Body for Life

I was a student in the lab at the time.

But what we were looking at was the old Body for Life program.

Bill Phillips ran this a long time ago.

And we were the first ones to run a research study on it.

And Body for Life was three days of resistance training, three days of high-intensity interval running, and one day off.

And we compared it to the American Heart Association's plan back in the early 2000s, which was basically 150 minutes a week of movement.

It wasn't resistance training specific.

Yeah, probably partly from listening to your podcast and others, but I was never calories in, calories out.

I always, when I came in, I followed a couple trainers like Bill Phillips, Body for Life, and another trainer, Phil Kaplan, that did really the divide the plate into three, the protein, the carb, and the vegetable.

And that was very ingrained in me just as much as the knowledge and the cardio were ingrained in me.

I really felt like it was a trifecta.

Do you remember Bill Phillips? It was...

can't think of the book but Body for Life

and it

was a transformation program and I remember taking the newspaper with the shirt off with the date

What does dehydration do to the brain?

I did a study, actually, with Bill Phillips, who's a very famous bodybuilder, Body for Life, and he purposefully had dehydrated himself for a photo shoot.

So bodybuilders do that.

They take Lasix, because it makes their muscles look ripped.

And we put them on two different plans over the course of many weeks.

One of those, you may have heard of it, it's called Body for Life.

It was an old program back in the late 90s, early 2000s.

Very popular.

I mean, that whole series of stuff changed my life because I was reading it and just so engaged with it and thinking, is this really what you can do? You can lift weights and not have to run and run and run.

And we wanted to test it.

So we got to a place in this first study to ever look at this Body for Life program in a research setting.

And that was just really, really cool.