The C3Method Podcast

Podcast #436 - Mindset - How Do You Spend Your Energy?

Throughout your day, do you spend your energy trying to avoid problems or trying to solve them?  Looking for an easy-way out, or to truly dive into and address the issue at hand?  Are you willing to put in a big energy investment to get a big return... or do you continually put in small investments only to be surprised when the return is also small?  

Past Podcasts Referenced:
#406 – Nutrition – Short Term vs Long Term Success
#420 – Mindset – The Fast Food of Self-Care

Podcast #435 - Training - Common Training Mistakes

In this podcast we cover the most common training mistakes that are holding people back from achieving the results they want.  We cover correct form for exercises and for your body type, we cover time under tension ranges to match the results you desire, proper mindset for the workout and individual exercises, and we cover nutritional mistakes common to specific goals of fat loss, muscle gain, and peak performance

Past Podcasts Referenced:
#41 – Nutrition – Diet Right – What Matters Most
#214 – Training – Understanding Rep Ranges & Expected Results
#220 – Training – Muscle Intention vs Movement Intention
#237 – Nutrition – Nutrition Concepts for Strength Athletes
#241 – Nutrition – Nutrition Concepts for Aesthetic Athletes
#383 – Training – How Your Strength Effects How You Should Train
#426 – Nutrition – Why Eating Less Isn’t Good for Fat Loss

Podcast #434 - Nutrition - Do You Want to be Right or Do You Want Results?

In today's podcast we ask a simple but hard question... Do you want to be right, or, do you want results?  It's sad how many people want to be told they're right rather than to be told what they may be doing wrong and how, if those wrong things are changed, could then lead to the results they've always wanted.  They'd rather be right and miserable, than wrong and successful.  Don't be one of these people!!!

Past Podcasts Referenced:
#21 – Nutrition – Carbs – Good or Bad?
#29 – Nutrition – If I Eat Fat Will I Get Fat?
#33 – Nutrition – How Much Protein Do I Need?
#41 – Nutrition – Diet Right – What Matters Most
#153 – Nutrition – How Many Calories Do I Need?
#216 – Nutrition – Protein Digestion & Type Selection
#249 – Nutrition – Meal Timing
#329 – Nutrition – Meal Frequency Effects on Diets
#426 – Nutrition – Why Eating Less Isn’t Good for Fat Loss

Podcast #433 - Trainer Education - Exercise Selection - Part 1

When wanting to make your best progress both exercise programming AND exercise execution are equal parts of the process.  In a recent podcast we discussed how technique is a common limiting factor for progress, and in today's podcast we discuss how proper exercise selection also plays a role in your overall progress

Past Podcasts Referenced:
#407 - Training - Importance & Benefits of Warm Ups
#415 - Training - Layering Purposes - How to Best Kill Birds

Podcast #432 - Mindset - The Problem is the Problem

Today's podcast discusses a mindset approach to help with anger issues related to others and their actions.  When we view others separate from the issues we're angry with it helps us not to have anger towards them, and actually encourages us to recruit them to help fight the problem!!!

Podcast #431 - Training - Weight Training for the Elderly

In today's podcast we cover the important focal points and exercise selection concepts for training the elderly and people of compromised health; people with whom every day physical activities are challenging.  We also cover the top nutritional concerns relate to allowing the effects of the training to actual take effect.

Past Podcasts Referenced:
#33 – Nutrition – How Much Protein Do I Need?
#53 – Nutrition – Controlling Blood Sugar
#153 – Nutrition – How Many Calories Do I Need?
#175 – Trainer Education – The Importance of Strength
#214 – Training – Understanding Rep Ranges & Expected Results
#249 – Nutrition – Meal Timing
#329 – Nutrition – Meal Frequency Effects on Diets
#407 – Importance and Benefits of Warm Ups

Podcast #430 - Nutrition - Nutritional Experiments

Ever wonder if your nutritional health could be better?  Do you always have to feel gut distress after a meal?  Do you always have to have lulls in energy in the early afternoon?  Do you always have to feel dead tired in your workouts?  Understanding the benefits of nutritional experiments and how to perform them properly can help you create a better life experience around food and its effects.

Past Podcasts Referenced:
#249 – Nutrition – Meal Timing

Podcast #429 - Trainer Education - Equipment Needs

In today's podcast we cover what equipment you need for a home gym and/or training studio.  What the "basics" are and the benefits of additional equipment and which purchases make the most sense.

Past Podcasts Referenced:
#82 - Training - Collateral Damage Concerns
#214 - Training - Understanding Rep Ranges & Expected Results

Podcast #428 - Mindset - You Already Know

You have a goal, maybe an action you want to take each day, or an inaction, something you want to avoid doing... you have the goal, but, each day you don't follow through... and you feel the pain of guilt and self-anger.  You don't like that feeling so you swear next time will be different... but, next time... you don't follow through AGAIN!!!  You already KNEW what it was going to feel like to not follow through, but yet you didn't follow through anyhow.  How can we break this cycle?!!

Podcast #427 - Training - Technique is the Limiting Factor

Whether your goal is general health, strength, aesthetics, or even CrossFit... your technique, how well you do what you do, is going to be the limiting factor to the quality and long-term progression of results you're able to achieve.

Past Podcasts Referenced:
#181 - Training - Using Muscle Damage for Fat Loss
#214 - Training - Understanding Rep Ranges & Expected Results

Podcast #426 - Nutrition - Why Eating Less Isn't Good for Fat Loss

Eating less calories does help you lose body fat, but... how much less is too less, how much less isn't enough?  If you've tried starving yourself in the past, why didn't it work?  If you think starving yourself now is a good option, why isn't it?  We answer all of these questions in today's podcast!!! 

