120- When To Go Hard and When To Rest w/ MMA Strength Coach Joel Jamieson

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

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🗓️ 28 May 2014

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week on Barbell Shrugged we chat with Joel Jamieson, leading expert on combat sport training and founder of 8WeeksOut.com.

If Joel’s name rings a bell that’s because he’s the author of Ultimate MMA Conditioning, which made ourtop 10 list of books that every Crossfitter should read. He’s also the creator of the BioForce HRV Training Management System, an awesome tool that uses heart rate variability as a measure of fatigue and training readiness.

If you’re interested in performance then you really should be considering HRV. Why not?

Great programming is all about balance. You have to know when to push forward, and when to back down so you can live to fight another day. Keeping the balance that makes extraordinary results and sustained progress possible. But that’s easier said than done. Without a clear measure of readiness it’s really easy to push too hard, too soon.

Any coach or athlete worth their weight in chalk expects to see great results. They are driven to succeed, they are quickly drawn towards high intensity and fancy tools because that’s what the best use, right? Right, but rushing towards that result is the easiest mistake to make. The only thing it gets you is a weak and unsound foundation, poor mechanics, probably injury, and inevitably, a quick and messy exit from the sport you enjoy.

We can do better than that.

The coach and athlete have to communicate and understand all the gaps in the game up front. They have to take the time and cultivate the base before things get intense and the fancy toys come out. From there the push can build and build, but not without careful monitoring.

Every stress has to be considered, every addition to the training program must be accounted for. That’s what makes measures such as heart rate variability so damn useful. It’s an early warning to correct course before the rush takes hold, before the wear, tear and bad habits really start to set in.

Without that data programming is only educated guesses and serial assumptions.

Be honest, assess status, progress slowly, get all the data you can, then regulate the plan. Be honest, quantify it. That’s the quickest path to improved performance.

Cheers,
Chris Moore

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0:00.0	This week on Barbell Shrugged, we interview Joel Jamison and then may strengthen conditioning
0:05.1	coach and blogger on 8weeksout.com.
0:09.0	Hey, this is Rich Froning.
0:10.5	You're listening to Barbell Shrugged for the video version.
0:12.7	Go to BarbellShrugged.com.
0:14.0	Welcome to Barbell Shrugged.
0:23.2	My blitz are here with Doug Larson.
0:25.1	We have traveled down to Austin, Texas for Paleo FX.
0:29.2	It's a convention where a bunch of people like to run around barefoot and make fun of
0:33.8	people eating sandwiches and then go out drinking beer at night.
0:38.8	The only time of the year that no one's Paleo, at the Paleo Conference.
0:43.2	We have with us standing in for Chris Moore, Connor Moore from Austin, Texas.
0:48.6	He is standing for Chris Moore because Chris Moore is at home awaiting the birth of his
0:53.0	second child.
0:54.7	He actually was pretty brave and he came in for a day and then he got back.
1:00.5	The woman's already dilated quite a bit.
1:02.6	Janie is and uh...
1:04.6	Definitely could have had that kid while he was out of town.
1:06.4	Yeah, it could have happened.
1:08.4	So he had to go home and Connor Moore was taking his place.
1:12.0	So biggest cross-fitter in the sport.
1:13.8	I'm doing the best I can.
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