About this episode

Dan Garner discusses bridging the gap between sports science and real-world coaching to help reach fitness goals.

In this episode, my guest is Dan Garner, a renowned human performance coach behind UFC champions, Olympic medalists, and CEOs. We discuss how he bridges the gap between sports science and real-world coaching. Dan explains constraint theory — finding the single bottleneck holding someone back — and walks through the blood markers he uses to find it, including why a 20% testosterone swing can be pure noise, why vitamin D has no usable reference change value, and why the omega-3 index is the most honest marker he tracks. We cover his three-step approach to fat loss, diet breaks, low energy availability, hypertrophy clusters, deload strategy, and an evidence-first framework for evaluating peptides. This episode is for anyone who wants to measure what they're doing and adjust it intelligently rather than guessing. Show notes: https://www.performpodcast.com/episodes/dan-garner-how-to-reach-your-fitness-goals Sponsors Momentous: https://livemomentous.com/galpin Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/perform David: https://davidprotein.com/perform LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/perform Chapters (00:00:00) White House UFC & Ronda Rousey's Return (00:06:14) Dan Garner's Coaching Career & Health…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Andy Galpin

Guest: Dan Garner

Topics covered

• fitness goals
• human performance
• sports science
• fat loss
• diet strategy
• coaching

Keywords

• constraint theory
• testosterone
• vitamin D
• omega-3 index
• hypertrophy
• peptides
• diet breaks
• energy availability

Sponsors

Momentous, Eight Sleep, David, LMNT

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UFC, Olympic

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