June 10, 2025

All Hail Linear Progression! - E.357

All Hail Linear Progression! - E.357
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Imagine training for years but never truly reaching your potential. This episode reveals why linear progression—the simple concept of systematic improvement—might be the missing piece in your fitness journey.

We begin by introducing "The Ramp Theory," a powerful visualization tool that explains why so many athletes fail to progress despite consistent training. Picture yourself as a cyclist facing a massive jump. Starting at the bottom with no momentum leads to failure; beginning high on the ramp with enough runway creates the momentum needed for success. This metaphor perfectly captures how proper progression sets you up to surpass previous limitations.

What makes linear progression so effective is its versatility across all training domains. For strength work, we explore multiple variables beyond simply adding weight—increasing reps, sets, improving technique, or manipulating rest periods. We share specific rules for accessory work that prevent plateaus and build sustainable progress. Machine-based conditioning offers perhaps the clearest application through the Gears Matrix, allowing precise improvements in pace, wattage, or RPMs across different energy systems.

The conversation takes a fascinating turn when we discuss applying these principles to metcons, skill work, and even mobility. By identifying specific variables to track and improve within complex workouts, you can continue progressing where most athletes plateau. For gymnastics and technical movements, we emphasize breaking skills into component parts and progressively checking more boxes over time.

Perhaps most importantly, we address the mindset needed for long-term success. The athletes who consistently improve year after year aren't necessarily those with the most natural talent—they're the ones who understand that progress comes from small, consistent improvements accumulated over time. They prioritize proper technique over ego, building foundations that support continuous growth rather than chasing short-term numbers on the whiteboard.

Whether you're struggling with plateaus or simply want to maximize your training efficiency, this episode provides a framework that works for athletes at any level. Tune in to discover how to create momentum in your training and finally break through barriers that have held you back.

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00:18 - Welcome and Program Updates

03:01 - Golf Training and Coaching Insights

10:28 - Hockey Talk: McDavid and Playoffs

18:52 - Linear Progression Fundamentals

32:10 - The Ramp Concept and Momentum

51:54 - Strength Work and Variable Manipulation

01:04:11 - Machine Paces and Conditioning

01:08:36 - Linear Progression in Metcons

01:15:59 - Skill Development and Mobility Work

01:28:30 - Final Thoughts on Training Philosophy

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Good morning Misfits.

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You are tuning into another episode of the Misfit Podcast.

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On today's episode we will be talking about one of my favorite things in the entire world and that is linear progression, a little concept called the ramp that I often use at the beginning of conversations with remote clients or just sort of as a way to begin like a programming, mentorship, that sort of thing.

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Before we get into that, a little bit of housekeeping, a little bit of live chat.

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All right, hunter live chat.

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What's going on?

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What's up, I'll save my.

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I was actually going to talk about the I've been doing recently, the once a week 10-8-6-4-2 power movements, so power clean with a 500 meter row in between sets as rest, where the instruction is.

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Flirt with fatigue without not failure.

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Um, I was actually going to be part of my.

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Uh, I'll bury the lead a little bit.

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Include that in my linear progression conversation there's a lot of bang for your buck in there.

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We'll get into that.

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Yeah it's.

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It's a bit of a time efficiency thing for me, yeah yeah, I really like it.

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It's it gets it done in a.

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It's very, it's very gpp-esque for for me and on a day where I have a little bit tighter of a time window, um, that's been good, but I'll I'll save that a little bit for the yeah, linear progression conversation that I didn't know we were having until 15 minutes ago.

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But it works like the old unprepared podcast that's perfect.

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You guys were the only ones that were unprepared.

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I knew it every time, yeah.

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Everybody else just there.

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Um, yeah, not.

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Uh, let's see life chat.

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I did the handicaps going in the wrong direction.

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Currently, uh, currently on the upswing.

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Yeah, we talked about this, though Sometimes steps forward require steps.

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Yeah, yeah, working on some some swing stuff, going to uh get a lesson for some professional instruction.

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I have, uh, once again fallen prey to the idea that somebody really much better than me at golf so I'm playing playing with a friend of mine who I actually went to high school with.

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He's a, he's a plus handicap, meaning he, like, on average, shoots par or better, might shoot par better on a course.

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Very good golfer.

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Yeah, gave me some in the moment like thoughts, uh, because I was like struggling, struggling with contact, like good quality contact, one day and he kind of made some observations and there are observations that I knew existed, um, but I've been able to like, I guess, compensate, work around them a little bit, um, trying not to, but like it, it doesn't take long for you to deviate thinking in CrossFit, like you have a good session, everything lines up, maybe your coach is watching, or you get a review and you're like, yes, this is it, and you feel like things have clicked, and then the next time it's a little bit off, and the following time it's a little bit off of that, and then maybe you start to like go down the self-correction rabbit hole or, worse, the youtube rabbit hole of uh corrections designed for massive clicks and not your personal.

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You know, improvement.

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So what?

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Uh, they wouldn't.

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We need to.

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Uh, I need to get back just in front of a professional with one set of eyes to watch my specific issues and give me some corrections and not get caught in the like.

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Well, my friend, who's better than me at this thing, told me to do that, so I'm going to start doing that and then I'll play golf like him.

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And it's like you're also uniquely qualified to audit the ability of a coach.

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Well, that's someone being good at something does not mean I can help you.

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Yeah, exactly, and, like you know, he certainly didn't at any point claim to be that.

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But, yeah, absolutely Like.

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I was a lot of like why don't you just do this when someone's kind of natural at something and you're like right, yeah, hit it straight and far and then be accurate.

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Yeah, and it's not even like he like he struggled, like he was saying like, yeah, I struggled with that too and took me a while to correct it.

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I just have to be like, okay, well, I'm, I'm hearing advice from somebody who's played the game for 20 years as a as a player, not a coach and has therefore, you know, you know, 10, 10 times as many years of experience and tinkering that I do.

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So, yeah, I think that in my golf journey so far, having that like the coach experience on my side has helped.

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But with that said, it's like I still fall into the same trap that I would tell an athlete to not fall into Right If one of my athletes came to me and said like well.

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I watched this video on YouTube.

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They're saying to do this and I'm like motherfucker, I'm gonna kill you.

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It's like you know it'd be the same.

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It's the same concept.

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And I know better, but I still can't help myself sometimes.

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But yeah, I think the reason no-transcript.

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If I ever went back and tried to coach football or baseball, like knowing what I know now, I would have to relearn everything based on that fact, not just, hey, like like there's so many, there's so many bad coaches out there that were good at whatever respective thing that they're coaching.

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Sure, and like you see it a lot in like youth sports, it's like why doesn't this?

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You know this dad played, you know independently baseball, or like D1 soccer or whatever the thing is, and it's like well, yeah, he's 6'3", 215, he's got a fucking howitzer.

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Like you know what I mean.

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Like, do you really break things down again into their component parts and can you spot the flaw and can you show not at full fucking speed against a pitch or whatever it is out on, literally like in the middle of a round?

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Like, can you show them that and give them the, literally like in the middle of a round?

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Like, can you show them that and give them the uh, the like the option to iterate over like a series of practice?

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Yeah, I had a coaching, just so different.

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My high school hockey coach was that and we me and me and the golfer neil that I've been playing with we like reminisce a little bit about high school hockey days and I was like, yeah, somewhat I don't remember who, oh no, it was a, it was a different friend.

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He asked me what coach, or being coached by my high school hockey coach, was like and I was like, in, in hindsight, my, my high school hockey coach was in, he played in the nhl, he was.

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He was actually that guy.

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He was like 6, 6, 245, like big man moving.

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You could tell he played in the NHL.

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But I was like, yeah, in hindsight, he wasn't a hockey coach, he was a former NHL player.

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And you know, for public high school sports it's like maybe that's a sufficient qualification.

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But that doesn't mean you're a good coach, um.

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And then, in the same way, like how many CrossFit games athletes would you necessarily want to be your coach?

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Because, just because they achieved a high level of competition, Um, so, yeah, yeah.

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Going back in the lab with a with a pro, hopefully come back out the handicap going back in the uh in the right direction.

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But we got a that's a good segue in there we have to.

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We're gonna do like just a little bit of hockey talk and I'll tell you why we have to do it I mean you don't have to tell me why I just do it greatness is so fascinating to me and it's time I am going to watch and read everything that I can find on connor mcdavid.

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I need to know I have to know and read everything that I can find on Connor McDavid.

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I need to know, I have to know.

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And the Canadians and the fucking you know little, Wayne Gretzky's puck handling when he's three years old, you know dad, I'm coming in in a few hours, Like you know what I mean Like like I love that culture.

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That's such a huge part of it.

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Right.

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Like like they're if you're not pretty good when you're four in canada.

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They're like me like yeah, that's enough like that kind of thing.

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So there's got to be part of it there for you but there's different elements to these things that really fascinate me, and I've watched a good amount of hockey, but not like a ton.

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I grew up watching college hockey.

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Got into the nhl in like the late 90s, which is funny because our listeners would be like I wasn't alive.

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Yet um got into the nhl in the late 90s honestly a lot because you didn't watch hockey.

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97.

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NHL 97 is a great game.

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Um, so I I, I understand it, I know what, I've seen a lot of it and he's.

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It's one.

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The one thing you can say it could be like a, like a I could be going too deep into the sports here for people, but like a Brady versus Rogers.

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Like Wayne Gretzky is the greatest hockey player to ever live and maybe mcdavid will surpass that, but he's the, the best, the most skilled.

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Like, oh my god, the shit that that guy does is so there's certainly no other player at their peak at any time in the nhl who could compare to connor mcdavid right now, for sure no, no, it's so fascinating to watch, and you know you don't even need to watch.

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I'll sit on, I'll suggest I'll suggest playoff hockey to anyone.

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You don't even need to know what's going on.

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That shit is wild, especially if you get to ever get to see it in person.

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In person it's just like, like the entire arena has like a heartbeat.

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It's just a totally different experience than any other sport.

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Like everyone's on the edge of their seat the whole time, like you feel like you're gonna throw up if you're up a goal the speed is just the anxiety it's one of the few sports, too, that, like when you're watching, you can like I don't know, I, I, I think maybe, maybe for a layman, not so much, but like you can, you can see and feel the speed and intensity of the game, I think more so than you can in in basically any other sport.

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No, 100% agree, because it's, it's like a it's, it's artful, it's these like massive human beings, or at least a lot of them.

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I'm gonna just about soon here gonna be talking about a tiny human being.

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That's awesome, but um, like it's not just fast, it's like finesse, it's power, it's all these things happening yeah, there's a fluidity to it and part of it's just the nature of the sport.

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Like you sure the stop and jump out there and go go real hard for 30 or 40 seconds yeah yeah, because it is.

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it is like so many of these stop start.

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Sports are like the.

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The other side of the spectrum is soccer where, like the I remember the last world cup I was like communicating with g Gabe a little bit and he was just like gotta watch Mbappe, like you have to see this guy, yeah.

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And I was like I'm not gonna know what's going on, like I don't understand it at all.

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And I watched one game and I was like that's the fittest man alive.

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Oh my God, he can sprint for an hour Like what the fuck.

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But then you, what the fuck.

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But then, yeah, you go to baseball or football and you play for like one second and I think there's something special about hockey being this continuous game, but they're not out there for very long, but it's like long enough to really see it.

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Like a football play is just done and a lot of people that watch it are like I don't even know what just happened yeah, I was gonna honestly make like like world cup soccer, a close second in that regard, just because, again, I think it just has more to do with the sport and how it's like continuous, so you can see like yeah the ebbs and flows of the speed of the game, without it coming to a screeching halt like in basketball or football.

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But I just invented a new sport they should do shifts in soccer.

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That'd be so dope people sprinting all over the field that'd be awesome because that's like one of the knocks, like the field is so gigantic.

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That's lacrosse.

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I think that's basically lacrosse.

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Yeah, yeah, sort of, but um, I don't know how much stuff you're gonna find on mcdavid I'll find it.

