Is Remote Personal Training Effective? Trainers Discuss Challenges With Fitness Goals and Journeys

TRRP Pilot Ep 01. Brett Trevino hosts Christine Contreras and Felipe “Flip” Gallegos.


Success requires smart, concurrent training, prioritizing intense lifting with strategic running (sprints, hills), managing nutrition for adequate calories (as running burns a lot), and separating intense sessions by at least 6 hours to allow for recovery. It's possible for a balanced physique, but optimal results in either discipline often means focusing on one primary goal.

Key Considerations
Conflicting Goals: Running builds endurance and lean muscle, while bodybuilding aims for maximum size, which running can hinder due to calorie burn.

Nutrition is Crucial: You need enough calories to fuel both activities and build muscle; otherwise, running can eat into your gains.

Training Structure:
Prioritize: Do your most important workout (lifting or running) first in the day.
Separate Sessions: Separate intense weight training and running by at least 6 hours to minimize interference.

Smart Running: Incorporate high-intensity interval training (HIIT), sprints, and hill repeats to build muscle, rather than just slow, long runs.
Rest: Allow 48 hours between intense running (like intervals or races) and heavy leg days.

Realistic Expectations: You can build a strong, aesthetic physique and be a good runner, but achieving elite-level bodybuilder mass and marathon-level speed simultaneously is extremely difficult.

How to Combine Them
Lift Heavy, Run Smart: Focus on progressive overload in the gym, but use running for conditioning, power, and active recovery.
Calorie Surplus: Eat enough to support both muscle gain and high energy expenditure from running.

Periodize: Cycle focus between phases of muscle building and phases focused more on running performance.
Ultimately, you can achieve a hybrid, athletic physique by combining them, but it requires diligent planning, especially with nutrition and timing, to avoid compromising one goal for the other.

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