Effective Fitness Programming: Training Frequency, Recovery, and Gym Culture Insights
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Effective Fitness Programming: Training Frequency, Recovery, and Gym Culture Insights

This episode kicks off with an introduction to Full Fueled, setting the stage for a deep dive into the role of programming in effective fitness routines. The discussion covers training frequency, recovery, and how to structure workouts for optimal results. Dr. Alessi shares insights on bulking strategies and aligning workouts with fitness goals. The conversation touches on gym culture and concludes with final thoughts on fitness programming. Sponsor messages from Pre-Workout Brand, Nutrition Solutions, and Spread Oaks Farms are featured, along with a spotlight on Alessi Functional Health. The importance of high-quality ingredients and consistency in fitness is emphasized.

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(0:00) Introduction and welcome to Full Fueled (1:34) The role of programming in effective fitness (3:14) Training frequency, recovery, and workout structure (8:39) Dr. Alessi's insights on bulking and workout alignment (17:01) Gym culture and final thoughts on fitness programming (22:00) Sponsor: Pre-Workout Brand (25:03) Sponsor: Nutrition Solutions (25:13) Sponsor: Spread Oaks Farms (25:22) Spotlight on Alessi Functional Health (27:00) High-quality ingredients and consistency in fitness

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I just

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had this idea because, like, I talked to a lot of people in the office, patients, and a lot of

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them tend to be older older guys.

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More, you know, like our age.

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I say older, but,

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like, man, I don't know.

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I, you know, I go in

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there and I'm not sure how to what to train.

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And we've talked about this before.

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Programming is everything, man.

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Like, if you're not programmed or you don't have a plan, then you're wasting time.

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Podcast.

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Full fueled podcast with your host, Matt Thack.

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And your boy, doctor Alfred Alessi.

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These are live if somebody wants to get in too.

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Live recording.

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We're gonna be talking about split routines for guys in their thirties.

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Is that right, doctor Alessi?

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Man, I just had this idea because, like, I talked to a lot of people in the office,

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patients, and a lot of them tend to be older older guys.

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More, you know, like our age.

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I say older, but,

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like, man, I don't know.

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I you know, I go in there,

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and I'm not sure how to to what to train.

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And we've talked about this before.

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Programming is everything, man.

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Like, if you're not programmed or you don't have a plan, then you're wasting time.

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Ultimately, I mean, you're not going to make gains you might maintain.

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But, for guys trying to make gains, man, or or like, you know, body composition changes, build

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some muscle, burn some fat, programming is everything.

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So it's different if you have 5, 6 days a week to train versus if you have 2 or 3 days a week

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to train.

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Right?

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You're you're gonna have to change the programming.

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So honestly, I think what what came to me was like, why don't we just lay out how we would

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structure it for guys is basically free fitness programming.

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We're basically gonna give away a little bit of our our optimizers anabolic muscle program.

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This is the the flagship program we have.

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We'll basically give this away to you guys.

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So, we just wanna share that and and give you guys value, and, hopefully, you know, this

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helps.

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I mean, you train what, dude?

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5 days a week?

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More?

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Yeah.

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No.

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No.

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5.

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I've dummied it down.

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I've actually taken breaks, obviously.

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My goal was to pack on as much lean muscle supply as fast as possible.

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And so I did that.

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But, there's obviously ramifications to that when you don't give your body a rest period.

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And I think I'm feeling that now.

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As I told you, I'm feeling that like a little bit in my knees, Obviously, going heavy, like,

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probably 4 times a week isn't probably the best thing.

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But you do you you do pack out

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so fast when you do that.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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So,

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the reality is is, like, your body also needs that, like, break period.

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And so, yeah, I was I probably am right at that 4 to 5, 4 to 5 days a week range now.

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I was we were doing the same thing, and then I dialed mine back to probably 3 days of, like,

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lifting and then 3 days of more, like, functional sports specific cardio type stuff.

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And I've actually been getting better gains.

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And I think that kinda goes back to the whole concept of our anabolic muscle program is less

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is more.

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Right?

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Like, you think, like, these guys go into the gym 6 days a week and they're just tearing it

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down.

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Your body doesn't have time to recover if you're working out every single day, and it's

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it's heavy especially.

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Right?

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So, you know, the the anabolic program that we have built out for for the optimizers is a 3

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day split.

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It starts off with 2 days, actually, 2 days a week.

