Chapter 9 · Sigma Nutrition Radio
Adjusting Training Modality Based on Biometrics
February 18, 2019
so in every country is a little bit different i think australia and london are the two areas i've seen where the trainers actually take it the most serious and it's you know it's not any surprise that they're the ones making the most money and they can charge the most price and they're getting the best results when i look at the guys in canada and the u.s they're too busy taking fucking bosu ball and trx certifications they don't want to know that they don't want to learn a science that for whatever reason they have an aversion to learning if i do gvt's 10 sets of 10 versus reg part five by five, what are the different adaptations? Cause they're vastly different and you want to use them at different times. So for instance, when you're talking to a client, if I have a client that comes in and his blood pressure is 140 over 90, okay. The last thing I'm going to do is put them under heavy load because that's going to make his blood pressure keep going up. It's going to cause cardiac adaptations that are going to increase his blood pressure. And you're going to increase his predisposition to having some type of cardiac episode at some point. it's not that you they can't train you just have to change the emphasis so if i look at this spectrum of being on the far left is more metabolic anaerobic work and on the far right is alactic or anaerobic and neural work if somebody comes in and they already have high uh resting or high uh waking heart rate a horrible hrv which is a really good measure for stress and parasympathetic to sympathetic tone and if they have really high blood pressure the last thing they need to do is come in and beast themselves with a lot of neural work, right? So what we do is they still train hard. We just change the emphasis, do more metabolic work, right? So maybe we do, maybe this is a great phase for them to do higher reps, learning how to do the movements with submaximal weight, because in order to build strength, you have to understand that strength is a skill and you have to build skill and technique and an exercise, then load it. And that you do this over time. If they understand that by getting them healthy, they're going to get better results. They're going to get stronger, bigger, faster, get leaner, faster. They're going to sleep better. they're going to have better digestion, better assimilation, like their whole life is going to improve. If you have the base knowledge to explain that to them in a very simple way, then they see what the payout is, and then they're more likely to do it. And it doesn't take long. Our usual least mode phase that we do with people is maybe six to eight weeks. And if we can't fix your stuff with that, if you're still fucked up after that, then it's probably out of my wheelhouse, and I need to send you out for labs and see what's actually really going on. Because if I haven't fixed it by then, it's probably not something I'm going to fix with diet and exercise alone. Sure. We'll definitely dig into that. But the previous point you made, there's kind of two aspects to that when it comes to trainers trying to learn more and take more information in.