Train like Hollywood's Elite & Transform Your Body | Gunnar Peterson

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (0:02)
Welcome to the Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show, where I believe a healthy world is based on transparent conversations.
Hi friends, in today's episode of the Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show, I sit down with the legendary trainer, Gunnar Peterson.
This guy is an absolute legend in the space. He has trained everyone from the Kardashians to Jennifer Lopez, to athletes in the NBA, NHL, NFL, any and every major sport team.
And I am bringing him to you.
In this episode, we get to the nitty gritty of how to design an exercise plan for fat loss while maintaining skeletal muscle, movements everybody should do to stay fit for life. Gunnar clears up the confusion about when to do high intensity interval training versus zone two training.
And probably most translatable is how to design an exercise plan for beginners. Gunnar Peterson is a certified national strength and conditioning coach. He's a graduate of Duke University. This guy is extremely smart. He's an editor and wrote a regular column for Muscle and Fitness Magazine for over a decade. He's on multiple advisory boards. He has done frequent television appearances, Today's Show, You Name It, Keeping Up with the Kardashians. This guy is the real deal and he is here to support you. As always, if you like this episode, please take a moment to share, rate, review, subscribe. I put this content out for free. And the only thing that I ask is that you pay it forward. Thank you to Timeline for sponsoring this episode of the show. This is the game-changing supplement and it is called Mitopure. It's especially important with this conversation that Gunnar and I are talking about muscle, metabolism. In order to have effective skeletal muscle, you have to have healthy mitochondria. And that's exactly what Mitopure does. It is a postbiotic, it's a pomegranate postbiotic where 30% of people cannot actually even make it. It has over a decade of scientific literature behind it, truly extraordinary. And Urolithin A, Mitopure, is the first and only clinically tested, highly pure form of the potent Urolithin A. What does it do?
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Gunnar Peterson, I'm so excited to have you on the Dr. Gabrielle Lyon show. And by the way, I met you in person when we were at the Strong event in New York City, I believe it was last year. And I have to tell you, I was so blown away by listening to you talk and watching you interact with people.
You are...

**Gunnar Peterson** (5:26)
And I was blown away by the fact that we have so many mutual friends and you could put up with those people.

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (5:32)
Yeah, shout out to Ray Keshe, Care and Don Saladino.

**Gunnar Peterson** (5:37)
Yeah, big shout out to Ray and Don.

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (5:40)
Love those guys.

**Gunnar Peterson** (5:40)
But they're a couple, you know.

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (5:43)
Yeah, they're so funny. Just kidding, Mel. That's Bon's wife and Trish, just kidding. But what really struck me about you is that you have and do work with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, from the Kardashians to just everyone, a whole bunch of A-listers, yet you're so humble and so charismatic and so interested in making things better for people. There was absolutely no ego, which, no offense, I just, I didn't know what to expect.