Listeners can find Erick Baier on the All Terrain Fitness Facebook Group and Instagram @allterrainfitness
Erick Baier is Head Coach with All Terrain Health/Fitness and their main strength coach. He is a longtime friend of coach Garry dubbs from the time they worked together as trailers and the Maryland Athletic Club (the MAC). He now works full-time with All Terrains athletes and while providing help with all fitness and lifestyle related topics is the go to guy for strength training topics.
In this episode, Hailey, Garry, and Erick talk about eating foods that we enjoy, learning how different food affects our bodies and performance, using knowledge and discipline to make the right decisions for your personal health, and more!
“ The freedom of your nutrition is knowing the data” Erick Baier
Top Takeaways:
There are No Bad Foods
Be Mindfully Critical of Diet Fads and Changing Nutritional information
Knowledge of Nutrition will set you free from dieting!
Eating to fulfill your metabolic needs
How to be mindful of food marketing
Show Notes:
[0:00] What it do crew! Welcome back to the All Terrain Fueling Fire Podcast! Today we are welcoming ATH coach Alex Freas as our guest to talk about food.
[1:30] For those watching in the Facebook Group please comment #live
[2:00] Introducing the main topic that there are no bad foods, learning moderation and self-discipline.
[3:00] The lengths young Garry went to strive to compete as a professional athlete.
[8:00] “Doesn’t matter if you’re overeating dirty or all clean, natural, organic foods you can mess up your body either way. We all need to learn to eat for our metabolic needs” Garry Dubbs
[10:20] Erick talks about the complications surrounding the media exposure of how we have been marketed to in western culture surrounding what the right things are to be eating.
[13:00] Garry gives an example of how studies and numbers can be bent to tell a specific story in nutritional studies.
[14:30] The main point of the message is that moderation and knowledge of what you are eating is the key, not the foods themselves. Everyone needs to learn what the healthy amount of particular food to eat for you as a unique individual.
[22:00] “The freedom of your nutrition is knowing the data.” Erick Baier
[27:00] Don’t blindly trust marketing. Labeling and packaging are designed to make you feel good about your purchase and what you are eating.
[35:30] “People don’t even know that what they are eating is making them feel horrible because they’ve never tried anything else and they’re used to feeling horrible all the time, then when they start eating better they realize they’ve been doing this to themselves unconsciously for so long.” Erick Baier
[37:00] Discussing the dangers of buying into the “restriction” mindset to an unhealthy level.
[43:00] Don’t buy into the unique mechanisms of change being marketed to you, you are equipped with all you need to really make a lasting change, your mind, and the discipline to follow through.
[49:00] Wrapping up the episode with coach Erick. Find more of Erick and All Terrain online. Drop the #value if you got something from this episode of the Fueling Fire Podcast
Find more online at All Terrain Fitness, Mentality, and Fat Loss, access a Free upper mobility guide, get a Free at home GOYA (Get Off Your Ass) workout, shoot coach Garry or coach Hailey a direct message, Look for a new Macro friendly recipe book from coach Alex Freas in the near future,
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Garry Dubbs (garry@athfits.com) earned his BS in Exercise Science and is a former D1 Strength & Conditioning Coach. He owned and operated his own gym in Baltimore, MD for 3 years before starting ATH. Growing up, he was a competitive wrestler, football player, and golfer. Being a multi-sport athlete truly taught him the importance of moving WELL.
Hailey Grandchamp (hailey@athfits.com) earned her BA in psychology and MA in early childhood education and spent the past 4 years teaching 1st grade in Baltimore City. Not only that, she is a former high level gymnast and multi-sport athlete, so she knows the importance of finding what works and is fun for YOU!
Garry and Hailey are currently engaged and live in Colorado with their dogs Dakota, Nala, and Zuzu