Introduction and Luke's Background

Thanks for tuning in to another episode of R&T Fitness Radio. This week, Akash and I have Luke Lehman on the line. Now, we've been following Luke for a long time. We've attended courses of his back when he was lecturing as part of the Poliquin group. Since then, he set up his own business, the Muscle Nerds, who teach some amazing seminars that are full of education, humor, expletives, you name it, he covers it. He also runs a successful online coaching business. And this episode is we kind of talk through sort of the health points of body composition training. We talk about Luke's sort of terminology of going from least mode to beast mode and the benefits of that and how he does it. We talk about stress reduction and how myself included, you know, it's worrying that nowadays it's almost impossible to put our phones down and that we're constantly glued to them. And Luke says that in his opinion, that is probably one of the biggest stresses sort of that most of us go through in 2018. We talk about HRV and just basically stuff that if you are a typical meathead and you focus on just purely training, just heavy, heavy, heavy all the time, loading on food, very inflamed, your digestive system sucks, you walk up the stairs and you're sweating, then this episode is going to be perfect for you as we go through Luke's journey as to what he did to turn things back around. So I hope you guys really enjoy this one as much as I did. As always, please feel free to leave us some feedback, subscribe, share the podcast with your friends if you think that they would benefit from it. And as always, thanks for the support and thanks for listening. Perfect. So where are you at the moment? I'm in Thailand. Oh, nice. Yeah, it's nice. It's a good time to come. You know, it's overcast and fucking raining the whole time, but, you know, what are you going to do? Whereabouts in Thailand are you? We are in Bangkok for a few days, and then we're headed down to Phuket for like seven days. Cool. Just been to the cities? I don't know things at all. I think we're just doing one island. It's kind of staying chill the whole time, trying to relax for once. And then Zoe heads home, and I head to Ireland and London and Chicago. Oh, nice. Cool. So this is just purely holiday? It's holiday? Well, kind of. Kind of. But we've never actually had just a holiday. It's always been working. So we've never actually had a holiday where we didn't do any work whatsoever. And you still haven't because you're doing work now. That's it. And we've been doing work since we got here. At least I've done a little bit, emails and shit, but nothing crazy. Perfect. Awesome. So Luke, for the people that aren't too familiar with you that are listening to our podcast, talk us through the evolution of Luke Lehman. So how did you get into training? What side of it? Talk about your polyquin days, where you're at now with Muscle Nerds. Just give us a lowdown on that.