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I mean I'll I know fair enough I'll find, but I'll go youtube.

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I'll you know how those dudes make those documentaries on youtube.

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You don't even know if they're real just some.

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Yeah, they're not, they're actually just clips and like an ai voice over, yeah, but some of them are decent because they like actually take the time to dig um.

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So at the very least go watch the game highlights.

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They're unreal.

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And then I hate the florida panthers, but I got this weird feeling going on right now because after four nations he's like usa cheering for kachok, really kind of I don't know man it made me feel weird inside like I didn't know anything about myself.

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And then now my boy, brad marshand, is on on the panthers, which is weird.

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It's like a red sox player going to play for the yankees kind of a thing, not quite as drastic, but um, he's so fucking good and he fits in so well there.

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Like I was listening to an interview of a of a retired nhl player who said during the lockout um, they would skate together and you can understand his genius.

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When you are training one-on-one with another guy, it's like if, if there is a puck that you're both skating to and you don't beat him by like a mile, he's gonna get it from you, because normally he just beats you to it.

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And if he doesn't, the way he can position his body and just, you know, poke your stick up or hit you, you know, get the butt of the stick.

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Like it's like it makes no sense that he's able to do what he does.

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Like basically talking about how he's like a magician good on his edges, like he's wily too.

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Like yeah, like in a you know they, he's people don't a lot of people don't like him.

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He's one of those guys.

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If he's not on your team, you fucking hate him because he's, you know, blowing kisses at you or licking your face or god knows what he's doing um they did, uh, they did lose.

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I was right, they played.

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Last night panthers won six, one, so it's it's two, one florida what yeah, thursday, my app didn't refresh in edmonton I logged in to espn this morning which I do every morning because we're on the east coast and I can't watch sports Like I'm not staying up until midnight and it said tied one one play tonight, so it just didn't update my ESPN.

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Damn it.

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Six to one.

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Holy shit, Six one.

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Yikes Marchand first period goal 56 seconds in big out boys.

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Yeah, he had two goals game before.

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I think you know who else is super impressive in this series is Corey Perry, who's 40 years old and still contributing for an NHL Wild.

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So Bob actually played well.

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We're going to lose all of our listeners.

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17 minutes in Bob's still on his fucking head Shots on 33 to 31 shots on goal 85 penalties, he only does like one of those in a series, though he won't do that again.

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I mean if you can.

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If Bob can steal a game, then that's usually good, but I don't think that's going to happen again.

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I think the rest of them will be close.

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It's not that easy to shut down.

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Fucking mcdavid and dry sidle.

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Crazy that those two are on the same team, although they've talked about how, like, the third line of the panthers would be the first line on any other team other than the oiler.

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So it's like yeah, it's kind of like depth versus juggernauts.

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That's probably got to be the biggest difference between the two teams, just how deep that Florida bench is.

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Yeah, all right, let's talk about linear progression.

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I'll start with my origin story.

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I've told this story before on the podcast.

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I think by rule I can tell it every 100 episodes roughly.

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So we're back around to the same story In 2003, I want to say 2003, 2004, I went to a combine for high school to college football players and they did max bench press at 165 pounds and I got one rep at 165 as a senior in high school.

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Now, in my defense, this was gluten Drew.

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I was a very, very skinny young man, unaware of the fact that everything that I ate came flying out of my body because I was allergic to it, so it's helpful to find that out later on down the line, um and my coach, who was in charge of getting me stronger I was also kind of a douchebag.

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Um made another profession where being a big guy with a chest does not qualify you to be the strength and conditioning coach yeah, now he was the head coach, but he was also thought he was the strength and conditioning coach.

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He wasn't good at either.

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Um, and he made fun and like I don't know if, if my ego now is the size of this room that I'm in, it's like the size of a bedroom.

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At that point in my life my ego was probably the size of I don't know New England, somewhere in that range.

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So like stuff like that worked for me England somewhere in that range.

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So like stuff like that worked for me.

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Like him saying basically that I was weak and making fun of me, even though it was his job to get me stronger.

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It was like, all right, bitch, like let's go.

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So I started going to the gym by myself and found a three by 10 linear progression bench press program in a lifting magazine that I bought.

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Like, like straight up, like at a, like a stand in the mall, was like, all right, let's go, let's get into this.

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Um, and I basically started doing three by 10, adding five pounds.

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So if I had to guess, I was, you know whatever 10 reps at 95 pounds, 10 reps at a hundred pounds, 10 reps at 95 pounds, 10 reps at 100 pounds, 10 reps at 105 pounds and then each week, each set went up five pounds and I rode that to.

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I did 165, 410 during that progression and he decided that he's like one of those guys that has like one joke and he was a teacher in the school.

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So he made fun of me again in front of some of the other football players.

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Is after the football season and I was like how much do you think I bench now?

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He's like what he like expected me to just not say anything.

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He's like, it's like how much?

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do you think that I bench press now like I've been training, and he's like where?

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And I was like just at the like local gym things called B fit that's the name of the gym and um spelt, he goes oh I don't know, did you hit one 70?

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And I said, nah, I hit two 15.

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And he was just like, like hadn't that range?

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And then back then dude 220, if you bench 225, you're the strongest man alive.

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Oh yeah, yeah yeah.

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Is this like a 17?

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In high school, 17-year-old kid You're a goddamn war hero, right Exactly.

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And that, honestly, is the origin story of.

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I don't think if that happened I'd be on this fucking podcast right now.

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Like that got me down the rabbit hole of and we've talked about this before on the mental side of like like once you know that if you want something, there is something that you can do about it.

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Like that shouldn't be an epiphany, but it's very much an epiphany in like a young person's life, where you kind of just assume that, like the world happens to you and everything is like circumstance and shit like that yeah then it was just like huh, if I try hard and do the same thing over and over, I can get better at it.

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Like I can just choose to do that.

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And then it was fucking like I would.

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I read arnold's book and my brother and I would do arnold's full routine.

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It takes two and a half hours at the gym, like like the whole thing yeah like just just knowing that you can start somewhere, and like, of course, beginner gains are very much a thing, but every year, like we're doing it right now, we're doing Texas method and people are going to realize that like, if you have the right brand of linear progression, it's going to continue to work over and over and over.

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We'll get into a lot of the tactics here, but I always like to start something like this with a little bit of an origin story.

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I'm not sure if you can think of one hunter.

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Yeah, I was just kind of trying to think back.

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I think my first true exposure to traditional linear progression was reading Starting Strength Mark Ripoteau's book I watched.

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That was a time too when I was getting into CrossFit, when he was a little bit more like he was one of the kind of the original maybe subject matter experts on on powerlifting or just somebody that that was deferred to for his, for his knowledge and just the.

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You know I still have that start the starting strength book and just the, the five by five, add five pounds a week like really just kind of like cemented the idea that just like by adding you can just like see progress by adding a little bit each week.

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And I think even prior to that, my like very first exposure to like just training in general, I did like you know I got, I got into it from like men's health magazine it was like I'll just do the workouts that are in the book.

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And then that progressed to like well, I didn't make varsity hockey as a sophomore, which kind of sucks, especially if you want to play in the NHL, which was obviously a fucking pipe dream.

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But, um, you know, it doesn't, doesn't bode all that well for your future in hockey.

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And then I you know.

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So I trained my ass off over the summer and it was like that was when Nike Bauer dot com had like programs and Brad Marchand, of all people, was playing like junior hockey for Canada.

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His face was like but the point was, is that I?

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It was like a handful of workouts that they basically just like rotated through, and I was a kid I didn't realize that it was just probably some intern just copying and pasting on nikebauercom.

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But the point was is like the.

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Every time I went out it was like okay, I'm gonna just try to go faster than last time.

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It's like that.

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That was the only.

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It's just the principle of like well, I've done this before, can I do it better this time?

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Um, I didn't know that there was a name for that and I don't know that it would even call it linear progression, but just the concept that, like you if you're gonna train and repeat something, like the idea that you would just do the same thing over and over again, like you see so many kind of traditional, just everyday gym goers in the gym.

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It's like I always do my three by ten.

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At 135 I do.

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I use 40 pound dumbbells for my bench press, whatever it is and it's like like what, how could you expect to?

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In my head it just made sense that like why would you expect to get better if you're just going to do the same thing over and over?

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And I went through a phase of doing that like everybody else.

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But then it was like like well, if I do more than this, then I can.

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By definition, I'm stronger.

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So like I don't have quite goal of like do it heavier, do it faster or do it better in order to kind of continue to make progress.

00:26:50.626 --> 00:27:03.964
So yeah, and I will admit that I use the term linear progression in place of things like progressive overload or literally just progression, like that kind of thing.

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Yeah, because it's the same.

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It's the same concept that I'm trying to bring to it, and I like using it because I think the idea of incremental growth is something that a competitive crossfitter has to wrap their mind around.

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Yeah, I have to get better at understanding what they're training and why they're training it, so that they can then try to make these smaller improvements to actually see what's going on, because there is the like physical benefit, of course, but there's also a mental benefit.

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If it's staring me in the face that I'm getting better, there's a pretty good chance I'm going to show up tomorrow.

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I think there's also like for the CrossFitter, because of the number of things that you have to be proficient in.

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A linear progression makes a lot of sense and I think at some point we can talk about like the difference between that and like an undulating periodization type program that might be more specific to like weightlifting, but even that to a certain extent we do that by rotating like lifts of you know, speed, volume, heavy loading.

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Right, you go back down, but then the percentage goes up.

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You know what I mean.

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Like, if you're doing waves, like waves in and of themselves have linear progression built into them.

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things like that, thing like a weightlifter is training just to max a snatch and max a clean and jerk, you have to be proficient in a lot of different both movements and energy systems.

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The linear progression makes it, I think, a lot easier for a CrossFitter to just kind of track progress across the dozens of movements that you need to be proficient in, whether it's EMOMs for chest-to-bar pull-ups or muscle-ups, where you you know you add one rep every week or add one rep to the first set and you know that sort of thing or using the gears matrix for the aerobic or cardio type machines where we're just trying to shave one second off every time we do something similar.

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It just makes a lot of sense for a CrossFitter who has to kind of track a lot of different components of fitness.

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For sure.

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So just an overview here on linear progression using progressions to get better at a lot of different things.

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We're choosing a variable to increase and we'll talk a lot about, within the different categories, what variables you can choose to increase.

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And we'll talk a lot about, within the different categories, what variables you can choose to increase.

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But this is part of the secret that can really help a programmer, an athlete, a remote coach, that sort of thing, when you are locking in on which variable is either most likely to be able to increase or needs to increase more than others.

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A timeline, I think, is really important.

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If we're talking about this within the competitive CrossFit space, less.

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So if you have a really long runway, you can kind of just ride it, but when it comes to competitive CrossFit, there's parts of the season, there's a lot of things to work on, and I think a timeline is really important.

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And then what the timeline does is gives you the runway that I want to talk a little bit about.

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So there's something that I use in my first meeting with a remote client.

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Let's see, I'll pull it up If you're watching on YouTube right now I'm going to show you guys the ramp here and the information that I have down at the bottom is very much related to it's.

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Actually, if you see, we have a ponytail on this bike rider here.

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I was showing this to a female athlete and I like side quests that get me distracted from what I'm actually supposed to be doing, so I went and redid the person to be a woman.

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What did you do this in?

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This was in Illustrator, but this was like a quick job yeah.

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Very nice, this is a quick job.

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Yeah, very nice, this is a a quick job here yeah I.

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My skill level is like, if I can use the curvature tool this well, I'm pretty, oh yeah, nice.

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Yeah, it's been a good day um steep cliff to fall off yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but we're going slow at the beginning, remember exactly, yeah, yeah, you try to launch off that thing.

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that's yeah, yeah, again splat comes in, yeah again, I'm a 90s kid, so I'm thinking Danny Way going over the Great Wall of China or something.

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That's what I'm going for here.

