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Introducing Seth Bronheim
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by Jamie Hale
The following interview was recently conducted with Seth Bronheim, RD & Certified Underground Strength Coach. Who is Seth Bronheim? He is someone that will make a big splash in the fitness industry in the near future. His passion for fitness, his nutrition knowledge and his thirst for scientific data are desirable traits, and contribute to why I place him near the top of my list of future Fitness Industry Stars.
1- Tell readers a little about your Exercise & Nutrition Consulting business?
My business is just starting out, and I am extremely excited about it. As a matter of fact, it was only two weeks ago that I signed a lease for an office in New York City, and all of my appointments are scheduled to begin on December 1st. Prior to leasing the office space, I was doing most of my nutrition consultations over the phone, and occasionally meeting my more local clients at their homes.
I am also in the process of setting up some small seminars at a gym in New York City, for people to learn the fundamentals of weight training, and how to train on their own. Moreover, the seminar will provide nutritional information as it relates to exercise and training in general, and also specifically tailored to whatever program the client is interested in pursuing. These seminars are primarily aimed at people who cannot afford a personal trainer, or for anyone who just wants to learn how to lift weights.
2- Tell readers about your experience in earning your Underground Strength Coach Certificate? What do you think makes this Cert different than many others?
The Underground Strength Coach Certification, provided by Zach Even-Esh, was a two-day, hands-on seminar that is all about “learning by doing.” Zach throws you in there, and makes you think on the spot. The coaching techniques that I learned are definitely not ones you can find in a textbook. And what’s more, by the second day of the certification, you are actually coaching his athletes through a training session. One non-training aspect of Zach’s certification that I really appreciated was how he devoted part of the certification time to discussing the business aspects of starting, and running, a “strength and conditioning” business.
To this day, whenever I walk into Zach’s gym, I start feeling the fire to train building in my veins. It is truly a mind-blowing experience training in his gym.
3- What does a typical day look like in your life, from morning until bedtime?
In the morning, I typically eat five whole eggs with toast and oatmeal for breakfast (I really enjoy mixing my carbohydrates with fats). Throughout the rest of the day, I usually do school work (I am finishing up my Master’s degree in Nutrition at New York University), which generally consists of massive quantities of reading, research, and paper writing. If it’s a training day however, I’ll take a break to train around noon. And as far as eating on training days is concerned, I always try to time my meals with that in mind. This way, I can give myself enough time to digest before I train, so as to avoid puking, or just general feelings of nausea, both during and after my workout (especially when squatting or prowling).
Up until now, I had been doing work and training right up until 5pm, when my classes begin for the day. However, at this point in time, my schedule has changed dramatically, as I am doing many things to get ready to start my private practice. I am in the process of making brochures, getting testimonials, and figuring out the business side of nutrition. So everyday, I allot a sufficient amount of time to manage my schoolwork, and professional career, right up until my classes begin. And I always bring a ton of food with me to class, because they go straight through from 5pm to 8:20pm at night. As a matter of fact, I usually like to have another desk next to me as my dinner table, just to be safe. After class, I walk about two miles back to my apartment, eat more, and then go to sleep.
4- Favorite exercise book?
I would really have to say Jim Wendler’s 5-3-1 book. I have gotten more out of this book than any other book on training.
5- Favorite nutrition book?
I would have to go with Girth Control, by Alan Aragon. I especially love the section on eggs research.
6- What do you love the most about the fitness industry? What do you hate the most?
I love that there are many coaches in the fitness industry that make me feel motivated. Many of the coaches that I am referring to, are ones that I have never met in person, but their writing or training videos, fire me up, and make me want to take massive action in achieving my goals.
I hate when people say they can do 20 pull-ups, and they are all half-pull ups at best. In my mind, it doesn’t count unless you go all the way down, and all the way up (and you can’t do a leg raise to get it up either). I also hate when I read a training article from a strength coach, and then I watch a video of his pushups, and he doesn’t even go all the way down and up. This gets me absolutely incensed.
7- What are your current research interests? In what areas do we need more research?
I am not currently involved in any research projects. However, I am really interested in researching how lipoprotein particle sizes can be influenced by dietary habits, as well as how oxidation affects LDL-cholesterol.
I think the research involved in nutritional epidemiology needs some serious fine-tuning. There has to be a better way to get food record data besides Food Frequency Questionnaires (FFQ), and a 24-hour recall. My research professor recently made a comment about the limitations in nutritional epidemiology research, and said, “you can’t say that the Food Frequency Questionnaires are a limitation, because all the studies use them.” In my opinion, it is a huge limitation, and I think recall bias is one of the main reasons there is so much inconsistency. There has to be a better way.
8- If you were granted a large sum of money for research purposes, and were told you could use the money at your discretion, what would you research
I would research the effects of a chronic high intake of dietary cholesterol, in terms of the effects on different organs, metabolism, and hormones. I feel that people in general are so scared of dietary cholesterol, and that it is having a deleterious effect on their overall nutritional well-being. It is time that people started eating more eggs, and realizing that the benefits seriously outweigh the perceived consequences.
Visit Seth’s website @ www.sethbronheim.blogspot.com
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