Body Profiling and Critical Thinking

I've heard those words. Yeah, I was about to say, the profiling of bodies, I just don't use that now. Is that still very relevant?

Where there's smoke, there's fire. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You look at it, you know, there's, you know, you read all the studies and research on it, and you're like, oh, okay, so it's not been proven, it's not been disproven. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, how many skinny motherfuckers do you know that if they miss a meal, they pass the fuck out? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or they get really irritated? That whole success-lead-to-lose-con thing doesn't always... Then you give them, then you measure their blood glucose, and they're fucking low as shit. Yeah. Okay? Alright, so, alright, so is there hard science? No. But what did I say earlier? You need research-based stuff, but you also need evidence-based stuff. Yeah. Right? If you don't feed an ectomorph a lot of carbs in a day, what happens? They lose other muscle mass. They get hypoglycemic. Yeah. They don't train well. Yeah. Interesting. So you've got to think about things like that, right? And you can say that, and some people might go, oh, that's stupid, blah, blah, blah. It's not in the research. I don't give a shit. Like, I've got a fucking brain, and I can figure this out. Because after that critical thinking that you mentioned, it's like, yeah, cool. So this may be a clue. Apply it. If it doesn't work, get rid of it. Yeah. If it does work, awesome. Yeah. Try it. Yeah. If it doesn't work, cool. Yeah. If it works, cool. Yeah. But at least you thought about it. You had constructive thinking, critical thinking, and you're like, all right, cool. Let's try it. If it doesn't work, fuck it. Yeah. No big deal. Yeah. But you find out a lot. And that's what 30 years of experience in the industry will do for you. You know? You've seen it done at all. You've got, you know, hundreds of thousands of reps of squats and bench press and deadlift and overhead press. Like, I've seen it done at all. I can tell you that. You know? So, you know, you can think about things like that and then try things, say, what was the outcome? Yeah. You know. All right. So dialing it back to the mitochondrial health again, and we're talking about like using the aerobic capacity, increased mitochondrial biogenesis, and then the autophagy. So what are the things that you could think about implementing then instead of fasting and like the cardio, reducing the stress of training, less neural work? Are there any other interventions that would be your go-to? Absolutely. You're going to drive the body in one direction or the other, depending on what you give it. You think about it as driving a bus. If I want to turn right, I have to tell him, hey, tap on the shirt, I need you to turn right. If I want to go left, tap on the shirt, go left. Everything you do to the body is information. If it's telling the body, I want you to do one specific thing. And if you give too much information or the wrong information, then your body does the wrong thing. Overtraining, overexercising, under eating, that type of thing. So, aerobic training. I mean, that's the thing where in the 70s and the 80s, aerobics were the thing. It was the shit. But it wasn't weight training. That was taboo, especially for women. Because it makes you bulky. Only men weight train. Yeah. So when we get into the 90s and the 2000s And we make this Our industry likes to swing to extremes So it's like okay So you have strength coaches You can't do aerobics Because look at aerobics People who run marathons They're all fat and weak If you look at people who run the marathon Competitively they're fucking shredded They're dick skin lean They're fucking skinny They don't have a lot of muscle mass But they're shredded Now if you look at somebody who only lifts heavy weights Like in your high level powerlifting A lot of the guys Are really fucking fat What's that? They can't walk up a flight of stairs without a post workout shape Okay You know there's three sides to every story There's my side Your side And somewhere in the middle lies the truth So when you actually look into the research It's pretty clear The best thing to manage your endocrinology and your blood sugar and all this is resistance training paired with aerobic activity. Not HIIT training. Not fucking HIIT training on the fucking airdyne or the skier. It's resistance training and aerobics. Both of those have complementary but quite different adaptations. If you know those adaptations, you can pair them together really nicely. Yeah. So, trying to simplify aerobic prescription? Is it as simple as working in heart rate ranges for people and then just giving them X amount of time? Or are there specific... It can be. It can be.