-: When it comes to data, we want high quality data
versus quantity of data because it's always better
to have less high quality data
because at least what you do have is actionable
than having more low quality data
because that's a lotta things that you need to look at,
but it may not be actionable.
So low quality data it's noise for your thought process,
it's gonna add confusion, make you question yourself,
take up extra time, it's just inefficient for all parties,
all around.
So when we're looking at what we track,
it has to be stuff that the data itself is high quality,
and either that's because we were tracking it
consistently, accurately, or both,
and it gives us actionable things.
That's what we're doing for.
We wanna ask questions
that are gonna effect our decision making process.
So when I said as a coach that we maybe can over track,
that's fine because we can have all that stuff.
But usually what I'll do is like I will say,
I will almost sort what I'm doing of like
okay this is like backlog data that I'm not gonna look at
until I look at what's happened
over the course of a month or whatever.
And this is the stuff I immediately need to look at
on a week by week basis,
session by session basis, et cetera,
so that I can focus on what is gonna be quality information
for today's decisions, this week's decisions,
this month's decisions, et cetera, et cetera.
Because decisions are easier to make
when you're not confronted with a bunch of things
that either you have no control over or aren't relevant.
And you would be surprised at how much more time
that a coach will spend on a program
if you just give them information they don't need.
Because the thing is is that you don't always know
what you don't need.
So it's better to be safe and know that what you do collect,
you do need or is very valuable.
So what is quality data?
It's gonna be relevant to the decisions
that you need to make,
it can be acquired consistently, accurately, and timely
because there's some information where, if you don't have it
when you need it, it's no longer valuable.
And it needs to be done,
you need to be able to collect it in
the manner that fits the client's lifestyle and adherence.
I probably said that like 16 ways by now.
But if you guys want to keep your clients,
and you want to be able to collect a lot of information
and good information, you need to make sure
that you find that balance between the two.
'Cause otherwise you may get crappy data
because of just maybe false data.
If you start asking things from your clients
that they're not willing to do,
rather than telling you they didn't do it,
they might also just give you false information
and that's even worse than irrelevant data
because then now it's false data
and you could be making decisions based off of that,
thinking it's relevant when really it's not.
So quality data, it's really simple,
it allows you to make decisions
and bold bold bold evaluate those decisions.
That's the big thing is that you don't just want
information that says hey what's going on.
You want information that says how is what I'm doing
effecting what's going on with this person
and their results and their body comp and their performance
and their health and the way they feel,
et cetera, et cetera.
That's the most important data to collect.
There might be other data that's,
all this is this really sexy thing that we can measure
and I'm like okay cool, but by measuring that,
do I know that I did enough volume?
Or too much?
Do I know that our energy balance is where it needs to be?
Do I know that we're having enough carbohydrates or fats?
Do I know that we're recovering enough?
This is the thing, quality data allows you
to make decisions and evaluate those decisions.
That's the most important part
is that you can evaluate decisions
'cause it doesn't do anything if you make decisions
on something and then you have no idea if they were good
or not, or how effective they were.
Because that, that's your own end of one research
for this particular client
is how well did these interventions work?
That's the most valuable information that we can work with
is like okay I gave them this to do, oh my god,
that improved their sleep quality, perfect.
That may not be relevant to the next person,
that may not be relevant to anybody you ever see again,
but it's very relevant to this person.
And there's gonna be other things
that are gonna be relevant to other people,
and this is gonna be part of your re-education process,
this is gonna be part of you collecting data
out of the field as understanding
as you apply all this information.
'Cause I guarantee you that if I downloaded everything
that's in this course directly into your head,
you're still not going to know as much as you will
once you start putting into practice,
and once every person that you're working with
becomes a case study and you learn from them,
and you learn a lot from them because you are evaluating
the effectiveness of those decisions.
So we're choosing what is the highest quality data?
It's the data that says is what I'm doing doing anything?
That's what we need.
'Cause everything else is irrelevant right?
Especially for what we're,
like especially for you as a trainer, as a coach.
If you can't make a decision
of like well do we go up in weight?
Do we go up in reps?
Do you eat more, do you eat less?
Do we do more days, fewer days?
Do we add cardio, do we take it away?
If what you're tracking doesn't help you make
any of those decisions, I don't know why you're tracking it.
So that's what quality data is.
It allows you to make decisions, evaluate the decisions.
Well now that we know that quality relevant data is,
we wanna prioritize the stuff that's most relevant.
And there's gonna be two kinds of relevant
in terms of what we're getting outta this.
