RX'D Radio Podcast

Train the Attribute First

By Eric Bugera

Training your clients the way they want.

• You will rarely encounter a client with a single goal.
• You can (and should) train multiple attributes simultaneously for a young training age client.
• Bodybuilding, powerlifting, and Olympic lifting are ways to train hypertrophy, strength or power; but, they are not the only way.

It’s Never One Goal

Personal training is an extremely individualized experience. Each intake form lays the groundwork for how you will operate on a per-person basis – but you will almost never be presented with a neatly compartmentalized set of goals. Hypertrophy, strength, power, endurance, body composition, obstacle races, you name it. While you may have the opportunity to self-select your clientele base eventually, in the early stages of your career the likelihood is less realistic. Instead, you will be confronted with an amalgamation of seemingly unrelated goals that is now your responsibility to manifest. The probl...

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This episode discusses what purposeful overreaching is, how to utilize it effectively and some considerations when implementing. Mac shares tips and insight on how to get the most out of a planned overreach and the impact on programming it can have.

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The Sunday crew discusses the menace to society Mac’s youth “allegedly” was before setting their crosshairs on the overhead squat. This episode is part old man yells at clouds ranting and part education discussion on effective assessments and utilizing data to index exercise for programming.

James Macintosh
@coachjamesmac 

James Thayer

@thayer2513

Don’t miss the release of our newest educational community - The Pre-Script ™

Collective! Join the community today at www.pre-script.com.

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

For more episodes, subscribe and tune in to our podcast. Also, make sure to sign up to our mailing list at www.pre-script.com to get the first updates on new programming releases. You can also follow Dr. Jordan Shallow and Dr. Jordan Jiunta on Instagram!

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 Shallow and Jiunta discuss the process to road mapping assessed information for strategies to elicit a stimulus of adaptation for continual progress. This episode provides core principles in application that Pre-Script Level 1 was founded upon. This is a can’t miss episode for new listeners and longtime listeners that comes full circle in discussions on the fitness industry.

Don’t miss the release of our newest educational community - The Pre-Script ™ Collective! Join the community today at www.pre-script.com.

For other strength training, health, and injury prevention resources, check out our website, YouTube channel, and Instagram. For more episodes, subscribe and tune in to our podcast. Also, make sure to sign up to our mailing list at www.pre-script.com to get the first updates on new programming releases. You can also follow Dr. Jordan Shallow and Dr. Jordan Jiunta on Instagram!

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Mac and Thayer traverse several topic threads in this episode that will leave you asking plenty of questions. They discuss the “goodness” that comes with Mac’s training, development in a GPP Phase and considerations to ask better questions as a coach, client or athlete.

James Macintosh
@coachjamesmac 

James Thayer
@thayer2513  

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

For more episodes, subscribe and tune in to our podcast. Also, make sure to sign up to our mailing list at www.pre-script.com to get the first updates on new programming releases. You can also follow Dr. Jordan Shallow and Dr. Jordan Jiunta on Instagram!

Accepting Ignorance

Wisdom is just less ignorance over time.

By Eric Bugera

• You will inevitably start your career from a place of ignorance.
• You can make significant progress while you continue to learn. 
• Be loose with your attachments in order to choose the best way to train each client on a per-person basis. 

Check Your Ego

It’s a literal impossibility to navigate life without some (often many) instances of complete ignorance – or at the very least, naivete. Neither of these qualities is inherently bad. They are simply signs of a lack of information or experience. Unless you are acting in a willfully ignorant way, embracing your lack of experience is the fast track to improving your own knowledge and client outcomes. However, how you respond to new information that may contradict your pre-existing methods is the real indicator of your desire to improve. It’s easy to call yourself a lifelong learner, but walking the walk can burn from time to time.

Do No Harm

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Today’s episode is a deep dive discussion between James Macintosh and James Thayer on the complex consideration for exercise selection and creating a cohesive program. A central topic to this conversation is the secondary and tertiary benefits of selected exercises that drive adaptations in variability to develop macro benefits. 

James Macintosh
@coachjamesmac 

James Thayer
@thayer2513  

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

For more episodes, subscribe and tune in to our podcast. Also, make sure to sign up to our mailing list at www.pre-script.com to get the first updates on new programming releases. You can also follow Dr. Jordan Shallow and Dr. Jordan Jiunta on Instagram!

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Start With the End

Tomorrow should be dictated by six months from now.

Abdurahmaan Saloojee is a newsletter contributor from Ottawa, Canada. He enjoys traveling, reading, and spending time with cats.

• Taking clients’ goals seriously requires planning for them long-term.
• Tracking is essential, but it must go hand in hand with reverse engineering what we need to be tracking based on the end goal.
• Give the client what they want, but give it as much structure and forethought as possible in order to deliver tangible results.

Part of responsible programming is taking our client’s goals seriously, and part of taking their goals seriously is not taking a day-by-day approach to their training. They are paying us for results, and getting there involves small daily progressions that serve the purpose of their larger goals, not coming up with something new every day. Unless their goal specifically has no end result in mind and their intention is just to move around for an hour, we must...