Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1100: The 7 Steps to Picking the Best Workout for You
Episode Date: August 19, 2019In this episode, Sal, Adam and Justin go over seven steps that will help you pick the best workout based on your experience, goals and available equipment. What workout is best for me?? Mind Pump dir...ects the masses in the RIGHT direction with 7 steps to consider. (3:22) #1 - What is your CURRENT experience and what are you doing NOW? (4:55) #2 – Understanding your own SPECIFIC goals. (14:47) #3 – Being ‘mobility’ minded. (20:48) #4 – How many days a week you can REALISTICALLY commit to the gym FOREVER? (31:32) #5 – Does the workout make you feel beat up or motivated when you leave? (40:42) #6 - How much TIME can you dedicate to the workout? (42:21) #7 – What ACCESS to equipment do you have? (45:52) Constructive takeaways on what a routine should look like for you. (50:10) Related Links/Products Mentioned August Promotion: MAPS Prime & Prime Pro ½ off!! **Code “PRIME50” at checkout** Have more questions, we will get an answer for you! Programs@mindpumpmedia.com Stop Working Out And Start Practicing Is Mobility Important For Working Out? Are Group Fitness Classes Just A Trend? Visit PRx Performance for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout** The Best Form of Exercise Which Is Better: Low Reps Or High Reps? MAPS Programs Mind Pump Free Resources
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If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.
MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts.
Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
So in this episode of Mind Pump, we really try to answer the question that people tend to ask us all the time, which is,
what's the best workout program for me?
Now, whenever somebody asks us that question,
we can never answer that question right away
because we need to know more.
We need to know things that will give us the right information
to point these people in the right direction
because the best workout for you
may be a terrible workout for somebody else.
The best workout for you is based off of the information that
we like to collect from people. Now, here's a few things that we talk about in this episode.
We talk about your level of experience and why that's a factor and what that'll direct
you to. We talk about activity levels, your goals. We get real specific with goals. We
talk about your mobility and aches and pains. We talk about the amount of time you can dedicate
to working out in terms of during the workout. We talk about the amount of time you can dedicate to working out in terms of during the
workout.
We talk about compliance, motivation levels, enjoyment.
Do you enjoy what you're doing?
And then we talk about equipment access, your access to equipment.
And then we get into resistance training, full body routines versus split routines,
rep ranges and exercises.
So if you listen to this program, this episode, you should have a good idea of what the
best workout is going to look like for you. Now, if you're confused at the end of this or you're
still not sure, and this is the first time we're doing this, we will answer those questions for you.
We have an email that you can email, and you can ask these questions, and our people will get
back to you and try and help you out. And This is programs at mindpumpmedia.com.
So just go there if you have questions.
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I've got one for you guys today.
Oh, I see the reversal.
I, yeah.
I came up with this idea.
I didn't realize, I didn't realize
when I opened episodes I do that,
because I'm just trying to start the episode.
The last episode you're like, nice idea.
Oh yeah.
I'm just gonna be normal now.
We just do.
Well that's yeah, that's where the running jokes
is beginning.
That's great.
That's a good two-lay.
That's fuck.
So what's your idea?
So I actually want to go over,
because this is something that that this will be a valuable
episode. Hopefully this is something too on the back end that Anne can use on the customer
service side too because this is probably one of the most common questions that she fields
and is always reaching back out to us and then we have to write an email to explain this
to people. And that is like how do you choose the best workout program for you or how do
you choose the best workout? What workout is best for do you choose the best workout? Like, what workout is best for you?
And, you know, it's not a short generic answer.
So I think we should get into how somebody goes about figuring that out for themselves.
What's going to work for them?
Right.
And this is not, I don't think we should talk about how to design your workout for yourself
because that's, that can be very, very complicated.
I think there's a lot of, there's a lot of bad written programs out there.
There are some decent ones that are written well.
And so what we're gonna try and do
is kind of direct people in the right direction
because it is kind of confusing.
Like if you're just getting into fitness
or you've been working out for a while,
you wanna get your body to progress or to respond again,
you're thinking, okay, what program,
what kind of plan should I follow?
What's gonna work best for me?
Cause here's the deal with workout programs.
They can be extremely effective
if they're applied to the right person.
That same workout can be not effective at all
to the wrong person or worse,
create injury or cause them to actually
regress in their progress. They go backwards.
So to that point, I want to go through like, when we get this question,
there's like a series of things that I ask the person before I just tell them
what they should be doing.
Totally.
The first thing that comes to mind that I always ask is,
you know, what is your current experience and what are you doing now?
Yeah, so I can get an idea if this is somebody who has been training for 10 years,
or I have somebody who has been training for 10 years, or I have
somebody who's a complete beginner has never worked out before, or somebody maybe who's
worked out and then fallen off for two or three months. And, you know, depending on your answer
is I'm going to say something different back to you because it's really where you start is
really important to how you see progression going forward. Completely.
The, think of your, remember your workout, we've said this so many times on the show, I'll make
this point again.
Your workout is what sends the signal to your body to adapt and to change.
So that's the stimulus, okay?
So think of that as your dose.
The right dose is what you're looking for, because the wrong dose will get your body to
progress slower, not progress at all, or potentially cause injury or cause you to
regress.
So, it's all about the right dose, and one of the biggest things you have to consider
for yourself is your experience, current level of fitness.
You have to consider that because-
You have to be super honest about this, And I think that this is one of those things
that I don't think a lot of people realize
that you have a sort of perception about yourself
and what you've been doing that may not be as accurate
and once you start really paying attention
and riding it down and really assessing
your current status, like how much activity
are you really getting in every day?
Right.
Experience and activity level go kind of hand in hand, right?
Because I would consider myself high experience,
but my activity level could be changing.
And that where-
Such a good point.
And where I start would be different.
So it's-
Because why?
Because experience means you know exercises,
you know how to do them right.
You know-
Right.
You're educated.
But you just don't have the current fitness level
that you would, that somebody who's super, super active
right now would have.
So just because I'm somebody who may think their experience
or consider themselves as an advanced lifter
because I've been doing it for a long time
in an understanding exercise,
doesn't mean that I necessarily go to an advanced program
that I start with because if I've just come off
a two or three-month stint where I've been, you know,
not training at all or like similar situation that I had been in in the last few months where I've been, you know, not training at all or like
similar situation that I had been in the last few months before max came along. You know,
I really was inconsistent with my lifting. I was training sporadically. I was doing more
swimming than I was lifting weights. And so, you know, it would be a terrible idea for
me to jump into a advanced routine, say, like maps, PED. I mean, the amount of volume that
is in that and the amount of training that is,
it just, can I do it?