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There's obviously built in trigger sessions on the off days, which is light.

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But, like, the full bot the full workouts, the foundational workouts, it's 2 days a week and

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then 3 days a week towards the end.

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So it's like you're getting a ton of volume on those days, but you're getting a lot of rest as

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well.

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And so you actually get better gains through this program.

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I mean, if you go through the 3 months, man, it's a great program, versus, like, our split

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program that we have, which is more so for, like, a every single day training 5, 6, 7 even

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7 days a week.

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But you're not training every muscle every day.

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Right?

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You're doing, like, a push day.

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You're doing, like, a a pull day, maybe, like, more back.

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You're doing, like, like, maybe a posterior chain leg day, and then you're doing more like

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a quad dominant leg day, and then more of, like, a functional day.

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Right?

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And so it's definitely split up.

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So it just again, it depends on the the time the person has.

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But let me, let me do this.

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Let me pull it up, and I'm gonna kinda walk through.

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Let's start with the split.

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And so it goes through phases, man.

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And so, like, if you're listening, this is ultimately if you have if you have 6 days a

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week to get in the gym, this is what I would do, or this is what we would do.

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This is what we have for you.

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Right?

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So day 1, basically, your foundational workout.

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Right?

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And so it goes through different phases in in all of our programs.

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The phase 1 is always gonna be the 1st month more strength based.

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So, higher loads of weight, less reps, longer rest periods.

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Right?

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Phase 2 is a little bit more hypertrophy base, so it's gonna be higher rep ranges, a little

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bit lighter on the weight, lighter rest, and then you get into the pump phases towards the

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end.

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But regardless, this is how the split would be as far as, like, body parts.

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I think that's kinda what people wanna hear.

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So, say it's day 1, Monday.

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Right?

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Barbell bench press, incline barbell bench press, dips, military press, which is like an

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overhead barbell, an upright row, rear delt rows, and then close grip bench and skull

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crushers.

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So it's basically a push day.

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Right?

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So Monday is your push.

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You're gonna do basic chest and shoulders and triceps.

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Tuesday, right, this is gonna be now you're getting legs.

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So barbell squat, front squat, leg press, some hyperextensions, like reverse hypers for for

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glutes, calves, standing, and seated.

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Right?

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So basically more like a like a posterior kind of, leg day.

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Day 3, Wednesday, dead lifts, pull ups, seated cable row, shrugs, curls, hammer curls, reverse

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crunch, decline sit up.

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So now that's your pull day.

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Right?

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So you're getting a little back, biceps, and you're getting some abs.

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Day 4, this should be Thursday.

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Another chest day.

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Right?

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So back to push.

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So you're basically kinda going through that cycle again, but different exercises this time.

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Alternating incline dumbbell chest press, flat dumbbell chest press, flat bench fly, seated

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alternating Arnold press, seated alternating laterals, a rear single arm cable flies,

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alternating dumbbell skull crushers, and a one arm over the head tricep extension.

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So basically another push day.

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Yeah.

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So what they do there is they transition.

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I I obviously have gone through this, but, what I like about it is they use bar work on one day

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and then more dumbbell action.

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Dumbbell and, like, isolated kind of, single arms.

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Yeah.

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I like that a lot.

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So one day is a little bit more, you know, bilateral.

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One day is more, like, unilateral.

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Day where we at now?

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Okay.

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Day 5.

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So this should be like Friday.

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Bulgarian split squat.

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Right?

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So similar concept, you're splitting it.

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Walking lunges, single leg dead lift, standing one legged calf raise, seated one leg calf

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raise.

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And then day 6, you're gonna go back to to pulls.

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So dumbbell row, single arm lat pull down, alternating bent over row, alternating dumbbell

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curls, concentration dumbbell curls, reverse crunches, and decline sit ups.

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So, yeah, it's basically the day 1 through 3 is push, then legs, then pull with more of a

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bilateral barbell approach, and then 4, 5, 6 is push legs pull with a more of a unilateral

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approach.

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I love this split routine.

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Day 7 is, it's an optional.

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I mean, I would say, active recovery walking, you know, maybe light sport, but it also has

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some mobility stuff built in there too.

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So that honestly is a freaking awesome split routine for anyone who's looking to, you know,

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get a ton of muscle work, really focus certain body parts, and has obviously the ability to

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train 6, 7 days a week.

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So do you have anything to add, man?

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No.

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I think that's a that's a great approach.

