05 - A nutritious day of movement
15:23 - Thinking outside the exercise box
17:37 - How to put nutritious movement into practice on a daily basis
19:43 - Why feet are important and how can we help them do their job
22:52 - How to transition to nutritious movement without causing other problems
26:00 - How minimizing the furniture you use can help
29:20 - The distinction between moving and how active your muscles are
32:51 - Why the squat is such an important movement
36:30 - Squatting, kegels, pelvic floor health, and muscle tension
40:55 - What a healthy pelvic floor requires
42:43 - Squatting during pregnancy
47:34 - Kids and movement
54:15 - Choosing not to be captives of our environment
56:34 - Katy's details and upcoming projects

Making Your Movement More Nutritious With Katy Bowman, Ep 6

In this podcast episode, Breaking Muscle Radio speaks with iconic strength coach Charles Staley. Charles is known as a visionary and a rule-breaker. His clients call him “The Secret Weapon,” as he possesses a keen ability to recognize strengths and shortcomings.

Charles has amassed over thirty years of experience both under a barbell and as a top coach. Along the way he witnessesed many trends of the industry come and go, while he often took exactly the opposite path to the majority. As a result, Charles's outlook on the industry is intuitive and intelligent.

00:53 - How Charles got started in fitness
05:29 - The good and bad points about being a personal trainer
07:30 - Frustrations about the strength training industry
10:00 - The issues with trends and setting client expectations
12:40 - What people should be doing in the gym
15:03 - The role of steady state cardio in a training plan
17:32 - Focusing on process and behaviors to achieve desired outcomes
20:23 - Helping clients to focus on the attainable
21:30 - How being non-athletic and a slow learner helps you become a better coach
24:00 - Thoughts on nutrition, caloric deficits, restrictive diets, and paleo
28:00 - The real reasons a low-carb approach works
29:43 - Where Charles's reputation as a rule breaker and pioneer comes from
34:00 - Training hard and heavy as a mature athlete
37:34 - Staying the right side of the intensity versus consistency line
41:15 - How to get the younger generation to understand the concept of longevity
43.25 - Having an understanding of your capabilities
44:43 - Update from his performance at the AAU World Powerlifting Championships
46:42 - Charles's details and upcoming projects

Breaking the Rules With Charles Staley, Ep 7

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