Of course, I could do it,
but it would be silly for me to do it.
It would be way too much.
Perfect. Perfect.
So we could kind of break this down
then into two general people on this particular topic.
Lots of experience, but not good, current fitness level.
So I haven't been working out for a while,
but I know what I'm doing generally
because I've been, I worked out in the past.
There's a long period there.
Or neither.
I don't have a lot of experience,
and I haven't worked out,
or I'm not working out, obviously.
Or I have both.
I'm very experienced, and I'm currently very active,
and very fit.
So there's kind of three directions you can look at, because somebody who's coming into
trying to figure out a work art for themselves who is both neither experience and low fitness level,
there's going to be an element of teaching in there.
Does it mean an element of learning movements and learning patterns and learning exercises?
For someone who's experienced, even if they're at a shape at the moment,
they don't necessarily have to go in and relearn the
exercises the same way. Now, they will have to develop good recruitment patterns,
they will have to get their body to move well again, but because they
remember what a good form is like, they remember what the exercise is supposed
to feel like and what it looks like, is a much shorter learning curve. But
that's got to be the biggest one, right? Because here's an analogy that I like to use.
If we're thinking of adaptation,
there's many different ways the body adapts to stress.
One of them being, and this is a very easy one,
is your skin's ability to tan when you're exposed to the sun.
This is something I've used many times as an analogy.
If you're a pale because you haven't been out in the sun
at all, recently, it doesn't take much sunlight
to cause your skin to start to darken.
And in fact, it doesn't take much sunlight at all
to do too much to cause your skin to burn.
And what happens when you get a sun burn
is you actually lose your ability to adapt.
Your skin isn't able to tan effectively or quickly
because you're just burning your skin.
This is what can happen with the over application of intensity or too many exercises to which
volume if you're a beginner or if your body is not fit.
And here's, this is Adam's favorite line, is use the least amount of effort to give the
maximum amount of effort to give the max amount of results.
So if you're going into this as a total beginner,
two days a week is a great place to start.
You could do a lot with two days a week
if you're just getting started.
In fact, this is when Doug came to me as a client,
he had lots of experience.
He did, he, at the moment when he hired me,
he wasn't super active,
but he had lots of exercise experience.
I trained him two days a week,
and we stayed two days a week for a year,
and then we moved up to three days a week after that,
and his progress was phenomenal.
I have pictures I could show you
of his before and after.
It's funny, this is an area that I think
that people mess up all the time,
because for some reason,
we equate the harder that we try,
or the harder the effort, the more effort
that we put into the workout, the more results that we're going to get.
It's absolutely not true at all.
In fitness, we have this motivation hype that we see everywhere, so it feeds into that.
It's the reason why for so long on this podcast, I've talked a lot of shit about the motivational
hype and the beast mode and calling it.
So because I know that it promotes this culture, it promotes this, you know, oh, you've been
lazy sitting on the couch eating Doritos, you haven't been doing anything.
It's time to change your life.
Get in here.
We're going to fire you up, crank the music up, pump you up and get after it, get a sweat,
get a burn.
It's like, wait a second, that person who hasn't been doing any of this absolutely does
not need that whatsoever. Them coming to the gym is already good.
You know what I'm saying?
Them getting the gym and starting to make moves
is going to actually make their body change.
It's amazing, it's a beautiful thing
because just to your point, Sal,
like it's just like never being in the sun
that all of a sudden getting 10 minutes of exposure.
10 minutes of exposure will begin the process.
That's perfect.
It will begin to start to make the body adapt and change.
And that's what you want, is you want to do as little as possible to elicit the most
amount of change.
That should always be the goal.
It should not be how hard, unless your goal is just to be good at working out, like,
or if you're a sports performance person, like, then you want resiliency and you want
to build your gas tank.
But you still have to train appropriately.
Right.
But that's the only time does that even come somewhat make sense to be applying
intensity that way.
Otherwise, the goal if it's for changing the physique, which most people
listening here are trying to change their body, whether it be build muscle or
lose body fat.
That's what most people are looking to do.
If that's the goal, then you actually want to be putting out just enough effort
to change the body.
That way you can add a little bit more week over week.
Otherwise, you throw all the,
everything in the kitchen sink out of the beginning,
and sure you see great results for a couple of weeks,
but then the body plate toes hard,
and then you have nowhere to go.
So that way you start, and what program you choose,
or how much volume, or how many times
you're training at the very beginning beginning is extremely important to your results.
Well, hopefully this doesn't take us too far off course, but you mentioned starting.
And so for me, I want to dive in a little bit more to see how serious this person is to
want to learn.
And like what kind of a student they are going into this because, and I make that point only because there's a very clear way to
approach this, to have a more successful, a more smart, you know, like you could learn,
you could go really far with this in terms of like setting your body up like the ultimate
way versus just going for that sort of surface goal where I do want just want to lose some
weight.
I just want to have like these certain goals,
but I wanna set myself up so I never have to,
well, I'll always have this wisdom
to pull from going from here on out.
And I think that comes from the experience
you get through being consistent.
And here's an important point too you wanna make.
The variables that you manipulate with your workouts
start out very general if you're a relative beginner.
Now, if you're experienced and advanced and you're very fit, now we're manipulating all kinds of
different variables to get your body to respond and change. But if you're new, just going in and
practicing your basic exercises and moving, you don't have to worry so much about rest periods,
messing with rep tempos,
messing with the strength curve,
you know, changing the variety of the exercises
and the right bands, all the tools.
None of that applies to you.
All you're gonna do is go in and do some very basic movements
to learn how to move better
with your foundational kind of movements.
You're squatting, you're pressing,
you're rowing, you're overhead pressing, your body's ability to, your squatting, your pressing, your rowing,
your overhead pressing, your body's ability to twist
your split stance type exercises like your lunges.
You're just gonna go to the gym
and you're gonna practice these things and do them well.
So if you're a beginner,
especially one without with little experience,
in other words, your low experience
and low activity level and you're moving in,
and you're looking at your routine
It should not have 50 different exercises on it. It should not have crazy amounts of variables
It should be very basic very clean very clear
You go into the gym and you're doing anywhere between six to eight exercises at the most
For your workout and they're very basic and things you can focus on practicing and perfecting.
Something else that's really important
and it's kind of moving in the direction
of what Justin was alluding to that I think is really important
and I feel a lot of people miss the mark
is really understanding their own goals.
And that sounds kind of weird, right?
