Today, I have another interview for you and we are continuing on the theme of nutritional advice.
I interview Yuri Elkaim.
You know, Yuri. You have seen him before on EFI. I did an interview with Yuri while I was at a fitness conference in California. We did a quick interview on Pre-habilitation Concept.
Importance of Doing Pre-habilitation Exercises
Yuri is a strength coach for the men’s soccer team at the University of Toronto and the creator of:
Plus Yuri is a cool guy to hang out with and chat. I have been lucky to chat with him in Orange County, Las Vegas and San Diego.
Now to the interview that we just did on nutrition.
CLICK HERE to listen to the interview.
CLICK HERE to listen to the interview.
In the interview, Yuri Elkaim shares with you:
- Importance of understanding nutrition so you can educate and empower your clients with the right information
- Things that the pharmaceutical industry has done to the medical community in order to increase drug use
- The supplement industry wants you to believe you need to eat supplements in order to build muscle but what does the research say?
- Why training people is easier than giving nutrition advice
- How making little changes to his athletes’ eating habits has helped them out
- Is it good to eat six eggs a week?
- Importance of educating your client about nutrition so they can make better nutritional decisions
- Why it is important to balance what you experience with nutritional research
- He was training clients but was not helping them with nutrition since he was a poor example of nutrition
- He got an autoimmune disease, alopecia, and the medical community did not know what to do for it but he found out what worked
- How a broken leg changed his life
- Who is Yuri Elkaim?
CLICK HERE to listen to the interview.
Rick Kaselj, MS
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A few things you need to know about listening to the interview:
- To listen to the interview, scroll down to the bottom of this page and click the play button symbol. If you do not have time to listen to it right now, just click the “download” button and download it to your computer. Then you can listen to it on your computer when you like. Plus you can subscribe to the itunes podcast and get all the interviews when they are ready. Enjoy!
- If you use Chrome as your web browser, at times, it can be funny at playing the interview. I would suggest listening to the interview in another web browser (Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc.)
- Here is a video explaining how to download the interview recording
If you liked this interview and are looking for other fitness nutritional advice, check out this other articles, videos and interviews:
- Training and Nutrition Advice with John Romaniello
- Intermittent Fasting Diet with Dan Go
- Nutrition Interrogation with Brian St. Pierre
Why Fitness Professionals Should Be Giving Nutritional Advice with Yuri Elkaim [ 31:47 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
I wanted to point out how awesome it is that you give a download link. I put them on my iPod and listen to your interviews/podcasts when I’m not at home.
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Rick Kaselj Reply:
February 8th, 2012 at 7:05 am
Janila,
Thank you so much.
I am glad they are so helpful to you.
Let me know if you have any ideas on who I should interview.
Rick
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Thanks for sharing the link of the interview with Yuri. I am somewhat on the fence on the whole protein intake aspect. On the one hand, I do come from a bodybuilding background originally, although I am working on an MS in exercise science and am a CSCS. Here’s my confusion, Yuri says he don’t need that much protein, he eats the holistic approach, but he doesn’t carry much muscle. And, bodybuilders although on the other side, do show by their physiques that it works, at least to some degree. I wish he would have cited studies he mentioned. I guess for me to believe his pitch, he needs to show me he can put on muscle on his diet. Because although I want to be healthy and live long, I still wanna look great and carry muscle.
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Yuri Reply:
February 16th, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Hi Chris, I know this is a controversial statement but I spend a lot more time within super nutrition academy showing you the research that actually reveals that you don’t need anymore than about 0.8g protein/kg of bodyweight. And the more trained you are, the more efficiently your body uses the protein you eat, so you can actually less of it.
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