Our ultimate mission and passion is to help you optimize in order to become your best self. The path to do this requires a pursuit of mastery and this is certainly an uncommon journey.
The first step on any journey should be to know where you are headed. Once you make a decision on where you want to go, a helpful next step can be to find a guide to help you on this journey.
Ideally this guide will be someone who is on a similar journey headed to the same place, but further along the path than you.
As coaches, this is our responsibility and calling. On my personal journey I have had many missteps, but I like to think that I have learned from those and have tried to create programs and a system that will help you avoid those same missteps.
A major criteria for our coaches is that they follow and believe in the system as well. It is my personal belief that as coaches we need to walk the walk not just talk the talk, As Mark Divine has been known to say, “We eat our own dog food.”
This idea has been so ingrained in me that I have been surprised lately when people have asked me what type of training I do?
My personal goal is to be the best I can be moment to moment. In other words, “Arete.” if you tell me you want to be the best you can be, then why would I tell you to train differently.
So, I have decided in September to factually journal and share as much of my training with you as possible. This will be for illustrative purposes in order to demonstrate a structure based on principles. The principles will be the same but the application may differ.
It is not intended for you to follow my plan exactly. The reason I say this is that we are all at different places on the path. What I will do is help you create a more specific plan that fits with your goals and what you can commit to doing on a consistent basis.
This is what I am trying to help you do in our individual coaching meetings. I am currently scheduling those on Mondays from 4:30-5:30. You can schedule utilizing the link below.
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Now finally to the title of this email. An example of principles and plan can be illustrated with the following example of our current training plan and programs related to exercise.
Lets first look at our definition of exercise. Simply put, the primary objective of exercise is to stimulate the body’s adaptive response, specifically targeting strength and muscle growth. This means that our main goal during exercise is to create a stimulus that triggers the body to adapt and enhance its physical capabilities.
Remember, ASAR ( Appropriate Stress Adequate Recovery). You don’t get better from the stimulus of exercise but rather during the recovery and adaptive phase. You can read more about this on our blog.
If you have limited time we know from the scientific evidence and from our own experience quantifying our clients results that clients can improve on a minimal dose of HELIMO Quantified Strength Training once per week.
So, we have found that for most people the minimal effective dose of exercise is 30 minutes once per week.
On the other hand, If you are looking for optimal gains and have the time to put in the work, the energy to train with the effort needed to stimulate gains, and the capacity to recover from that effort you may benefit from more frequent training. A training plan for optimization may consist of the following:
Two weekly sessions of HELIMO Quantified Strength Training
Two Sessions of the Superhuman protocol
Two sessions of the Hyper T sauna
There are many other factors to consider with individual training plans but these are examples of the possible plans based on your goals and what you are willing to commit to and consistently do.
We have put together packages for both a one week and one month Experience. If you are interested in either the one week or one month Experience, speak to your coach about getting started. We can also discuss these options in our individual coaching consults.