Monitoring Health Metrics and Data

One of the ones that we see a lot is blood pressure. So we have a lot of coaches that come to our courses that have stage one, stage two hypertension. They have no idea because they never take the blood pressure and they don't take their client's blood pressure, which should be the first thing you do with someone. We had a guy come into the IOPC and I was doing an interview, myself and Shane's partner, Courtney, who was training the guy. And we spoke to him and he says, yeah, I just got back from the cardiologist. They did a stress test, blood pressure, all that. They said, everything's fine. I'm totally clear to do any type of training. So to me, that's a red flag because I'm not going to trust the doctors. because the doctors here, the doctors here, if your blood pressure is 140 over 90, they think you're sweet. They don't see anything wrong with that. So I put the blood pressure cuff on the guy and he was something like 177 over a hundred. And I went, uh, let me take this again. Let me take this again. Cause you just got from the doctor and they said you were fine. I took it again. It was the same thing. I said, okay, now this is going to tell me that there's certain things we probably don't want to do. We probably don't want any vascular pressure. So we're not going to go on the leg press. We're not going to do anything really heavy. We're going to do more metabolic work and a lot more aerobic activity, get control of your blood pressure. Then we'll move to specific training of hypertrophy or strength or whatever it is. And within, you know, four or five weeks, we had them down to almost normal blood pressure. And that should be what people focus on first, prepping them to even get ready to start specific physical preparation. You know, if you're, if your resting heart rate is high, fix that first. If your HRV is low, fix that first. if your body temperature is low fix that first like there's a lot of things you need to do before you start going through the stress of an actual you know specific training block which is when you push it going to create some type of maladaptation that then you have to control with either deloads or switching the emphasis of the training program but if you don't measure it you have no idea so if we can get their baseline metrics looking really good then we can train them really hard until the metrics start to skew. Now we know they're overreaching. Now we can deload to a metabolic block or something like that, or take a week long break, get their metrics good again, and then wash and rinse, repeat that over time. And it keeps people on the right path moving forward without going too far and creating all kinds of maladaptations to their metabolism or getting injured or whatever. And that, that, that's like, I love that because, you know, it is not something that like we learned how to do blood pressure while during exercise but like now we have bluetooth cuffs that it can't be any easier guys you order this stuff off amazon you know the more data the better i remember like you asked for heart rate body temp blood glucose like you know if you're a nerd about data it's actually kind of cool to be able to track because then when it improves it also validates what you're doing if people are just hell-bent on seeing something on the scale, but then they see all these other metrics. It's like, yeah, progress is not only measured on the scale. It's not only an aesthetic thing too. That's right. So go ahead. Well, like for me, and it surprises people, if I do a consult or if I train them, I don't do a lot of metrics anymore because I've done them for so long. I know what questions to ask and I can already predict where you're going to be. So I'll have somebody come in and I'll go this, this, this, this, and this. They're like, yeah, how'd you know? Because I'm looking at your questionnaire and this is what I'm finding. And they're like, how did, how did you know all those things were happening to me? I said, I can, a, I can see it in your face and I can see the tone of your, hear the tone of your voice. And I know what questions to ask where I can get enough subjective data to then know where the objective data is going to be. So I don't even need that stuff anymore, but it's good when you have coaches come on to teach them that stuff. So they start seeing the patterns in how the body works and how the body moves, depending on what type of adaptation. And if you take that adaptation too far, that stimulus too far, what happens when you start to maladapt. So like none of my clients really take many metrics. Krista still takes the metrics now and then, especially when we're really pushing it for her. Like she's in a massive strength phase right now. And I know that I've got about two, maybe two and a half weeks tops where I can smash it with maximal strength before we have to do switch emphasis to a more of a metabolic block And then we just keep going back and forth two weeks on one week off and she get to keep getting stronger keep getting leaner but i think it important that if you a beginning trainer you just learning our methods and how we do things that you take as much data as the client will give you but you need to also be able to understand what questions to ask and what you're looking for because not everybody's going to take all these metrics coaches will because they want to learn gen pop they're not going to take this stuff consistently all the time so you just have to take what they will do. And then you have to figure out, you know, how they train when you're watching them train. What are you looking for? When you're looking at their food, are they self-sabotaging? Are they binging? Are they going through days where they don't eat enough? Because those are going to give you a lot of information that you don't really need a lot of hard, solid, objective data to figure out how to fix that stuff if you know what you're looking for. But it takes time to learn that. It's a skill. 100% because that you can take all the data in the world, but if you don't know what to do with it, you know, then it doesn't really matter or it doesn't help anything. And that's another thing too, is like some people, if they're coming to you for fat loss and you're asking them to do blood pressure and prick their finger, that might scare them. So what do you guys, like, what do you say to people when, when they don't necessarily have the buy-in to show them that this is what they need versus what they want?