#141 - How you need to train to achieve a toned and athletic body with Craig McDonald
In this episode, I’m joined by my co-founder and co-host Craig.
I was sick for a week, so I sounded a bit nasally in this episode 🤣
The majority of the women I speak to say "Kitty I want a toned and athletic body".
There's so much confusion out there around how you should be training to achieve this.
So we thought we'd jump on and chat about what it actually takes when it comes to training to change your body.
So, in this episode, Craig and I chat about:
➡️Why proper execution is so important and should be your first focus
➡️Why pushing sets to 1-3 reps of concentric muscular failure is important if you want your body to change
➡️Training intensity
➡️The importance of recording your sets
➡️How coaching can help you speed up your results
And more!
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#140 - The truth about Dairy with Leo Wik
If you don't follow Leo, follow him....he post's the funniest things. His posts are super entertaining and educational.
Leo is a trainer in LA, and I love his content so much that I thought it’d be fun to talk about dairy with him and all the misconceptions around it. Back in the day, I thought I was being healthy by cutting dairy from my diet....I also went through a stage where I made my own almond milk 🤣 what a bloody ball ache that was!
In this episode, Leo and I discuss:
➡️How dairy became so demonised
➡️Why is dairy good for us
➡️Why oat and almond milk aren’t good substitutes for dairy
➡️How almond milk is actually bad for the environment
➡️Lactose intolerance
➡️Why you need to start slowly if you haven’t consumed dairy for while
And more!
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#139 - How long will it take me to reach my goal weight with Craig McDonald
The unfortunate truth? We can’t tell you this because it depends on sooo many different things. So, in this episode, Craig and I discuss:
➡️What factors go into body recomposition and fat loss
➡️What else determines your success
➡️Why it’s not about an end result
➡️Where your focus should be
➡️How what you’re doing is a reflection of where you’re at
➡️The journey versus the destination
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#138 - How to be healthy and look good naked with Amy Bowe
So I've had Amy on the podcast a few times now, if you haven't listened to her previous episodes check them out.
We were supposed to discuss mobility this episode, but we changed our minds last minute.
Something I've noticed when I chat with women who are thinking about joining our programs is that they almost feel ashamed that they want to look better!
In this episode, Amy and I chat about:
➡️The Eating Disorder Continuum
➡️A functioning body and what this means
➡️Stress and body recomposition
➡️Respecting the journey
➡️How context matters
➡️Building your body from the ground up
➡️How laying the foundations leads to doing less
➡️The Aesthetic Body vs Functional Body
➡️How you can love and respect your body and want to change it
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#137 - Can I drink alcohol and reach my body and health goals with Craig McDonald
In this podcast, we’re talking about booze! If you’ve followed me for a while, you’ll know I used to drink a lot, I was a loose cannon 🤣 For a long time I used it to have fun and as a coping mechanism.
I still love alcohol but I don't love how excessive drinking makes me feel.
I don’t drink much anymore. I just can’t handle the hangover and lack of sleep. I’ll have a few cocktails when we go out with friends or over holidays, but no more crazy binges!
So, the question: Can you drink alcohol and reach your body goals and health? Technically, yes BUT… (listen to this podcast episode to find out more!)
In this episode, Craig and I discuss:
➡️The effects of alcohol on the body
➡️The link between alcohol and estrogen
➡️How alcohol interferes with sleep
➡️How to track alcohol along with tracking your food
➡️What’s in alcohol?
➡️How drinking impacts fat loss and training
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#136 - Losing 22.5 kgs, improving her thyroid issues and eliminating PMS with Katie Littlejohn
Katie is 45 years old and is a public servant working in Western Sydney. She has been obsessed with food her whole life. As an adult, she was either following a diet or binge eating. And she (like me) used to think sugar was poison!
But today, Katie has found newfound freedom. She’s lost 22.5 kgs, doesn’t think of food 24-7, and no longer experiences PMS. She’s also managed to combat previous thyroid issues through this pro-metabolic way of eating, and hasn’t touched alcohol in 12 months!
In this episode, Katie and I chat about:
➡️Past restrictive diets Katie followed
➡️The all-consuming thoughts revolving around food
➡️How Katie lost 22.5 kgs (and maintained it!)
➡️PMS (and the improvements she’s seen)
➡️How many calories she now eats each day
➡️How she found food freedom
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#135 - How to approach your training and nutrition while on holiday with Craig McDonald
A lot of our clients ask us how to approach their training and nutrition while on holidays. I used to be in this mentality where I would restrict leading up to a holiday, then I would use the holiday as a binge, free-for-all. I’d drink a heap of alcohol every day and eat sh*t food. Then, after my holidays, I’d go right back to the restrictive diet.
I don’t do that anymore, and I definitely didn’t do that on Craig and I’s most recent holiday, so we thought this would be a good one to hop on and discuss! In this episode, we chat about:
➡️What we tell our clients to do when on holidays when it comes to nutrition and training
➡️What happens if you go off track on holidays
➡️How much damage can you actually do
➡️What we did during our recent holiday
➡️Training on holidays
➡️What to do when you get back
And more!
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#134 - The importance of Magnesium with Matt Blackburn
Matt needs no introduction! We always get great feedback when we have him on the podcast. The last time, Matt and I chatted about vitamin C. This time we’re talking everything magnesium.
In this episode, we discuss:
➡️The function of magnesium in the body
➡️Why Matt takes his magnesium with his coffee
➡️How poor soil impacts the food we eat
➡️What types of magnesium you should avoid
➡️The best types of magnesium (and why!)
➡️The benefits of magnesium
➡️How often you should take magnesium
And more!
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#133 - My Training & Body Composition goals for the next 12 months with Craig McDonald
Now that we decided on no kids, I’m getting serious about my training again and setting some new training and body composition goals. When I first met Craig and he taught me how to lift I fell in love with powerlifting. I competed in a few comps and loved it but since then I haven't had any serious goals, I've just trained.
After much back and forth with Craig I decided to be a bodybuilder for 12 months 🤣 Craig loves his body building.
In this episode, we chat about:
➡️My current goals, training, nutrition and body composition for the next 12 months
➡️When it’s appropriate to do a calorie deficit
➡️Why calories and food have to be relative to body composition
➡️My tips and strategies for when you’re trying to lose body fat (it's been a long time since I've eaten in a calorie deficit)
➡️The importance of building muscle
➡️The length of time losing body fat can take
➡️Sustaining your current body composition
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#132 - Performance enhancing needles with Jim Bostock
Jim has been on the podcast a couple of times. Craig and I are friends with him and his wife Peri, they're awesome people. It’s hard to describe what Jim does but I always say he has a sixth sense when feeling people’s pain.
He’s helped Craig and me with so many injuries and niggles; it’s really incredible the work he does!
Now that I'm back into training full swing and doing a 5 day split I've been seeing Jim every 4-6 weeks for his athletes tune up.
In this episode, we chat about:
➡️The Bostock Needle Technique
➡️What the “Athletic Tune-Up” Involves
➡️Why a lot of traditional physio treatments don’t actually fix the issue
➡️Releasing “nerve locks”
➡️What issues Jim treats
Happy listening I hope you find this podcast helpful and don't forget to take a screenshot of the episode and share it on Instagram stories and tag me at @kittyblomfield. Each month I choose someone who has shared and they get a tub of Saturée Premium Collagen valued at ...
