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Chapter 9 · The ATP Project

The 'Least Mode' Philosophy and Coaching

January 25, 2018

That's one of the main challenges. And that goes back to my pet hate with some of the PTs and a lot of those people out there are very vocal about a thing. So this one thing is going to fix everything, where it's not the case. Even if it does in one person, it's only temporary. That person will adapt, and then it will stop working in them as well. You've got to put the personal back in the personal trainer. Yeah. It's personal because you're supposed to be taking measurements so then you can manage them because you can only manage what you measure. But the person, that's the priority, the client. The client, not the trainer. That's right. And you get that all the time where somebody says, okay, this system works really well for me. Ketogenic diet works really well for me. And then they give it to every single client because it worked for them. And it might work in 30% of their clients, but they failed 70% of their clients. But if you don't learn the physiology, you don't know what the adaptation is going to be. And that's what we teach. This is what happens when you do a set of 10 reps at this time of retention with this incomplete versus complete rest. This is what happens when you do cardio conditioning. This is what happens when you do aerobics. This is what happens when you do HIIT. And by figuring out how the tools operate, you can pick the right tool for the job. So everyone can get a starting point following your systems, and everyone can know when to measure and monitor and know when to change, which is brilliant. And what you said before, too, is really cool because the 2018 summit going on now for the genetic polymorphisms, the SNPs and the MTHFR gene polymorphism people, the funny thing is, it's about 15 years on since we've had all of these, like a lot of these genetic testing done where people were compounding and prescribing really high-end, complicated prescriptions to treat these genetic polymorphisms. The summary from this year's summit is you don't treat them. So after 15 years of us doing all of this testing, finding all of these things, don't treat them, don't go in with these hardcore treatments, it doesn't work. The first thing you've got to do is detoxify your environment, detoxify your foods, take the burden off your genes, take the burden off your body, provide yourself with basic nutrition to make sure your genes are capable of doing their job so they're not using up the nutrients in the toxic foods to clean up the toxic foods, you know. So the funny thing is it's the highest end scientific stuff with all of those thousands of dollars worth of testing you mentioned, Those guys are saying do the testing because that's their job, but they don't say don't treat it. And they said do the same thing for everyone, clean eating, clean lifestyle, healthy. But one of the important things that's coming out of this genetic summit is exercise. So there's a certain amount of exercise we have to do to support our genes, but if we do too much, we can actually add burden to our genes and damage them. How do we know our window? Because this is one of the things that I love about what you do is you've got these ways of teaching people how to know if they're in the right window or if they're doing themselves harm. But the rest of us, I mean most of us, especially if you're overweight, you honestly think, I eat too much, I don't train hard enough, and I go to the gym to punish myself for all of that eating and lack of training How do I know when I in the right window and I not where I deserve to be punished to a certain degree but have I gone too far you know Okay. Yeah,