Like, I know what my goal is,
I wanna look this way or I wanna do this,
but a lot of times clients would give me their goals,
and they would give out a list of things
that they wanna accomplish.
But what they don't understand is that
some of the things that they're saying
are kind of conflicting each other,
meaning like, oh, I wanna be able to run a marathon,
but I also wanna build 15 pounds of muscle with you.
It's like, okay, well, we could do both of those,
okay, it's not that we can't do that, but understanding programming in that if I design a program, design to build 15 pounds of
muscle the fastest we can to get there, which because everybody wants that, right? Nobody wants to,
whatever goal they give you, they don't want to say, they want to, tomorrow. Yeah, they want to,
they want to, they want to achieve the goal as fastest as possible, because that's the next leading up
question that I get after we talk about goals is how long Adam, till you can get me to this point. So
That's the next lead-up question that I get after we talk about goals is how long add until you can get me to this point.
So if you're goal, if you have a goal, and you want to get there as quickly and efficiently
as possible, and you give me multiple goals that are conflicting, there's got to be some
sort of a give and understanding in how you create or what kind of program you follow.
Like if your goal is to build, you know, your main goal is to build 15 pounds of muscle,
but you also like one day would like to run a triathlon
or something, okay, well that's great.
The triathlon thing's on the back burner,
the main way we're going to train is to build muscle.
That's the main focus, because if your main focus
is a triathlon, then it's gonna be really tough for us
to also build 15 pounds of muscle the same time,
is that makes sense?
Right, right, the other thing too,
and just take a step back, is oftentimes people are not specific with their goal.
How often do you get the answer?
You know, what are your fitness goals
and the person says, I wanna get better shape.
Okay, well, what does that mean?
Now, why is it important?
Why is it important for a person
to become specific with their goals?
Well, you gotta paint the picture.
You have to paint the picture and set your target.
What do you wanna accomplish with your fitness?
I want to lose 15 pounds.
Okay, let's get more specific.
What parts of your body do you want to shape and sculpt?
How do you want to feel at this new body weight?
Do you want to be weaker with less energy?
Do you want to be stronger?
Do you want to have more energy?
How do you want to eat when you're at the school?
This is another important one to think about. Like if someone tells me they want to be stronger? Do you want to have more energy? How do you want to eat when you're at the school? This is another important one to think about.
If someone tells me they want to lose 15 pounds
and I'll say them, okay, would you want to be able,
would you want to have to eat half as many calories
as you're eating now to maintain that?
Or would you want to be able to eat more calories
than you're eating now and be at that target?
Now most people would say, I want to be able to eat more calories.
I'll say, okay, well, a big focus of your training
then is going to be on slowing things down and getting your metabolism to speed up a little bit. Now we might not be able to get you to eat more than you Okay, well, a big focus of your training then is going to be on slowing things down and
getting your metabolism to speed up a little bit.
Now, we might not be able to get you to eat more than you're eating now while losing 15
pounds, but I can definitely get you to eat more food than you would if we weren't making
the metabolism boosting a goal.
So you want to be very specific with your goal because that's also going to help you
pick a program.
Again, if your goal is build 15 pounds of muscle, you're not going to, you shouldn't be doing
a program that's based on circuits and running. You know, that's more of an endurance type of
a program. If your goal is to build 15 pounds of muscle, your routine should be more of a strength
building type of routine. If your goal is to burn body fat, well, I'm going to tell you this
much when it comes to body fat loss, you can burn body fat on almost any program. A lot of that has to do with nutrition. So
take that into account. Also, take this into account. How long term do you want your goals?
Here's something to consider. If a program is promising you all your results in 30 days
or 60 days, probably not a long-term approach. Most long-term approaches are slow and steady.
They help you build behaviors that support your new physique, and they also build your
body up rather than break it down consistently. Knowing your goals and being specific with
your goals is extremely important. I teach this to trainers all the time. I tell trainers,
look, when you're asking your client what their goals are, get specific because you have
to paint the picture.
And it's more so they can paint it for themselves.
And I always have to remind clients that when you give me a goal right now, it doesn't
mean like we can't change this in two months.
What it does is it just gives me the direction of how your program should look over the next
two months.
So it's not saying that, you know, I've had many clients who wanted to build 15 pounds
of muscle.
They also wanted to burn 10 pounds of fat. They also wanted to burn 10 pounds of fat
and they also wanted to be a triathlete.
And then they also wanted to be a strong man.
You could do all of those things,
but this is what's wrong with programming,
is nobody, nobody programs specifically
for each one of those are a specific adaptation
and each one of those goals should be addressed differently.
And so what we would want to do is say, okay, let's focus on one of those goals should be addressed differently. And so what we would wanna do is say, okay,
let's focus on one of those adaptations,
what's one of those goals, okay,
what's focused on one of those goals at a time,
work towards that, the program that we follow
should be directed towards that.
Then as you see the progress in that direction,
say it was, oh, now we've put on like 12 pounds,
you're like, hey man, I don't know I'm feeling great,
we're almost at that 15 pounds already.
You know, let's start now addressing my endurance
and I start moving that direction.
So you want to be able to understand your goals,
understand too that your goals should be specific
just because you want to be going to the gym,
targeting that main adaptation,
but that doesn't mean that that doesn't change.
In fact, it should.
It should.
I think to kind of bring it back to the beginning
of like gathering information. I think that, you know bring it back to the beginning of gathering information.
I think that it is to your benefit to get more information in terms of your eating patterns,
so tracking everything in terms of how much sleep you're getting, how much activity you're
getting, the quality of your joints, go through an assessment.
I highly suggest, even if you just go into a gym
and get a trainer to take you through an assessment, it's very valuable because you need somebody
a lot of times to be able to see things you probably don't see in terms of your movement.
And then this will also help you just be more effective and efficient in getting closer
to your goal, even if it's just fat loss. because now you're building on a solid foundation to
go.
Well, this is why we developed Maps Prime.
It's got a self-assessment tool in there that kind of gives you an idea of what exercises
and correctional movements you want to start with.
This is important because, you know, here's another good analogy.
You know, if I had two parallel lines, and they were perfectly parallel, they would be
next to each other, whether it was one mile down the line or 15 miles down the line.
But if I move one just a quarter of a degree to the left, the further down you move, the
further apart those two lines become.
And you go down a million miles and you see the nowhere near each other.
Well, the way you start your routine is kind of like that.
If you start your program with bad movement patterns, you're not going to notice a whole
lot initially in terms of lack of progress or maybe even pain.