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That's what I'm looking for, microsoft Paint.

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Exactly.

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So again, if you're watching on YouTube, you'll see the stuff at the bottom that is very much related to using the ramp.

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When we're talking about machine paces, that can be a mental pretzel for a lot of athletes.

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They just come off the competitive season, they got to get back on the machines and they're wondering why they're not PRing every single gears thing.

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So that's what that's related to.

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So, again, if we define our timeline when it comes to something that we're trying to progress, that gives us the opportunity to create runway.

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So for the listeners, what the ramp looks like is we have someone on a bike, a gigantic ramp or basically a steep hill down a nice curve, then to a jump.

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So think like big air jump, ski, snowboard, whatever that sort of thing.

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And the concept here is that a lot of programs and programmers put their athlete at the bottom of the jump without the runway going into it and what it says on there is how much momentum do we create if we start here?

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Hashtag splat, if I have to trudge my way up that hill starting from zero miles per hour, I'm just going to fall off the edge of it.

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That's what happens to a lot of athletes.

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They get at the very beginning of a program and a progression, get their ass handed to them and are asked to hold paces or lift weights or do certain things that don't give them momentum to run past their former self.

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That's what we're trying to do here.

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So when you go into linear progression, we're going to guess wrong in a lot of instances.

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This happened to me earlier in the year when I grabbed 50s for 6x10 incline bench.

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I thought that because I liked strict press that I 10 incline bench.

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I thought that because I liked strict press that I liked incline bench.

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Turns out I don't.

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I just don't have the muscle endurance for that pattern and literally had to drop 20 pounds.

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Basically I had to go down to 40s instead of 50s.

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So you will make mistakes.

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But if you are at the beginning of something where you're trying to progress and it's really hard and you have that timeline set, then you need to readjust and I would suggest doing it right in that moment.

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If you do something that's incredibly hard and you're like I'm supposed to add weight to this every week, unless you're a beginner, there's probably going to be an issue there.

00:34:16.481 --> 00:34:25.500
And again, just for the listener, what this says down at the bottom.

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We sort of have this broken up into four parts.

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As we're heading down the hill, we're logging hours.

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That could be logging reps, that could be logging time under tension In the strength world.

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You logging your hours, is you putting in all of those sessions where you're under threshold and you're building musculature?

00:34:43.043 --> 00:34:46.177
You're building maybe the fast twitch, maybe the slow twitch.

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Your body's actually adapting on a neuromuscular level to be able to handle the volume that you're going after.

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That second 25% is going to be ramping up.

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You're flirting with threshold.

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You're starting to lift weights that are close to all-time PRs or where you've made it in this progression before.

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And then, as we're heading towards the jump, this is 50% to 75%.

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Here we are very much committing.

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We're going to go for this.

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We are starting to truly like, hey, the last time that I did my five rep maxes I got to whatever 360.

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We're in the 350, 355, 360, 365, that sort of thing.

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And then the last 25% is off the jump.

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It's how much distance we can get flying off this jump because we have logged the hours, we've ramped up and then we are committing to actually getting stronger, fitter, more skilled, being able to handle more volume, whichever variable we're trying to increase here and that's when you would go for it.

00:35:54.137 --> 00:36:17.920
So this needs to be tightened up the more that you've trained the specific thing that you're doing, like if you're either a beginner or someone that hasn't done this specific progression, like you can probably get away with week one being like moderately hard and then just getting a little bit better every single week.

00:36:18.516 --> 00:36:28.005
But if we're coming back around to back squat every year, to snatching, to cleaning, to dead lifting, to, you know, muscle ups, hand stamp, strict handstand push-ups, whatever it is.

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We need to make sure that that runway is actually built in a way where our only goal is to be better than we've ever been before at the very end, even if that only means by handful of pounds, handful of reps, that sort of thing.

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Yeah, I think, and what you just said at the end, there is really important the difference between somebody who's been training for many years versus somebody who's relatively new.

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The longer you've been training, I would say, the more important that, like the ramp that you build yourself is right.

00:37:01.518 --> 00:37:10.384
You are going to need to start for like higher up on the ramp, you know, or give yourself more runway in order to log those out.

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And especially if you're somebody like, think about it at the very, very highest level when I'm explaining concepts like this just they're effectively starting kind of at the bottom of the ramp and they're going to be able to make progress weekly for a really long period of time.

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The opposite end of that is I'm an athlete who's been training for 15 years and I just finished the CrossFit Games.

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I was at my peak of fitness, but in order to be able to like get back there eventually, in order to re kind of launch myself off the ramp, I need to like go way, way back, get myself up high on the ramp.

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I need to spend a lot of time logging hours so that I can exceed where I was at before.

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And it's that super compensation effect where, like, we need to balance appropriate training with recovery in order for you to surpass what you were previously capable of.

00:38:20.382 --> 00:38:30.768
And you write a lot of people like and I see this kind of at the affiliate level it's the athlete who got a muscle up and it's like that's awesome, congratulations.

00:38:30.768 --> 00:38:38.849
You are not now qualified to do nasty girls, three rounds of seven muscle-ups, right, it's like that we.

00:38:38.949 --> 00:38:42.501
we haven't earned that, yet that would be was it really?

00:38:43.525 --> 00:38:47.012
um, the yeah, we, we like it's like okay.

00:38:47.012 --> 00:38:54.342
And I actually just had a conversation with an athlete who got her first strict handstand push-up and I was like okay, how do I do more of these?

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And I was was like, well, like it's going to be boring for a while.

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But like, if you just did one, like how much rest do you need in order to go do a second?

00:39:03.307 --> 00:39:04.336
Just a single.

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Like we're not even worried about doing sets of two right now.

00:39:06.965 --> 00:39:09.016
It's like I don't know, maybe like a minute or two.

00:39:09.016 --> 00:39:16.226
It's like okay, great, so every two minutes until you accumulate 10 strict handstand pushups.

00:39:16.226 --> 00:39:19.431
Right, it's going to take you 20 minutes to do 10 strict handstand pushups.

00:39:19.431 --> 00:39:22.079
It's like that I want you to do that.

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And then, instead of like okay, like I did that, now I'm going to try to do five handstand pushups, it's like no, no, no, no, no, you're going to go back and we're going to try to do two, maybe two handstand pushups and then one.

00:39:34.543 --> 00:39:42.121
Or we can say you're actually going to do one strict handstand push-up every minute and 45 seconds.

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So we're going to condense the amount of rest that you have.

00:39:45.007 --> 00:39:59.539
But it goes back to that principle of logging hours, logging reps, where it's like we need to kind of like build the stamina we're not worried about how long it takes you to do this for example, to accumulate your 20 strict handstand pushups.

00:39:59.539 --> 00:40:09.657
Let's gradually reduce how long it takes and then we'll start to build intensity by saying, okay, now you're going to do sets of two and three, and it's the exact same thing on machines.

00:40:09.657 --> 00:40:10.380
It's the same thing.

00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:13.788
Squatting it's like five by five back squat.

00:40:13.788 --> 00:40:17.682
Okay, we start at a weight that is very easy.

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We give yourself your body the chance to adapt to it.

00:40:21.518 --> 00:40:31.096
We say we have there's a confidence element too that says like okay, that was easy, of course I can add five pounds next week, that was easy, of course I can add five pounds.

00:40:31.096 --> 00:40:34.985
And if we have that, we also are building kind of like the.

00:40:34.985 --> 00:40:42.086
You're just, you're just enabling yourself to again, kind of like we're starting high on the ramp and giving yourself runway to launch higher.

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If the first five by five session you do is like, fuck, I don't know if I can add five pounds next week, it's like maybe you will, but like you're going to run out of weeks really quickly and you're just not going to see the progress that you're capable, that you might have otherwise seen if you started at 185 and then added weight every week yeah, so I'm gonna.

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I want to start with the more obvious ones, and I don't.

00:41:09.365 --> 00:41:13.159
It's going to be really hard for me not to spend too much time on this because if all right.

00:41:13.179 --> 00:41:15.724
You say to me strength and linear progression.

00:41:15.724 --> 00:41:17.688
Yeah, I'm tracking, yeah.

00:41:18.148 --> 00:41:21.465
Yeah, yeah, I got to put my uh, I got to put my binder over my crotch.

00:41:21.465 --> 00:41:26.086
Um, I was going to say laugh to make it less serious, but I got fired up again.

00:41:26.086 --> 00:41:32.407
Um, so I want to progress to things that people wouldn't use this as much in.

00:41:32.407 --> 00:41:40.800
I think people will get a really good idea, a really solid idea of how you can improve certain things with these concepts.

00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:44.782
But the strength work one is kind of tried and true and easy to explain.

00:41:44.782 --> 00:41:50.085
So Hunter honestly just alluded to a lot of these things in what he just talked about.

00:41:50.126 --> 00:41:51.927
But let's look at it within the strength world.

00:41:51.927 --> 00:42:05.664
So if we were to do a three by 10 at you know we're three by 10 back squat, another, another tried and true method we're just going to add five pounds to each set each week.

00:42:05.664 --> 00:42:12.148
You can increase the weight, like I just said, but you can also increase the volume, right?

00:42:12.148 --> 00:42:17.650
So if I did 225 pounds for three by 10, I could do three by 11 next week and then I could do three by 12.

00:42:17.650 --> 00:42:18.016
And then I could do three by 13 and I get for three by 10.

00:42:18.016 --> 00:42:18.559
I could do three by 11 next week and then I could do three by 12.

00:42:18.559 --> 00:42:20.643
And then I could do three by 13 and negative three by 14.

00:42:21.045 --> 00:42:28.217
And one could argue that there are a lot of athletes in the CrossFit space that should be adding reps instead of weights, as long as it's appropriate for the rest of their program.

00:42:28.217 --> 00:42:32.148
Um, we can also increase volume in different ways.

00:42:32.148 --> 00:42:35.581
We can go four by 10, right, like, how many times can I go back to the?

00:42:35.581 --> 00:42:36.684
Well, and do that.

00:42:36.684 --> 00:42:43.347
We can also like the person that you just described when it came to the.

00:42:43.347 --> 00:42:45.835
You know the air, air squat to the 45 pounds.

00:42:45.835 --> 00:42:50.907
Maybe when they reach 75 pounds they drop their chest when they go to stand up.

00:42:51.536 --> 00:43:06.025
So it's like all right, we're going back to 55 pounds, we're going to have five pounds a week and I want to see if you can like have an exquisite squat, because that is the kind of thing that long run it's almost like we have a macro ramp and a micro ramp.

00:43:06.025 --> 00:43:08.922
We're really giving ourselves momentum.

00:43:08.922 --> 00:43:16.503
We get excited when someone the fresh meat walks into the gym and they're not like, hey, some idiot's been teaching me to do this wrong for 10 years.

00:43:16.503 --> 00:43:17.445
Can you reverse it?

00:43:17.445 --> 00:43:19.963
That's tough, right, yeah, we get someone new.

00:43:19.963 --> 00:43:23.125
So improving technique is also a thing that we can do.

00:43:23.615 --> 00:43:30.019
And then the thing that came to mind for me is that person can't do the two handstand pushups you asked them to do.

00:43:30.019 --> 00:43:32.985
You say all right, can we do this Monday and Thursday?

00:43:32.985 --> 00:43:38.835
Could you do that same session a second time in a week Thursday?

00:43:38.835 --> 00:43:39.978
Could you do that same session a second time in a week?

00:43:39.978 --> 00:43:41.360
Could we double your volume by adding a second day of frequency?

00:43:41.380 --> 00:43:59.277
Because the things, the adaptations that are taking place within your body, are not always directly related to you just being able to improve the tiny little thing, whether it's strength or whether it's your midline, like that sort of thing.

00:43:59.277 --> 00:44:15.677
It's all sorts of different adaptations that are taking place within this concept of GPP where, like sometimes we do need to just kind of up the frequency of the thing that we're working on to get ourselves a little bit more comfortable with it and a little bit better shape.

