Do You Need a Personalized Training Plan?
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Speaker 1:And remember, all it takes is one day at a time. Hello everyone good morning good morning good morning it's Friday and it's gonna be a belter of a weekend. Now let me talk about something that is very important so getting a few emails about training plans and stuff is like is this training plan personalized? Right? I'm like look, we're all human beings so like whilst we all have our own unique lives and our own personal data due to all the variances like with the weight and the mental cycle and the stress and all this stuff will be very different.
Speaker 1:That's why in terms of nutrition whilst there's principles that we need to follow obviously calorie deficit stuff like that. There's a lot of individual variants which means the changes are going to be different not like massively completely different in terms of otherworldly stuff but they will be different depending on your own data okay. But we still need to remember we're all human beings we're not all special different people from each other right. So we need to understand that there's principles, there's scientific principles that apply to all of us. When it comes to training, when people say is this training plan personalized?
Speaker 1:You don't need a personalized training plan unless you're a athlete. You don't need to have this personal structure and put like different things for really specific goals, only athletes need to have those tailor made plans. In general 90% of your results will come from following a structured training plan and doing it over a period of time. If you're gonna go to the gym and do random workouts all the time, you're hardly gonna make progress. If you go to the gym and follow a really basic training plan three times a week and then it just follows like periodization so you're either adding a bit more weight every week, you're adding another set every week or whatever, you're gonna make gains and also you need to have the same core exercises, the compound exercises, know the squats and stuff like that and focus on getting stronger in them and that is literally as easy as it gets.
Speaker 1:You do that over time, you're gonna get stronger, you're gonna add muscle right. There's no need to think that you need a super specific individual designed plan when your goal is just to get fit, strong, healthy. Okay, and I think this is where people get sold on these nonsense things you see online like, I see a lot of people say like food tolerances make sure you eat in there all the metabolic types, making sure you eat for your, the right metabolism, you've got like different, all this stuff is designed to overcomplicate things in your mind and over complication can fool a lot of people but it doesn't fool people who can see straight through it. So be wary of people who try and overcomplicate everything when it comes to health and fitness because usually that's a sign of a scam or a sign of someone just trying to position themselves as having something unique and special and playing on your kind of, playing on your, what's the word, insecurities in a way like, oh right, yeah of course that's why I'm not losing weight. No that's why I'm not gaining any strength, I need something really specific for me.
Speaker 1:I'm really, really special, I'm the only person in the world that has this body so I must be, I need a really specific plan with newly designed exercises just for my body and it's like it's not true at all and the food intolerances I mentioned just now is a lot of people go to these food intolerance tests or allergy things or whatever. Allergy is different food intolerance test and then tolerance test will say to them yeah every food you currently eat and you're intolerant to. But intolerant bits and bobs to lots of foods right doesn't mean we should stop eating them right and these tests will always show you, it always tell you that you're intolerant to the foods you're currently eating. I can't remember when I saw it but something like doctor did a test on this and she then went back and stopped eating the foods they said they were intolerant to and then started eating different foods and guess what happened when she went back for the second test. They told her that they were intolerant to the food she's now eating.
Speaker 1:Alright so don't be fooled, do not be fooled by this narrative in the fitness industry and don't use it as an excuse not to start a plan, okay. If you just followed the six week in your year plan we've got or the twelve week strong, the strong V2, the basics, the fundamentals, the tried and tested over decades. You're gonna get results, so stop messing about, trying to wait for a like super specific design plan. That's my rant for today guys. You are all special though by the way, you know we're all special, you know, you know, we're not special in terms of like in reality how we really work in general, are we?
Speaker 1:We're all pretty much, we're made of the same things. You know we share 50% of our DNA with the banana though so I don't really know, so we are 50% banana and there we are, that's your bit of knowledge today. But if any of you have said this on one of the Q and A's before, if any of you have been thinking like alright you know we do a lot of live workouts and variety and stuff. So just to finish on this, think variety and exercise is really good in terms of if your goal is just fat loss and you want to have endorphins rushing, do what you enjoy, just do what you enjoy live workouts energy, boom, boom, boom. If your goal is to seriously add some muscle and get strong, you're gonna have to follow a plan, a training plan, structured plan.
Speaker 1:Three workouts a week is fine, fourth optional workout. I do suggest if you haven't done the twelve week strong or you want to go, I haven't done it in ages, go back and do the twelve week strong. Then do the strong V2, then do the six week in your year plan, that's the year covered for you training wise. Do them, sprinkle some live workouts in when you want and hallelujah, hit your macros and you won't believe the difference in your body when you follow a plan, right. So I'm gonna leave you on that.
Speaker 1:Now enjoy your weekend, don't get sunburned, right. Know we're like over in The UK we think we're special as I know I won't get burned mid. Red, lobster, gone, crisp. So enjoy your weekend, I will see you all on Monday and hopefully next week is the week we do launch our macros app. We're trying to find the best name for it so if can let me know I think like turtle smart nutrition coach or turtle personal nutrition coach.
Speaker 1:Like what should we call it? Give me some ideas because it does a lot and we have to make it quite a short name otherwise people would be like, man that's just too long. But have a good weekend and I'll speak to you on Monday on annual members on-site. And that's it. Thank you for listening to the one day at a time podcast with your host, Gottfleer.
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