But as you continue down the line, the problems become bigger, bigger, bigger, and the hurdles
between you and progressing become larger and larger and larger.
And so it's critical when you first start out a routine that you actually placed an emphasis
on mobility and on movement patterns.
That's actually the best time to work on those things.
It's harder to fix it later on in fact.
The reality of that is this is probably one of the areas that most of my clients didn't
know how to ask for, but was something that you always integrated as a trainer and this
is where you really blew their mind.
It's like, okay, you can want to build 15 pounds of muscle,
you can want to lose 10 pounds of fat,
but along the way, I'm gonna get you moving better
and feeling better and that's what always kept
those people coming back.
It didn't matter, even if we didn't reach their goal,
even if they signed up with the ambition of,
you know, Adam, I wanna lose those 15 pounds,
I hope we can do it in the course of the next two or three months.
And along that way, we don't lose the 15 pounds,
but I got them moving better and feeling better
and like alleviating those aches and pains they had
because we addressed the mobility issues or posture issues.
If this sounds complicated to you,
you can get specific with mobility movements.
And again, like we have a program,
maps prime that will give you an assessment.
But if you just wanna keep it general, okay?
This means you have to be mobility-minded.
Just doing that is like a big piece of the puzzle.
Just doing that.
So what does that mean?
Well, that means I'm starting out my workout.
I'm going to the gym.
Okay, today's my first leg workout.
I'm gonna workout my legs.
Do not go in with the mentality of,
I'm gonna go in and beat my legs up and get sore
and make them hurt.
Don't do that.
And I know that sounds crazy
because that's what everybody does, right?
What do you mean?
That's what I'm going to the gym for.
I'm going to the gym to workout and get sore.
No, no, no, no.
Go in mobility-minded.
Go in to train your legs,
but practice the movements that you're doing for your legs
in ways that means that you're gonna get better at at them. So the difference between someone who's squatting, who just
wants to beat their legs up between them and the person who goes into squat, who wants to improve
their ability to squat is very different. Imagine that in your mind right now. What does that look like?
The person who goes into squat just to beat up their legs, their form is secondary. It's really
about how many reps they can do and how hard they can go.
The person who goes in to focus on their movement,
it looks like they're practicing squatting.
It looks like they're trying to perfect the movement.
They're using weight that isn't too heavy
because if it's too heavy, your form goes out the window
and they're just getting better at squatting.
They're getting better at the range of intentional.
They're practicing.
If you just do that, you don't even need an assessment tool. You don't need maps prime or anything like that. Now, of course,
those things help and they make things a lot better and easier, but you don't
need them. If you go in with the mobility mentality of practicing the exercises,
that right there makes all the difference in the world, especially if you have a
current fitness level is low. And this is even for people who are experienced,
especially people who are experienced.
You may know how to squat,
you may know how to row, go in the gym,
and practice those lifts.
And what will end up happening
through that process of being mobility-minded,
is the level of intensity that you're using
to practice a squat, that'll continue to maintain,
but the weight will go up.
So now, before I did 105 pounds, and I'm really practicing my form, and I'm kind
of tight, so I'm going light, and I'm being tense, and getting really, really good technique
and form.
And then next week, same intensity, but now I'm 10 pounds heavier on my weight, because
I'm like, oh, I actually need a little bit more weight to maintain the same intensity
I did last week.
And you keep this up, and you know what that looks like?
Amazing progress.
It looks like amazing progress. You're getting better at the lift
While simultaneously getting better movement mobility and you know what that translates into in terms of aesthetics in terms of the way you look a
Balanced looking physique now all of us know what an unbalanced looking physique looks like
We've all seen the guy and the girl in the gym who are lean and muscular
But they just don't seem to be moving well.
Their shoulders are kind of rounded forward.
They look like muscle bound, meet heads.
We all know what that looks like.
Okay, if you train with mobility in mind and movement,
you'll still develop, in fact,
you'll probably develop more muscularity
and get leaner faster because you're progressing
more consistently.
You bring this look better.
You bring this point up,
and I know we address this
with squats and dead lifts and the big lifts all the time,
but this is everything.
Every lift.
I used to do this with my trainers,
and I'd watched them on the floor,
and most of my trainers were good with their clients,
and when they were squatting,
they knew it was a very technical movement,
so they were moving around and addressing points a lot.
But if they were doing a bicep curl or a tricep push down
or something like that, they were just kind of like,
then they were working on their notes or just counting right.
And I'm like, dude, you need to make every movement
that this person do.
I mean, I can take somebody in a bicep curl
and especially if you're just an average jane.
Which is a super basic.
Yeah, super basic.
But I would be walking around them.
I would speak to them to their stance, to their shoulders,
to them tucking their chin back, to drawing their core in,
and slowing down the negative.
Like you can take a movement,
even as simple as a bicep curl,
and just try and perfect it.
And this was the time to have it,
that I would always try and still in my clients
when they were just getting started in their program,
because you're gonna build on that,
you're laying the foundation.
Bro, this is like, martial arts is like this.
Like, the best Jiu-Jitsu schools in the world, the ones that have some of the best competitors,
drill the basics, and they drill them perfectly. I remember the first time I did, I took a Jiu-Jitsu class,
and I was taught by someone who was a direct descendant of the Gracie family.
And here we are. We're all relatively advanced. I was the lowest ranked person in the class.
I had a purple belt and a purple belt takes you a good five, six years to get. So I was relatively experienced.
And they were teaching us a mounted front choke. Okay. So those of you in Jiu-Jitsu know that's one of the first
submissions that you learn when you do Jiu-Jitsu.
And so we're all doing it, but the guys walking around and he is picking a part, every little
part of the technique.
And it made all the difference in the world.
And it's funny because Hicks and Gracie's son competed, like five years ago, and one
of these huge tournaments.
And he, and this is, he's, we're talking high level.
He's competing against some of the best guys in the world.
He beat everybody with a mounted front choke.
It's like the most basic, one of the most basic movements.
Look at boxers.
Boxers have four punches.
They have four punches.
Yet there's some of the most effective strikers
in the world because they practice those four punches
so often that they're perfect at them.
And so when it's up happening, when you train
with mobility and technique in mind,
sure you're not gonna lift as much weight
or go as intense as your body
who's going, you know, ham over there with the squat rack,
but over time, you're gonna get better and better
and better, but your form is gonna be perfect.
And your body will reflect it.
Imagine if you brought that into just your average workout.
Like you had that mindset going into each exercise.