One is gonna be it's relevant to you,
it's relevant to the trainer or the coach.
And that basically is what we were just talking about.
It's what you need to do your job.
There's one other aspect of high quality relevant data,
and that is stuff that is gonna be relevant to the client
that lets them know that you're doing your job.
And that you're doing it well.
So if we track all a bunch of stuff
and we're programming behind the scenes,
doing all these things and creating awesome results,
that's cool.
But how does the client know
they're getting awesome results?
'Cause sometimes it may not be on the scale.
Or it may not be in the mirror.
Or it may not be on the bar.
Or maybe it is on the bar, but they're just
you gain a little bit everyday, you don't realize that
you've put 20 pounds on something or 50 pounds on something,
unless you look back for those eight weeks or whatever.
So it's very important that what you track
also kinda serves as your resume for keeping your job.
And it's also a we'll say it's a photo book
or something that's like hey look how far you have come.
Look how well you are doing.
You used to sleep this much or wake up this many times
a night, and now it's only this much.
You used to get this many hours of sleep and now it's this.
You used to feel a two outta 10
in terms of your morning energy, and now it's an eight.
Like you used to get bloated after eating
these type of foods or whatever, now it's this.
Your waist measurement used to go up like X amount of inches
throughout the day 'cause you were getting bloated
and tired, and now it's this.
You used to crash at 6 p.m. and now it's.
This is all cool stuff, that if you're tracking that,
from the client's side it really helps them,
it continue to adhere,
and continue to invest in you and what you're doing.
So quality data, that helps us do what we need to do.
But we also need data that's relevant to the client
that helps us continue to sell them
on continuing to do the things they need to do
to get better, and to continue investing in your help.
And that's not just a business decision,
that's also a huge emotional psychological factor
for the client as well.
Because nobody wants to grind away
doing something if they're not seeing results.
And for some people that either are very limited
on what they can invest into their goals,
or they come in with a lot of pre-existing
health conditions, et cetera,
the things that are really important to them,
or the big goal that they're looking for,
whether that's dropping 100 pounds or seeing their abs
or whatever, that may be weeks, months, years away.
So you need to have stuff that lets them know
that they are on track to get there,
regardless of how long it takes to get there,
that they're making progress in that direction.
And if you can sell them on improving their health
throughout the journey with some of the stuff as well,
all the better.
So our most relevant data for
in terms of the non-physiological stuff,
it's really just tracking adherence
because if we don't know that they've adhered to it,
then everything physiological is essentially I don't know.
So it's like well if I'm tracking recoverability
but I don't know that they're actually eating the food
or getting the sleep or et cetera,
like well I know what their recoverability is
but I don't know what condition it is in that state.
'Cause what if they're actually getting
two hours of a sleep less a night,
and I'm like whoa their recovery is crap,
I guess we better tone it down or whatever.
So we need to track adherence to the plan.
So that's gonna be everything that they do outside the gym,
any workouts that they do outside of the ones that you do,
et cetera, so you wanna know that they are following
the things they need so that
when you do look at physiological factors,
that you're actually looking at accurate information.
Again, quality, we need quality data.
In order to get quality data, we need to know what it is,
we need to know how we can measure.
So then the most relevant things,
from after adherence are gonna be recoverability.
Because right there, that's like if we don't have that,
if we're not recovering from what we're doing,
that's an immediate like red flag.
Like okay things need to change, like drastically somewhere,
something is not working 'cause it doesn't do any good
to continue moving forward with what we're doing
if they're not recovering from it.
If they are recovering from it, awesome.
And there's a big gap between where I lose the ability
to recover from something
and everything before that that's still productive.
And that's where all these other things exist.
So then we're looking at the things that help us
track progress, and that's gonna be like okay
how well is their body fat changing and all that stuff.
And then how is that correlating to the energy balance
in the macros that they're using?
What's changing aesthetically in terms of like
is their body changing shape?
Is their body composition changing shape?
Is their performance changing?
Are they improving in the areas that we would expect them to
for that particular training stimulus?
So basically it's like first we need to know
that they're doing the things that we think they're doing
so that we can adequately assess.
And then we're gonna focus on looking at all the things
that are recovery based,
and make sure that we're not getting to that point
where we're no longer recovering.
And if we are recovering, awesome.
Then what I wanna know is how much progress are we making
towards our goals and the things that we want to accomplish?
Because now, if I know we're doing what we're supposed to
and we're recovering from it, now what I'm trying
to figure out is how can we do it better?
How can we get more results?
How can we optimize those results?
Or how can we keep sustaining those results?
And that's what I'm looking at next.