Subjective Assessments and Stress Indicators

Well look, those are measurable. Those are objective measurements. You can attach a number and then you can track it. So anything you can put in a spreadsheet that you can put on a you can plot with data, right? That would be objective data. But now we've got subjective data. And this is what you were talking about with 1 to 5. So we look at Do you have stairs that go into your facility? Yes. Okay. So have you ever been really stressed out, not getting a lot of sleep, and you climb those flight of stairs like, fuck, my quads are burning? Yeah. Just walking up the flight of stairs. You're not carrying anything. Is that common? It doesn't happen very often. But it's common with your clients. Yeah, just that. And it happens occasionally with you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that normal? I guess it shouldn't be. It shouldn't be. If you look at energy systems, energy systems are based on time, but also intensity. Yeah. Right? So, if I equate that to weightlifting, and I have someone do, say, German body comp, right? And I say, you're going to do a 12 rep max. So, I put 100 kilos on this guy's back, and he's going to do 12 reps. And by rep three, he's like, fuck, my legs are burning. That happens all the time. That's not normal. Yeah. That should start burning at, like, eight or nine, ten seconds. You should be able to get all 12. That shouldn't happen at three or four. Okay? And what that's telling me is this guy's fucking stress is through the roof and he's misappropriating his energy. So that's a good subjective measure. You can also look at recovery. If this guy is doing a squat workout on Monday, get five sets of ten. That's pretty easy to recover from. Not always. Yeah, sure. Let's say you have somebody do five sets of ten. For most people, that is not an excessive, that's, you know, minimum effective dose. And then by Friday the guy's still fucking limping around. He tried to get out of bed yesterday, he fell down and fucking cracked his head on something because he couldn't fucking walk. That is not normal, right? So what's the deal? He's catabolic, he's not repairing. Now we have to go back and figure out why that is. But that's a good key indicator that something's happening. What about when you get stressed out, what happens to your pupils? They dilate. They dilate. You walk outside, fuck, you're like a vampire. You know, you can't handle the sunlight. You've got to wear shades, right? Your client walks in, you notice they're squinting. Everything's an assessment. If I see my client walking down the street, you know, and I say, hey, what's up? I'm watching him to see what happens. I'm going to watch him walk off. I'm going to see if there's any issues. If he's fucking squinting and has to have sunglasses on to look outside, okay, what can I infer? What's going on with the sympathetic system? Something's jacked up. Okay, that's an assessment. We can use that as a metric. Everything's a metric. So, are there easy ways to drive that back down? Like would you just be like, bring training volume and intensity down you know read fucking books Deload Yeah de No Active recovery De One billion dollars Yeah, so... Sorry, that was a bad pop culture reference. It's all good, man. We're back to feel better again. I've done three days of that psychology course and the podcast, last night on the podcast and I'm fucking done. brain is like scrambled eggs. Yeah, I would be the same. So, lowering the parasympathetic nervous system.