RX'D Radio Podcast

Identify Your Resources

Careers progress in stages, and so does your value. 

By Eric Bugera

• Stages of your career will offer distinct resources for you to leverage and provide.

• Work, knowledge, and time are resources that you accumulate, master, and give back.
• Identify where you are in your career, what resource is the most scarce? What can you reasonably give to keep advancing and helping others?

Why Are You Here?

The common thread amongst coaches, clinicians, and trainers entering the fitness space is the overarching desire to help people. Whether you aspire to inspire, want to raise the bar on the standard of training, or seek to completely revolutionize the industry – you want to help people. There are countless people to help, but the degree to which you are qualified to do so may seem disjoint. The desire is there, but the qualifications? At base you are ready, willing, and able to help those you set out to help. As your career progresses, you will develop multiple...

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This thought-provoking episode of RX’D Radio Jordan Jiunta and James Thayer come together to explore the fascinating world of training to lift heavy. In this enlightening conversation, they delve into the importance of data collection and how different approaches can yield valuable insights to enhance strength training. By unraveling the concept that strength is a skill requiring consistent practice, they shed light on the intricate process of preparation and information gathering needed to achieve success in various lifts. Whether you're a seasoned lifter or a novice, this discussion will offer valuable nuggets of wisdom to sharpen your lifting abilities and pave the way towards reaching new weights on the bar. Listen in to learn how to train pretty and test ugly. 

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Jordan Jiunta and James Macintosh discuss the impact of emotional intelligence in coaching and understanding motivating factors for clients can impact progress. This episode breaks down the intention of a restorative phase, training around pain and how to be a coach that truly cares. Understand the person in front of you when you coach and be more than a “mindset” coach.

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Create Progression Maps

Life is easier to navigate with a map.

By Eric Bugera

• Client’s may present with similar goals but have unique challenges en route to accomplishing them.

• Training parameters and exercise selection are your tools for problem solving.
• Progression maps based upon previous experiences can help eliminate randomness and funnel clients towards their success.

Avoid Randomness

Specificity is the training principle that states your body will generate specific adaptations to the applied demand of exercise. While any movement is beneficial for a new client, randomness will only serve to confuse the issue once early gains have been exhausted. With that in mind, finding your own way to organize and standardize each next step with individual clients can be extremely powerful for future programming. Coaching can enter the elite echelons simply by eliminating randomness; however, experience and pattern recognition can help formulate repeatable and predictable patte...

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Killian Hamilton returns to discuss how coaching is an integral part of the skill acquisition model. Tune in to improve your coaching ability by understanding how people learn, complete tasks and how to assess logic and emotion when coaching.  

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Identify As Useful

Gains are the real bragging rights.

By Eric Bugera

• Certification hoarding is rapidly becoming the standard in the fitness industry.

• Recency bias of acquiring new qualifications can dilute the holistic potential of a trainer. 
• The desire to become a title, qualification, or certification should be secondary to actually providing value. Integrate, don’t isolate.

Letters, Acronyms, and Titles

The fitness industry yearns for credibility. It continuously searches for some form of standardization – a way to establish the good from the bad. One could argue that the incessant desire to stand out from the crowd has raised the baseline level of quality; however, upon closer inspection, has it? Stockpiling certifications, qualifications, and titles is slowly becoming the norm in absence of genuine skill and ability. The illusion of quality propped up by an overwhelming amount of new courses, techniques, and “self-investment”. The end result however is a long list...

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This episode of RX’D Radio has the return of Killian Hamilton to discuss the transferability of skill acquisition through stages of learning and application. Juinta and Killian breakdown running,Track and field principles, and the difference between sport specificity and task specific training. Learn how to understand and develop positions of exercise to apply specific intention and execution. 

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Hypertrophy Mechanisms Revisited

By Eric Bugera

Mechanical Tension, Metabolic Stress, and Muscle Damage

• Mechanical tension, metabolic stress, and muscle damage are the three commonly proposed hypertrophy triggers.

• Evidence continues to suggest that of the three, absolute tension is the primary driver with metabolic stress (and possibly muscle damage) serving as surrogate routes to tension.
• Although tension is the main goal, metabolic stress is a useful tool to tailor within programs to achieve said desired tension.

Hypertrophy Mechanisms

Underlying mechanisms serve as the north star in any walk of life – but particularly within the realm of fitness. Whether you’re into German volume training, using bro-splits, or the specialized flavor of the month protocol, your ability to critically appraise a program based upon mechanistic merit can help you make better decisions faster. There are rarely proprietary training strategies that truly break the mold of what your body was a...

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Take a trip with Jiunta and Mac in today’s podcast as you prepare to hear tips on travel that’ll get you to your destination. We dare you to resist laughing throughout this episode in-between learning about the important considerations around testosterone levels, blood work indicators, treating results as a snapshot and stress management inside and out of the gym. This episode offers no legal or medical advice, but we guarantee you’ll laugh as much as you learn.

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For other strength training, health, and injury prevention resources, check out our website, YouTube channel, and Instagram. 

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Be Sure to Connect

By Eric Bugera

You’re having a conversation with a human. Or at least you should be.

• In-person intakes are a personality meshing experience, not a fact finding mission.

• Uncovering the best way to serve prospective clients comes from genuine connection, a long-form fleshed out conversation. 
• Practicing these skills will make it feel organic while also receiving the needed fitness details.

Perception is Everything

Training clients in the real world, be it a commercial gym or private facility, is slowly becoming a thing of the past. Although it will likely never truly go away – online training has taken a huge percentage of the potential market share to a (likely) more appropriate delivery method. Spreadsheets, text messages, and maybe even the odd voice note might be the right tool in some contexts, but in person, perception is everything. In real life, your main goal is to connect with the person in front of you – their initial read will influence a mas...