One thing that I try and focus on too is just
If you want to keep it really simple and you're going through that exercise and you are intentional about
You know your mechanics and the way that you're lifting
The weight and what your body and keeping your body stabilized and in that position
Once that starts to degrade, just barely, just stop, stop.
You know, just start, if you can start with that sort of intent
where, you know, like I already can feel the fatigue setting
I can already feel that my arm wants to go out
or something is kind of taking me away from how I started.
If you just stop and then just rest a bit and then pick it back up and
go again, it makes a world of difference. That's going to carry so many better patterns going into
the future. Right. So when you're picking a workout, knowing this when you're picking a workout,
know your current fitness level and your experience and make sure there's a mobility component
in the routine and make sure it's not designed in a way that kind of throws that out.
Like, if you see a routine and a lot of the workouts
of these circuits and the circuits include
extremely complex exercises.
So a circuit is when you do exercise after exercise
after exercise with no rest.
You're just, and they're popular because they make people
sweat and they're hard and so people perceive them
as being super effective.
So you're looking at this routine,
you're about to start your new workout
and you're like, wow, okay, so I have to do jump squats,
you know, jump lunges, pushups, and dumbbell cleans
or cleans with the barbell in a circuit.
And you know those exercises are technical and difficult.
Probably not a good workout for you.
And to be quite honest with you,
that workout isn't good for most people.
So consider that when you're looking at picking
the right routine, understand that important.
Well, this is also why we always recommend
two reps short of failure.
It's not because there's not value
in taking the body to failure sometimes,
is we just know that the average person listening
that's going to exercise.
The last two reps look like shit.
Yes, we know that once the body starts to fail,
the form starts to go,
and so it's inevitable those last two reps, even if you can get them, are probably pretty
shitty.
And we know that creates bad habits, bad patterns, and that you don't want to risk that
at the reward of just lifting five more pounds or two more reps.
I think of it like building a skyscraper, right?
If there's two of us and we're racing to see who can build a tallest skyscraper, and
there's one person who's spinning all this time
laying this incredible foundation.
He spends weeks on weeks and weeks on laying it.
And the other guy is just ramping up.
And he's up, he's 40 feet in the air already.
And the other guy's still laying the concrete down
to make sure this foundation is really solid and perfect.
And there's nothing wrong with it.
But this guy that's ahead by, you know, 40 feet right now,
what's gonna end up happening one year, two year down the road?
Yeah, exactly.
And your body is the same.
We need to know our reason.
That's right.
Your body is the same way.
Sure, it might get you by right now.
You may not notice the aches and pains.
You may be seen somewhat of a result.
So, oh, is it really that big of a deal?
Like it is if you plan to do this long term.
If you plan to keep building this skyscraper and building this physique,
the foundation that you lay right now
will make a difference down the road.
So don't just be chasing the calories reps and weight.
Now here's another big one, and this one's huge.
A lot of people don't realize just how big this one is.
You have to have a very honest conversation with yourself
in terms of how many days a week you can commit realistically
To working out this has to be a real honest
Question and answer that you have with yourself because a lot of times we're motivated
We're like yeah, you know what I'm really motivated. I think I want to start working out
We give out crazy numbers. Let's like I would ask people like okay. How many of these a week you want to work out five
Wait a minute you were just telling me you're not doing anything.
And you want to go to five days a week.
Is that realistic for you forever?
That's what I want you to think about.
Think to yourself, what is realistic for me forever?
Now here's why that's important, okay?
This is how consistency is built and how confidence is built.
It's built through challenging yourself with something that's challenging and realistic.
It has to be realistic because you have to accomplish it.
Once you accomplish it, then you build the confidence
to potentially add more.
This is how I've trained, this is how I trained clients
the back half of my career,
because the first half of my career was,
as many days you can come, let's do it.
The second half of my career was,
no, no, no, let's start realistically.
And when it ended up happening, I got ahead far more success.
People would get honest with me and they'd start out by say,
oh, I want to work out four days a week.
And I'd be like, okay, is that realistic for you forever?
Let's have a real conversation.
And they'd look at me and be like, well, forever and I'd be like, that, that'd be okay.
Uh, I think two days a week.
I was like, okay, so two days a week, you know, for sure, you can commit to working out for the rest of your life
consistently and they'll say, yes, no problem.
Here's what ends up happening.
They come do it two days a week.
It's challenging because they were honest with themselves.
So what is challenging, but we make it.
We make it more often than not.
They make it to the gym two days a week.
You know what ends up happening after a little while?
They come three days a week.
And then they do that consistently. And it's challenging.
It's hard. I added an extra day a week, but I'm doing that consistently.
And then you know what happens after a while? They come four days a week. This is how I've gotten the buildoff of it.
Always. And it's the, this is the road to success. So the first workout you pick,
because you know, workouts are designed and they tell you how many days a week you're gonna be in the gym.
Don't do this. Here's what a lot of people do.
They think, I really wanna get in shape, really bad.
I wanna get this results real quick.
So then they look at the routine like,
okay, this one's six days a week,
it's gonna be the best one.
Six days a week for sure,
as he can get me there faster.
Wrong way to look at it.
That's actually the opposite.
Right, it's almost like, you know,
if you find yourself having to go look
for all these motivational quotes
and motivational people doing crazy shit
just to get you to the gym,
you should really assess whether or not
that's the right plan for you.
Because you have to ramp yourself up to that high of a level,
you haven't really built yourself in that direction.
Like, there's steps to this.
I almost always subtracted a day out of whatever anyone said.
Yeah, so if you told me, how do I go seven days a week?
I'm like, okay, well, we're definitely not starting
anything beyond six, you know.
I don't want to do four days a week, here are three days a week.
I always would subtract one, say, listen,
we can get to four, that'd be great.
But let's prove to me that you can be consistent
with this first because almost everybody,
when they go in the gym, they get their membership,
they hire their trainer or whatever, or get started, is you're on your high. You just
read your favorite influencers motivational quote, like Justin said, you're pumped up,
she's changing her life. I'm going to change my life. You get down to the gym, you're pumped
up. I'm going to do everything I can. And at that time, at that moment, you're thinking
you're going to do everything you can, but in reality, with the sales point, the likelihood
that you're going to keep up that consistency you can, but in reality, with the sales point, the likelihood that you're gonna keep
out that consistency is low.
So start off with something that's obtainable
then you can always build on it.
That's a 100%, 100% path to failure.
I'm gonna tell you this right now.
I mean, there's two ways, there's two general ways
that people make significant changes in their life.
Now, one way, which is the more rare way
of making changes is the epiphany.
