Primal performance cast Primal Performance Cast

This week I get back into it with a solo podcast about a topic I have been talking with clients about a lot lately and I have been evolving my own practices with and this pertains mostly to personal training and what always is sold in it is weigth loss. Now I get it not everyone speaks gym rat however, the messages that are out there are so extreme its no wonder clients heads feel like they're gonna explode and their anxious. When the scale is used as a major metric and nothing else it doesn't create a proper or lasting change it also sets very unrealistic at times expectations towards goals and when focusing just on the scale it creates a lot of stress and focus on weight and image the one bad thing a bout the scale is it goes up and down a lot and is a good trend metric but not to see if change is happening you need to link it with a few different metrics to capture exactly what is happening. 

This episode is very in depth I sit down with Cruz a trainer for 5 years plus and a elite level natural bodybuilder who has competed at the national level. We talk about how training as a natty is different but you many people that are natural are capable of much more then they will put themselves through. We end up diving down the motivation habit hole a bit in terms of what makes people tick when trying to get in shape. 

Cruz has pivoted successfully his in person pt to online pt and has a lot of very good insight into how to get started on it and make the choice to just start, in his words the market isn't that saturated there is a couple billion ppl in the world and with online you can reach clients from allover so you have a endless potential of people you can help!

Cruz and many other fitness pros are singling a shift in the industry and the outlook and I personally believe it is much needed. Focusing on health and sustainable practices to achieve reasonable results as efficiently and affectively as they possibly can. 

If your looking to get started on your fitness journey or pivot your business give this a listen!

Josh has been the head strength and conditioning coach at the University of Guelph for 7 years and has spent a few years at the D1 level in the NCCA with two different basketball programs and has worked with Canada basketball and many other teams over his career. I sit down with Josh to break down some very common misconceptions about the industry and get the views of a veteran coach. 

Josh has a lot of great insights into many things in including autmony of clients and atlhetes and how the coaching process is a process and not a set of rules exactly laid out as such. As well as some great takes on specificity in a strength and conditioning program and what roll strength should play in it. 

Josh also has some very good advice for those industry when it comes to longevity and your own and managing life when your a strength coach or fitness professional. Be sure to have a listen to this podcast a lot of valuable information in here 

took some time this week to do a solo podcast, to give listeners some more background on myself and how I got into the industry I have been around gyms for a long time and been training clients in some shape or from for 10 years now. 5 of those are full-time coaching without school or other things getting in the way. I feel that I'm in a place as a coach that I'm moving up the chain and have a solid level of knowledge there is still room to grow and refine always, but I'm at a place now in the food chain that I can speak on things with experience and be able to hopefully guide future coaches forward and elevate the standard of the industry greatly in the private side of things. Ie the non traditional strength coach work place. 

I have been fortunate to spend a lot of time around some really great coaches and have been able to lean from each of them but also spin off to my own approach I'm not a mimi or copy of any one coach but a mix of all of them. This is where I think new coaches flatter they try to emulate other coaches to much lean from them and dive in but make it your own training isn't black and white it is a art and a science. 

Clive is a Chiropractor in Burlington, and has been in fitness a very very long time. know for his memes and sense of humour as well as his ability to treat patients with a holistic approach that gets them out of pain and back there sport or daily routine fast. Clive has a passion for barbell sports and that is one of the reasons why a big part of his practice is trying to help powerlifters, bodybuilders and crossfires fix injuries that have been hindering them for a while. Clive lays out some of the fundamentals that you as a barbell sport athlete should be looking to not only perform better in the gym but also prevent injury and ensure you feel better outside the gym as well. If your lifter that's looking to improve there movement capabilities or have a history of injuries check this out . 

Mac has been a coach for a long time and worked his way up the ranks as a strength and conditioning coach at UofG starting from an intern and ultimately becoming a key player in that schools S&C department as the assistant coach and head strength coach  for mens and women's volleyball and basketball at the university around the time of covid Mac left to pursue a private practice in strength and conditioning in Guelph coaching athletes at all levels as well as people looking to improve there health and fitness.