Level method map gym7/12/2023 Pick some metrics and measure progress, then change your group programming accordingly.ġ – beginners can actually lose weight just by walking. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it in a group. Of course, this is easier in a 1:1 setting than in a group. When you do, you might find that your clients are training too hard to make progress. You can even just ask each client if they’re hitting their goals! But however you set it up, you MUST measure the progress of your clients before you can dictate what’s next. You can look at their progress on the Level Method map. You can count how many clients improved their deadlift this week. If a client is training in your general group program, you measure the group’s progress. You measure your client’s results against their goals. The fastest way is to program and deliver OPTIMAL intensity to create results. It’s not to deliver your workouts with MAXIMAL intensity. The fastest way to get meaningful results isn’t to provoke MAXIMAL alarm-state in your client. But you can’t drive a car at full speed all the time. It actually occurs after too much time in the “alarm” stage. In the graphic, that “stage of exhaustion” point seems to occur after a period of supercompensation. So over time, clients’ fitness can actually get WORSE with too much intensity! The “stage of resistance” doesn’t always happen and when it does, it’s not always greater than the “alarm” dip. More stress just drives that alarm response deeper. Only when stress is REMOVED does the body supercompensate. You see that dip in the curve above? That’s a body’s acute response to stress. Clients stay in a state of ‘alarm’ too long, and their fitness actually decreases. And when we drill people into the ground too often, that supercompensation never really happens. The problem is that all of the progress happens during “supercompensation”. Even though we fully understand Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome, we usually hammer our clients when they’re in front of us, and leave the “supercompensation” part to nature. In our pursuit of high-level fitness, we tend to program hard workouts almost every day. “The real reason I can guarantee my clients results? It’s the walking homework.”
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