The 'Least Mode' Philosophy and Recovery

Luke alluded to some of the lifestyle changes that need to be made, and you've heard it before, but now you're hearing it in a different light. You need to get your sleep, food, movement, and stress reduction on point. This is what Luke calls least mode. The unfortunate thing is that most people are stressed out all day and then try to go beast mode in the gym, but don't make the time for the things that will move the needle. A lot of people don't take that least mode seriously. A lot of people will go to the gym and thrash themselves an hour a day, but they won't go get a massage. And they won't do sauna work, and they won't get body work, and they won't do, there's a lot of stuff they won't do. They won't do the breathing, they won't go out and do cardio, they won't go out and do walking, They won't do any of that stuff, yet they want to bash themselves in the gym and they wonder why they're getting worse. When you start doing things like breathing work, you're doing things that try to balance out that sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system because beast mode is inherently sympathetic in nature. Like right now with us talking on this podcast, we both should be highly parasympathetic. We should be in – like a lot of people call it rest and digest. I kind of like feed and breed. And we should be in a recovery mode right now But a lot of your clients aren They sitting at their desk working not their bioenergetics their ability to make energy doesn have a good flow They making energy very inefficiently and they burning through a lot of sugar instead of burning through fat. And so when you start doing things like more aerobic work, toning down some of the weightlifting, maybe doing some higher rep work outside of the lactate ranges, when you go out for long walks and meditate and things like that, it helps to balance those branches out so that you get better energy flow.