Monitoring Recovery with Biometrics

Yeah for me the main one is blood pressure because what I found is with all the traveling and the time zones and the late nights and the work that the one that most transient That and your waking heart rate those are the two that are going to move the most the fastest And those are the two that I feel like you have the most amount of control over. So I'm looking at blood pressure. And for us, the standard is 115 over 75. That's kind of your gold standard. So above and below that, you know, five beats or whatever is fine for waking heart rate. I'm looking at somewhere like in a low to mid 50s is pretty good, you know. HRV is fine. The problem is we've kind of standardized our stuff on the Polar H10 heart rate strap and then Elite HRV as being the application. but it's kind of a pain in the ass for clients because even like we specialize in training other personal trainers and a lot of those guys they've got like five or six days where they'll actually put on the heart rate strap and take the data and then it just goes to the shit real fast and they never do it again so we're looking for other ways to measure that type of thing where you don't need any equipment so we've been playing around with hrv for training um i just don't know they don't actually give an hrv so you kind of have to figure things out using other data and i just haven't figured it out yet but yeah um i also do uh blood glucose so i've got a glucomer and i take my glucose every morning um so yeah there there's a ton like within five minutes of me waking up i've taken like eight biometrics yeah yeah and what For blood glucose, what are you aiming for with your waking? Yeah, based on the research, I'm looking around like 4.7, 4.8 or below. So just depending. I personally, I feel best around 4.4, 4.5. If it gets much below that, I start feeling hypo. I know I've got clients that feel really good at like 3.8. They just don't seem to need that much. But, you know, you just got to measure it and see where you feel the best. But the majority of the research that you'll see out there when they look at like with the ranges, I think the range is like 3.7 to 5.7 or something like that. And what they found is once you start getting above about 4.8, your predisposition to getting cardiovascular disease or diabetes goes up exponentially. The more above 4.8 you get. Yeah. So that's kind of what we look at. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that makes sense. So we're drawing to the end of the interview, but I've got a couple of rapid-fire questions. They don't have to be rapid-fire answers. You can take as long as you want. Okay. But just a series of questions. So first one is, what's your all-time favorite training book and or self-help book, something that's, I guess, shaped you and your career? Okay, I'll give you two. The first one I think should be a must-read for everyone is Charles Poliquin's Poliquin Principles. If you haven't read that, if you don't have a copy that looks like it's been through hell and back, I seriously question your ability to be a good trainer. because I remember I had a copy that just looked like it had been beaten and drawn and quartered and all that. And back when they only had one edition of it and you couldn't buy a new one. And man, I just completely destroyed that. And I firmly believe that should be one of the top books that people read. I think if you really want to get into the science of training, you've got to read Super Training. and you got to read it like 500 times so you actually understand it yeah so that's mel sift super training um and then kind of kind of off not training but something i think everybody should read is the sword of truth series by um terry goodkind um it's it's a fantasy if you feel like like wizards and shit like that which that's the type of stuff that i read yeah um you'd really like it but there's a lot of philosophy underlying in it and there's a lot of objectivism so which i'm a big fan of so yeah basically you know teaching people how to fucking help themselves instead of thinking that other people need to help them you know yeah yeah that's a good answer i haven't haven't uh heard that one before uh next if favorite any favorite movies Deadpool Deadpool is a pretty funny absolutely yeah yeah Deadpool that's my spirit animal man yeah

He's me. I'm the Deadpool of the fitness industry. Yeah. Well, I can equate the two of you together. It's an easy link. Do you have any quotes that you'd say on a daily basis? Don't necessarily have to be from someone else, but is there a certain phrase or thing that you'd say to your students or to people around you on a daily basis?