GPP vs SPP: Needs vs Wants

So I started getting into the concept of, you know, how would I train a pro athlete that was when everything was on the line, right? And I started thinking about, wow, everything I'm doing is like specific physical preparedness, but I'm not doing any general prep. And I find that that's pretty much the scenario for most trainers. You come in, you say, okay, what are your three goals? I want to put 10 kilos of lean body mass on. I want to put 25 kilos on my deadlift, and I want to put two inches on my vertical. Cool, we're going to take care of all that. But then we're not also at the same time measuring what's their blood pressure, what's their waking heart rate, what's their HRV. Are they sleeping? They're not sleeping. Well, they're not recovering. Okay, maybe we need to also think about the general physical preparedness model in general population as well. And when you talk to low-level trainers who don't know periodization, they don't understand what GPP and SPP means. So what we talk about is instead of GPP, GPP is what you need. SPP is what you want. So Joe Dingleberry comes in and he wants all these things, and I take his biometrics, and I find, man, he's not in a really good physical shape. I'll give you what you want, but you've got to give me what you need first because the healthier you are, the performance will come almost effortlessly. So it's essentially been able to raise their potential ceiling once you do kick into the other work, that the greater their gpp base that they're having yeah and it's people are coming to us and they're not you know they want us to optimize a system that's broken so okay so you just flew down from brisbane to melbourne right you got on the plane what if you wanted to take a road trip instead and you went and you bought a used car and the car had four flats a crack in the windshield it wasn't car worthy it had an oil link the engine light was on would you just get in the car and start driving? Absolutely not. You know, you would go in, you have to get the rego and you have to get inspected and you have to get a new windshield and you have to get new tires and you have to fix the everything. But what people end up doing is they just start chasing their goals while their check engine light is on and they just ignore the check engine light. Oh, that'll get better if I just get in better shape, but they're not doing things, get in better shape. They're doing things to look physically better while the internal components aren't very good. They're basically, okay, I'm going to take this car and I'm going to give it a paint job and fuck the engine. Right yeah