You got the same certifications as everyone else. You follow the same people on Instagram.
Be honest, what are you personally adding to the industry?
Are you truly as different and as good as you think you are?
In this industry, opinions don’t count. ONLY RESULTS MATTER.
Are you producing better RESULTS with clients than your competition? Are you able to produce proof that you are better than other trainers?
Is there good reason for people to choose YOU over other trainers?
THERE ARE MORE TRAINERS THAN EVER IN THAILAND.
The industry is now saturated with trainers. There are thousands of trainers, all with the same education and certifications. Those certifications behind your name mean nothing to clients if they can’t see proof can help them.
If you want to make it in this industry....
You have to stick out. To stick out....
You’ve got to be GOOD.
NOT pretty good.
You need to be so good that people are talking about you.
You need to be so good that your CLIENTS are talking about you to all of their friends, family and colleagues.
You need to be so good that your client’s family, friends and colleagues NOTICE the change on your client’s body and ask THEM for your contact.
It is sad to me how many trainers have a perfect personality to be a trainer, but honestly, aren’t skilled enough to make a living doing what they love.
There are many nice trainers who are always looking for clients so they can pay their bills. They are always worried if they are going to have to go and find a “real job” someday.
How would it feel to be so good that potential clients are calling YOU?
Wouldn’t it feel great to have them begging YOU to open up time in your busy schedule so they can train with YOU?
Be honest. Since you have been “certified,” have you ever opened up a physiology textbook?
Have you ever opened a textbook about metabolic regulation? How about endocrinology?
Is the last textbook you read your fitness certification textbook? Can you tell me exactly where they got “their” information from and who decided what goes in the book?
Did you check the information in the textbook and compare it to real science? Did you compare it to the best trainers to see how it fares to the successful methods they use?
C’Mon...be honest with yourself.
To move forward and become elite, it’s going to take courage to be honest with yourself.
Are you still telling people things like:
“Weight train to get stronger...calorie deficit for fat loss?”
If you are...you aren’t going to last long in this industry.
If you are....YOU MUST LEARN to get better!
In this saturated market...there is ONE way to make it a long successful career. That is to be better than other trainers.
To be better than other trainers...you have to know more than other trainers.
You can’t know more than other trainers without spending more time learning what other trainers won’t learn.
YOU DONT GET STRONGER LIFTING WEIGHTS THAT ARE TOO LIGHT FOR YOU.
THE SAME GOES FOR LEARNING.
YOU NEED TO READ AND STUDY THINGS OVER YOUR HEAD...SLOWLY, FREQUENTLY, CONSISTENTLY...AND WITH PASSION IF YOU WANT TO GET BETTER.
YOU WONT GET STRONGER IF YOU ARE INTIMIDATED BY THE BAR AND YOU WONT GET SMARTER IF YOU ARE INTIMIDATED BY BIG WORDS AND NEW CONCEPTS.
Instagram Trainer who has never opened a physiology textbook in his life:
“Train with weights to get stronger. Calorie deficit for fat loss.”
This is so misleading it is ignorant.
Now, there are people who actually study how the body works, doesn’t learn information from instagram sound bites and simply repeat what they hear repeatedly. Honestly, what trainer do you know who actually reads textbooks on metabolic regulation, physiology, biochemistry, Endocrinology?
I don’t listen to the fitness world. They are idiots repeating dogma to other idiots, creating the self perpetuating world of a very special kind of stupid. I learn from and listen to NATURE. It is what it is...no matter WHAT the fitness people say. When you understand how nature, how the BODY works....you cannot fall for everything you hear from “fitness people.”
Only then...do you have the ability to decipher between truth and myth.
New facts to consider:
We can store the food we eat as muscle glycogen or as body fat. Therefore, one person can store food as fat, another can store the same calories as body fat. We can train the body to store more food as muscle glycogen and less as bodyfat.
The more metabolically flexible we are, the easier fat loss. We can plan and utilize various fat loss protocols. We must avoid program interference and giving the body mixed signals. Aerobic and weight training together will often slow the adaptation of metabolic system to each when trying to reprogram for
In one of two modes:
*Save glycogen burn fat
*Save fat burn glycogen
Fat people are usually in a mode where they save fat...burn glucose.
Metabolic Flexibility allows you to switch back and forth between the two with ease.
Eating in a calorie deficit has negative effects on the metabolism, effectively lowering it to the new intake...in as short as a few days!
Eating in a calorie deficit increases hunger hormones.
Most people are deficient in many important nutrients. Mindlessly eating in a calorie deficit further increases the deficiencies.
These deficiencies further increase hunger hormones and decrease metabolism.
Eating in a calorie deficit lowers leptin levels, thereby decreasing metabolism and increasing hunger.
How much fat gets released from fat cells is highly dependent on how much HSL is activated and how well LPL is reduced. Growth hormone, catecholamine levels and low insulin levels are all instrumental in regulating HSL/LPL levels.
Weight training has the ability to raise growth hormone, catecholamines and lower insulin levels...thereby leading to higher levels of lipolysis. (Release of fat from cells)
Weight training increases the levels of lactic acid, which directly stimulates the production of growth hormone, which directly initiates lipolysis.
