All right, onto number four, ignoring biofeedback.
This is much simpler than it sounds, trust me.
Basically, this just means we are looking at your body's
feedback mechanisms to tell us if we're moving in the right
direction, wrong direction,
or if we're, you know, kind
of shooting ourselves in the foot, so to speak, with
how our training and nutrition are set up.
So, some examples of this are gonna be, you know,
your weight and measurements could indicate an issue with,
you know, either we're aggravating you to the point
where it's causing digestive issues
or we're causing some xx inflammation.
For example, if your weight is going down
or even staying the same
and your waist measurement starts to go up,
that's typically gonna indicate some kind of bloat
or digestive distress.
It doesn't mean you're getting
fatter, especially if we're in a deficit.
It means something needs to be adjusted
with your training or your nutrition.
If our performance is going down
and our weight is going up, that's going
to likely be some sort of inflammation
or that over dieting scenario that we talked about.
Sleep and performance going down, or energy
and sleep together going down.
Maybe performance is the same in that scenario.
Those could all indicate necessary changes
for training volume, stimulus, or the nutrition.
And then of course, mental state
or mood can even be an indicator
of something needs to be tweaked.
Too much volume or term too much neurological stress
can have a, a feedback
or a, uh, effect on our mental state
through our neurotransmitters.
So the way these things move in relation
to one another is kind of like the code your body uses
to tell you when something is off or overstressed
and ignoring them is either gonna result in a plateau
or accumulate into additional
or often worse symptoms later on.
For example, chronically elevated cortisol,
which is really gonna put a hamper on our ability
to progress in either muscle building
or fat loss, uh, elevated sensitivity to stressors,
decrease in our sensitivity to glucose
and insulin, et cetera.
So if a coach isn't monitoring all these things in a
detailed check-in, especially when we're trying
to push your body outside of its comfort zone
for a fast transformation run away.
So make sure they are taking into account these things.
They're assessing these things regularly.
You're not just getting a, what's your body weight?
Did you stick to the plan? Thumbs up.
Okay.