Bars, Plates & Protein Shakes

In this episode Amir is joined by Luke Starr who is a former part owner of one of Australia's top performing Crossfit facilities - Crossfit Active.  Luke has extensive experience in taking Crossfit athletes to the top, even to Crossfit Games level and he talks about a bunch of things like: - Can Crossfit be used as a strength and conditioning program in itself - What his thoughts are on using weightlifting for athletes such as football players and fighters - How do movements like the O lifts change for the sport of Crossfit and how that effects the training requirements and goals - What he thinks is the best background of sporting an aspiring Crossfit athlete can come from and do great in the long term  - The hierarchy of importance of skills and abilities that transfer over best to Crossfit - His strength recommendations in terms of minimum amount of squat, deadlift, muscle up and a whole stack of other movements for Crossfit - Why are Crossfit girls so jacked and tanned? - The Crossfit cultur

In this episode Amir addresses 4 short topics based on his experience and how he has used what he has learned in relation to these topics over the years to improve his training and continue to make improvements. - The tradeoff between intensity and volume - Fueling your body better during training with this one simple thing - Saving workout time by integrating your warmups into your training - Working around injuries even on the fly instead of stopping training for no reason   Leave us your comments and feedback and dont forget to share and subscribe.

In this episode Amir goes a little more in detail to talk about an article on the Adonis Athletics website of the same title which was one of the most viewed articles on the site. Amir goes through the fact that any change in body composition, strength, power that you wish to pursue must be done over a certain period of time and there is no way around this. Programs, diets and training routines and principles have been around for decades if not thousands of years. There isn't really anything new coming out, only scientific discoveries of how those old things work. Learn to set goals and get after them, there is no big answer to your questions. It's about putting together the little things and training in the right environment preferably under a coach's eye. If you like it please share it and subscribe.

In this episode Amir talks about the most important training principle of them all even though its not an official principle - consistency.  It's all about building momentum and achieving consistency to be able to make training part of your lifestyle and not a chore. Just like pushing a car, the hardest part is the very start - overcoming the inertia. Once it's moving it's easy to keep it rolling. The athletes who get to a high level in any sport are the ones that can maintain consistency even through injuries and learning how to manage them. Tell us what you think and remember to subscribe and share!

In this episode Amir talks about the recent IPF Classic World Championships. He recaps how all the Adonis Athletes went in their competition and the most important things he learned observing the performance of himself and all the other athletes in attendance. Why some did not do as well as they should have and why others who were under dogs managed to surprise a few people. Some topics covered include: - How hard should training be in the lead up to competition - How to pick attempts correctly - How to build a total through realistic numbers - Only worrying about yourself and your performance and everything else just happens - Mental strength   Subscribe and share to get all future episodes direct.

In this episode Amir is joined by Dr Quinn from JTS talking about all types of things some of which include: - Stretching - what is it and should we do it? - Mobility - How to warmup correctly for your session by stringing mobility and movement together - Are icing injuries the right thing to do? - A little trick he does in the last few days leading into competition to get rid of niggles   We hope you enjoy this episode and if you make sure to share it and show us some love. We are back!  

On this episode of Bars, Plates & Protein Shakes, brought to you by Adonis Athletics, we are joined by arguably the world's best equipped powerlifter, Blaine Sumner.  Listen as Blaine breaks it down and tells us his story of how he got started, his background in American Football and Collegiate Wrestling. How he was the second weakest guy on his football team, how he was NOT built to squat, how he experienced injury after injury in particular both his hips...and how still after all this he went on to squat 500kg and become The Vanilla Gorilla. He also shares his recipe for the infamous Chicken Shakes - the holy grail of gainz - and talks about training and competing in general.  Some great tips and knowledge from a great lifter and what we call in Australia, a top bloke. Look him up and start learning from the best in the business.   Please share ans subscribe so we can keep putting out this great free content for you all out there.

Joey Zinghini from NPS Laps joins us in this episode as he brings his extension bodybuilding knowledge to powerlifting and tells us about - how to structure our diet - organising nutrient timing and how important is it really - how he got one of his clients to consume up to 1000g of carbs per day - the role of carbs around training   And tons more. Click play and enjoy the free content brought to you by Adonis Athletics. Make sure you share this clip and the channel so we can keep bringing you some phat ass content.

In this episode, brought to you by Adonis Athletics, Max Aita joins Amir as he goes through his experiences in weightlifting under the actual Bulgarian System of training. He describes what it's really like training the way it's supposed to be and what it's like to actually squat to a max every single day. We talk about some misconceptions about weightlifting training as well as squat training and how his experience through years of weightlifting under some of the toughest training routines and regimes had helped shape him into the coach he is now. Max also shares some of his thoughts on how to train the squat and some of his fave assistant stuff for it. Make sure you subscribe and let everyone know so we can keep bringing you these free stuff. Any feedback is welcome.

In this episode of Bars, Plates & Protein shakes, brought to you by Adonis Athletics, Amir rides solo as he takes you on a journey of discovery on how to understand periodization and programming principles so you know how to program for yourself, for your athletes or if you are someone who gets their programs written for them then you know why its done the way it is...or at least the way we do it at Adonis Athletics. This episode touches on a fraction of the things we talk about in our Training & Coaching the Beginner Lifter - Level 1 seminars and it will cover important topics like: - What is periodization - Common types of periodization - The basic training principles of specificity, overload, recovery and variation and how to use it - We go through a slight variation of the famous SJA program that is used by multiple athletes at Adonis Athletics to get huge, get strong and become athletic and relate the program structure back to the above points The SJA program is absolutely free, to get it em

Mike joins Amir for some training talk including - How he got started - Bench press - Project Momentum which yielded some great results and the findings Mike came across - Training motivation and mindset - Speed work and its context - And much more   Bars, Plates & Protein Shakes brought to you by Adonis Athletics. Make sure you share, rate and subscribe to our podcast channel.

In this episode Amir breaks it down with Dr Mike Israetel as he drives through the shitty traffic of LA and eats on occasions to maximise the post-workout anabolic window. Mike talks about body recomposition and body building and then goes on to spit some hot fire about training motivation and where to find the desire and drive to train and succeed.  In this episode you will hear pointers on - Recovery and the new book Mike is working on covering exactly this topic in detail - How to set a diet - How long it should take a bodybuilder to get contest ready - Some good points for coaches on how to deal with athletes and drive motivation - And much more   If the last 15 minutes doesn't want to make you go out there and get better then just give up motherfucker! But you have to listen to the whole thing because it builds up to it and puts it in context.

Greg and Amir talk about the Norwegian Powerlifting study aswell as some ideas on training frequency, intensity and volume.

Find out the pros and cons (mostly cons) of fasted cardio and whether it should be done or whether its even really effective.  Could there be at least one factor that's even more important than whether your stomach is empty or not while you do cardio? Guess you'll have to click and see! Bars, Plates & Protein Shakes brought to you by Adonis Athletics. Check us out on Insta and Facebook - Adonis Athletics.

In this episode Amir talks about the 3 reasons why he thinks getting into Powerlifting or at least Powerlifting style of training is great for those of you out there looking to improve body composition and wanting to get jacked and tanned or just a simple beach body. Please subscribe and share the podcast if you like it.

In this episode Amir & Will go back in time to when they were younger and dumberer. As they piece together some of the stupid things they have done and what they wish they knew then so they could apply. Listen to this and save yourself a butt load of headaches and time.

In this episode Amir & Will discuss some things they have noticed from their experience that lifters of different ages and experience levels do which tends to cut their lifting careers short, far before they reach their true potential.