Weight training shuttles more fatty acids into cells to be near ATP, where it can be used for energy.
The higher the growth hormone release from a weight training workout, the greater the shift in respiratory exchange ratio post workout, meaning a higher percentage of our energy burned post workout is coming from fat.
A shift in RER will lead to greater levels of fat loss, even WITHOUT a change in calories.
Muscle glycogen, once in the cell, cannot be rereleased back into the blood. Once it is in the cell, the cell can only burn it through muscle contractions.
A muscle cell will not pull more energy, glucose or fat, into the cell if it is full of glycogen. Weight training depletes the cell, allowing more food to be stored in muscle, therefore less having to be stored as fat.
When we burn energy, we can burn glucose or fat.
Belly fat cells, both visceral and subcutaneous, have a higher makeup of receptor sites for adrenaline and Catecholamines. Weight training in a state of hypoxia (not traditional “strength” training, elicits these important belly fat losing hormones)
You can train for “strength” without eliciting the specific stimuli that help with faster fat loss. You can train to elicit the specific stimuli that help improve fat loss goals ...without training for more and more strength. (SAID principle....SPECIFIC ADAPTATION TO IMPOSED DEMANDS)
AMPK is highly involved in the regulation of skeletal muscle metabolism.
Activation of hepatic AMPK leads to increased fatty acid oxidation, increased glucose uptake, improved insulin sensitivity, mitochondrial biogenesis and simultaneously inhibition of hepatic lipogenesis, cholesterol synthesis and glucose production.
We CAN train in ways that increases AMPK.
Skeletal muscle is responsible for around 45% of lean body mass and is a highly metabolic tissue that is a major contributor to whole-body energy expenditure. Skeletal muscle is responsible for around 80% of insulin-stimulated glucose disposal. Therefore, responsiveness to insulin in this tissue is important for regulating whole-body insulin sensitivity. We CAN train in a way that improves this.
The more mitochondria we have and the more efficient our mitochondria is, the better we become at burning body energy, including body fat.
We CAN train in a way that improves mitochondrial function and stimulates mitochondrial biogenesis. (Production of more mitochondria)
A benefit of glycogen depleting exercise is that we can use our fat stores such as subcutaneous fat to be sent to the working muscle post workout and replace depleted intramuscular triglyceride stores, providing another advantage for positive changes in body composition.
Muscle and liver glycogen levels determine whether your body stores excess glucose as glycogen (muscle and liver) or as triglyceride (bodyfat). If your glycogen levels are low, then glycogen is created. If your glycogen levels are full, then excess glucose converts to fat.
We CAN train in a way that lowers glycogen levels.
Training to get “stronger” doesn’t guarantee a muscle to function differently from a metabolic standpoint. “Strength” gains through neural adaptations is not the best way to train for more glucose or fatty acid uptake into muscle cells and less into body fat. It is NOT the best way to elicit higher levels of fat being released from cells or being delivered to muscle cells. It will not lead to better mitochondrial function.
So dear trainer....are you programming properly for your clients?
If mrs. Jones wants to lose fat...
those heavy 5x5 deadlifts and squats you are doing with mrs. Jones is NOT the best way to train...
Those kettle bell snatches and swings that use more momentum than hard contractions are NOT the best way to train.
Assigning cardio
13 ways fat Loss Specific programming for exercise helps
1. FSL raises post workout metabolism AND shifts RER
THE SAME GOES FOR LEARNING.
YOU NEED TO READ AND STUDY THINGS OVER YOUR HEAD...SLOWLY, FREQUENTLY, CONSISTENTLY...AND WITH PASSION IF YOU WANT TO GET BETTER.
YOU WONT GET STRONGER IF YOU ARE INTIMIDATED BY THE BAR AND YOU WONT GET SMARTER IF YOU ARE INTIMIDATED BY BIG WORDS AND NEW CONCEPTS.
Instagram Trainer who has never opened a physiology textbook in his life:
“Train with weights to get stronger. Calorie deficit for fat loss.”
This is so misleading it is ignorant.
Now, there are people who actually study how the body works, doesn’t learn information from instagram sound bites and simply repeat what they hear repeatedly. Honestly, what trainer do you know who actually reads textbooks on metabolic regulation, physiology, biochemistry, Endocrinology?
I don’t listen to the fitness world. They are idiots repeating dogma to other idiots, creating the self perpetuating world of a very special kind of stupid. I learn from and listen to NATURE. It is what it is...no matter WHAT the fitness people say. When you understand how nature, how the BODY works....you cannot fall for everything you hear from “fitness people.”
Only then...do you have the ability to decipher between truth and myth.
New facts to consider:
We can store the food we eat as muscle glycogen or as body fat. Therefore, one person can store food as fat, another can store the same calories as body fat. We can train the body to store more food as muscle glycogen and less as bodyfat.
The more metabolically flexible we are, the easier fat loss. We can plan and utilize various fat loss protocols. We must avoid program interference and giving the body mixed signals. Aerobic and weight training together will often slow the adaptation of metabolic system to each when trying to reprogram for
In one of two modes:
*Save glycogen burn fat
*Save fat burn glycogen
Fat people are usually in a mode where they save fat...burn glucose.
