Introduction and Luke Leaman's Background

Welcome to the ATP Project, interview with Luke Lehman on Hypernutrition Part 1. In today's podcast, Matt, Steve and I are joined by Muscle Nerds founder, Master Trainer Luke Lehman. We discuss why more is not always better, including some great stories from Luke and Matt about what has happened and what they've experienced when people use too much of a good thing. This is part one of a two-part series and both podcasts are more conversational in style than normal and differ a lot from our normal podcast format. As always, this information is not designed to diagnose, treat, prevent or cure any condition and is for information purposes only. Please discuss any information in this podcast with your healthcare professional before making any changes to your current lifestyle. Stay tuned, the ATP Project is about to start. Welcome to the ATP Project, delivering the irreverent truth about health, aging, performance and looking good. If you're sick and tired of being sick and tired, ready to perform at your best, or somewhere in between, then sit back, relax, and open your mind as Jeff and Matt battle the status quo and discuss everything health-related that can make you better. Welcome to the ATB Project, here with your hosts Matt, Steve, and Jeff, and today we have special star guest star Luke Lehman back for the second time. This is the first time we've had somebody back for the second time. That didn't make sense. Welcome back. This is the first time for the second time. I feel like I should get a parking spot now because I have to park three blocks down the road every time I come here. There's a disabled one out the front. Didn't you see it? That's for the leg day. Yeah, leg day. So, Luke, your background, just for people who don't know you. Who doesn't know? Well, and it's interesting. I just saw that you're speaking at a conference. In Canada? Yeah. At Swiss, the Society of Weightlifting Injury Specialists. Which is cool. It's really cool. You are considered to be, in our industry, one of the world's board leaders in what you do. So can you explain just quickly what it is that you do and what your background is? Yeah, so I'll just go back to when I first started training. People, you know, when I was 18 kind of did the whole thing. All my education came from, you know, the Internet and Testosterone Magazine. This is the best name for any magazine ever. Yes. You know, and then started looking into people like Paul Cech and Charles Poliquin and Charles Staley and that type of thing. and I just kept going and never stopped. I was a competitive powerlifter in high school and throughout college and then got into bodybuilding. And as I kind of went through different transformations, I ended up basically mentoring under Charles Poliquin and at one point basically working at Poliquin Group for a number of years and one of their lead trainers, one of their lead instructors, I should say. So I started traveling about five years ago all over the world teaching people, and then I left Poliquin Group and started Muscle Nerds. and that we continue on with that. So we do online training, and then we also do education as well. Yeah, yeah, excellent. And I know a lot of the stuff, like us as well too, a little bit controversial at times, pushing the boundaries of the status quo, which is great, especially if you're right. It's not great if you're wrong. Well, you know, the thing is I had a quote somebody made into a meme a few months ago and basically said, science doesn't give a fuck what you think. You know, it either is or it isn't. You know, you can't, your anecdotal experience doesn't beat a dozen studies that refute what you think happens. You can feel good about something that doesn't actually make it true though. That's right. That's what my dad always said, practice makes permanent. Perfect practice makes perfect. Yeah, that's Vince Lombardi. I love that saying. Yeah, Vince Lombardi. That's my dad. Rod. Rod. Rod, yeah. Just said down the bottom, Rod. Bottom of the name.