Minimum Effective Action - Beast Over Burden - #569
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🗓️ 16 July 2024
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Summary
Minimum Effective Action: Where is the Progress?
PRs have stopped, you're not feeling as good as you had been, you'll not looking forward to your time in the gym like you had been.
Sometimes it takes longer to realize than you would think, but suddenly you realize things are not going as you would like them to go (and as they had been before). What do you do?
Because recovery is the limiting factor, it is helpful to think through different areas of your life that contribute to recovery and where you might be falling short or missing the mark:
- sleep (quality & quantity)
- eating (quality, quantity, consistency)
- alcohol
- protein
- routine (do you have one right now?)
- stress
You will likely identify an area or multiple where you are not doing as well as you can. For example, maybe you've fallen out of your normal routine during the summer, partly by drinking more. The drinking has reduced your sleep quality and quantity and also your protein and fiber.
Tightening things up, reducing alcohol, and reestablishing your routine can help.
Minimum Effective Action: Consistency & Path of Least Resistance
Identifying the path forward when you want to make changes can be hard. Really, the simple, hard, effective way is the way forward. Focus on one or two things, and do them consistently.
The change needs to be something you can see yourself doing indefinitely. IT needs to become a habit, so that when you do not have discipline OR motivation, it is the easy thing to do.
For example, for Andrew and Niki they feel bad when they do not work or they eat bad food. It has become easy for them to eat healthier and train because otherwise they very quickly identify they feel bad and see the negative consequences.
Take the minimum effective action to reach your goals.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Barbell Logic. |
| 0:04.7 | The podcast where we talk about what it means to experience strength. |
| 0:08.3 | And how you can use simple, hard and effective strategies in training and nutrition to improve your life. |
| 0:15.0 | It starts with meeting you where you are right now and finding lasting solutions. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the show. Hello everybody welcome to the Barbelogic podcast this is Beastover |
| 0:37.2 | burden I'm your host Nicky with me is Andrew good afternoon so everybody knows Good afternoon. |
| 0:47.5 | So everybody knows it's old news now that you're just hitting PRs all over the place. |
| 0:52.1 | Nope. No that that different now that stops. Yep. The usual summer schedule change came up and historically we've had a good run |
| 0:58.0 | through the spring and kind of into the early summer and I think that might have been what happened and then I went for a camping trip |
| 1:04.1 | kind of mid-June and I guess I did squeeze out a bench PR and bench is still right up there |
| 1:09.9 | kind of close to PR but squat and dead left seemed to have definitely taken a hit. |
| 1:15.6 | It's really interesting to me and I think this is definitely more advanced how |
| 1:20.6 | one lift or two lifts can just like totally die and another lift can keep going and it makes you |
| 1:27.2 | wonder like because you know when that happens on a squat you're like well clearly I'm |
| 1:30.8 | globally not recovering and I'm not getting strong but then your |
| 1:34.0 | other lift keeps going really well and that's always kind of a a mind game for me |
| 1:39.2 | it's like okay well how did this stop working so significantly or maybe just not even that much |
| 1:45.2 | significantly and then the other one just keeps cruising? Have you noticed that |
| 1:49.6 | sometimes? Yeah, I don't know if it's that one, I mean I've definitely noticed that before first of all. |
| 1:56.0 | Usually the stereotypical one is that the press is going to be the first to really tank and then I've always thought of the press as sort of the canary in the |
| 2:04.4 | coal mine in terms of that type of thing. I don't know if this one is as much as a you know two lifts are tanking and one keeps going as much as it is a matter of percentage fluctuation because, I don't know, my bench top-in might not be either I haven't I just haven't tested it this weekend but |
| 2:25.8 | you know five ten percent on a bench doesn't feel as much as five ten percent on a squat and even the squat |
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