My Case For Periodizing Your Nutrition | EP 741

About this episode

In this episode, Jeff Hoehn discusses the importance of periodizing nutrition to adapt to the body's changing needs over time.

Welcome to the Mind Muscle Connection Podcast! A lot of people spend years trying to find the “perfect” calorie target and then stay there forever. The problem is your body adapts over time, and what works in one phase of the year may stop working in another. In this episode, I break down My Case For Periodizing Your Nutrition. I also dive into metabolic adaptation, stress load, body recomp, muscle growth, fat loss phases, carb intake, and how to know when it’s time to push calories up or pul...

People in this episode

Host: Jeff Hoehn

Topics covered

• nutrition periodization
• metabolic adaptation
• stress load
• body recomp
• muscle growth
• fat loss phases
• carb intake

Keywords

• calorie target
• metabolic adaptation
• nutrition
• fat loss
• muscle growth
• carb intake
• stress load

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