It's that epiphany where you wake up one morning,
something tragic happened or something impactful happened,
and you're different forever.
So it's like, it's like the alcoholic
who just can't stop drinking alcohol
and then gets into car accident, almost kills another driver.
That may be enough to give him that epiphany to stop,
but usually things don't happen that way.
The way that we make changes usually is one step at a time
and then they become, the small steps become bigger steps.
So when you're looking for the right program for you,
don't say to yourself, what's the most I can do
because I want to get this goal real bad?
Say to yourself, what is a consistent amount of times I can dedicate
to exercise forever starting right now?
What is realistic that I can do forever?
And for most of you listening right now, especially if you're new to working out, you are looking
at two to three days a week.
That is generally what I see.
Some of you may even be one day a week, but generally about two or three days a week.
This also speaks to compliance and enjoyment.
Totally.
I mean, part of what will keep you consistent
isn't just your motivation currently
that you're wanting to get to your goals,
but also do you enjoy this workout?
You know, and this is what we sometimes we talk about,
you know, poor program design or, you know,
exercise programs that we see out there.
And it's like, even as shitty as some of them are out there,
if it's something that you'll do consistently,
it's better than something that you will do
inconsistently, a superior program.
So if it's a program that you enjoy,
you like doing it and you can be consistent with it,
that is important.
And it's important that you assess that
before you just do it or commit to it.
Because if you commit to something that someone sold you on,
this is the best thing for you,
but you hate every minute of it.
The likelihood of you continuing that,
continuing that for a long term is very, very.
Oh, so, so true.
I used to make that point with clients
because they would tell me,
hey, I heard that running burns the most calories.
Maybe I should just run.
And I'd say, well, do you like running?
Like, no, I can't stand running. I'd say, well, do you like running? No, I can't stand running.
I'd say, well, pick something you enjoy doing.
Like, what do you like doing?
Oh, I like to ballroom dance.
Ballroom dancing classes are my favorite.
OK, well, those burn 30% less calories.
But you know what they burn more?
Calder is then the one you're not going to do.
So you could sign up for running,
and it turns into zero, because you end up not doing it.
Or you could go do the thing you love, which turns into consistency. What's funny, it's funny when we used to get those
you know, I used to use body bugs or these calorie counting devices that, and they're relatively
accurate where you could put it on, it'll tell you how many calories you're burning throughout the day.
And I'd have clients who would burn more calories on the weekends than they did during the week
when they actually had their workouts.
Oh, that was so enlightening for my kids.
Oh, totally.
And you know, why?
Why did, wow, you burned way more calories on Saturday than you do on Friday when you
workout for an hour.
What did you do Saturday?
Oh, you know, I was at the mall with my friends and we did all this shopping and then
after that I went to...
You know, I'm painting my house.
Yeah, I went to the beach.
You know, my God, we had so much fun and I'm like, do you see what's going on here?
You enjoyed yourself and you burn way more calories
than your structured workouts.
So you got to enjoy what you're doing.
Now, what makes something enjoyable?
Well, partly it's the activity itself.
So you can enjoy something just for the sake of doing it.
Like I love with lifting weights,
even if I wasn't getting stronger.
It's just a fun thing for me.
The other thing is results in progress.
Are you consistently progressing in some way?
Like it doesn't have to be weight loss or muscle gain,
but it could be just feeling better,
learning new things, just improving.
That's a big one when it comes to the enjoyment of a routine.
So consider that.
Consider yourself.
Look at the routine and say, okay,
I know this one's more effective,
but this one has me
doing boot camp classes at 5 a.m. and I fucking, I hate waking up at 5 a.m. and I don't like
someone yelling at me, but it's way more effective than the, you know, Zumba class that do my
girlfriends, that seems to be way more fun or whatever.
Pick the one you know you're going to do.
Start there.
This is one of the knocks that I would have too on the group classes.
And I know they do, the group classes do a really good job of building communities.
That's their saving grace.
Their saving grace is that there's this accountability, and CrossFit's notorious for this.
They're great at building community.
You know, Susie takes the 5M CrossFit class every day and you're going to see her.
If you're not there, she's going to text you so there's that extra motivation to get there so that helps
But man that that type of training that high of level of intensity
Every single workout all the time is really fucking tough for the average person to bring that day in day out
It'll kill your compliance. It does most very few people have that level of what a great point of motivation to bring that
every day day at what they do.
And when I'm guarantee many people listening out
even those that probably love those group classes
and crossfitting, she like that, is they go in waves.
When they are highly motivated and they're consistent,
they are for three months or six months at a time
and then they fall off and then they are back on.
And when they're on, they feel great
because they're in good shape to them.
But you would be way better off if you you did something that was way less intense
But did it more consistently and more frequently and you enjoyed it and you stayed and you created more of a behavior
That's like it's not so daunting to go that yeah and to boil that down
How does your workout make you feel afterwards?
Do you feel beat up or do you feel energized?
Because a workout that beats you up might be fun at first when you're highly motivated,
especially if you're hating your body and you're like,
I want to beat the crap out of myself.
But after a while, being beat up after a workout will destroy your motivation.
Both physically, because you'll see the studies will show,
beating the crap out of yourself,
dopamine will start to drop,
because your body's literally sending you signals
that says, don't, please don't do this to me anymore.
Like this is too much.
So if you, after you work out, you're like,
man, I gotta go home and sit on the couch for two hours.
Like, I am just taxed.
I'm telling you right now that is not a long term
in terms of compliance routine.
But if you leave your routine, you're like,
you know what, I do my workout and then I come home
and I'm talkative with my family, I'm energetic,
I feel really good.
That is something that probably has some staying power.
That's something that's gonna help you
maintain your consistency with your workouts
and consistency with activity is one of the most important things.
I think that's the biggest repulsion
from people really even starting and getting into
fitness.
It's the biggest barriers that it just looks like work.
And that's all that people, I've had the hardest time with getting certain family members
and certain friends and people to realize, you don't have to experience it like that.
You can just, you can go with, and lead with something that you actually enjoy doing,
but also then build upon that.
And so this is,
this is part of the process of gaining that motivation.
You don't, even if you don't have the motivation now,
you gotta find a way to actually start to spark it.
Here's another one too.
The amount of time you can dedicate to working out.
So, not just the days per week, but the time for the actual work at itself.
Now, why is this important?
Okay.
Here's why I think this is real important.
People tend to think that the less time that they have, the more intense and harder their
workout needs to be.
So people may come to the gym and be like, I got 45 minutes in the gym, so I want to make
it count. Therefore, I can't minutes in the gym, so I want to make it count.