00:44:15.677 --> 00:44:24.081
Being upside down can be challenging, that sort of thing, so that's another way that you can go ahead and do that, and this works in so many different ways.

00:44:24.081 --> 00:44:41.842
Um, the last thing that I'll say, related to traditional strength, is the idea of a like progressive overload, which again, I still believe is and this you'll notice, this, you know within, I think maybe the like the power cleans and OS.

00:44:41.882 --> 00:44:44.168
Two is a, is a place that you could notice this.

00:44:44.168 --> 00:44:57.262
But we might go five, four, you know, five four, three within a particular session, or fives, then fours, then threes, and then we might go start back over at fives again, but the percentage starts 5% higher, right?

00:44:57.282 --> 00:45:07.744
So we're sort of combining these different elements of and if we ride this, if we just stay at triples or if we can go to doubles, to singles, then we're probably not getting the volume to improve.

00:45:07.744 --> 00:45:18.846
So when we go all the way back to the fives now we've got maybe 20 or 25 reps of power cleans Awesome, we do that, but we're adding 5% and they're probably going to feel a lot better than they did, sort of in week one.

00:45:18.846 --> 00:45:27.481
So it doesn't always have to be like I'm adding to the exact same type of session over and over, like we can mix this up.

00:45:27.481 --> 00:45:28.820
There's a lot of different ways to do it.

00:45:29.362 --> 00:45:35.505
Yeah, I think the, the, the like, the theme here, guys, is like we, we have a, there's like only a.

00:45:35.505 --> 00:45:39.916
There's a finite number of variables that we can that we have here.

00:45:39.916 --> 00:45:45.757
Right, it's like loading is one, volume is the other, technique being a little more subjective.

00:45:45.757 --> 00:45:54.021
And then, like the frequency, the other component and like I would say this works well for crossfitters and depending on the movement is, like you alluded to frequency.

00:45:54.021 --> 00:46:01.039
It's like okay, well, I do three by 10 at 155 pounds today, with three minutes of rest in between.

00:46:01.039 --> 00:46:09.469
If I do three by 10 with two at 155, with two and a half minutes of rest in between, that's a linear progression in itself too.

00:46:09.469 --> 00:46:10.994
Right, we're just increasing capacity.

00:46:10.994 --> 00:46:19.922
That might be a little different than like maybe that goal isn't necessarily strength development but improvements in capacity, and that's another way that we do that.

00:46:19.922 --> 00:46:30.646
And just by like controlling and paying attention to, it's really easy with the weightlifting stuff, a little bit tougher when we start to get into like nuanced conditioning.

00:46:30.835 --> 00:46:40.449
But, like we, the important thing is like, know which variable that you're manipulating and keep the others the same.

00:46:40.449 --> 00:46:41.559
Right If we change.

00:46:41.559 --> 00:46:46.963
If it's like okay, I'm gonna do three by 11 at 155, but I'm gonna rest for three and a half minutes.

00:46:46.963 --> 00:46:51.701
It's like, okay, there's a linear progression element there, but you rested for longer.

00:46:51.701 --> 00:46:52.458
So did we?

00:46:52.458 --> 00:47:06.882
Like you know, if I do my five by five at 3 15, but I have to rest 10 minutes in between my sets, versus three minutes in between my sets at 300 pounds, like you know, we're, we're that's where it's like we're almost training a different thing.

00:47:06.882 --> 00:47:17.510
So the point is like pick a variable to to change, but only change one of them in order for the linear progression to like truly kind of make sense.

00:47:19.036 --> 00:47:22.103
So I have two accessory rules that I use.

00:47:22.103 --> 00:47:28.882
These are little tricks for me to accessory work within the strength community is so important?

00:47:28.882 --> 00:47:41.260
Um, it's, it's really just filling in these holes and cracks that you have, um like, related to a particular movement pattern or, you know, muscle development in a particular area of your body.

00:47:41.260 --> 00:47:45.719
Um, and two of the tried and true methods here, primary accessory work.

00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:48.264
You'll see all the time misfit athletics.

00:47:48.264 --> 00:47:49.755
Six by 10, rest two minutes.

00:47:50.496 --> 00:47:59.911
Um, my rule is I cannot increase the weight on a six by 10 unless the sixth set of 10 is continuous.

00:48:00.916 --> 00:48:16.780
So if I have to pause at the top of my dumbbell bench press and wait to really kind of have that like bounce and come back up, I believe that that belongs outside of an accessory category and doesn't necessarily count.

00:48:16.882 --> 00:48:28.956
So I'm going to try to essentially use linear progression and say, okay, I got seven in a row this time and, yes, I finished all 10, but did I get eight the next time, nine the next time, et cetera, and then I would move up.

00:48:29.637 --> 00:48:37.481
If I ever fail a six by 10, I have to rewind two full sessions or two full weeks, depending on how you want to look at it.

00:48:37.481 --> 00:48:44.052
So I failed six by 10 with 65s the other day and I have to go back to 55s.

00:48:44.052 --> 00:48:47.862
I don't get to go to 60 because I want runway.

00:48:47.862 --> 00:48:58.681
Something is up, and it could have literally just been the day central nervous system, whatever but I know that if I go back to 55 and I really move them, then 60 is going to feel a little bit better and I get another crack at 65 pounds.

00:48:58.681 --> 00:49:16.719
On the five by 15s, which would be a secondary accessory, if you fail a rep and a secondary accessory, you do not understand what it is, and what you're trying to do does still happen, though, because you start a new movement and you just don't know what weight to use, right 75 reps is a lot of fucking reps even for a CrossFitter.

00:49:17.260 --> 00:49:20.907
My rule there is I have to break 20 on set five.

00:49:20.907 --> 00:49:31.128
If I get 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, that's when I can get in, get a little bit of extra hypertrophy, like that sort of thing.

00:49:31.128 --> 00:49:35.822
So if I can get to 20 or more, then that means that I am allowed to go up.

00:49:35.822 --> 00:49:44.900
But if I just get 15, 16, 17, 18, whatever it is, I'm going to stay at that same weight and I'm going to use any of these variables that we've talked about to try to improve on it.

00:49:44.900 --> 00:49:47.630
Right, like, are my rest periods too short?

00:49:47.630 --> 00:49:49.536
Are my rest periods too long?

00:49:50.197 --> 00:49:51.298
How is my technique?

00:49:51.298 --> 00:49:52.601
Am I actually engaging?

00:49:52.601 --> 00:49:54.103
Or because it's so light?

00:49:54.103 --> 00:49:58.670
Am I just kind of going through the motions and seeing how little time under tension I can have?

00:49:58.670 --> 00:50:01.780
So there's a lot of variables for me to be able to use there.

00:50:01.780 --> 00:50:11.985
And again, this isn't always just because I want to be able to do six by 10 with a hundred pound dumbbells, like it's also because it keeps me in this mentally.

00:50:11.985 --> 00:50:23.204
I'm striving for something while I'm going through it and I know that there's just maybe a destination that I'm trying to get to, as opposed to like exactly what you said.

00:50:23.204 --> 00:50:23.826
Here we go again.

00:50:23.826 --> 00:50:29.655
I'm back around on this progression and it's six by 10 and I'll just grab the fifties and get it done and put them away.

00:50:30.175 --> 00:50:31.557
Yeah, and it's just all.

00:50:31.557 --> 00:50:36.606
All that is to me is just building a foundation that you can like.

00:50:36.606 --> 00:50:50.820
It's laying a foundation that you can build upward on right in the example of the, the five by five air squat to a 75 pound squat, where, like okay, my chest started to drop in the fifth set.

00:50:50.820 --> 00:50:55.688
It's like, does that mean we go to 85 pounds?

00:50:55.688 --> 00:51:00.280
And it's like, okay, the first two sets were good, but my chest dropped in sets three, four and five.

00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:01.625
It's like, but, we still did it.

00:51:01.625 --> 00:51:07.643
So, and then the next week it's 95 pounds and and I was doing a low bar back squat for all five sets.

00:51:07.643 --> 00:51:18.347
It's like we have, we've, we've, no, we've, we've kind of, uh, we've stepped away from the idea of building a foundation and are now just like attempting to.

00:51:18.347 --> 00:51:20.471
Whether it's incredibly short term thinking.

00:51:20.695 --> 00:51:30.967
It's a very short term mindset, right, and it's like, ok, like let's go back a little bit and I've tried to work with our affiliate heavily on this with, like, we're doing a deadlift phase right now.

00:51:30.967 --> 00:51:39.016
And it's like are you, are you lifting the weights to get strong, or are you lifting the weights to put a number on the board?

00:51:39.016 --> 00:51:49.467
And I think there's a huge difference for a lot of athletes where it's like I have a number in mind that I'm trying to do and by any means necessary, is the way that I'm going to do that?

00:51:49.467 --> 00:51:52.943
And it's like a short, yeah, very short-term thinking.

00:51:52.943 --> 00:52:05.480
Or is it like, hey, are we going to actually focus on, focus on proper hinging mechanics so that you're using the right musculature and we're actually getting you strong, irrespective of what number goes on the whiteboard?

00:52:05.480 --> 00:52:13.012
And there's a difference between like, are you, you know, in in the strength realm, it's like are you training to get strong or are you training for a number?

00:52:13.452 --> 00:52:30.574
And right, I think, especially for the general population, it's like I would argue that for everybody except for, you know, an athlete trying to compete in an actively, in a competition, where it's like just get the fucking work done the other 99.9 of the time, for 99.9 of the people.

00:52:30.574 --> 00:52:37.788
It's like let's do this movement correctly so that we have a foundation to build upon and get better at.

00:52:37.788 --> 00:52:41.661
And also you're like we're talking about bulletproofing yourself, right?

00:52:41.661 --> 00:53:10.670
Every, every rep where that pull is like a slightly rounded back, it's like that's one in the like, that's one in the break the body down column right, as opposed to the one rep where we're lifting properly, where it's like no, you're just, you just ingrained another rep that said this is how I do this movement correctly, this is the way that I move this weight, and now I also have kind of a runway and just potential for longer term success versus the short term.

00:53:10.670 --> 00:53:14.199
Like, well, I got the right number on the whiteboard, so like I did it.

00:53:15.740 --> 00:53:31.224
And you might sound like a bit of a knob if you did this yourself, but I use you to spread that gospel quite a bit, because people, when you're not at the whiteboard, are like basically like fuck this guy, how is this his score in the am ramp or his time?

00:53:31.224 --> 00:53:37.485
And I'm like ask him how many years he's been training five days a week.

00:53:38.956 --> 00:53:40.362
Just go fucking ask him.

00:53:40.635 --> 00:53:43.644
Because it's longer than everybody else's answer.

00:53:43.644 --> 00:53:46.762
Like everyone does the like I'm all in.

00:53:46.762 --> 00:53:48.407
Fuck this, I'm all in.

00:53:48.407 --> 00:53:49.786
You know they throw the papers in the air.

00:53:49.786 --> 00:53:50.998
You know the house is on fire.

00:53:50.998 --> 00:53:51.601
This is fine.

00:53:51.601 --> 00:53:52.760
It's always that.

00:53:52.760 --> 00:53:56.943
And you have a bit more of this in the gym.

00:53:56.943 --> 00:54:03.621
Like you can tell out there, on days where you're not trying to hit that number, other people don't go to the gym.

00:54:03.621 --> 00:54:04.981
You're still out there back squatting.

00:54:05.675 --> 00:54:09.382
You can tell that you're, you know, maybe working on your technique or you don't have a belt on or whatever it is.

00:54:09.382 --> 00:54:18.255
And then there are days where you're going for it but, like, like, a lot of people don't want that answer, but it's the only one.

00:54:18.255 --> 00:54:19.197
It's like the only one that exists.

00:54:19.197 --> 00:54:24.168
You've linear progression getting a tiny bit fitter for a stupid period of time yeah, yeah.

