Episodes: 243
Frequency: Multiple_weekly
Rating: 4.9/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Male
Location: USA
Publicly listed emails
bdacruzfitness@gmail.com
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Brandon DaCruz - Health and fitness coach specializing in nutrition, training, fat loss, body composition, and physique development.
Lyle McDonald - Intermittent Modified Fasting, Fat Loss, Calorie Cycling, Nutritional Periodization, Training Performance, Recovery, And Lean-mass Retention.
Mikki Williden - Protein-sparing Modified Fasting, Rapid Fat Loss, Refeeds, Calorie Cycling, And Populations For Whom Aggressive Deficits Are Inappropriate.
Wes Patterson - The Progression From NPC Competition To An IFBB Professional Card, Metabolic Restoration, Lean Building, Contest Preparation, And Peak-week Planning.
Jeff Hoehn - Female Body Recomposition, Muscle Gain During Fat Loss, Sex-based Physiology, Recovery, Muscle Preservation, And Nutrition And Training For Women.
ERIC HELMS: THE PROCESS OF GETTING PEELED: RATE OF LOSS, PROTEIN INTAKE & HUNGER MANAGEMENT FOR MAXIMIZING MUSCLE RETENTION DURING FAT LOSS | EP. 240
September 09, 2026
Most people think getting shredded is just a matter of pushing the deficit harder and holding on longer. But the deeper you get into a fat loss phase, the more the rules change. A calorie deficit doesn’t just reduce body fat, it actively shifts your body toward a catabolic state by lowering muscle protein synthesis, increasing muscle protein breakdown, and increasing protein oxidation. And here’s the part most people miss: those effects get worse the leaner you get. Which means the strategies...
FAT LOSS HUNGER HACKS: THE SCIENCE-BACKED TACTICS THAT BLUNT HUNGER & CRAVINGS DURING A DIET | FAT LOSS SERIES PART 8 | EP. 239
September 07, 2026
Hunger is the number one reason most people struggle to stay consistent during a Fat Loss Phase. In Part 7, I walked you through the six strategic principles that build a diet where satiety is produced by your food choices themselves rather than relying on willpower. But even with that strategic foundation in place, hunger and cravings will still show up, especially in the windows between meals where most dieters actually break their diet.This episode is the tactical follow up to Part 7. Thes...
LYLE MCDONALD: CONTEST PREP USING INTERMITTENT MODIFIED FASTING | HOW TO GET STAGE LEAN WHILE PRESERVING MUSCLE | EP. 238
September 02, 2026
How do you take a physique athlete from a productive Building Phase all the way to stage condition while preserving as much muscle, training performance and recovery as possible?And does the traditional approach of continually cutting calories, adding cardio and pushing harder as the show gets closer actually make sense?In Part 3 and the final installment of my Intermittent Modified Fasting series, I’m joined once again by Lyle McDonald to take the IMF framework into one of its most advanced ...
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