Josh Dickinson put up a post yesterday about goals for 2015 so I thought I would add to it. Josh talked about the what and MP is very big on the why but we also need to focus on the how. Goals and reason why are very personal but we all have access to the how. The reason why I am writing this is because Both myself and Trish Veug get a lot of messages from clients (and trainers) enquiring about how they can get out of the plateau they are in from their MP program, i.e the results they were achieving have slowed or even stopped. At the start and at the end of your MP program you will have filled out a metabolic classification in which everyone will have different outcomes. You will notice as you progress through your journey your classification will start to decrease. I like to think of it as a problem pile and you (with your trainer) are sorting through one problem at a time to get you where you want to be. Eventually you will be left with the itty bitty things that people try to focus on at the start of the program, like food diarys. We also know that getting the manual and starting your MP program and trying to implement 6 meals a day from day one is not what this program is about. Its also not about food diarys. Its very easy to increase the exercise to try and solve the problem as well. Yes we need to eat well and do some physical activity, there is no denying that. I can tell you now if you eat one slice of cheese cake on a Saturday night at your mates party this is not going to be whats making you plateau. If you sprinkle some cheese on a lunchtime salad, this isnt whats going to make you plateau either. Here is what I think you need to do? If you want to stop the plateau, if you want to start to see positive things and build on what you have done so far you need to identify and pin point EXACTLY what YOUR weaknesses are. From my perspective as a TS, I really dont care if the people training under me are 100% compliant with their food week after week or not. There is no use being very compliant with the food on a weekly basis and then drink 8-10 beers on the weekend, which then lead to a fatty kebab, which also means going to bed late. Catch my drift. What I care about the most is them facing the problems that are holding them back and facing them head on and a lot of the time it isnt about food. Most of the time it is the bit we really dont want to change either. The exact answers you are looking for are in your metabolic classification. So if you want to really make progress this year, go over your new classification and compare it to your old one and pick out what you did well (morale is always good), but also pin point what you are going to work on next and take responsibility for your actions :) Both myself and Trish follow Metabolic Precision to the letter and have gotten our body fat into the single digits and can easily maintain it (thats our goal). You will reach your goal if you follow what your classification says. Happy new year to all.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 02:56:06 +0000
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