The most common error in personal training and group coaching is not managing intensity properly. Allowing clients to go hard and fast before mastering the basics of mechanics is far too common and quite dangerous. Talk to any athlete who has injured themselves and chances are they ramped up the intensity before they were ready. Keeping athletes from training beyond their threshold is not an easy job, but it is one a vigilant coach knows is a key to successful outcomes. Mastering the basics ensures that the mechanics of movement are the standard, and when the athlete starts to break their form, the intensity must be pulled back. That threshold is imperative. One more rep or round with poor form holds the potential for injury, and an injured client is the failure of the coach as much as it is the athlete. The movements must be mastered before intensity is increased. MetFix’s emphasis on scaling for special populations addresses the need for this.

“The squat, bench press and pull-up are perfect representations [of functional movements to master]. The return on improvising and mastering these movements is unparalleled by any other approach. Abdominal work is vital, and the sit-up is still “king” regardless of what you’ve been told about the crunch. If your weight training routine keeps you in the gym for more than 30-40 minutes you are wasting time and not working out at sufficient intensity. The error of relying on single joint movements and working at insufficient intensity is nearly universal.”

If metabolism is about a constant change in the body, whether from a health state to a disease state, or the inverse: going from a sick body to a healthy, fit body, then a program that ensures the body’s hormonal regulatory system and bioenergetics works optimally would naturally be called MetFix.  We are the change that fixes the body, preventing and reversing chronic disease.

The Care and Feeding of Your Mitochandria

We now know that the mitochondria and endocrine system dictate where you land on the sickness-wellness-fitness continuum. Your endocrine system is dependent upon your bioenergetics and changes how your hormones function. Diseases proliferate when metabolic function is impaired, and health and fitness outcomes thrive when metabolism is optimized.

MetFix is grounded in the science of metabolic health. Our dietary protocol of mostly meat and fat is a strategic design to build and support lean body mass (muscle, bone, and organs). MetFix’s exercise protocol is based on Greg Glassman’s methodology, which has proven effective at increasing work capacity across broad times and modal domains and therefore one’s functionality–the ability to perform functional movements to meet life’s demands.

The double pillars of the low-carbohydrate high-fat diet and constantly varied high-intensity functional movement create the metabolic environment that allows your body to fix itself and thrive–a diet and exercise program that improves health. This is MetFix.