Welcome to Episode 14, This week we are following up on the Topic of Periodization.
We took a slightly different approach this week and free-styled the interview. Meaning I didn’t send our guest Coach Drake the questions in advance. So he was purely answering based off his research and understanding, experience, and training of the topic.
I found an interesting list on verywellfit.com; published last month. It gave the top ten reasons why people quit working out. I found the idea that # two on that list seemed to ring true in my opinion because it basically eluded to 2nd reason why people quit is due to not having a sustainable plan with goals. So that could be due to lack of planning, not knowing what to do, or how to taper and peak our program for progress… Lifetime Fitness Lenexa’s Coach Nick will help us understand what Periodization is, hwo it can help us, and where to start.
Coach Drake's Contact Info:
Julia Email:ndrake@lt.life
Instagram: @nickdrake32
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Phone: 913-585-0265
Additional Show Notes:
All right that is a wrap on Ep 14; My take-aways this week, I like what coach Nick had to say about how Periodization is like seasons, your training is broken up in to three parts as a part of those season. Overall, you have a spring where you are building up to the peak, which would be like the summer, and a Fall/Winter where you taper back down. I think this in interesting because I know I didn’t have that perspective in my early programming before I started working with Coach Adam.
Also, I think it is important to incorporate testing. This is important because it can determine effectiveness and progress, much like what you might see in CrossFit and Alpha. This is done to help determine if there is tweaking needed along the way. Also, it can help keep you motivated and your eyes on the goal.
If you guys have takeaways you would like to share feel free to hit us up on our social media, the details are in the show notes.
Anyhow make sure you tune in next week to Episode 15: we will be speaking with Coach Phillip Butler and Jonathan Fiser about what we need to know before going Keto. The Ketogenic Diet in case you have seen it on social media or heard about it from your lifting friend…is a high fat, very low carb diet is a trending in the health in fitness community. There are some things you’ll want to be aware of before taking it on…So be sure to tune in next Wednesday, June 18th to hear more.