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Everyone Here

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you go.

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Here's our program for

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free.

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The planning the planning piece is obviously getting it into the schedule and when is that

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time,

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when

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you're gonna do it.

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I think that becomes the nonnegotiable in play of, like, alright.

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I gotta get it in.

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I gotta get it in a finite period of time.

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Those are, like, the 45 minute type workouts, 45 minute an hour.

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It really shouldn't take you in excess of an hour.

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So what, Alfie didn't mention was, like, how many sets you program into that.

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So Well Yeah.

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It's gonna vary based on what what what phase of this program you're in.

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I just basically gave the split routine how how it would split it up.

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It gets a lot more detailed if you're talking like strength.

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It's gonna be 3 to 6 reps.

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In our app.

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Everything's in our app.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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And then,

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you know,

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if you're hypertrophy, you're gonna be 8 to 12 reps.

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Right?

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3 to 4 sets.

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So lighter rest.

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So, you know, it can be modded, which is cool.

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It's it's flexible.

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I've modded it.

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I'm actually going through a strength portion right now where I've modded a little bit from

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our original programming that we built out into sets of 4.

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And then I'll do repetitions of it like 8.

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So I'll basically hit 32, reps on everything, with a slight it's all it's always a super set

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with me, though.

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So I'm usually super setting between, like, yesterday was a push, but I would super set

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between, I think, like, I was doing incline.

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Let's say I was doing incline, press, and then I would immediately go over and do a bench dip

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or, dips.

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So not bench dips.

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I would do full dips, weighted dips.

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And so I did that, and then I would go into another exercise where I would incorporate

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maybe like a core workout, as well as what else did I do?

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I'm just trying to think back what I did.

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I need to look at what I programmed in.

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But, it yeah.

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Everything that I, ended up programming, I think I did flat bench too.

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Yeah.

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In, tight grip, tight grip flat bench.

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Nice.

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And, did that and then did a core exercise in between that, which was a rope pull down.

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So those things are just they speed up the workout too for me.

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That's what I love about this is, like, our programming that we have is that you can grab

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on to something that is maybe a push and then incorporate a core in there.

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So you can you can get back to another push without exacerbating or exhausting yourself

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where for the next set.

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So Yeah.

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That's awesome.

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Yeah.

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That I think that's one big thing that we have for the programming piece that that I've had,

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like, gains like crazy.

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But it's also in part of the optimization process.

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I've probably gained I I gotta get a DEXA too, because I'd be curious on how much, I didn't

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get it.

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I should've got a DEXA right before I started earlier this year when I was about I think I

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was a 178.

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Right now I'm sitting 205.

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And I'd as far as I'm pretty sure I'm keeping it relatively.

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I think I'm probably if I had to guess, I didn't do any calipers recently, but I would

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probably be 11% body fat.

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Whereas, like, when I was 178, I was below 6.

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So Yeah.

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I was super, super lean.

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Obviously, I have bulked up.

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And with bulking up, you're putting on you're putting on excess a little bit a little bit

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more fat, but I'm still maintaining a leanness to me.

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Well, in

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the in the amount of time that you bulk, you bulk pretty quick.

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Right?

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It's a matter of a few months.

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Right?

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I mean, to bulk quickly, you you've gotta eat more calories, and it's usually more

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carbohydrates is the energy.

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Carbohydrates is for sure the energy.

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I also with my carbohydrate sources, I I've I'm pretty strategic on those as well.

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So it's not something where I'm like, you know, it's gonna be chips or stuff like that.

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You know what I mean?

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It's gonna be usually white rice, something that's easily broken down, sweet potatoes and

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typically mashed, you know, or cubed up, something soft where my body can recognize it,

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break it down rather easily so that I can use it more efficiently.

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So that's ultimately how I've done it.

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But the the programming go back to the programming piece has been huge, from a

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strength training component.

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One thing though that I am incorporating in now, because of what I let you know is, like,

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it's kinda like more injury related.

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I'm getting it, like, some level of, like, neuropathy.

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And for sure, it's my low back, and I'm feeling it, my knees all the way down to my heels, and

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it's bothering me when I play sports.

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So what, what I decided to do was get away from anything on the overhead.

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So, like, I'm not putting anything on my back for probably a period of a month.

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I'm not gonna put anything in my back, and I'm gonna go strictly machine weights, for all my

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strength training based sessions now.

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Yeah.

