Subjective and Objective Client Assessment

that segues beautifully into a question I had for you is when someone comes into your world for the first time, you've never worked with them. What are you looking at maybe subjectively or objectively to determine where this person is neurologically? So an example being some people, you know, tend to be very fast twitch, very sympathetically oriented. Some people tend to be slightly more slow twitch or more parasympathetically oriented or anywhere on that continuum. them. Obviously, they may require different types of stimuli. They may recover differently. They may be able to subject themselves to more or less work accordingly. So do you have some means of assessing people or is it just like, what do you look like and what's your athletic history? Yeah. So kind of our system that we've developed over the last six years is we want to look at subjective metrics, find out everything we can about how they feel and what they're feeling. And that's really important to people. You can't just look at objective data. I need to know like how they feel about themselves, how they feel about, on our questionnaire, we ask things like, how do you feel if someone comments negatively on your physique? How do you feel when somebody says something positive? How do you feel when you go off your nutritional plan? How do you feel when you miss a workout? So we ask very subjective questions about that. And then other things

How are you pooping on a scale of one to 10? How are you sleeping? How's your stress? What do you do for a living? How many hours do you work? So we're getting all this. You can answer those questions once. What we do is once because we maintain so much communication with our clients by six months into it. We know everything about them. And we know the tone of their emails and how they're talking to us on text or on video. We can tell when we start learning those personality swings and those mood swings. and so we'll get a good pattern of how long we can keep them on certain things, and then we also get some objectives. If they've got an aura ring, we'll get some of that information. We use elite HRV and a heart rate strap to get HRV, get morning heart rate, afternoon heart rate. We use body temperature. We use blood glucose if they'll take it, but we train probably 95% other coaches and other personal trainers, so they will get that type of data like the blood glucose, but most of your gen pop people aren't going to do that unless they're diabetic or pre-diabetic. Yeah. So we get all that stuff and then we use that as a guide. Once we get a good pattern and a good trend, we say, okay, this person's resting heart rate is way too high. Their blood pressure is way too high. Their body temperature is way too low. And then we determine what we're going to give them as far as conditioning, lifting, nutrition, supplementation and also lifestyle recommendations, we get them pretty good and pretty level, get them really healthy first. So we're all about health before performance. Of course. Yeah. We get them healthy first, then we start beating the shit out of them. And then we watch their symptoms. So if their symptoms go crumble, okay, let's take some of your metrics for four or five days. If we see that those metrics have gone too far off the baseline, we know they're overreaching, it's time to go to a deload. And usually we see about a week and then all of a sudden all their metrics get perfect again, and then we can beast them out again. So we go from, we get them healthy and then we go beast mode, then we go to least mode and then back to beast mode. Man, I love that you talk. I think that's why we get along well in this space is because I think there's not enough people going, okay, before, you know, everyone comes like, I got 12 weeks, let's get in shape. And I just told them, no, I was like, well, go work somewhere else. Like I really always say, I always jokingly say any chimpanzee can get you in shape just by starving you and giving you more cardio. That's not the goal. First, let's make you healthy. And that that's there's a lot of subjective and objective things there. I'd like to talk about all the objective things that you're looking at when someone comes in and says, hey, I want to make you healthy. And so what are the objective variables we're looking at there to to kind of the physiological prerequisites to to hypertrophy ultimately. Right.