#20: John Martirosyan aka J-Mart on Whether or Not Calories Matter, Bodyweight Training, Exploring Life Through Movement, and More!

John Martirosyan aka J-Mart (@jmartfit) is a personal trainer, health coach, podcast host and explorer of human movement. John's podcast is The State of Health Podcast with J-Mart and is available on Youtube, Apple, Spotify, and everywhere else. You can also access John's Bodyweight Basics training program available for FREE here.

In this podcast John and I discussed the all important topic of calories. What are they? Do they matter? When do they matter? Should you care about it? Do you need to weigh every bite of food? What's a calorie deficit? All of these are just scraping the surface of what we discussed regarding this ever important and ever confusing topic. As with almost anything in fitness and health, the overall answer is, it depends, and the correct answer is individual to you and your needs and goals. But there are many questions to be asked to determine how YOU should approach it, and that's what we've covered here.

John also loves using calisthenics and bodyweight training with himself and his clients. We spoke about the benefits and beauty of exploring what your body is capable of doing. How one should go about starting and when to incorporate it into your training. John has developed an excellent introductory course to bodyweight training to teach you the basics of how to train your body. John's Body Basics course is freely available here.

This was an thoroughly enjoyable discussion and I hope you enjoy it and learn as much as I did. For more, check out John's podcast, and connect with him on IG.

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