Metabolic Flexibility allows you to switch back and forth between the two with ease.
Eating in a calorie deficit has negative effects on the metabolism, effectively lowering it to the new intake...in as short as a few days!
Eating in a calorie deficit increases hunger hormones.
Most people are deficient in many important nutrients. Mindlessly eating in a calorie deficit further increases the deficiencies.
These deficiencies further increase hunger hormones and decrease metabolism.
Eating in a calorie deficit lowers leptin levels, thereby decreasing metabolism and increasing hunger.
How much fat gets released from fat cells is highly dependent on how much HSL is activated and how well LPL is reduced. Growth hormone, catecholamine levels and low insulin levels are all instrumental in regulating HSL/LPL levels.
Weight training has the ability to raise growth hormone, catecholamines and lower insulin levels...thereby leading to higher levels of lipolysis. (Release of fat from cells)
Weight training increases the levels of lactic acid, which directly stimulates the production of growth hormone, which directly initiates lipolysis.
Weight training shuttles more fatty acids into cells to be near ATP, where it can be used for energy.
The higher the growth hormone release from a weight training workout, the greater the shift in respiratory exchange ratio post workout, meaning a higher percentage of our energy burned post workout is coming from fat.
A shift in RER will lead to greater levels of fat loss, even WITHOUT a change in calories.
Muscle glycogen, once in the cell, cannot be rereleased back into the blood. Once it is in the cell, the cell can only burn it through muscle contractions.
A muscle cell will not pull more energy, glucose or fat, into the cell if it is full of glycogen. Weight training depletes the cell, allowing more food to be stored in muscle, therefore less having to be stored as fat.
When we burn energy, we can burn glucose or fat.
Belly fat cells, both visceral and subcutaneous, have a higher makeup of receptor sites for adrenaline and Catecholamines. Weight training in a state of hypoxia (not traditional “strength” training, elicits these important belly fat losing hormones)
You can train for “strength” without eliciting the specific stimuli that help with faster fat loss. You can train to elicit the specific stimuli that help improve fat loss goals ...without training for more and more strength. (SAID principle....SPECIFIC ADAPTATION TO IMPOSED DEMANDS)
AMPK is highly involved in the regulation of skeletal muscle metabolism.
Activation of hepatic AMPK leads to increased fatty acid oxidation, increased glucose uptake, improved insulin sensitivity, mitochondrial biogenesis and simultaneously inhibition of hepatic lipogenesis, cholesterol synthesis and glucose production.
We CAN train in ways that increases AMPK.
Skeletal muscle is responsible for around 45% of lean body mass and is a highly metabolic tissue that is a major contributor to whole-body energy expenditure. Skeletal muscle is responsible for around 80% of insulin-stimulated glucose disposal. Therefore, responsiveness to insulin in this tissue is important for regulating whole-body insulin sensitivity. We CAN train in a way that improves this.
The more mitochondria we have and the more efficient our mitochondria is, the better we become at burning body energy, including body fat.
We CAN train in a way that improves mitochondrial function and stimulates mitochondrial biogenesis. (Production of more mitochondria)
A benefit of glycogen depleting exercise is that we can use our fat stores such as subcutaneous fat to be sent to the working muscle post workout and replace depleted intramuscular triglyceride stores, providing another advantage for positive changes in body composition.
Muscle and liver glycogen levels determine whether your body stores excess glucose as glycogen (muscle and liver) or as triglyceride (bodyfat). If your glycogen levels are low, then glycogen is created. If your glycogen levels are full, then excess glucose converts to fat.
We CAN train in a way that lowers glycogen levels.
Training to get “stronger” doesn’t guarantee a muscle to function differently from a metabolic standpoint. “Strength” gains through neural adaptations is not the best way to train for more glucose or fatty acid uptake into muscle cells and less into body fat. It is NOT the best way to elicit higher levels of fat being released from cells or being delivered to muscle cells. It will not lead to better mitochondrial function.
So dear trainer....are you programming properly for your clients?
If mrs. Jones wants to lose fat...
those heavy 5x5 deadlifts and squats you are doing with mrs. Jones is NOT the best way to train...
Those kettle bell snatches and swings that use more momentum than hard contractions are NOT the best way to train.
Assigning cardio
13 ways fat Loss Specific programming for exercise helps
1. FSL raises post workout metabolism AND shifts RER
- FLS improves leptin signaling
- FLS improves insulin sensitivity
- FLS improves glycogen storing capacity
- FLS alters the RER
- FLS lowers post workout insulin levels
- FLS lowers post workout cortisol ratios
- FLS increases HSL production
- FLS raises catecholamine levels
- FLS raises GH, which induces greater lipolysis
- FLS raises andrenaline which induces greater lipolysis
- FSL allows the body to store more fatty acids in the skeletal tissue closer to the mitochondria, and NOT as body fat
- FSL suppresses the LPL enzyme, not increases it as aerobic training does
- Train for greater AMPK activation