00:54:24.188 --> 00:54:30.135
And on the yeah on the macro level, it's just like it doesn't necessarily need to be heavier than last time.

00:54:30.135 --> 00:54:44.637
Every time and like I'll, I'll go through phases where it's like fuck this, like throw the papers in the air, but yeah, like you usually go back out there the next day, right, but it's like fuck this, like throw the papers in the air, but yeah, like you usually go back out there the next day, right, but it's not, it's not fuck this, I'm not gonna do this for a two-week period.

00:54:44.697 --> 00:55:06.577
It's like, fuck, all right, I'm gonna go do something that I like to do, that I can do well, or I'm gonna like I'm gonna move, but I'm gonna mail it in a little bit and I know that that's acceptable because I have I've banked right, five days a week for, you know, 20 consecutive years of training and it's like you could do that too truth.

00:55:06.996 --> 00:55:11.181
All right, um, let's go into the world of monostructural conditioning.

00:55:11.181 --> 00:55:50.744
Um, this concept is where the idea the gears matrix came from Looking for ways to gamify and bring progression into this world where CrossFitters are getting on machines in very random patterns of like okay, today's Metcon has 10 calories and then it's got a 500 meter, this, and then it's like it's all over the place, it's an AMRAP, it's for time, and so much of what's happening in those workouts is based on feel.

00:55:50.744 --> 00:55:52.956
I got on the rower, I'm rowing at this pace.

00:55:52.956 --> 00:55:54.077
Oops, that's a bad idea.

00:55:54.077 --> 00:55:54.820
Oh, it's kind of easy.

00:55:54.820 --> 00:55:57.505
I could probably, like you know, like you know, increase the pace.

00:55:57.505 --> 00:56:04.157
You're making all these decisions within the moment, and a lot of that is fine at an affiliate and a gpp level.

00:56:04.157 --> 00:56:19.717
But not knowing what pace you should be doing and not knowing how you could increase that over time is a huge problem in the competitive CrossFit space, especially now with how many machines get programmed.

00:56:19.717 --> 00:56:47.744
So, basically, what we're trying to do is we're either trying to increase your pace, your volume or, once again, your technique, if we're talking about something like running, like skiing, like rowing that sort of thing, and, honestly, sometimes the echo bike, like rowing that sort of thing and, honestly, sometimes the echo bike, but that's more of kind of the sprinty thing, like if your butt is bouncing on the seat or all of your momentum is going left to right and you're doing like a build or an aerobic session.

00:56:47.744 --> 00:56:54.224
Something is fucking absolutely wrong, Like just fix that for sure, but that shouldn't be as much of an issue there.

00:56:54.224 --> 00:56:59.655
And quick overview if you are a new listener, you don't follow the program.

00:56:59.735 --> 00:57:02.663
Essentially, we have eight different speeds.

00:57:02.663 --> 00:57:12.788
Um, within this gears matrix that we want athletes to work at across run, row, ski, you know, air bike, c2 bike, et cetera.

00:57:12.788 --> 00:57:22.277
Um, and the volume and the rest periods and the duration of the windows basically force you to do so on average.

00:57:22.277 --> 00:57:28.800
If you don't have a very good athlete IQ or you've never done any of this stuff before, it's going to take you a little while to figure it out.

00:57:28.800 --> 00:57:39.496
But luckily all of these machines and your watch will give you an average and that's a really great place to start an average.

00:57:39.496 --> 00:57:40.518
And that's a really great place to start Um.

00:57:40.539 --> 00:57:42.403
And I don't want to say that there's more of a beginner's gains thing here.

00:57:42.403 --> 00:57:52.369
But if we've got eight gears and like five or six machines, then the opportunity to become a master at any of them.

00:57:52.369 --> 00:57:55.237
If you're not like really biasing, it is really challenging.

00:57:55.237 --> 00:58:43.581
So when you go into it, if you've put it at the right place in your day and your week and you're asking yourself to just, you know, knock off 0.5 seconds from your 500 or 1k split or 10 calories per hour or you're, you know, just trying to increase your RPMs, your strokes per minute, like that sort of thing, that's very doable and very powerful again, physically and mentally, on the machines yeah, and I I think the machines provide like a unique opportunity in the sense that even like the most experienced crossfitter or athlete, like someone for even myself, like if I started filling in a gears matrix sheet, like I'd be able to update that basically every time I used a machine one, because we have a whole bunch of machines at our disposal to.

00:58:44.043 --> 00:59:05.807
You just alluded to the fact that there are eight different gears, right, and it's like, initially, like I might get if I, if I go out of out in the gym and do a, a seventh gear rowing workout, right, the odds that I nail my pace perfectly, that first time is basically zero, right, and I go back and I replicate that exact workout a week later.

00:59:05.807 --> 00:59:11.005
Like, the odds that I can shave time just through experience alone is pretty high.

00:59:11.005 --> 00:59:16.248
And then I start filling in kind of the, the matrix, filling in the, the variable, you know.

00:59:16.248 --> 00:59:36.170
Okay, I go down to second gear, a little bit slower, longer duration, but slower again odds that I pick the exact right, the, the maximum pace that I could have possibly held for that piece is very low and I can just easily go back in and start like, okay, next time I do this workout like, like and and with the.

00:59:36.652 --> 00:59:41.992
The nice thing about the machine is like it'll literally tell you what, like, what your expected finish time is.

00:59:41.992 --> 00:59:50.333
You can literally look at an average and say like, okay, I held my, my sixth gear, I was at a one 45 pace, like.

00:59:50.333 --> 01:00:00.054
Next time it's one 44.8, and I can go that precise with these machines, and it's such an easy way to linearly progress.

01:00:00.054 --> 01:00:14.163
All you have to fucking do is stare at the monitor and and do your best to match that pace and and when you can't, you have an idea, it's like okay, that is that's like about threshold for me there in this specific time domain, on this specific machine.

01:00:14.163 --> 01:00:22.021
Um, but there's, you know there's, there's arguably more opportunity to improve on the machine stuff than like the weightlifting stuff.

01:00:22.784 --> 01:00:24.844
Yeah, and it's a great coaching tool.

01:00:24.844 --> 01:00:25.889
By the way, you could.

01:00:25.889 --> 01:00:28.280
It would be so easy to make your own version of this.

01:00:28.280 --> 01:00:29.262
You don't have to follow our.

01:00:29.262 --> 01:00:36.981
You know exact workouts, but I like to tell athletes the majority of the year what pace to try and hold on a machine.

01:00:36.981 --> 01:00:41.041
They get to tell athletes the majority of the year what pace to try and hold on a machine.

01:00:41.041 --> 01:00:41.804
Um, they get fitter when you do that.

01:00:41.804 --> 01:00:44.112
There's just something about remove, just like you know.

01:00:44.112 --> 01:00:45.717
Hey, you're doing this at 95 pounds.

01:00:45.717 --> 01:00:50.927
That's what they're used to in so many other places, and can I should?

01:00:50.927 --> 01:00:53.476
I brings a level of stress for an athlete.

01:00:53.476 --> 01:01:00.068
What's funny is they'll often say that seems fast and I just get to go.

01:01:00.068 --> 01:01:04.302
Look, it says right here that you did this already.

01:01:05.525 --> 01:01:13.369
Yeah, you know what I mean and that can be incredibly helpful, Whereas before it's like okay, do we even have a repeat workout here?

01:01:13.369 --> 01:01:14.518
You know what I mean.

01:01:14.518 --> 01:01:22.643
Like like I really go and and find something that's so close to this session that I can ask this athlete for this and the answer is probably no.

01:01:22.643 --> 01:01:25.115
Um, so there's a.

01:01:25.115 --> 01:01:25.416
It's.

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It's very much taking these strength training principles and bringing them over to monostructural conditioning.

01:01:32.195 --> 01:01:38.000
Um, one of my favorite places to use linear progression is in zone two training.

01:01:38.000 --> 01:01:41.722
I cannot just do it.

01:01:41.722 --> 01:01:44.623
I'm sorry, I'm just not that guy.

01:01:44.623 --> 01:01:45.505
I can't fucking do it.

01:01:45.505 --> 01:01:54.349
I can't just go like if there was no screen, like if I had to do it on a spin bike oh my goodness, that'd really bother me.

01:01:54.710 --> 01:01:58.452
That would fuck my brain up Like maybe because I could see heart rate I'd be okay.

01:01:58.452 --> 01:02:04.280
That kind of thing which is not having any idea what my output is would really fuck me up.

01:02:04.280 --> 01:02:07.605
So we've got a bunch of different ways that we can do this.

01:02:07.605 --> 01:02:13.608
Now, the caveat here is that machines are not the same.

01:02:13.608 --> 01:02:28.418
Running isn't even the same, because the dew point changes and there could be hills, and you could be hydrated and you could have fucking rolled your arches out, or not you could have lost your ankles.

01:02:28.778 --> 01:02:33.456
A lot of variables when it comes to zone two and what would make your pace go up and down.

01:02:33.456 --> 01:02:47.443
But one of the ones that can be more frustrating for athletes is that they think that all concept to bikes specifically, and even their other machines, are the same, consider every single one of them entirely different.

01:02:47.443 --> 01:02:56.159
The amount of athletes that come to me and are like, well, this workout wasn't fair because, like, this bike is slow and it's like well, you use the same.

01:02:57.324 --> 01:03:03.144
The same damper and RPMs will not yield the same speed on a different bike.

01:03:03.144 --> 01:03:05.695
You have to calibrate it when you start right.

01:03:05.695 --> 01:03:13.331
So an example of that would be I want to do 120 watts at 85 RPMs.

01:03:13.331 --> 01:03:28.164
That's the kind of information that you would want going into the session and you would move the damper to make that your reality and you could even say like okay, the you know the bike with the P stain on it, like this is the bike that I know.

01:03:28.164 --> 01:03:31.963
I got to be on a two, whereas the one over there I got to be on a one, typically the older the bike.

01:03:31.963 --> 01:03:36.398
Like you're going, you're going through mud, basically on those ones.

01:03:36.398 --> 01:03:38.860
Like you're going, you're going through mud basically on those ones Also.

01:03:38.900 --> 01:03:42.043
that's what the drag factors for concept two machines.

01:03:42.043 --> 01:03:54.797
You can, when you dig into the drag factor that, tell you, if you want, if you want consistency across at least like from rower to rower, know what your drag factor is, go into that machine and then that's how you can match up.

01:03:54.797 --> 01:04:01.083
You know it's a, it's a two and a quarter damper on this one and it's a two and five-eighths damper on this one.

01:04:01.083 --> 01:04:05.248
And now I have the equivalent thing, but sorry carry on.

01:04:05.289 --> 01:04:09.693
So, yeah, again, we're doing zone two.

01:04:09.693 --> 01:04:21.086
So we're doing 45 to 90 minutes typically of keeping your heart rate between 160 beats per minute minus your age to 180 beats per minute minus your age.

01:04:21.086 --> 01:04:28.603
If you're crazy and you're taking blood sampling to do your lactate threshold, then good for you.

01:04:28.603 --> 01:04:35.713
But when we're doing it we have again these different things that we can use.

01:04:35.713 --> 01:04:44.170
So if we're on a beginner gains type schedule, five-ish watts is pretty doable.

01:04:44.170 --> 01:04:57.070
I did average 120 watts this week, I'm going to average 125 watts next week, and one of the reasons it's doable is because your heart rate's going to stay a little bit lower at the beginning, um, and that's going to again.

01:04:57.070 --> 01:05:05.213
You're probably not going to ramp up into that one 70 to one, 80 minus your age until later on in the session, if you're doing it right, um.

01:05:05.213 --> 01:05:08.335
So that's one of the things that you can do.

01:05:08.516 --> 01:05:10.237
Obviously, volume is a huge one.

01:05:10.237 --> 01:05:28.657
So a lot of people I'll have start at 45 minutes and then it's same wattage but for 50, same wattage for 55, for 60, for 65, for 70, that one works really well, um, we can also do the exact same session a second time a week.