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Lunges, pulls, you'll be fine with that.

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You're not gonna compress anything.

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And then, obviously, we'll fix you at the office.

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But alright.

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So that that's basically how I would split up a sick if you had 6 days a week to train.

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Right?

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If you're a guy who's got the time, maybe work from home, maybe you're entrepreneur or

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whatever, and you wanna put that kind of work in, that split routine is gonna get you some

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pretty awesome results.

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Let's talk about the anabolic program.

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This is like our main one that any guy who starts our optimizers program is going to go

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through because it's going to build the most amount of muscle in the shortest amount of

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time.

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It's a 90 day program.

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It goes to 3 months.

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I'm just gonna give them kind of the the 1st month.

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And then, you know, if if people go through this and they like it, they should contact us

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and and we'll get you in and we'll get you on month 2, 3.

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Basically, it's 2 different foundational workouts.

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If you have 2 days a week to train, you would do one day and then the other day.

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Right?

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The other option is if you have 3 days a week to train, you would just repeat day 1 and you

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would go day 1 to 1.

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The next week would be 2 1, 2.

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Right?

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And you would just kind of back and forth them On the off days is when you're doing what are

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called our trigger sessions, which is basically you're you're doing lightweight band work

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focused on a specific body part for 15 to 20 reps, no more than 2 to 3 sets.

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You're the concept is you're neurologically stimulating your muscles, but not taxing them.

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Right?

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Not breaking them down.

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You're just giving, like, a signal to the muscle that, hey.

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Like, stay stay active, stay awake.

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The muscle will repair faster.

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The muscle will keep more, like, alive.

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Right?

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The mitochondria will be healthier.

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You'll build that muscle faster.

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So that's on the off days, but day 1 looks like box squats, barbell squats, bench press,

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weighted pull ups, barbell shrugs, barbell curls, barbell skull crushers, weighted decline

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sit up, and a standing calf raise.

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And so, you know, that's a pretty full body workout.

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You're getting push, pull, legs, calves.

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You're kinda getting everything.

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Day 2 is a little bit more of a pull kind of focused legs.

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It's good mornings, barbell deadlifts, standing overhead barbell press, rear delt flies,

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standing dumbbell shrugs, dumbbell hammer curls, dumbbell overhead tricep extensions,

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hanging leg raises, and seated calf raises.

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So it's just similar, but just different exercises to kind of hit different points.

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But the concept is 2, 3 days a week of full body versus the other one is splitting it up so

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you can train every single day.

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So both are great for muscle building.

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They just there's 2 different lifestyles, right?

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I mean, you and I have gone through phases where, like, I can train 3 days a week.

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Now I'm at kind of at a point where I can train 6 days a week if I wanted to.

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Right.

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I make the time.

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But then we do go through phases, right?

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Maybe you're having a busy season, and you're like, man, like, I'm not gonna be able to get

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in.

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Let me shift to more of a full body split.

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So it's good to have options for sure.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Definitely having the days.

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For sure, this is a season that's a little bit more busy.

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So 6 days is just not in the repertoire right now, in terms of business and everything we got

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going on.

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Right.

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So then that dummies it down into definitely a 4 to 5 day for me.

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I'm not gonna be doing anywhere from, like, 6 to 7.

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The one the one thing is that we talked about in the previous episode too is like gearing up

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your strength training and your all your anabolic, towards the hobby, of choice.

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So, you know, whether it's golf, whether you play softball, whether you play basketball,

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whatever it is, gearing up those activities when you're in the gym, with the intents and

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the purposes of performing at a higher level, in your hobby.

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And so, those those are the things that I would, like, highly recommend.

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I know that one thing that isn't in there, is elevated heel, squats.

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And those might kind of fall a little bit more in line with the with the box squats.

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But Well, I think

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I think for sake of, like, ease, this is just a like a like a foundation.

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Right?

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This is like a a rubric.

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Now if you wanna swap Yeah.

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Barbell squats for elevated heel squats, be my guest.

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Right?

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If you wanna swap barbell curls for easy bar curls or for preacher curls, like, figure it

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out.

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This is, you know, I'm more so that gets in a little bit into the weeds.

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This is more so just like, here's a rubric, like, take this, you know, for for people who

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don't maybe know how to structure.

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I think a lot of people just don't know how to structure.

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They just, unless they have a program or they're working with a trainer, they walk into

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the gym without, like, any idea.

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They're like, oh, that looks cool.

