Ben Marker's Training Approach

That's okay. Now, why don't we just change gears for a second here, right? Because we can come back to a lot more of this cellular stuff. but I just want to bring Ben into the conversation. Now, I brought my whole team along to your seminar just a week or two ago, strength training for general population. Now, I know you're a big disciple of Luke's over here. You've been through a lot of his material and I constantly see elements of least mode and a lot of Luke's concepts coming through in the way you train me. since you are my fucking powerlifting coach. Hello. Tell me how, just tell us a little bit about how your approach and Luke's approach meld together. How to sum that up in a sentence? Pretty much I do less. Do less? So typically speaking, you'll see a lot of powerlifters, they absolutely thrash themselves with volume and intensity and they just fucking go hard as a hammer, as hard and fast as that. One of my approaches I like is, like the reality is most gen pop have pretty shit technique. Prioritize that. You don't need a heap of load for that. You can keep the volume relatively low and still recover pretty well from it. Like, again, as Luke was saying, like most gen pop people, they don't recover well. So if you get someone training really, really hard and they go in, they train a hard session, they come in again like, oh, I'm tired. It's like, okay, cool. You haven't recovered from the previous session. This session now is up shit creek. Then it becomes a matter of being like, all right, sweet. I don't have to throw a heap at you for it to work. I can give you just enough. And this is kind of where I combine a bit of stuff that I got from Luke, a couple of guys from like Renaissance Periodization. That's Mike Isretel? Yeah. They talk a lot about like, you know, maximum recoverable volume. Yeah. So obviously the most amount of volume you can recover from. But that's a dynamic thing, right? that is fluctuating yeah it sounds like uh like when you get prescribed medicine they talk about the minimum effective dose yeah exactly um so like i like to play around with kind of like the minimal adaptive volume which is the least amount i can give you that's still going to give an adaptation versus like the maximum recoverable volume and then introduce a lot of the stuff that luke talks about like you know the breathing stuff release mode and try and down regulate everybody in that session as well um so as far as like the the seminar that obviously i ran the other week um a lot of that was more so been like cool like focus on the technique side of things manage shit you don't have to thrash people in fact thrashing people is probably going to be you know disadvantageous yeah you'll lose business yeah yeah because people are going to be like well i'm fucked all the time this isn't good for me whereas if you can get someone who comes in like oh i'm tired you know i'm run down i feel fatigued and you're like okay cool we can still get something done so they feel like they've achieved something but actually have them walking out of going oh you know what i actually feel a lot better like i've done a little bit of movement stuff i feel like i've achieved again like progress can be measured in so many different ways whether it's more weight on the bar which again for most people isn't always necessary a lot of the stuff that i do with my guys and obviously with yourself is like practice the technique technique it's a little bit better week by week we can put a little bit more weight on the bar and then just get you to recover as hard as possible yeah it's pretty simple now this is the thing i mean how many times have i come into the studio to train with you absolutely on the fritz nervous system all over the place adrenals just through the roof uh you know what's what's your system of kind of gauging or measuring where i'm at or where any of your clients are because you've got a whole host of people you're working with