Podcast archive Unofficial · Luke Leaman appearances
Menu
← LUKE LEAMAN IS BACK!

Chapter 15 · Strength Culture

Scaling Advanced Protocols for Beginners

May 25, 2022

I feel like a lot of... We'll just keep this going a little bit longer. I feel like a lot of education for coaches is more for an internal quest for knowledge rather than a utility to actually use it You want to learn systems you want to learn protocols or whatever this advanced stuff not to use it on anyone but to just better understand it for yourself i feel like that's a lot of what education is i think from my point of view of being in the education side for a long time a lot of coaches take courses for themselves yeah but in like guys you're you're trying to run a business you should probably take courses to help people so you make more money. And then that's cool. You want to go to advanced triple drop sets for fucking hypertrophy. Great. What's your demographic? If you're dealing with stressed out CEOs and single dads, single moms, and like busy people, you're not going to use that shit on people. Like take the courses that are going to allow you to make more money. And if you're going to go do that stuff, do it for yourself. But they never do. So you have to do crazy ass seminars. that method seminar I did over the weekend, super highly popular. We sold those out massively. But we're trying to mix in, like here is advanced protocol, here's a not advanced protocol, here's how you scale the advanced protocol so that everybody can do it because there's a lot, like 6-12-25, Charles Pollock's thing. That a very advanced protocol And I see coaches put people on that their first fucking session Now it can be scaled but you have to understand how exercise selection and the order of exercise is how all that plays into it and how to periodize that in but no one no one knows that german volume training is really advanced and everybody does it under slams that i've definitely slammed it i met yeah people with six months into gym doing jvt yeah and the thing is like that can be a good strategy if you know what you're looking for. So you have to look at, okay, what is the specific thing I'm trying to do in this program? I've got to take somebody from A to Z. So what do I need to do? How do I fill those blanks in? I'll put it like this. You want to build a big deadlift. Okay. So you already know where you're going to end. Like, what are you going to do in the last phase? You're going to do a lot of deadlifting. Like you have to, cause you've got to build a skill. And then when you go to the start, you have to look at where the client is. They have structural balance issues, poor health metrics of the injuries niggles what do we need to do to get them roadworthy to not get to that to get there and then we have to fill that in with uh i i still love dr fred hatfield you can't fire a cannon from a canoe and when i look at that the cannon is the nervous system and the canoe is the physical structure so if you want to put a bigger cannon on there you have to address the fact that if your boat is leaky you got to get the boat not leaky so it seaworthy and then the more the larger cannon you put on there the boat has to support that so you have to use hypertrophy functional hypertrophy those types of things to build this the soft tissues and the structure to support that so when you looking at the methods all that stuff can be manipulated or adaptations other than what it was originally built for so i would use in beginners gvt as a skill-based phase you know if you if you have a shitty squat what's the best way to get a good squat heaps of squatting lots of squatting so if i'm doing 10 by 10 a back squat twice a week with submaximal weight that's a really good way to teach them the skill of squatting really fast it's probably not going to be the best for hypertrophy in a beginner it would still will but it'll be better for an advanced person for hypertrophy yeah so you're learning to match it with the right yeah context and yeah it's it's a fascinating thing because we're going to start getting back into i think some seminars and stuff but trying to plan out how we're going to attack it and all of that sort of stuff because we could do some highly biomechanical stuff. But yeah, so it's interesting to see your experience because you've obviously been doing it for so long but also back into it after COVID. So it's cool. But we look forward to seeing more stuff from you. Thank you very much for popping in. Thanks, guys. Thank you. And we'll smoke a brisket soon, Charles. Yeah, yeah. Fucking nice. Done. Ciao. We'll do it. Ciao.