Therefore, I can't do anything that's slow or recuperative.
I got to beat the crap out of myself.
I only have 45 minutes.
Now, part of the blame goes to the fitness industry.
The fitness industry is trying to sell you short
and short workouts that don't require much time.
And then the way that they sell it to you is by saying,
30 minutes will kick your ass, trust me,
it'll do everything you need,
you won't need to do anything else.
I was part of the problem as a trainer early on.
I remember people telling me,
I can't get a whole,
you sure I can do a whole workout in 30 minutes.
And then my goal was to show them they could,
they could have make it past 30 minutes.
You know what I mean?
I'd beat them up so bad that they'd leave.
And then they'd come back like,
you're right, 30 minutes is plenty of time.
That's not what you need to look at.
The time that you're gonna go to the gym or workout,
that's just gonna help you know what to prioritize
in your workout.
But in terms of intensity,
the same thing that we said earlier in this episode
about your experience of fitness level
is just as true whether you have 30 minutes to workout
or you have 90 minutes to workout.
That's the intensity it needs to be appropriate.
It needs to be appropriate to your fitness level
and your experience.
It doesn't need to change just because you're working out
less time.
Don't go in there and beat the crap at yourself
because you only have 30 minutes.
It just means you need to prioritize
a little bit differently.
So if I'm going to the gym and I'm only spending 30 minutes,
I'm going to make sure I do my big gross motor movements
that give me the best bang for my buck. For sure I'm going to go and do my squat. For sure I'm going to go I do my big gross motor movements that give me the best bang for my buck.
For sure I'm gonna go and do my squat.
For sure I'm gonna go and do my overhead press.
For sure I'm gonna do some rows.
I'm gonna do those first.
I'm gonna leave all the small exercises for
if I have time to squeeze out of this short period of time.
I wish that I would document one of these times
where my training volume is really low and I'm getting back in the swing
of things so people could see what we're talking about. It's just so goddamn boring. I would never waste
paying one of our employees to follow me around because it really is this simple. It's like, you know,
for the first couple of weeks of getting back in the swing of things, a workout may be 20, 30 minutes
for me and it may literally be one exercise. I may squat for 20 minutes and that's a workout may be 20, 30 minutes for me, and it may literally be one exercise.
I may squat for 20 minutes, and that's a workout.
I'm good, you know why?
Cause I hadn't squatted in two months, anything like that.
So me just going for 20 minutes and working on my squat,
four sets of that, man, I'll probably be plenty sore,
probably more than I even need,
depending on how much weight I put on my back.
So, you know, when you only have 20 minutes,
especially when you're just getting started
and that's your time frame,
the one of the biggest mistakes that someone can make
is to your points, I was just throwing a whole circuit
of exercises, like no, you could literally spend
at the all 20 minutes, again,
still to the point we made earlier,
perfecting the movement on the squat,
and the benefit that you'll get from that
will weigh out weigh the 12 exercises that you did,
back to back to back to back to back in your circuit.
So keep that in mind, and even somebody at an advanced level
like I would consider myself,
if I haven't been training that much,
the workout would look like that.
It would scale up to where I was adding things
on top of the squat. So again, starting off with just the basics in building on look like that. It would scale up to where I was adding things on top of the squat.
So, again, starting off with just the basics
and building on top of that.
All right, so now let's talk about one final one.
I think we covered most of them, but equipment.
What access to equipment do you have?
Obviously, if you love boxing and that's the way you want
to work out, well, you better have gloves and a heavy bag
and maybe someone will hold myths for you
You know, do you have access to a gym a gym?
Obviously he's gonna provide you with a lot of variety of cardio equipment a variety of machines and free weights
And there may even be some group exercise classes
And this goes back to the whole realistic thing like okay, I can I can only dedicate
You know three days a week in the gym realistically long term
All right, let's look at your schedule
Do you have time to go to a gym? Do you have time to get dressed go to a gym do your workout?
And I'm talking realistically right now and a lot of people might say no like well actually no like I know my schedule
Looks like and I know my motivation level. I think I'll start out working at home
That's perfectly fine. Then your routine needs to be
designed around the access of equipment that you have and again make it realistic. A lot of people
just starting out are probably better off starting out with a workout that doesn't require a lot of
equipment. Unless you know you're going to go to the gym, it's convenient. For a lot of people just
doing it at home, you'll get plenty of results to get started. And then again, of course, as your consistent
and your motivation goes up
and it becomes more of a long-term behavior,
then you can add more and more variety.
But you could do a whole workout with no equipment,
you could do a whole workout with suspension trainer,
which is very inexpensive piece of equipment
that you could attach to pretty much any overhang
or whatever, you could have a pair of dumbbells
and a fisioball, also very inexpensive.
You could probably buy adjustable dumbbells on Amazon
for under $70 that have a wide range of weights
that you can add to them and a fisioball's another
what, 30 bucks.
And now you have a home gym that you could do your workout.
And then if you could take it another level,
you could do a full home gym with a squat rack,
like PRX makes phenomenal equipment. That would be something you could do. You, a full home gym with a squat rack, like PRX makes phenomenal equipment.
That would be something you could do.
You have a squat rack, a barbell dumbbells, my garage.
And I remember I've been working out for decades
and I've been training people for decades
and I'm always pretty consistent.
I work out of my garage most of the time
and I have a squat rack, barbell, dumbbells, adjustable bench.
That's all I have on my garage
and that's what I use till this day for all of my advance work.
Sometimes that's a better use till this day for all of my advance work.
Sometimes that's a better route, especially for your beginner, because what happens sometimes
with a big commercial gym and a newbie.
Analysis by paralysis.
Yes.
Exactly.
Is the paralysis by analysis?
They're over here.
They're staring at all the different equipment and they're like, fuck, where do I go?
Where I do?
Or... I set it backwards. Or they're like, fuck, where do I go? Where do I go? Or, or they're like, Jim Quickeness.
Yeah.
I did.
Whoa.
Yeah.
Mind blown.
Or they get into this, they want to test drive everything.
You know, so you're workout.
I mean, I, you guys, you ever get,
I used to do this on a kid.
I used to get clients like this.
That would be like, I want to learn every machine in here.
I want to learn every machine in there.
So, you know, some people,
to go on the day you're not working on it.
Right, right.
People want to just know how to use everything in the gym.
And I get that because if I was a member
and I belong to a gym and I don't know how to use equipment,
I had a trainer, I would probably use my personal trainer
to at least learn all the equipment.
