-: Since you guys are gonna be embarking
on a long journey, hundred videos plus,
about program design, about periodization,
the other aspect to really take advantage of those
is also gonna be a lot of front-loading information
and knowledge on how the body works from the physiological
perspective, the biochemical perspective.
We're not gonna get overly in-depth.
My goal is not to make all of you guys, you know,
scientists or biochemists, but my goal is that you know
exactly what you need to know to understand
the why's and how's for your particular program
that you happen to choose, right?
So you need to understand how the X's and O's,
how the resets and reps, rest intervals, tempos,
all that stuff that you're gonna put on your program,
you need to understand how that's gonna impact
a person's energy metabolism, a person's organ systems
and hormones and all of those things so that you
can actually understand, what am I training, right?
'Cause we're not just training muscles, right?
And when we're training muscles,
we're not just training the contraction.
We're training these muscles to change the enzymes
that they're making or the nutrients that they're uptaking.
We're training the body to shift its hormones,
to partition nutrients to certain tissues
and away from others.
We're changing the body's chemistry with this training.
It's a tremendously powerful stimulus, and therefore,
if we can really learn how to harness and control that,
then we can be, we can write amazing programs
and we can get amazing results.
But, in order to understand how to do that, we are gonna
have to dig into a little bit of background information.
So those of you guys that maybe have more of a background
in, you know, cellular physiology or biochemistry,
some of this may seem like review,
and for those of you guys that have had none of it,
some of it may be like, wow, this is a lot.
But I wanna put this out there.
If you've had a formal education in this,
what you're gonna find is we are teaching that information
in a context that's gonna take what was previously useless
to extremely useful and applicable.
You're gonna start to be able to apply knowledge
that maybe you had in the past that's just been sitting
there, or maybe you've forgotten most of it,
because the way it was taught was taught
in a context that wasn't important
or you didn't apply it to the gym floor yet.
So now we're gonna take that information, and we're gonna
teach it in the context that you're gonna actually
be able to put into set reps and nutritional programming.
We're gonna take those concepts and allow you
to understand the why's and the how's your training
is having this specific effect,
and the ability to troubleshoot when things go wrong
or aren't working as optimally as they should.
So, we're gonna get into a lot of stuff.
We're gonna start this off.
We're gonna look at, you know, some basic fundamentals
of like, what trainability is, and then we're gonna work
into a little bit of, you know,
cellular and systemic physiology.
We're gonna understand, you know,
we're gonna overview the endocrine system.
We're gonna overview energy metabolism, which,
energy metabolism is gonna be huge, because the main way
that our body adapts is assessing energy.
Like, we're essentially an energy conservation thing.
Like our body is programmed like it's one rechargeable
battery, and a lot of the way we respond to training
is all about the energy expenditure, the conservation,
or the manipulation of fuel that occurs.
That's like the first, the primary signal that's gonna
lead to all of these other adaptations that we're doing.
So understanding that is gonna have a drastic impact,
especially when we're focusing
on body composition, transformation.
A large portion of your programming
is all gonna be like, somewhat metabolic-based.
So you need to understand metabolism
at a cellular and a systemic level.
And then we'll start breaking down intro training phases,
where we're gonna basically look at three phases,
the metabolic, hypertrophy, and neurological phase,
and there's gonna be multiple ways that we can achieve
those type of things, multiple stimuluses within those.
So, hypertrophy itself is not a stimulus.
It is a blanket or an umbrella over a group of stimuluses
that may apply to hypertrophy in the appropriate conditions
with the appropriate nutrition.
So, we'll break through all of those,
and as we go through those,
we will walk through how to write programs,
how to do pre-, intra-, post-workout nutrition
for those type of works so you guys can really understand
how to optimize performance and recovery
for every stress that we put on the body.
And that's where we really start to get into this concept
of matching nutrition to training.
We wanna take advantage of this massive stimulus
that is training, and in order to do so, we need to make
sure that we have the appropriate nutrition to do so.
Otherwise, we have this massive tool,
but we can't really use it, or we don't get the benefits
from it, because the nutrition is not supporting it.
So, don't fall into the trap of a nutrition protocol
or a training protocol that does x on its own.
They have to do it together, and they of course rely
on the body actually being in a state to adapt
and to recover from that particular stress,
because there will be certain workouts that,
for me right now, will do very, very little,
and then there will be others that will do very,
will do a lot, right, in terms of making progress.
But if I don't nutritionally support those,
then the same thing.
Then, even though my body could be ready for them,
I still require the nutrients needed to perform
and to recover, so all of that stuff is gonna get
wrapped up in a nice bow that you can understand,
for an individual, there is a specific training stimulus,
so I understand how to write that program,
and I understand how to fuel that program
and fuel the recovery so that I can really get fast results,
and I can make sure that I'm confident that I know what
should be happening during every program that I do, right?
I know the results that I expect during every training phase
so I can really assess what's working,
how well it's working, and that in itself
will educate you over time to become a better coach,
a better programmer, a better nutritionist for yourself,
for your clients, for everything, because every person
that you now write a program for, including yourself,
becomes almost like a case study,
like almost like a clinical trial,
because you know exactly what to look for.