Concurrent Training and Balancing Multiple Qualities

yeah i think one of the problems is people people always look at as it's either this or that okay so it's either i'm going to either lift or I'm going to condition. If you decide that you're going to take health into your hands again, and you're going to do some aerobic work, that's very low intensity work. It's not really going to screw with your recovery. The thing that you have to manage is number one, how much time do you have? If I don't have a lot of time, I've got to take care of what's important. The second thing is I have to feed for nutrition. I have to feed for performance, right? So if I'm going to do more work, I'm going to have to feed myself more food, which a lot of people tend to forget that part. The secondary thing is, it's all about, you know, dose makes the poison, right? So if someone is still powerlifting, or they're a shot putter, or if they're whatever it is, whatever strength sport they're in, it doesn't mean that they need to stop doing that work. They just need to de-emphasize it for a little bit of time and emphasize other qualities. And that's kind of the problem is whenever you're especially if it's a if it's a sport where it's dictated around one big quality like maximal strength um people tend to to go too far to the extreme on that and they start forgetting there's other qualities that they need to uh keep maintained whenever you whenever you're in something where you're really going for one singular type of um quality you're going to have to sacrifice other qualities other places right it's the same thing with with sports performance and getting stronger you know you have one sector of the strength conditioning population to say well you need to get as strong as possible being stronger is always better but that's not actually the case like there is a limit on how strong you need to be for say a certain sport like american football or for soccer or for whatever you need to be just strong enough if you keep trying to get stronger, stronger, and stronger, then where are you going to fit in things like power and speed training, agility, change of direction? You know, there's a lot of other things that you're avoiding because you're glorifying getting your squat higher. Overvaluing, I suppose, that max end number. Yeah. I mean, the thing is, if you look at like, even like things like Westside style, like what, what Louis Simmons popularized with what he calls conjugate training right If we look at a concurrent training plan you can still go for max lifts There nothing inherently wrong with that But what you probably want to do if you have high blood pressure high resting heart rate, and your metrics are off a little bit, you might just want to spend 20 minutes working up to a good one to five rep max and then maybe do some conditioning off the side of that. Do a couple of accessory movements and add some really easy steady steps. aerobic work at aerobic intervals or something else don't avoid it um because you think that's going to make your total go down or that's going to make you weaker because that that doesn't seem to be the case