![]() My “gas tank” for workouts was much higher and I found I was performing through my workouts so much better than I had in the past. While I did this in order to improve fat loss, I found this helped dramatically with my cardio and aerobic capacity. The sweet spot for a lot of this work is zone 2 – basically a heart rate zone roughly between 115 & 135 bpm (depending on your age + sex).Īdding this to my weekly schedule helped burned a few hundred extra calories / week and keep me in a caloric deficit for the week while still retaining most of my muscle mass. They either beat themselves up or barely even push themselves enough to get any results or adaptation. They do long sections of cardio that are either too hard or too easy. ![]() Most people screw up when they log cardio. → Matt’s Nutrition Coaching Added 90-150 minutes of Zone2 to my Week If I have a goal and I need to do it – I’ll “flip the switch” and just get it done.īut, it’s super helpful to have not just a coach but an accountability buddy that will raise his eyebrow and be like “really” if I go face first into a donut/pizza fueled bonanza. I don’t have any emotional hangups on food. It’s another to have to admit to someone else that you’ve been eating like that. It’s really relieving to be able to just do the work instead of having to plan the work, decide to do it, and then do it. I don’t have to think anymore, I just do the thing he told me to do. Much like outsourcing my fitness, hiring matt was like outsourcing my brain for nutrition. I hired a coach (Matt Stephens) to tell me stop eating like an idiot. Even if you don’t have a “coach” – you basically do – yourself – and you might not be the coach the athlete version of you needs. Even top athletes hire coaches to see things they don’t see, keep them on track, and remind them of what they’re working towards. I Hired a Nutrition Coach & Accountability PartnerĮveryone has a coach. But the next part of the equation is what unleashed the potential of the work I was doing. I had been getting my butt kicked at the gym for the previous 18 months, building the baseline strength and toughness that I needed. → If you’re not in Austin, we have some damn good programming in our Impossible Fitness training app here.
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