Introduction and Guest Background

hey guys and welcome to the next episode of the Shane Walsh fitness podcast so today we have absolute fitness royalty and this is one of those episodes that one of the other coaches Dallas has is super super excited and it was one of those episodes I had to send to Dallas straight away for him to to kind of listen to so today's episode is with absolute royalty and fitness royalty is Luke Lehman so Luke has been a prominent figure in the health and industry with the mantra of health over everything his teachings research and knowledge boldly reflect that and he's been in the industry for many many years and he has spent the last nine years educating coaches trainers and health professionals around the world on biochemistry physiology with a large focus on the application of his knowledge with 20 years of knowledge and experience in the industry 15 years experience powerlifting 10 years experience in bodybuilding and 30 years of experience training he has spent massive massive amounts of time money and effort into the trenches earlier on his career luke's but sought out the best in the fields of internships and learned from the best worked with the best and his thirst for knowledge and research has given him an in-depth understanding of biochemistry in relation to fat loss stress management hypertrophy digestion metabolism and hormonal imbalances for three years luke traveled with the pollocking group which charles pollock was one of the leading industry uh one of the leading people in the industry for a very very long time and he was lead instructor writing and teaching biosignature modulation as well as teaching this the picp program lucas mentored under world renowned strength coaching stroke trials poliquin as well as dr james lavelle formerly of the lavelle metabolic institute and author of cracking the metabolic code over then since then he has set up muscle nerds which was one of the biggest education portals and resources for pts and those in the industry um that are looking to better themselves and understand that he writes the muscle courses stuff himself he has a desire for coach for coaches to be the best possible possible they can and in this episode we talk a lot of stuff um and we talk about how instead of focusing on the next shiny diet go for what works for you one of the biggest traps you see that people go for what part of weight loss do most people overlook we talk about the truth about BCAAs we talk about how to move away from cardio as a way of losing weight the tips on how to see a great client or be a great client is really really interesting kind of advice for someone to move away from the all-or-nothing approach the most underrated exercise that exercise that you are actually not doing and the one thing that it would remove from the fitness industry so I'm going to put up a little bit of a warning before and Lucas for you no nonsense there's a bit of cursing in the episode and there's it's it's it's off the cuff but it's the way luke is he's quite direct and i had the absolute pleasure chatting with him for a while uh off air and off air and on air so without further ado here's episode with luke leeman luke how are we sir i am going good how's it going i'm very good my man um so anyone who doesn't know luke luke is one of the ogs of the fitness world and i know dallas who's one of the coach that works with myself is uh very excited to listen back to this