Aerobic Conditioning and Mitochondrial Health

My meathead friends had said to me this summer, they're like, I've never seen you this dry. Cause you know what that means? And I'm like, dude, I know like it's crazy. And I think another thing to point out too, is that you mentioned getting your aerobic conditioning in order. When I first started with you guys, I was doing 90 minutes of very low intensity work. And throughout this, I call it prep, wedding prep, whatever you want to call it. Throughout the wedding prep, we only did like 15 minutes a day. And then I think maybe for two weeks, it was a half hour a day. And people were so confused because they're like, how are you not doing two or three hours of steady state and I was like we don't need to why we could just drop calories then you don't have to spend you don't have to train like it's a fucking part-time job um why do so many coaches still do that uh I think part of it is people people don't want to diet or they they have um they didn't plan the right time frame so they have to try to rush it so they start chasing calories and they don't understand that that's a carrot you're never going to get to um your body will adapt to that very quickly, especially low intensity stuff. So like we start, we do the opposite of what everybody else is. We put the aerobics at the front. And the reason we do is because I'm not doing that to burn calories. I'm doing that, but it can be used to burn some calories, obviously. But the main thing is where the adaptations, better mitochondrial health, better oxidation, more angiogenesis, better blood flow, lower blood pressure, lower heart rate, lower sympathetic drive. And then we use weightlifting workouts to pump the sympathetic dry. But most of the people that come to us, their VO2 max is shit. Their lactate threshold is shit. Their heart rate is shit. Their blood pressure is shit. There's a lot of women that come that's the opposite, right? So they don't oxidize well. But their issue typically is too low a blood pressure, too low thyroid, too low heart rate. So we have to utilize weightlifting to bring that up and try to balance them out. But, you know, vast majority of the men that we deal with and some women, the first thing we have to do is give them a shit ton of cardio initially for a very small period of time. Like we could stretch this out over six months, but I'd rather just rip the bandaid off, just get it out of the way. So we can get rid of that and just focus on strength training and maybe some sprint intervals and hit training and all that. Once you've built up that base of aerobic fitness, because everything works really good. You recover better. You burn through energy faster you can breathe better your training gets better everything gets better if you just get to at least a base level of aerobic conditioning get your vo2 max to an acceptable level um and then we can we can work on a lot of other stuff with your training because you can do a shit ton more when you train and you can eat a lot more oh it's beautiful and you had given me maybe one day a week throughout one phase that had sprints and stuff. And I was like, oh man, I haven't done sprints in like two years or whatever. And you're, I think you're, you're like rest, curse my name, do whatever it takes. But it was um it was an all out effort but I was like I feel pretty damn good for not having done this for a while And like any of the assault bike stuff And we started doing 15 minutes of fasted cardio My heart rate dropped to 48. I'm dieting and my heart rate is at 48. Like my metrics were actually pretty smooth throughout this whole thing. Yeah. We didn't do fasted cardio to burn more fat. And I'm now I'm actually in love with it. Do you want to comment on like fasted cardio and why we used it?