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Create a tailored plan to maximize adherence and progressive overload for better results in less time at the gym.

00:00 💪 Create a plan to maximize adherence and progressive overload for better results in less time at the gym.

• Today’s episode is about designing a fitness and exercise program to achieve desired goals for fitness and sports performance, combining different protocols to improve endurance, strength, hypertrophy, and speed.
• I want to discuss how to structure and plan an effective exercise program to get more progress for less effort or faster results with the same amount of effort.
• We can help people achieve their fitness goals with fewer restrictions by providing structure and linking to a fitness assessment to measure progress.
• Having a plan is always more effective than not having one for achieving success in a shorter time frame.
• Create a plan to maximize adherence and progressive overload for better results in less time at the gym.
• To ensure success in exercise, have a tracking system and do a little bit more each time.

07:19 💪 Set a specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely goal and use the dopamine system to track progress towards it while planning for potential obstacles.
To get the best results from a fitness program, one must assess properly and identify a training goal to create an optimal route to success.

• Pick a specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely goal, such as body weight or one-mile time, and aim to achieve it in a realistic timeframe.
• Participants who were given a goal that was slightly higher than their previous score achieved the best results.
• The dopamine system is a universal reward system that can be used to set and track progress towards goals, such as body fat reduction, with intermediate goals set at regular intervals.
• To achieve long-term goals, identify the obstacles that may prevent success and plan accordingly to ensure success in the future.

24:53 💪 Prioritize your goals and tailor your program to your specific needs to achieve the desired results.
To achieve a goal quickly, focus on it and prioritize it, but other goals can be done at the same time, depending on their compatibility.

• Training for speed, power, strength, and hypertrophy can be complementary, but if done in excess, can interfere with each other and compromise results.
• Most people want to gain muscle in specific places, lose fat, and improve their health.
• People exercise for different reasons, ranging from wanting to look a certain way, to wanting to be strong, to wanting to improve their motor skills for sports or activities.
• People should identify their goals and make them specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely in order to achieve their desired outcomes.
• Identify what is stopping you from hitting your goals and choose your programs based on why you’re failing to get the results you want.

51:35 📊 Allocate 2.5% of your energy to business, 2 to fitness, and 2 to recovery, and make specific, measurable life actions to hit your goals.

• Distribute 10 points across four categories (business, relationships, fitness, and recovery) to identify where you are giving the most attention.
• Allocate roughly 2.5% of your energy to business, 2 to fitness, and 2 to recovery, with recovery being at least half of the fitness allocation.
• To hit a training goal in a given time frame, you must make a choice to either alter the goal or timeline or alter your quadrant and take specific life actions.
• Make specific, measurable life actions, such as setting an alarm to remind yourself to read for pleasure or to drop everything and train at a certain time.
• Make non-negotiable rules to eliminate decision-making and increase happiness.
• Print a quadrant of your priorities and place it in two places, one being a place of failure, and the other in the hands of someone who can hold you accountable, and adjust it as needed.

01:03:45 💪 Prioritize exercises, schedule 3 days a week of exercise, and dedicate Saturdays to regeneration activities for best results.

• Plot out a realistic timeline for your goal, taking into account any important deadlines or events, and adjust the goal or number of days/length of time you can train accordingly.
• Schedule 3 days a week of exercise, selecting exercises that provide a balance between muscles, joints, and movement patterns to achieve your goals.
• To improve muscle size in your glutes, make sure you can do exercises properly with assistance, without assistance, with added eccentric load, isometrically, with speed, and with fatigue to lower your risk of injury.
• Prioritize exercises by doing the most important one first to ensure the best workout and make decisions easier when life gets in the way.
• Pick the most important thing to do and do it on the day of the week that is most consistent for you in terms of schedule and energy.
• Saturdays should be dedicated to regeneration activities such as bodywork, hot/cold contrast, etc.

01:24:58 💪 Start with exercises you love, adjust intensity and duration based on your goal, and use caffeine to boost performance, but avoid it close to bedtime.

• We identified the exercises people loved most and did them on Saturdays, followed by recovery activities.
• On high-friction days, do easier sessions that don’t require as much motivation, and on low-friction days, reduce cortisol and enjoy a slow, long run.
• Exercising 6 hours before sleep is ideal, but if that’s not possible, use down-regulation breathing and adjust the intensity and duration of exercise accordingly.
• Caffeine can have positive effects on mental and physical performance, but it should be avoided close to bedtime to prevent disruption of sleep architecture.
• Choose the intensity and volume of your training based on the adaptation you’re aiming for, and increase the variables by no more than 10% per week.
• To design an effective training program, consider your goal, select exercises, order them by priority, identify volume, load, and rest intervals, and plan for potential obstacles.

01:49:06 💪 Transition to outdoor activities, increase cardio, and lift weights once or twice a week to maintain muscle and get in great shape for the summer.

• Create a program that covers physical fitness parameters, fat control, muscle function, range of motion, VO2 max, sunlight exposure, and proprioception to achieve physical goals and maintain health across the lifespan.
• For 8–10 weeks, prioritize adding muscle by doing an indoor sport, weights 3–4 times a week, and 2 days of long walks, then transition to getting lean with hypocaloric state, outdoor sports, and fitness/exercise classes, then transition to cardiovascular shape with high-intensity interval training, outdoor sports, and weights, and finally transition to pure cardiovascular fitness with indoor sport, cardio machines, and walking.
• Gaining muscle requires a caloric surplus, but deliberately overeating to the point of gaining body fat stores is not healthy and will make the fat loss phase harder.
• Eating more calories than usual (10–15% above baseline) for 12 weeks is recommended to add muscle, but not to excess, and adjust accordingly for the Southern Hemisphere.
• During the first quarter of the year, focus on hypertrophy training, emphasize sleep, and do an indoor sport, then in the second quarter, focus on getting leaner, do an outdoor sport, and add in a fitness class.
• We are transitioning to outdoor activities, increasing our cardio, and lifting weights once or twice a week to maintain muscle and get in great shape for the summer.

02:18:45 💪 Mix sport, machines, dumbbells, social interaction, sun, enjoyment, fat loss, strength, hypertrophy, and cardiovascular endurance into a 12-week program with auto-regulation and balance for optimal health and performance.
Mixing sport, machines, dumbbells, social interaction, sun, enjoyment, fat loss, strength, hypertrophy, and cardiovascular endurance into a 12-week program with one back-off week and one deload week halfway through can help achieve goals of looking fantastic, feeling amazing, and being able to do it for life.

• For a 3-day workout program, do speed and power, strength, and high heart rate exercises, with a focus on full body parts, and finish in under 60 minutes.
• Doing a minimum of 150–200 minutes of low-intensity exercise per week, such as walking combined with physical activity, is necessary to reach optimal health.
• Muscular endurance can be achieved through low-intensity cardio, bodyweight exercises, and/or light weights with high reps.
• The program structure is important for achieving desired adaptations, but auto-regulation can be used to adjust based on how you’re feeling that day.
• Sticking to a schedule and balancing joy and life are keys to achieving fitness and performance goals.