But when it's up happening, as you end up,
you go around to all these machines,
you find a few machines that you like or feel good or give you your pump in your arms the way you like and then
all of a sudden you're doing that machine all the time.
So be careful of that of all the cool toys inside of a gym because sometimes those exercises
as cool as they may seem or how neat the machine is, you're missing out on some of the fundamental
and the most important movements, which all that requires you have is a fucking barbell
or a set of dumbbells.
Yeah, I like that approach of starting at the home too,
because there's that sort of insecurity
where if you're brand new and you're going into a gym like that,
it can be very intimidating.
And also feel like you sort of project this on everybody else,
like people are like watching and judging you.
And so whatever you're doing, you're very like self-conscious about.
And to be able to really like practice and just hone in on it, like, a select few movements,
you know, and the only comfort of your house, I think that that's, I mean, that's a great
approach, especially if you're brand new.
That's my favorite thing, man.
I love working at home.
But all right, so I want to make sure that we, because we covered like seven steps that help you pick
the best workout, but I want to give, I want to leave people with some constructive takeaways.
So here's some takeaways for you.
If you just listen to this part of the episode, you'll have kind of a good idea in terms
of what a routine should look like for you.
So step number one, the most important
and foundational form of exercise
that everybody should include.
So if you only could pick one form of exercise,
make it this one, but it's not the only one
I think you should pick.
So I think everybody should incorporate
a wide variety of modalities in the routine,
but this should be the cornerstone
and that's resistance training.
Now here's why.
Resistance training builds strength, stability, mobility, it helps speed the metabolism up,
and it's extremely versatile, and it benefits all other physical pursuits, whether it be functional
flexibility or endurance or stability or fat loss or body sculpting.
So at the very least, you want to at least dedicate one day a week of resistance training.
So if you can only work out one day a week,
make it resistance training.
Now if you can work out more than one day a week,
I'd say up to three days a week,
do at least a full body resistance training routine
one to three of those days a week.
If your goal is endurance and you love yoga classes
or whatever, that's perfectly fine.
The other one or two days a week
can be dedicated to those form of exercises,
but make sure that one day a week it's lifting weights.
Now, if your goal is to build muscle,
sculpt the body, get lean, and you like lifting weights,
every one of those days can be resistance training.
And here's what I'll say to that.
Train your whole body.
If you can work out three days a week or less,
each one of those workouts should be a full body routine.
And it should start like this.
Work your legs first because that's the biggest body part.
Then move to your back, then move to your chest, then move to your shoulders, your arms,
then train your core, and then you can train things like your calves.
Try to move in that order.
Now, it doesn't need to be set in stone, but generally speaking, you want to do one, maybe
two exercises per part, per body part.
Now if you have short time,
then just do your legs, the back, chest, and shoulders.
And you can stay away from the other ones
because they get a lot of work
from working those other body parts.
And that'll cover some of the best exercises you could do.
Now if you work out more than that, if you're like,
hey, I know I can be consistent four or five days a week
or you're advanced and you want to go a lot, then you can start splitting up
the body if you want to.
You don't necessarily have to do that.
I don't do that and I work out quite a bit,
but that's when you can start splitting things up.
So if you're going to the gym five or six days a week,
maybe you do upper body on one day, lower body another day,
one day is just mobility or just sprints or just yoga.
Another day is an upper body day again,
but this time now you're doing different types of exercises.
Here's where you can mix it up a little bit.
Here's where you can mix up all the types of routines
and exercises.
Now as far as rep ranges are concerned,
all rep ranges up to about 30 reps,
how would say, generally speaking, have a lot of value.
All rep ranges have a lot of value.
I recommend, we recommend that you stay in one rep range
for at least three weeks or so.
Anywhere between, I'd say two to four weeks.
Staying that rep range, get good at that rep range
after about two to four weeks, move out of it
so that your body can continue to adapt and change.
As far as exercises are concerned,
you can change up exercises relatively frequently, only
if you've mastered them.
So what does that mean?
It means you're probably not going to stop doing barbell squats, dead lifts, and overhead
presses for a long time.
Or ever.
Or maybe ever.
Those exercises take a very, very long time to master.
So they probably are going to be in your routine, in your rotation consistently for a very,
very long time.
But like a dumbbell curl, okay, you get good at it.
You could switch that out for a machine curl
or a cable curl, not a big deal, okay?
So look at those things in that way.
Now in terms of goals, if your goal is endurance,
then your routine should be centered around building endurance.
If your goal is strength, it should be centered around strength.
If your goal is mixed, pick one and make that the center focus, but then add the, it's
almost like majoring and minoring in college, right?
You're going to major in strength, but you're going to minor in endurance.
Fine, you're in the gym three days a week.
If my major is strength and my minor is endurance, two days a week are dedicated to strength.
One day a week will be dedicated to endurance.
If it's the reverse, then you flip it around.
Now, if you're still confused,
if this is still kind of like, wow,
a great information, still not sure
what this is going to look like for me,
well, here's what buying a program
can really come in handy,
because it's all written out and planned out for you.
Now, we have a lot of programs,
so I don't want to necessarily go through every single one,
but I'll tell you this much.
If you're a super beginner,
no experience, low experience, super beginner,
maps starter was designed specifically for beginners.
It requires dumbbells and a physio ball,
or maps anywhere, which is no equipment at all,
and it's mainly body weight and resistance bands.
If you've got some experience,
but you haven't been in the gym much,
or you've got experience,
you've only been working out for six months or so.
Maps and a ballack, great program, but it is, sooms, you know, how to do a barbell
squat, barbell bench press, barbell row, that kind of stuff.
If you want to get more advanced, then you have things like maps aesthetic, maps split.
For people who like the endurance, the stamina, the different kind of workouts, that would
be more like maps performance, maybe even map strong.
And then we talked about correctional exercise mobility.
Here's something you can do with any workout.
You could do maps prime and that will teach you how to do correctional exercise and then
you can add it to whatever you're doing.
So if you're listening right now and you're like, you know what, they make good points.
I love swimming.
It's my favorite thing in the world to do.
I really hate any other form of exercise. They told me to do what I love swimming. It's my favorite thing in the world to do. I really hate any other form of exercise.
They told me to do what I love. Well then Maps Prime will teach you how to do a 10 to 50 minute
priming session before you swim so that you get good movement patterns and you have good mobility.
So that kind of simplifies it for you, but I think we gave you enough information in this episode itself
to kind of get started and make this happen. And also check out our free guides.
We have free guides that kind of spell this out and put it out all in writing for you.
You can find those at mindpumpfree.com.
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