01:05:28.657 --> 01:05:30.559
If you're really specializing, we can do it a third time a week.

01:05:30.559 --> 01:05:36.135
But then the RPM version is one that I like to use when the athlete's gotten pretty damn good at it.

01:05:36.135 --> 01:05:45.342
So it'd be like same bike one damper, two damper, three damper, whatever it is and we're going to average 86 RPMs instead of 85.

01:05:45.342 --> 01:05:57.034
That's splitting hairs between what you're looking at in terms of an output there, and of course you can do the same thing with wattage, but it can be, frustrating to try and hold 121 watts the entire time.

01:05:57.094 --> 01:05:59.121
Good thing is, the average will be displayed there.

01:05:59.670 --> 01:06:08.070
Yeah, yeah, I think that's just another example of the number of variables that are possible to manipulate.

01:06:08.070 --> 01:06:27.271
But the idea that to see a true, true, true linear progression, it's a science experiment right, you don't change multiple variables at a time and then are able to objectively analyze the difference between A and B, right, if you're going to, you need the control which is.

01:06:27.271 --> 01:06:37.481
Here's all the variables, here, what I've recorded, and then you know experiment b is I'm going to adjust one single variable and see what the difference yields.

01:06:37.481 --> 01:06:48.356
As soon as you start to manipulate multiple variables, you can no longer kind of connect like well, which which one cause the better or worse performance, for example.

01:06:48.356 --> 01:06:51.463
It's like we, you don't know you like, at least not objectively.

01:06:51.503 --> 01:06:56.199
You need to rerun the test and we honestly should bring up it's.

01:06:56.199 --> 01:06:57.702
You know it's june right now.

01:06:57.702 --> 01:07:13.327
It's not crazy hot here, but the the you know, sort of cardio loft austin's sad loft, as we used to call it here at the gym um, I started to slow down on my zone two up there with the heat like the.

01:07:13.327 --> 01:07:15.974
You know, heat rises and goes up there and it gets a little stuffy.

01:07:16.615 --> 01:07:33.996
Um, grabbed a fan, pulled the extension cord out and was blasting myself with a fan and was able to get many variables, variable, well, but I'm just like I I tried to get it back to that control element of like it's gonna bother me if I drop 10 watts it shouldn't, but it does, sure um, that sort of thing.

01:07:34.076 --> 01:07:38.574
so you get the fan out and blast yourself with that and now we're back to at least closer to a baseline.

01:07:38.574 --> 01:08:07.103
Um, but again, if you're gonna do this stuff and you're gonna do a wattage test or toward a misfit or mount doom or any of these things, to see if you're, if you're getting better at it, starting somewhere especially with Zone 2, that's easy and then working your way through it, it's a much higher likelihood, not only of you getting better, but if you're just literally committing to spending that much time on a machine and actually showing up every week to do it.

01:08:07.103 --> 01:08:15.079
If you feel like you're getting a tiny bit better, the product that's yielded out the other side, is a little bit improved.

01:08:15.079 --> 01:08:19.851
It's increasing More efficacy to that type of program.

01:08:19.891 --> 01:08:21.154
I think For sure.

01:08:21.154 --> 01:08:34.470
All right, this one is a bit more esoteric, a bit more in the abyss, hard to really put a finger on, but we're going to talk a little bit about it.

01:08:34.470 --> 01:08:37.958
And that's linear progression inside of Metcons and intervals.

01:08:37.958 --> 01:08:41.353
Talk about fucking controlled variables.

01:08:42.636 --> 01:08:43.877
That's a problem, right?

01:08:43.877 --> 01:08:44.920
So we have test, retest.

01:08:45.301 --> 01:08:50.618
That's like the clearest one, right, if we have a test, retest the beginning of the end of the phase.

01:08:50.639 --> 01:08:52.890
I got issues with that too, even, of course.

01:08:53.110 --> 01:09:00.001
Yeah, this will be entirely imperfect, but here's what I can tell you.

01:09:00.001 --> 01:09:13.518
There are so many, many little things that you do inside of a Metcon, in an interval, that can have linear progression brought to them if you have data.

01:09:13.518 --> 01:09:24.557
This is why we always talk about bitch work, first also known as monostructural conditioning, because the data is in your face and if you're not looking at it, then like what the fuck are you doing?

01:09:24.557 --> 01:09:29.578
Metcons and intervals kind of got to be a bit of a hard-o when it comes to this.

01:09:29.578 --> 01:09:39.257
The people that have the photographic memory of like I went nine, seven and three on that workout and it's like that was six years ago how do you remember that that makes no sense.

01:09:40.421 --> 01:09:49.876
So the more practical version would be writing stuff If you use Fitter or Strivee, and you can go into your coach's notes or your athlete notes and just say this is how I broke this up, that sort of thing.

01:09:49.876 --> 01:09:59.622
So we have data and the cool thing is, yes, the variables, and trying to control for them is damn near impossible.

01:09:59.622 --> 01:10:04.567
We also have this just endless amount of things that we could get better at inside of it.

01:10:04.567 --> 01:10:17.823
Like I'm going to focus on transitions, Like every time I do row into a grippy gymnastics movement, like I just I take an hour before I jump up because I know it's going to be a small set.

01:10:17.970 --> 01:10:18.230
Yeah.

01:10:18.492 --> 01:10:18.872
I'm just going to.

01:10:18.872 --> 01:10:20.257
I'm just going to do the small set.

01:10:20.257 --> 01:10:29.176
I'm going to get off the rower and going to go do six toes to bar like and see what happens to my overall time and splits and the amount of time I feel like I'm standing around.

01:10:29.176 --> 01:10:36.097
Um, I've never gone unbroken on sets of three over the course of an entire workout with muscle ups.

01:10:36.097 --> 01:10:45.591
Um, you know, in a longer workout, a traditional triplet I've never been able to hold over a thousand cows per hour and still do my thing off of the rower.

01:10:45.591 --> 01:10:50.837
I have a bad mindset in X workout and I'm going to shut that off.

01:10:50.837 --> 01:11:02.881
There's so many things, but you have to develop data and narratives and things attached to workouts and be able to call on them to then know what you're actually trying to improve.

01:11:03.750 --> 01:11:09.445
Yeah, I think this is where you start to go from the objective data.

01:11:09.445 --> 01:11:12.447
That's really helpful when it comes to lifting weights.

01:11:12.447 --> 01:11:22.132
Right, you know exactly how much weights on the bar you can sets, reps, rest time all that stuff can be very objectively controlled.

01:11:22.132 --> 01:11:23.395
Same thing on the machines.

01:11:23.395 --> 01:11:33.179
This is where you have to kind of like also have in the back of your head when you're on a machine, when you're under a barbell, like how is this feeling right now?

01:11:33.179 --> 01:11:37.110
And if this were to be in a Metcon, like what might this look like?

01:11:37.110 --> 01:11:58.323
And once you go into a Metcon, like trying to translate the paces, the weights that you know that you're capable of lifting, into kind of a feeling of like okay, I'm about to, I'm about to jump off the cliff here and I can't do that right now in this Metcon because I have three more rounds to go and it's it's tough, but it's like.

01:11:58.323 --> 01:12:01.155
This is where this is where we're applying.

01:12:01.216 --> 01:12:17.341
This is like Metcons and intervals are the sport of training, of your for, for, for a CrossFitter, right, we use the, the, the monostructural stuff, we use the weightlifting stuff and the, the more controlled areas, to get you an idea of what you're capable of.

01:12:17.341 --> 01:12:37.867
And then, when we go into metcons and intervals, you have to be able to like, update that, like blend the objective information that you know about what you've been capable of and then match that up with the subjective information of how am I feeling today, how am I feeling right now in this Metcon?

01:12:37.867 --> 01:12:51.564
How am I feeling about the ability to do eight ring muscle ups with my heart rate elevated, even though I know I've done sets of eight in my misfit sets um, and then being able to apply it in real time?

01:12:51.564 --> 01:13:08.622
And the people who are the best at that are the people who perform the best in competition, right, obviously, they have a tremendously high capacity, but they also have a knowledge of just how close they can push themselves to their true capacity without falling off that cliff.

01:13:08.850 --> 01:13:50.182
And this is where, like in training training, it becomes so valuable to kind of like you can fuck it up in training, like you should, so that when you get into competition, you're able to like optimize as closely as possible your maximum potential, whereas, like, the last thing you want is to be in competition and say, like I, I could have gone a minute faster, right, just because you don't know, because maybe you weren't paying close enough attention in training, um, whereas, like, I want you to be able to say that in training, or it's like I could have gone 25 faster or, holy fuck, I went 10 way too fast, and now I know, like, where that line is.

01:13:50.243 --> 01:14:16.578
So that when it comes to testing or competition, whatever that is, for you it's like, no, I I extracted just about as much of my capacity as possible and and put it into that workout because I I was paying attention to the weights and and the, my split times and stuff like that, and I was also connecting that to like how my body responds after you know, a set of 10 thrusters versus a set of 18 thrusters.

01:14:16.578 --> 01:14:25.402
Um, and this is where that matching up the, the objective data in training with kind of the subjective feeling is really, really important.

01:14:25.402 --> 01:14:32.911
Because you know you don't have the, you don't have a machine to tell you your your wattage during bar facing burpees or stuff like that.

01:14:32.930 --> 01:15:04.920
You have to go by, feel in a lot of those movements so it's, it's almost, it's almost like there's too many things to reference related to this, but paying really fucking close attention to how certain things are going and making notes on it and then adapting, moving forward, um is the kind of thing that, will you know, you're separate you from like like novice to intermediate, intermediate to, you know, to pro, that sort of thing.

01:15:04.920 --> 01:15:24.836
Um, when it comes to skill movements we've actually already covered a lot of this, talking about gymnastics, strength work, which would be your EMOMs, where you're adding sort of reps and volume and frequency and all of that.

01:15:24.836 --> 01:15:45.850
So basically just everything that we've talked about insert muscle up, handstand, walk distance, chest to bar pull-ups, bar muscle-ups, all these different things and working on them in an environment where you're doing something that's very doable and then you're adding again all the things that we talked about.

01:15:45.850 --> 01:15:57.710
But when it comes to actual skill work, the idea that we talked about related to golf coaches makes much more sense Sure.

01:15:58.010 --> 01:16:12.091
We have to know what the component parts are that creates the movement, whether it be gymnastics or whether it be a high-skill barbell movement or any of the weird shit that gets thrown across fitters way.

01:16:12.131 --> 01:16:14.375
That requires a level of skill.

01:16:15.117 --> 01:16:35.613
We have to, before we even begin linear progression, identify those component parts and hopefully you have someone that can do that for you, or you're just, you know, kind of a kind of a nerd, that sort of thing related to CrossFit, kind of a nerd, that sort of thing related to CrossFit.

01:16:35.613 --> 01:16:52.801
And then you are progressing based on checking, like more boxes than you did before, and that could be because you went from kip swings on the rings to then a kip swing into creating your hip pocket, or it could be the entire muscle up and this part looked good, this part looked good, this part didn't.

01:16:52.801 --> 01:16:56.140
And now all three components kind of come together.

01:16:56.140 --> 01:17:03.189
But again, you need to understand the positions that you're trying to get into, and this is where filming becomes incredibly important.

01:17:03.189 --> 01:17:12.323
That sort of becomes your metric right, like to the naked eye, does this portion of the movement look the way that it's supposed to?

01:17:12.323 --> 01:17:20.163
And using video review and coaches and that sort of thing to help you progress through it.

01:17:20.163 --> 01:17:23.505
That's how you can use linear progression to get better at a skill.

01:17:23.871 --> 01:18:13.121
But if you don't understand the pieces of it that you're trying to get better at it, that you're trying to get better at it's probably more gymnastic strength work or, unfortunately, three steps back to take no steps forward, which we see a lot within skill work yeah, I mean, I think that this is where the difference between like a good coach and a like an excellent coach can be distinguished, where, like I, I will always, I always try to think of like when I'm watching an athlete move, whether and this this applies to like all movements, not just gymnastics, but gymnastics is a really good one because of the, the, the multitude of kind of coordinating parts is like is to try to think about this in in terms of principles and it's like what is the root cause of the issue that I'm seeing?