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Let me do that.

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At all.

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Yeah.

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So having a structure that makes sense.

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It's a major, major issue, in terms of going into the gym with intention, and not sitting

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around and making sure it's active, like active, work like complete active workout.

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Yeah.

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There's there are static workouts, and then we talk about that all the time in terms of if

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you're at a machine for more than, a minute, you don't need 3 minutes of rest between,

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between sets.

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That's for sure.

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I saw the funniest video this guy posted.

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He's there's a guy sitting on the bench, and this guy's trolling people.

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Like, he's this is what he's doing, and he's making a getting a ton of views on Instagram.

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But some some dude's sitting on the bench texting, and the guy walks up.

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The guy's obviously, the dude's got headphones, and he walks up.

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He goes, hey.

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How many texts do you have left?

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And so the guy thinks he said sets, and he's like, oh, I got 2.

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He's like, oh, okay.

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Can I join in?

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And he's like, yeah.

00:19:24
Sure.

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He's like, alright.

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Give me your number.

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He's like, what?

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He's like, I said, how many texts you have left?

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Give me your number.

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And the guy's like, what the hell?

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He's like, he's like totally messing with him, but everyone's so confused.

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It's actually pretty funny.

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That is funny.

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That is like so true, though,

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of just getting in and getting done.

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Right?

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Just go in, go in with a plan, and make sure that it's highly active in everything you do.

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It's not sitting around playing on your phone, like, after every set.

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I tell our guys, I was like, phones aren't even optional unless you have it on DND, and then

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you're logging in the app, and the apps open what your sets are.

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Like, otherwise, don't even bring it in with you.

00:20:07
Yeah.

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Your wife's fine.

00:20:08
Okay.

00:20:09
But it's also like, it's also like a a respecting too, I think, for other people in

00:20:14
the gym.

00:20:14
Like, you know, if if someone's taking 3 minute rest sets because they're really working on

00:20:18
strength and they're hitting, you know, 1 to 2 rep maxes and they're pushing out.

00:20:22
Yeah.

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For sure.

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Take the rest.

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If you wanna be on your phone in that rest period, do whatever you want.

00:20:26
But if someone's asking to use the machine, you know, let them work in or something.

00:20:30
But, you know, I think that's where people get, like, weirded out about gym culture and stuff

00:20:35
is like, I feel weird asking and, you know, there's always the one person who's going to

00:20:39
kind of make it weird.

00:20:40
So it's like, there's another dude out there, Joey Swole.

00:20:44
You heard of him on Instagram?

00:20:46
I love that guy, man.

00:20:47
He's like such a promoter of, like, positivity in the gym and gym culture and like, you know,

00:20:52
people are filming themselves and then they get mad if you walk in front of their camera.

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But it's like, bro, this isn't a this isn't Hollywood.

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This isn't a frickin film studio.

00:21:00
It's the gym.

00:21:01
Like, I'm sorry, I'm trying to get to the water fountain or something.

00:21:03
Like, I'm going to walk it where I'm going to walk.

00:21:05
Move your camera.

00:21:06
They'll get mad at me, you know?

00:21:07
So he like, like, totally rips these people up.

00:21:09
It's pretty good.

00:21:11
Yeah.

00:21:11
We should get we should get that guy on the show here, man.

00:21:14
That'd be awesome.

00:21:15
Yeah, that would

00:21:16
be a good episode.

00:21:17
That for sure.

00:21:18
We'll reach out to him.

00:21:18
We'll get him on the episode one of these days.

00:21:21
Alright.

00:21:21
Any, any final programming tips, before we conclude our live?

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No, man.

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I feel like that's that's a good start for people.

00:21:28
You know?

00:21:29
Like, if you don't know where to start and you wanna build muscle, burn fat, do what I just

00:21:33
told you.

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I literally just laid it out.

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So, and then if you want more on top of that, you go through that and you enjoy that kind of

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programming.

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That's what we have built out in our app and our optimizers program, which is basically our

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So I want to I want to, I wanna plug, that pre workout if that's cool.

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There are there's a high level of caffeine.

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Yeah.

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If you like that, that's

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going to be for you.

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It hits you.

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I would definitely say it's quality.

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I would say that the taste factor is in, like, probably the middle, of, like, overall, like,

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what I you know, it's not gonna be like that super sugary, pre workout that you're gonna

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Right?

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You know, it's super clean.

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Yeah.

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