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Jeff Cavaliere

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

If it's proven down the road that it's something that could be beneficial and safe... I'm aching to say 100% safe because that's what I want, then maybe I would if I felt like I was really suffering from the loss or the change that my body was going through. Because I don't want to just let myself get old. I want to try to do what I can.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

If it's proven down the road that it's something that could be beneficial and safe... I'm aching to say 100% safe because that's what I want, then maybe I would if I felt like I was really suffering from the loss or the change that my body was going through. Because I don't want to just let myself get old. I want to try to do what I can.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

But up till now, the journey for me has been completely natural and to do it in a way that it feels most rewarding because I haven't had to do anything. So I feel like I'm most inspired by my ability to keep going. And I'm going to be 50 this year.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

But up till now, the journey for me has been completely natural and to do it in a way that it feels most rewarding because I haven't had to do anything. So I feel like I'm most inspired by my ability to keep going. And I'm going to be 50 this year.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

So this is where I think when I say if you want to look like an athlete, you got to train like an athlete. Because the hallmark of their training is that it's multifaceted. So you can't just have one element developed and be a great athlete. Even if you look at someone as one-dimensional, I'm not saying this to put them down, but one-dimensional as an arm wrestler, right?

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

So this is where I think when I say if you want to look like an athlete, you got to train like an athlete. Because the hallmark of their training is that it's multifaceted. So you can't just have one element developed and be a great athlete. Even if you look at someone as one-dimensional, I'm not saying this to put them down, but one-dimensional as an arm wrestler, right?

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

They can have grip strength and forearm strength and rotator cuff strength to be able to actually turn somebody over. But if they have poor nutrition, poor sleep, poor recovery, they're likely gonna lose, especially because your neurological output and grip is directly correlated to your ability to recover. If you don't have more than one element developed. You're not going to be your best.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

They can have grip strength and forearm strength and rotator cuff strength to be able to actually turn somebody over. But if they have poor nutrition, poor sleep, poor recovery, they're likely gonna lose, especially because your neurological output and grip is directly correlated to your ability to recover. If you don't have more than one element developed. You're not going to be your best.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

So when people are looking, the general population is looking to become healthier and feel better. It's not going to be one thing. First and foremost, I believe that getting on a training plan that prioritizes

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

So when people are looking, the general population is looking to become healthier and feel better. It's not going to be one thing. First and foremost, I believe that getting on a training plan that prioritizes

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

the building of muscle, so hypertrophy and strength building is gonna be really important because we are gonna, again, like I talked about before, you're going to naturally lose strength every passing decade, up to eight to 10% per decade as you pass the age of 50. So you need to make sure that you are doing something to stave that off.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

the building of muscle, so hypertrophy and strength building is gonna be really important because we are gonna, again, like I talked about before, you're going to naturally lose strength every passing decade, up to eight to 10% per decade as you pass the age of 50. So you need to make sure that you are doing something to stave that off.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

You can dramatically slow that down by engaging in strength training and engaging in regular weight training with the purpose of trying to build muscle. But you have to do that. The brain ages. So having challenges to your balance, having challenges to your ability to maintain muscle recruitment, because that's, again, neurologically, your neurons start to fire at a slower pace.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

You can dramatically slow that down by engaging in strength training and engaging in regular weight training with the purpose of trying to build muscle. But you have to do that. The brain ages. So having challenges to your balance, having challenges to your ability to maintain muscle recruitment, because that's, again, neurologically, your neurons start to fire at a slower pace.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

You need to train these things. Reactivity, reaction skills, again, balance drills. These are all little parts of things that people can do. I always remember seeing this old man. He had an obstacle course he built. I don't know if you ever saw this, but it was a video. He was like 89 years old. And he made this obstacle course.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

You need to train these things. Reactivity, reaction skills, again, balance drills. These are all little parts of things that people can do. I always remember seeing this old man. He had an obstacle course he built. I don't know if you ever saw this, but it was a video. He was like 89 years old. And he made this obstacle course.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

And he used to add every week or so, he'd add one more obstacle to his course. And he built it in his backyard. And it was like a balance beam and then a net that he had to climb and all these things. He used to run the obstacle course once a day.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

And he used to add every week or so, he'd add one more obstacle to his course. And he built it in his backyard. And it was like a balance beam and then a net that he had to climb and all these things. He used to run the obstacle course once a day.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

And he said that he would try to find new ways to challenge his body so that he would keep his brain guessing as to what's next. And again, whether or not he was finding this thing to be something he didn't want to do, maybe it was also feeding into his increases because he was doing the things he hated to do.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

And he said that he would try to find new ways to challenge his body so that he would keep his brain guessing as to what's next. And again, whether or not he was finding this thing to be something he didn't want to do, maybe it was also feeding into his increases because he was doing the things he hated to do.