01:18:13.121 --> 01:18:17.512
It's like, okay, we catch a snatch or we'll stick with the gymnastics work.

01:18:17.512 --> 01:18:28.162
It's like I really struggle with handstand pushups and we look at the handstand pushups and the athletes as they're pressing, their rib cage is flaring, flaring upward a little bit.

01:18:28.162 --> 01:18:43.456
They're not able to bring their head through in their arms at the top and their elbow, their lockouts a little soft and like the novice or the, the good coach says it's like okay, we need to, I need you to control your rib cage a little bit more, I need you to really press through into that lockout position.

01:18:43.456 --> 01:18:48.273
And me I'm saying like I can tell that person to do this as much as they want.

01:18:48.533 --> 01:18:49.774
Your problem is your mobility.

01:18:49.774 --> 01:18:50.957
Like it has nothing.

01:18:50.957 --> 01:18:53.640
This has nothing, like we're not going to see.

01:18:53.640 --> 01:19:07.094
We might be able to, like I might be able to yell at you to keep your rib cage down and lock your elbows out and we'll see a little bit of progress there, but nothing is going to move the needle as much as, like, I need you to that goes back to do the thing and it's like, but how?

01:19:07.614 --> 01:19:12.853
yeah, exactly, and it's well, I know what I need to be doing, I just don't know how to get to it.

01:19:12.853 --> 01:19:15.564
And it's like, well, the golf swing.

01:19:15.564 --> 01:19:17.149
It's like well, my follow through sucks.

01:19:17.149 --> 01:19:25.885
It's like well, your follow through sucks, because the way that you took the club away from the start was actually setting you up for there.

01:19:25.885 --> 01:19:31.841
There's no chance that you can get into the right position, the correct end position, because you didn't start in the correct position.

01:19:31.841 --> 01:19:38.136
If you're upside down, it's like you can't achieve lockout, we can't bring the head through, I can't control the rib cage.

01:19:38.609 --> 01:20:02.042
Sure, there might be, like there might be, a body awareness thing, but more likely it's actually just the root cause is that your body is glued together in such a way that is not like no amount of me telling you to pull your rib cage down or straighten your elbows is going to change the fact that you're lacking internal rotation in your shoulders and your scaps are glued together and don't rotate at all and like that.

01:20:02.042 --> 01:20:03.953
We we need to go down to the root cause.

01:20:03.953 --> 01:20:05.115
The same thing with like a.

01:20:05.115 --> 01:20:11.497
It's like, hey, when I, when I back squat my, I never feel it in my glutes and my hamstrings.

01:20:11.497 --> 01:20:17.483
Or when I deadlift, my back hurts, but I have a 400-pound deadlift.

01:20:17.483 --> 01:20:21.653
It's like no, you've just learned to compensate around these things.

01:20:21.653 --> 01:20:30.622
The first principle here is that your midline is actually weak because you've learned again that's a Jefferson curl, that's not a deadlift.

01:20:30.643 --> 01:20:32.630
Yeah, exactly, you's a Jefferson curl, that's not a deadlift, yeah exactly Pick it up.

01:20:32.649 --> 01:20:33.913
Yeah, it's like, so why then?

01:20:33.913 --> 01:20:35.219
Like, okay, hold a plank.

01:20:35.219 --> 01:20:37.729
It's like, can't hold a plank for 60 seconds.

01:20:37.729 --> 01:21:00.595
Like the root cause is like you've, you've chosen to, you've chased the number, not getting strong, and like you see that so often with athletes, where it's like the the root cause of your problem 15, 9, and you'll find out how good they are at deadlifting yeah, it's like this is a very simple and it's the problem is is like sometimes it's so simple that athletes that one.

01:21:00.636 --> 01:21:23.042
It requires like a simple solution of like you need to sit on, lay on a lacrosse ball for five minutes a day for the next three weeks to get your shoulders moving correctly, and then we need to relearn this movement, because you were just learning a movement with a certain limitation that you had, and now we need to like rewire your brain and your body to move correctly.

01:21:23.042 --> 01:21:27.590
And I think a lot of people like, and I would say even like, crossfit to a certain extent.

01:21:27.590 --> 01:21:31.953
And there's a reason for that because it's like this is a program for the average everyday person.

01:21:31.953 --> 01:21:41.500
I'm not I'm going to have a hard time with adherence telling somebody that instead of this one hour CrossFit class, I need you to use a lacrosse ball for 45 minutes.

01:21:41.500 --> 01:21:49.666
Like we're going to do the best we can with what we have, kind of virtuosity and and long-term improvement.

01:21:49.685 --> 01:22:02.297
It's like we need to think in kind of a first principles mindset of what is the root cause of the problem, not let's fix the individual components of the problem and then the whole system will work.

01:22:02.297 --> 01:22:09.121
It's like no, we need to, we need to retool the system, and then the component parts are going to start to work together as a unit.

01:22:09.121 --> 01:22:11.693
Uh and that, and then we're going to see progress there.

01:22:11.693 --> 01:22:14.698
So, and gymnastics work is such an easy that's.

01:22:14.698 --> 01:22:16.002
That's the best place I can.

01:22:16.002 --> 01:22:17.490
It's like yeah, yeah and I.

01:22:17.692 --> 01:22:18.554
I know why you're.

01:22:18.554 --> 01:22:23.390
I know why your elbows are bent when you swing forward on a bar muscle up.

01:22:23.390 --> 01:22:28.190
It's like it's not because you like, just somebody didn't tell you to straighten your elbows.

01:22:28.270 --> 01:22:38.818
It's like you're lacking rotation in your shoulders and it's like when you really, as a coach, just want to say please don't yeah, yeah, exactly, and it's like again, I know what the here's the.

01:22:38.918 --> 01:22:40.583
This is the root cause of your problem.

01:22:40.583 --> 01:22:47.347
There isn't a cue to correct this per se, like I can give you the cue and it might look better, but this is not.

01:22:47.347 --> 01:22:47.970
This is again.

01:22:47.970 --> 01:22:49.591
This is the short-term fix here.

01:22:49.591 --> 01:22:51.335
Here's the long-term fix.

01:22:51.335 --> 01:22:57.864
And you know it's just that's a higher barrier to entry for a lot of people.

01:22:57.864 --> 01:23:03.493
It's like what do you mean?

01:23:03.493 --> 01:23:05.789
This is going to take weeks of mobility work to improve my handstand push-ups, like I just want that EMOM.

01:23:06.310 --> 01:23:09.997
Yeah, this last one here is equal parts.

01:23:09.997 --> 01:23:13.804
Like tell me you're a meathead without telling me you're a meathead.

01:23:13.804 --> 01:23:16.829
We're going to apply linear progression to mobility.

01:23:16.829 --> 01:23:24.614
But then the concept of making adaptations between the ears versus physically.

01:23:24.614 --> 01:23:45.367
I'm classically the kind of person where I would rather pay to go see a physical therapist three times a week and do the movements there with them in front of them than have get that stupid piece of paper with the exercises written down on it.

01:23:45.367 --> 01:23:47.287
It's like I coach professional athletes.

01:23:47.287 --> 01:23:49.356
I know what I'm supposed to do.

01:23:49.356 --> 01:23:50.488
I'm here for you to make me do it.

01:23:50.930 --> 01:23:53.457
Like in my world like the programming's free.

01:23:53.457 --> 01:23:55.783
The coaching is not kind of a thing, right.

01:23:56.010 --> 01:23:56.211
Right.

01:23:56.230 --> 01:24:01.140
So, um, when it comes to mobility, I have to.

01:24:01.140 --> 01:24:07.956
If I'm personally going to make a change in my mobility routine, I have to start somewhere.

01:24:07.956 --> 01:24:12.462
That isn't like the Mount Everest of mobility routines.

01:24:12.462 --> 01:24:16.617
It's all right, dude, you haven't been doing your couch stretch and your back's tight.

01:24:16.617 --> 01:24:18.161
It's a shocker, right?

01:24:18.161 --> 01:24:29.344
So, like I'm going to go out into the gym and maybe I'm just going to go out there five minutes before class starts and I'm going to couch stretch, my checkbox is that both legs go on the wall.

01:24:29.990 --> 01:24:31.054
Maybe it's 10 seconds.

01:24:31.916 --> 01:24:37.439
Maybe it's 30 seconds, maybe it's as long as it should be, two, three minutes per side per day, that kind of thing.

01:24:37.439 --> 01:24:56.405
And then I build from there and again the linear progression becomes very apparent and very clear because range of motion in a lot of these things, or how comfortable you feel inside of that range of motion changes, becomes less excruciating that sort of thing to get through.

01:24:56.405 --> 01:25:02.641
So we have range of motion, we have duration and we have frequency, and those are things that we can increase.

01:25:02.641 --> 01:25:13.216
And two of my favorite books I know everyone under the sun now has read Atomic Habits, but Tiny Habits is another really good one to listen to.

01:25:13.216 --> 01:25:21.378
To just remind yourself of the idea of starting in a place with runway, and runway isn't always.

01:25:21.378 --> 01:25:28.113
Hey, I can only do 155 for 10, so I should start at 95 so that I can pass 155.

01:25:28.113 --> 01:25:31.139
It's also, I need to start somewhere.

01:25:31.139 --> 01:25:33.823
That's actually fucking doable, right?

01:25:33.823 --> 01:25:38.940
Not doing a 800 calorie deficit instead of just 100 or 200?

01:25:39.140 --> 01:25:46.143
to start like that kind of thing, these places where we overcorrect and we go all in on something and then we get super burnt out.

01:25:46.143 --> 01:25:51.943
I like to find a way to bring the meathead mentality into those worlds.

01:25:51.943 --> 01:25:59.984
And when it comes to mobility, it's just doing it at all is my first barrier to entry.

01:25:59.984 --> 01:26:10.356
Because if I go out there with my list and I'm going to do mobility for 45 minutes day one nah, it's not sustainable for me.

01:26:10.356 --> 01:26:15.313
Day one Nah, it's not sustainable for me.

01:26:15.313 --> 01:26:18.619
But I probably could build to a place where I got back into doing my pliability sessions and doing all those things.

01:26:18.680 --> 01:26:27.511
But I need to progress to get to that point, to make it a habit to feel like it's worth it, to feel like, oh damn, I got out of the car today and I could stand all the way up.

01:26:27.511 --> 01:26:28.694
My back wasn't tight.

01:26:28.694 --> 01:26:31.176
Maybe I should continue to do this, that sort of thing.

01:26:31.176 --> 01:26:46.074
So, um, the mobility world it just feels like it's kind of hard to make progress and to to overcome the like like, yeah, these, this is just the way my shoulders are, my hips are, my glutes are that sort of thing.

01:26:46.074 --> 01:26:53.337
Um, but if you can find ways to like crack the door open and kind of get in and start to get to work.

01:26:53.337 --> 01:26:57.042
You're much more likely to see a few of the benefits and then actually stick with it.

01:26:57.944 --> 01:27:05.350
Yeah, I mean for me, like this is the drum that I'll beat, especially for the average everyday person.

01:27:05.350 --> 01:27:15.805
It's like, if you can't get into positions like you are just going to work your way into reinforcing poor ones, right?

01:27:15.805 --> 01:27:25.682
It's like I don't want you to be 80 years old and your back squat to be like a four inch deep squat with 200 pounds on your back.

01:27:25.682 --> 01:27:26.447
Right, that's not.

01:27:26.447 --> 01:27:27.130
That's not a squat.

01:27:27.210 --> 01:27:35.838
If we've gone from squatting like we kind of squat to parallel, because my hips have always been tight and then, as I get older, it's a little bit higher, it's a little bit higher.

