Training Goals: Body Composition, Strength, and Conditioning

So like when we teach program design, goals are important. And a lot of times general population, they'll come in and say, if it's a woman, I just want to lose some weight. Okay. Let's be more specific of what you want. And the thing is weight loss in and of itself, isn't going to be enough. We need to have other metrics that we can drive things. So let's look at health metrics. And then let's look at, I like to get three goals when I'm running a program. So what's a body composition goal, what's a strength goal or goals, and what's a conditioning goal. If you have those three things, you can develop a really nice program that covers all, ticks all the boxes, covers all the bases. And then it keeps people interested in training because it's not just about how they look. We get them more interested in how they feel and also how they're performing. And they end up, you end up keeping clients for five, six, seven, eight years, because there's always a new cool goal they can go for. And that's what we should be doing. A lot of people, I think that coaches often think that everybody loves to train as much as we do. And they don't. For a lot of people, just going to the gym and doing their hour and patting themselves on the back is enough. And they don't really, a lot of people don't even like to do it. They just do it because they feel like they need to, or the doctor said they had to, or they don't feel good about themselves. It's okay. Our goal should be, let me teach you how to fall in love with what we're doing and then make you do just what you're comfortable doing. Because I know that in a year you're going to be doing 50 to 60% more than that. And the following year, 56% more than that, make them really embrace that culture and want to be in the gym and want to drive towards big, hairy, audacious goals. Yeah, no, that's awesome. I do think that's when somebody does get into fitness, it is all about looks and that's the main thing, which, Hey, anything that can get you into it, I think is important, but then I do think it does become just about that. And like you said, connecting those dots, like how you feel is super important. And like you said, that helps people stick with it long-term. And I feel like as a by-product of that, they do improve their look in the process. That's it. And look, form follows function. So if we look at, you could just do a body composition. It's very, even for body composition, a lot of people don't really need a trainer for that. To be honest, they need an accountability person. They need to have somebody slapping a donut out of their hands because body composition is really easy. You go in and you lift three to five days a week, do a little cardio, get a lot of sleep, control what goes in your mouth, basically control starvation. You'll create a really nice looking physique. That's the simple formula for someone in the formula. But then when we layer performance gets a little bit more intensive because performance, depending what we're looking at, is quite more advanced when it comes to programming. There's a lot more dials to turn a lot more box a lot more flip is switches the flip right yeah and yeah and there's it's probably a little bit i feel like with the physique it's probably just pretty straightforward in terms of how you look at that but like you said there with the performance there's a lot of different metrics that you can potentially look at there let's kind of park that because i did i do specifically want to talk about programming for gen pop and whatnot and i think that's a good way to kind of preface that before we dive into that i i am curious just uh to hear a little bit more about your training before we dive into that and then we'll come back to that so we can set the framework there for that.