The BEST Training and Nutrition Program
We all look for it. Coaches, athletes, clients, everyone. We all look for the perfect training program and the perfect diet. Of course, each of us has our own opinions as to what the perfect program and diet looks like, and those opinions can shift and sway over time.
The better trainers and coaches out there know that the perfect training program doesn’t come down to the perfect rep, set or periodization scheme. It comes down to logistics. If you feel you designed the perfect program and you have barbell front squats scheduled for day one, with 20 athletes and 2 power racks, you’re program is already obsolete. You may have designed the perfect program on paper but you’re program, in this scenario, well it sucks. This is why we, as coaches, should NEVER judge someone’s program until we understand their SYSTEM, ENVIRONMENT, EQUIPMENT RESTRICTIONS, CLIENTELLE, and LOGISTICS.
Of course we can look at something like P90X and know it’s garbage without ever having to experience 500 plyometric foot contacts in a single session (if you don’t know this is bad, try it, and then you will know it’s bad). And of course someone is going to read this, send me hate mail (like they have before), and say that they or someone they know lost 20lbs doing P90X and are now in the greatest shape of their life. My point? Adherence to a program. You can have a horribly designed program and still make tremendous strength gains and change your body composition. It all comes down to “will you be compliant on this program”? Or “will your client be compliant on the program you have designed”? I am not advising things like P90X in any way, shape or form. You should always look to make positive progress on your health without negative effects on your body. As simple as that sounds, most don’t get it, but the great coaches do. Being compliant, it is why your neighbor is shredded from the “Insanity” workout DVD’s, your best friend can do 400 pullups (he failed to mention these are the kipping kind and he was in the hospital from rhabomyolysis for a week) and why your co-worker lost 30 pounds even while slurping down some high fructose corn syrup on the “Medifast” diet.
Being compliant is just another part of the logistics in designing great training and nutrition programs. “WILL THEY ACTUALLY DO WHAT YOU ARE TELLING THEM TO DO”? This thought process has simplified my training programs and my nutrition advice. And you know what? My programs are better because of it. Now…. Go push something, pull something, do something for your legs and core, and don’t eat too many things from a box but rather eat things that grow from the earth. Do those things (most of the time), and do them brilliantly well (most of the time) and you will be in the best shape of your life.
DN
