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- Today26 min
How to Get Back on Track After a Vacation
You know that feeling where you need a vacation to recover from the vacation? Going grocery shopping and into your normal routine feels like a chore, and one more day of takeout starts to sound pretty reasonable. Ryann, Sabrina, and Nic get into how to get back to your routine without the two things that make it harder: doing nothing and letting a 5-day trip turn into a 10-day one, OR swinging the other way into full restriction mode because you feel bloated and off. They talk about why you didn't gain 9 pounds of fat in a week, why the scale can wait, the freezer meals and grocery deliveries that make it feel easier, how travel wrecks your digestion and sleep, and the 10-minute rule for getting your first workout in when you'd rather do anything else. Plus why the best time to plan your re-entry is before you even leave, why your first session back is supposed to feel rough, and Sabrina and Nic settling the great unpacking debate. Black Iron Nutrition Book a Free Discovery Call Free Macro Calculator Free Downloads Black Iron Blog
- 4 days ago32 min
Weekend Nutrition Strategies That Actually Work
You're dialed in Monday through Thursday, then Friday hits and it all comes undone. Ryann, Brooke, and Jess Gordon get into why the weekend trips up almost everyone, and it's usually not willpower. Your weekdays have a built-in rhythm and your weekends don't, so with no plan, one meal out turns into three days of writing it off and a Sunday night promise to start again Monday. They talk about why saving all your calories for dinner backfires, why restricting the foods you love all week just gives them way too much power, and why weekend meal prep should look different than your weekday prep. Plus the second grocery trip that changes everything, how to handle a full day of kids' sports and birthday parties without stressing about it, why an untracked meal is fine when the rest of your day is solid, and full permission to eat the cake. Black Iron Nutrition Book a Free Discovery Call Free Macro Calculator Free Downloads Black Iron Blog
- 1 weeks ago58 min
Kathy's Story:400 Pounds to a Decade of Showing Up
Kathy was close to 400 pounds at 19, but her weight is genuinely the least interesting thing about her, and that's kind of the whole point of this episode. Morgan and Brooke sit down with Kathy Novak, Brooke's client of many years and a friend for over a decade. Kathy was close to 400 pounds at 19, and what started as a weight loss journey turned into something bigger: years of setbacks, injuries, plateaus, and slow stretches, and a body she learned to value for what it could do instead of how it looked. She gets into the early rush of watching the scale drop, the long stretches where the number stopped mattering, and the line she keeps coming back to through all of it: thankful for the opportunity to keep showing up. This isn't really a weight loss story. It's a story about what keeps you going once the novelty wears off and life gets in the way. Black Iron Nutrition Book a Free Discovery Call Free Macro Calculator Free Downloads Black Iron Blog
- 1 weeks ago41 min
So You Want To Work on Skills You Suck At
There's a certain grace we give kids while they're learning that we completely stop giving ourselves as adults. Morgan, Brooke, and Jess Gordon get into why being bad at something is worth leaning into, not avoiding. As adults we tend to stay parked in the areas where we're already competent, so choosing to be a beginner at something you might fail at over and over is its own kind of brave. They talk about the ego hit of sucking at something in a season of life where you feel like you shouldn't be a beginner at anything, why "I suck at this" is usually just "I haven't learned this yet," and the programming side of actually getting better instead of spinning your wheels. Plus why you never know how many hours went into the thing that looks effortless on someone else, how to talk to yourself when you're failing a skill on repeat, and the difference between the people who fail with grace and the people who quit. 🎧 Listen on Apple & Spotify Black Iron Nutrition Book a Free Discovery Call Free Macro Calculator Free Downloads Black Iron Blog
- 2 weeks ago49 min
So You Want To Build Endurance Without Losing Strength
Adding endurance doesn't automatically cost you your your strength. Bad programming, underfueling, and no recovery cost you your your strength. Amanda and Jess G. get into how to build endurance while holding onto the strength you spent years earning. The good news up front: maintaining strength takes far less work than building it did. The catch is you can't max out everything at once, and pretending you can is how people end up run down and stalled in both. They talk about why the interference effect gets overblown, the difference between actually losing strength and just being too fatigued to show it, and how to lift enough to keep what you've got without living in the gym. Plus the three-to-five rule for maintenance lifting, why your hardest sessions deserve the freshest version of you, and how to stack a training week so you're not turning every day into medium-hard sludge. Black Iron Nutrition Book a Free Discovery Call Free Macro Calculator Free Downloads Black Iron Blog
- 2 weeks ago42 min
So You Want To Stop Procrastinating Your Workouts
Wanting to be fit and talking yourself out of a workout can very easily coexist since the hardest part of a workout is usually the part where you decide to do it. Amanda and Christin get into why procrastinating a workout is almost never a discipline issues. It's usually a friction, expectations, or decision-making issue. They talk about why the couch always wins in the moment, why "if I can't do the whole session I might as well skip it" keeps you stuck, and why the goal isn't to make yourself want to work out. It's to stop making the workout depend on wanting to. Plus how to stop renegotiating a decision you already made, why "I'll work out sometime Tuesday" is a setup, and how becoming the kind of person who trains beats waiting to feel motivated. Black Iron Nutrition Book a Free Discovery Call Free Macro Calculator Free Downloads Black Iron Blog
- 3 weeks ago50 min
How Lifting Builds Confidence Outside the Gym
The confidence you build under a barbell doesn't stay under the barbell. Morgan, Christin, and Manders have a front row seat to it: watching timid, unsure people walk into a gym and slowly turn into someone who volunteers for the hard thing, cheers on strangers, and signs up for the boxing class they'd have driven away from a year ago. They get into the difference between confidence based on how you look and confidence based on what you can do, why the second kind lasts, and why failing a lift is doing more for you than nailing it. Plus the member who rebuilt her social life after a divorce in the gym, why the two types of confidence matter more than you'd think, and the specific stories that show how it all transfers well beyond training. Black Iron Nutrition Book a Free Discovery Call Free Macro Calculator Free Downloads Black Iron Blog
- 3 weeks ago41 min
Trusting Your Taper: Why Feeling Worse Means You're Getting Better
You spent months believing more work equals better performance. Then someone tells you to train less right before the biggest day of your season. Your brain hates it. Your body needs it. Amanda, Dr. Chris, and Chelsea get into why the taper is the most misunderstood part of a training block. The fitness is already built. The taper just clears out the fatigue that's been hiding it. They break down what a taper actually looks like for strength versus endurance, why your legs feel like garbage right when they're supposed to feel great, and why the panic workout you want to add is the exact thing that can sabotage months of work. Plus what's really happening physiologically during a taper, why the research on it is shockingly thin for how universal it is, the taper tantrum nobody warns you about, and why feeling worse is often a sign it's working. Black Iron Nutrition Book a Free Discovery Call Free Macro Calculator Free Downloads Black Iron Blog
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