01:27:35.838 --> 01:27:38.810
It's like that's not the linear progression that I'm after.

01:27:38.810 --> 01:28:00.144
It's like let's find access to the full range of motion that you have, in the same way that we want to push our capacity as far to the right as you possibly can towards, like, elite level fitness, like I also need and want your body to be able to access the ranges of motion that you were, you know, ideally born with.

01:28:00.144 --> 01:28:12.337
Right, like everybody sees, the, the, the toddler who's just learning how to squat, or just learning how to walk, and then they, like they go down to pick something up off the ground and it's this flawless upright squat.

01:28:12.489 --> 01:28:12.831
Dude.

01:28:12.831 --> 01:28:16.796
My son chews on his foot when I'm reading books to him and I'm like you son of a bitch.

01:28:17.291 --> 01:28:19.414
Never lose it, dude Never lose it.

01:28:19.890 --> 01:28:24.221
My dad told me to bite my toe every day of my life.

01:28:24.221 --> 01:28:26.277
He told me that when I was a kid.

01:28:26.277 --> 01:28:32.300
He was like just bite your toe once a day and you will stay flexible your entire life.

01:28:33.171 --> 01:28:33.814
And every once in a while.

01:28:33.833 --> 01:28:36.001
Now he'll be like can you bite your toe?

01:28:36.550 --> 01:28:38.615
I'm like uh did you ask him?

01:28:38.615 --> 01:28:39.518
Can Claire bite his?

01:28:39.557 --> 01:28:39.759
toe.

01:28:39.759 --> 01:28:42.115
Oh my God, I can't even see his toes.

01:28:42.115 --> 01:28:46.030
I don't know where his toes are Damn it, um.

01:28:46.091 --> 01:28:47.634
but yeah, the the mobility thing.

01:28:47.634 --> 01:28:49.318
It's like you, you will, you will.

01:28:49.318 --> 01:28:59.756
My opinion, you will never be able to express your true physical potential and capacity if you don't have full access to the ranges of motion that your body should be in.

01:28:59.756 --> 01:29:09.521
And I'm not talking about doing the fucking splits, I'm talking about being able to sit reasonably comfortably in an astrograph squat right Push up.

01:29:10.184 --> 01:29:10.765
Exactly?

01:29:10.765 --> 01:29:18.338
Can you put your arms directly over your head or do you need to flare your rib cage and lean back in order to straighten your arms overhead?

01:29:18.338 --> 01:29:21.059
It's the difference between those two things.

01:29:21.059 --> 01:29:43.890
That, like, if we can find access to that range of motion and then build strength and capacity through it, like that is like in the same way that it's really hard to gain way that it's really hard to gain, that it's really hard to lose, that Like, like you're way better off training in those ranges of motion early on and you're going to be able to like retain those as you get older.

01:29:43.890 --> 01:29:44.230
I think.

01:29:44.391 --> 01:29:48.667
For me that's like I would consider myself relatively uninjured.

01:29:48.667 --> 01:30:05.511
I have my occasional nags and pains and tweaks and stuff like that, but for the most part because I I try to like I prioritize good range of motion, like I'm just I, just I'm, I'm a little bit more durable, I think, than like my counterparts who maybe don't prioritize that as much.

01:30:05.511 --> 01:30:12.262
Um, and it's just like it's like train through the ranges of motion that your body was meant to.

01:30:12.262 --> 01:30:17.729
Like you build strength, you build tendons, ligaments, all that sort of stuff through those ranges of motion.

01:30:17.729 --> 01:30:39.273
And it's like then, when you get pulled or yanked into a slightly compromised position, like the odds you get injured are way fucking lower, or when you do, you recover a hell of a lot faster and you're still able to get back into those ranges of motion instead of like, well, now I've lost an inch of depth in my squat because I I didn't.

01:30:39.394 --> 01:31:05.771
I didn't correct this when I needed to yeah, I mean, this might be one of the rare occasions where you're playing good cop here by saying that you might not be able to reach your potential, like I'll go one further and say that you might literally be hurting yourself while you're lifting and, in turn, becoming weaker weaker by lifting Sure Right, like we have connective tissue.

01:31:05.872 --> 01:31:16.917
We have this like mesh that holds you know know everything around our spine in place and that's the thing that goes before we start to herniate discs and rupture discs.

01:31:16.917 --> 01:31:30.502
So like, okay, I can see on the whiteboard that I'm like oh wow, I went from 400 to 420 to 440, to I gotta cancel my gym membership, yeah.

01:31:31.345 --> 01:31:32.086
Like yeah, for sure.

01:31:32.170 --> 01:31:34.217
Not not being able to do stuff like that.

01:31:34.217 --> 01:31:38.618
Like I mean, I've sent you in the opposite direction of where you're trying to go.

01:31:38.750 --> 01:31:39.452
Yeah, I, I.

01:31:39.452 --> 01:32:01.449
I threatened my 5 pm class a couple of weeks ago because we were it was that deadlift day and it was like the number of like slightly to moderately suboptimal hinges, you know the not like fail videos, but not up to our standard but certainly, but certainly not like what I want to see you lifting.

01:32:01.751 --> 01:32:19.416
If you want to be able to lift 30 years from now, right, and it's like every single my, my opinion, and this might maybe this is too far in one direction, because, like, if you, you know, if there's a, if you have kind of that perfectionist mindset, I don't think that's necessarily useful either, but I'm gonna push that.

01:32:19.416 --> 01:32:22.371
I'm gonna push that a little bit toward people and it's like over here.

01:32:22.390 --> 01:32:52.859
It works every, yeah for sure, it's like, hey, every rep that you do where you choose to allow your back to round as a result of the fact that maybe your hamstrings are tight or maybe they're just not strong because you've never learned how to load them properly, every rounded back deadlift you do is one rep in the column of I'm a little closer to getting injured, versus one really good rep that goes in the column of I'm building durability, strength and capacity in a safe range of motion.

01:32:52.859 --> 01:32:56.039
And it's like you pick which bucket that rep goes into.

01:32:56.039 --> 01:33:12.622
I'm going to strongly recommend you choose the latter bucket, right, and that means take some weight off, learn how to do the movement properly, or, hey, let's prioritize, let's stop trying to work around this very obvious mobility deficiency or whatever it is.

01:33:12.622 --> 01:33:15.033
And like, like, what are you here for?

01:33:15.033 --> 01:33:15.697
Like are you?

01:33:15.697 --> 01:33:20.242
Are you here to just like, put up a number on the whiteboard that's going to get erased in two days?

01:33:20.242 --> 01:33:28.344
Or are you here for, like, long-term strength and stability and fitness and, like you know, quality of life?

01:33:28.344 --> 01:33:38.438
Because, like, in a lot of ways, like over a long enough time span, those two things do not necessarily line up and, like you know, crossfit's got its threshold.

01:33:38.478 --> 01:33:45.198
Training where it's like, if it's perfect, like maybe we go faster or go heavier, and if it's sloppy, obviously that's no bueno.

01:33:45.198 --> 01:33:48.719
But man, when it comes to like, there are certain.

01:33:48.719 --> 01:33:53.095
There are certain movements, certain loadings where I'm like there there's there's no compromise on this.

01:33:53.095 --> 01:34:02.270
It's either it's either do it perfectly or like like piss off, like I don't want to see this, mostly because I don't want to see you get injured.

01:34:02.390 --> 01:34:14.778
Because again we're, you're putting too many, too many reps in the bucket of like I'll probably be fine, I'll probably be fine, but you're like you're also in teaching your body that the only way that it moves is incorrectly.

01:34:14.778 --> 01:34:19.131
And to me it's like how could like it blows for me?

01:34:19.131 --> 01:34:22.422
I'm like there's no question, like why would I ever make that trade?

01:34:22.422 --> 01:34:24.831
I'm not gonna just continue to.

01:34:24.831 --> 01:34:34.077
I'm not gonna continue to swing a hate, have a heinous golf swing and like assume that it'll kind of iron itself out and that I'll be good one day.

01:34:34.077 --> 01:34:37.130
It's like, no, like I'd rather learn how to do this thing correctly.

01:34:37.130 --> 01:34:50.015
Take the slow kind of baby step approach initially, but like, once you've ingrained the correct movement pattern and that's just like your default setting, it's like the sky becomes the limit yep, I think.

01:34:50.216 --> 01:34:59.002
I think we can count that as final thoughts, my answer to your question or maybe it was a question, or maybe it was a statement it was a question.

01:34:59.002 --> 01:35:00.617
We've talked about this before.

01:35:00.617 --> 01:35:09.095
There's a monkey back here that literally, there is literally a primitive being 400,000 year old monkey.

01:35:09.095 --> 01:35:16.300
Yeah, and there's a human in the front and man, we get out into that gym.

01:35:16.300 --> 01:35:19.295
There's, you know, the.

01:35:20.511 --> 01:35:22.037
The monkey's got the symbols now.

01:35:23.712 --> 01:35:25.658
Yeah, there's a sex that you're interested in.

01:35:25.658 --> 01:35:41.065
Out there there's status, the amount of like oh fuck, evolutionary, evolutionary, like things that are taking place in a group setting where you're doing physical work that monkey, yeah, is out there.

01:35:41.185 --> 01:35:41.648
So that's.

01:35:41.768 --> 01:35:48.671
That's why someone would make the short-term decision and then other people, the, the monkeys just running the show.

01:35:48.671 --> 01:35:58.132
But you get the boys talking about coaching prowess, a little puck and a little, uh, linear progression and you have a one hour and 36 minute episode.

01:35:58.132 --> 01:36:02.421
Um, all right, hold on I got one, one final thought after you're done.

01:36:02.882 --> 01:36:26.595
The final thought is in the third period, at the 10 minute and 29 minute Mark, there was 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 penalties called cross-checking, roughing, roughing, roughing, roughing, roughing, fighting, fighting, misconduct, misconduct, misconduct, misconduct, misconduct, misconduct.

01:36:26.595 --> 01:36:28.358
That's what happened last night.

01:36:29.159 --> 01:36:49.417
The the narrative is that they won't leave you alone, even if they're beating your ass, and that is proof that that's the case, the game penalty they are setting up further games by doing that shit, by playing that way like see how much we can piss you off, make you mad at us, get you over emotional, emotional.

01:36:49.436 --> 01:36:52.783
Like oh my God, I saw 85 penalty minutes.

01:36:52.783 --> 01:36:54.088
I was like where did that happen?

01:36:54.189 --> 01:36:59.099
I got to stop being so nice talking about the Florida Panthers, but I am kind of fascinated, to be honest.

01:36:59.099 --> 01:37:02.560
That's a fucking bunch, is?

01:37:02.579 --> 01:37:05.078
Marshy in there, that's a lot of Oilers in the penalty box.

01:37:05.078 --> 01:37:05.400
Oh, is there?

01:37:05.440 --> 01:37:15.797
No, no, yeah, a lot of Oilers in the penalty box yeah 85 oiler penalty minutes to 55 florida penalty minutes that sounds like they were in their monkey mind a little bit too.

01:37:15.837 --> 01:37:21.042
Yeah, they were using the old prefrontal cortex yeah, well, that, yeah that at that point we were down.

01:37:21.042 --> 01:37:35.153
Uh, we're down four one, so so hopefully no suspensions, though any anything major uh, I mean, it says misconduct, but sam bennett misconduct that's shocking yeah, I don't know about fucking shocker.

01:37:35.153 --> 01:37:36.896
Yeah, I don't know about major.

01:37:36.896 --> 01:37:41.393
Oh, a couple, a couple of misconducts at the very end of the game too.

01:37:41.393 --> 01:37:46.189
That third period must have been a hoot oh, dude, I'm gonna go watch the.

01:37:46.470 --> 01:37:48.172
Uh, I'm gonna go watch the highlights right now.

01:37:48.172 --> 01:37:50.916
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01:38:23.751 --> 01:38:25.559
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01:38:29.380 --> 01:38:34.484
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