Margaux and Maggie stop in to talk about the eight basics we emphasize to help people achieve success: Sleep, Stress management, Getting enough Veggies, Protein, Water, Moving your body, Eating without distractions, Consistency.

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Episode 84: Mastering the Basics is the Best Way to Be Successful

Carly, Sarah and Nicole N join us to talk about Client-Coach relationships and what they need from clients in order to help them succeed. A healthy and fruitful client-coach relationship is dependent on communication that is open and honest. While nobody is ever obligated to share anything with anybody, if clients tell us if they’ve changed their goals, if they’ve had a stressful or traumatic event happen, if they are going on vacation, if they’re struggling with adherence, then we can have an open dialogue to help clients get and stay on track so they can successfully navigate those things. 

Episode 83: Dialoguing with Your Coach

We welcome Sabrina, Margaux and Carly on to talk about the influences the people in our lives had on how we relate to food and eating. One of the things we deal with every day is helping people unlearn bad habits and poor relationships with food that they’ve picked up as children that have carried on into adulthood, and how to encourage and cultivate positive relationships with food and eating to those in our lives now.

Episode 82: How Upbringing Influences Dietary Habits

Manders, Lauren and Ashley talk about the challenges facing shift workers. Not everyone has the luxury of a consistent 9-5 job, and with that, comes challenges to meal timing, meal tracking, sleep and workout schedules, among other things. We break down our experiences with shift work, how we dealt with it (successfully and unsuccessfully) and share some of the tips and tricks we have developed that can help optimize results.

Episode 81: Navigating Shift Work

A few of our mamas, Nicole, Sarah and Maggie talk about confronting some of the challenges moms face and share tips about how to manage priorities in fitness, nutrition, and self care. In order to be the best moms possible, you need to prioritize yourself more!

Episode 80: Managing Priorities as a Mom

Kiefer, Jess and Morgan stop by to talk about some of the things you can do outside of the gym to maximize your recovery. From tracking data to getting adequate sleep, there are many things you can do outside of the gym that will make the most of the time you spend in the gym.

Episode 79: Things You Can Do to Maximize Your Recovery

Marisa and Lauren stop by to talk about some of the big and small habits we can incorporate/pay attention to while eating that will make a big difference in improving the health of our digestive systems. It’s important to pay attention to the signals your body might be giving that are its way of telling you something might be off. Our guts are our second brains, so cleaning up our digestive habits will pay big dividends towards our overall health.

Episode 78: Cleaning Up Your Digestive Habits

Marisa, Emi and Lauren sit down to talk about dealing with low appetite. Whether it be from acute stress, being busy, taking medications or from non-specific reasons, many people go through periods where they find it difficult to eat food, develop temporary food aversions, and generally lose their appetites. They discuss their personal struggles with low appetite and share some strategies they use in order to get those necessary calories in.

Episode 77: How to Deal with Low Appetite

Kelly and Nicole N. join us to discuss one of the most common questions we get: Is it possible to gain muscle and/or strength while in a deficit? We talk about why those are two separate questions, why they take separate approaches, and the extent to which gaining muscle and gaining strength overlap.

Episode 76: Can You Gain Muscle/Strength in a Deficit?

Maggie and Manders join us to talk about the ways grief and stressful life events generally can throw a monkey wrench into your nutrition goals. We talk about why that’s okay, why sometimes your response to traumatic events can catch you off guard, why having a tool box that you can rely on is so important, and why there are some circumstances in life when you shouldn’t worry about your nutrition too much.

Episode 75: Grief and Stress Responses

Some of our beautiful mommas-including Nicole who had given birth just ONE WEEK! before we recorded- join us to answer questions we get about our Pregnancy and Postpartum programs. Namely, “Why should I get a coach while I’m pregnant?” We dive into why we think it’s a good idea, some of the challenges and experiences our mommas experienced, and why you need patience getting back to “normal” after pregnancy.

Episode 74: Why You Should Have a Coach When You Are Pregnant

Krissy, Jess and Kiefer, almost all of the Black Iron Training Team stop in to talk about all the various programming under the Black Iron banner. We talk about why we offer such a diverse selection of programming, how our approaches and philosophies towards training have evolved over time, answer some of the common questions about training modifications, and talk about why skipping a workout is not the end of the world.

Episode 73: The Black Iron Approach(es) to Training

This was originally going to be a Q&A episode about our Lifestyle Program, but it broadened into talking about the philosophies we try to promote in Black Iron: sustainable eating, healthy relationships with food, building your toolbox, giving yourself grace, and of course macros.

Episode 72: Why We Do Things The Way We Do Them

Emi and Ryann stop in to talk about how they’ve handled the pandemic life, how social distancing has affected their personal and professional lives, and the strategies they used to try to cope.

Episode 71: Pandemic Mental Health Check In

Kels and Ryann join us to talk about the importance of recovering from exercise. They talk about the four main pillars of recovery you should focus on, why each person has different needs and should focus their efforts on one or two pillars, and why the “Grind Never Stops” mentality is poisonous.

Episode 70: The Pillars of Recovery

Welcome to BIN Radio, a nutrition-focused podcast from the crew at Black Iron Nutrition! We are here to tell the story of nutrition as we see it, share our knowledge and our approach to nutrition, insights, stories, thoughts, feelings, all of it. Join the party!

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