20 Top Training Priorities: Sorted (Sorta) Ep 1/2

About this episode

The hosts discuss the relative importance of 20 training priorities, managing to cover about 10 in this episode.

Ariana, Alex, and Trevor try to work out how they'd rate the relative importance of 20 training priorities, from 1-20 (1=most important, 20=least important). In this hour they manage to discuss roughly 10, so expect a second episode for sure. The theme of today is "It Depends." The 20 "Commonly Discussed Priorities" are as follows (and in no particular order, trust me): Individualised coaching, NEAT, Structured training, General nutrition, Intra workout nutrition, Sleep, Training periodization, Training volume, Training specificity, Extra recovery (cold plunges, saunas, thera guns, etc), Body work (self or massages), Stretching and mobility, Mental grit, Consistency, Training Intensity, Training environment, Equipment, Data acquisition tools (smart watches, power meters, etc), Basic supplements (creatine, stimulants, protein), Specific supplements (fat burners, beta alanine, testosterone boosters). Discussed at length were: Extra Recovery, Sleep, Intra Workout Nutrition, Mental Grit, Consistency, Training Environment, General Nutrition, and Training Specificity/Volume/Intensity as a "blob" rather than truly separate entities. I know. Thankfully for you, we all had very different…

People in this episode

Host: Ariana

Topics covered

• training priorities
• individualised coaching
• nutrition
• sleep
• recovery
• mental grit
• training environment

Keywords

• structured training
• training volume
• training specificity
• training intensity
• data acquisition tools
• supplements

Mentioned in this episode

Products: smart watches, power meters, creatine, stimulants, protein, fat burners, beta alanine, testosterone boosters

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