Past Podcasts Referenced:
#33 – Nutrition – How Much Protein Do I Need?
#41 – Nutrition – Diet Right – What Matters Most
#129 – Nutrition – Starvation Diets – Intermittent Fasting & Keto
#153 – Nutrition – How Many Calories Do I Need?
#249 – Nutrition – Meal Timing
#329 – Nutrition – Meal Frequency Effects on Diets
#390 – Nutrition – Proper Nutrition for Sedentary Workers
#406 – Nutrition – Short Term vs Long Term Success

Podcast #425 - Trainer Education - The Shopping Cart

Recently, in a grocery store, I watched someone put their cart neatly, and with the best of intentions, away, however, they put it in the wrong place.  Regardless of the quality of their intentions, their actions led to nothing.  Where in our lives, where with our clients, may we be making the same mistake?  We may have the best of intentions, maybe we can create the best single workouts, but, are our intentions, are our workouts leading to big picture progress?

Past Podcasts Referenced:
#423 – Personalized Training Templates
#415 - Training – Layering Purposes – How to Best Kill Birds

Podcast #424 - Mindset - Ha! Nice Try!

Today's podcast is a challenge! You may not like what's being said, but, will you be open to listening to it? Will you be open to the challenge it presents? Will you be open to taking a deep look at yourself and seeing in what ways you may be able to improve not only in the gym, but, in life?

Podcast #423 - Training - Personalized Training Templates

In today's podcast we discuss the process of creating personalized training templates so you can best balance freedom in your training while staying on track towards your ultimate goals.  The podcast discusses the service we provide in creating programs for you as well as the steps you can take to create one for yourself.

Past Podcasts Referenced:
#30 – Training – Muscle Cardio – How to Lose Fat Without Losing Muscle
#181 – Training – Using Muscle Damage for Fat Loss
#214 – Training – Understanding Rep Ranges & Expected Results
#250 – Training – Combing Aerobic Endurance Training & Strength Training
#346 – Training – Improving a One Rep Max
#391 – Training – Programming Structure Concepts for Both Strength & Mass
#407 – Training – Importance and Benefits of Warm Ups

Podcast #422 - Nutrition - How to Make Room for Bad Food

It's Halloween and you want to eat ALLLLLL the candy haha... but, how can you do so without falling too far off track?  In today's podcast we discuss how to "make room for" bad foods so that you don't fall behind on your goals or spiral out of control and fall off your goals completely!

Past Podcasts Referenced:
#113 – Nutrition – Self-Punishment Cycles
#181 – Training – Using Muscle Damage for Fat Loss
#214 – Training – Understanding Rep Ranges & Expected Results
#249 – Nutrition – Meal Timing
#305 – Nutrition – Nutritional Concerns for Cardio-Only Workouts
#390 – Nutrition – Proper Nutrition for Sedentary Workers

Podcast #421 - Trainer Education - Avoid the False Knowledge Trap

Did you know that as your knowledge grows your confidence actually goes down?!!  As you become more aware of what there is to know you also become aware of how much you yet have to learn.  That can be scary for a lot of trainers.  So, in fear, trainers sometimes stay with only newbie clients because they're safe, and they close their minds to new thoughts and ideas that challenge what they believe to be true.  When this happens the trainer stops learning and thus stops improving, but in order to shield themselves from the reality of that situation they'll create a false sense of knowledge and superiority... what a horrible combination!!!  Someone who thinks they know everything when in reality they know very little.  How can we avoid this mistake for ourselves?

Podcast #420 - Mindset - The Fast Food of Self-Care

Are you struggling to handle the stress of life?  Are you struggling to take on new self-improvement challenges?  Are you just skating by day by day but not necessarily making progressions in your life?  You may be suffering from not having enough mental margin in your life, the space needed to feel less pressured, the space needed to take on new challenges, the space needed to make those improvements you've been wanting to make for so long.  And, a large reason why you may not have enough margin is because of the forms of self-care that you partake in each day!  Listen to today's podcast to find out what forms of self-care are "quick and easy" but aren't getting you the long term benefits you need, and, how to change those to better, healthier forms that can allow you to start living the life you truly want.

Past Podcasts Referenced:
#247 - Mindset - Daily Happiness Routine

Podcast #419 - Training - Excitatory Methods for Mental Focus

In today's podcast we discuss ways to "wake yourself up" when feeling sluggish.  We discuss two categories of methods; muscle-based and non-muscle-based, and when it's best to use each category to ensure you get the best response without negative effects.

Podcast #418 - Nutrition - Sodium - Health & Performance Effects

In this podcast we take a look at sodium and its effects on blood pressure, weight loss, aesthetics, and performance.

Past Podcasts Referenced:
#215 – Mindset – Overcoming Stress – Worry
#218 – Mindset – Overcoming Stress – Hurry
#221 – Mindset – Overcoming Stress – Social Media
#224 – Mindset – Overcoming Stress – People Pleasing
#227 – Mindset – Overcoming Stress – Getting Along with Others
#230 – Mindset – Overcoming Stress – Fear of the Future

Podcast #417 - Trainer Education - Motivating Clients

Is a client, co-worker, friend, or loved one having trouble with motivation?  In this podcast we discuss ways in which you can help others with motivation by better understanding your role and in what ways you can have influence.