Question for the fitpro's

Transform

Going to Loughborough tomorrow for the annual fitpro convention
www.fitpro.com - spring convention
Its on over 3 days and involves lectures, practicals etc all weekend from the top fitness professionals around.

I really enjoyed it last year and if anyone has any short specific questions to be answered let me know asap

speekers include

Chuck Wolf
Charles Poliquin
Paul Check Trainers
Gary Gray
Michol Dalcourt
Greg Roskopf
Further list on their web site.

Dragan

Hey Dom,

if you get a chance to talk to Poliquin could you ask him why he feels the single arm snatch is such an injury causer?

He metioned it in a T-Nation article but never elaborated or answered questions about it that i can recall.

Also, with regard to Roskopf, if you could see if he has any tried and tested simple techniques to find subtle muscle imbalances, or is it a more complicated issue than that?

Patto

I wouldn't presume to know enough to ask these guys questions:)

Just wondering how you got on Dominic?

Transform

quick over view of charles poliquins talks (there were 4 of them).

1. Take 20-30g fish oils per day

2. Heal your gut! - If you are not absorbing your food and supplements properly you are wasting your time so call/mail them to get their gut protocol. Depression can be caused by poor gut health. Glutamine is of great help and digestive enzymes

3. Avoid aerobic work - (a point i do not agree with totally). It increases oxidative stress and power. He recommends interval work

4. Take a multivitamin - qulaity is key. should be albion chelated, another test is check if the magnesium they use end with ATE not magnesium oxide.

5. Take green drinks every day e.g. beyond greens by udo's choice people

6. Range is more important than weight e.g. squatting with big weight but barely bending knees, bench pressing without touching bar off the chest, non-full range chins etc

7. If you are not squatting why? If you have a problem with them find out why and get it bloody fixed

8. Site of an injury is generally not the problem its the symptom

9. Knowledge applied is not worth ****.

10. Insulin is only hormone you have 100% control over so eat a nutrient rich, low gi, high protein, alkalizing diet or shut up about your flabby belly

11. A high protein breakfast will help you to eat 70% less calories for entire day.

12. NO ONE EATS ANYTHING BY ACCIDENT!!! Your mouth is not a hoover so stop lying to your self about how much you need to eat and get your body fat down.

13. Eat varying meals in the morning and check your alertness levels 1hr later - you feel good and awake (good choice) you feel tired and foggy (keep eating it to get fat and tired!)

Overview

went to lots of talks about functional fitness which was the buzz work of the weekend but need more time to apply this.

Charles only cares about results and getting them fast, yes there are slower ways but why bother. All his trainers look like trainers. They make a mockery of most trainers your see in gyms handing out the same crap advice week in week out, looking terrible and deserve to be paid badly as most NEVER increase their knowledge - learn more to earn more, this goes for all types of work.

cousin_borat

Transform wrote:

2. Heal your gut! - If you are not absorbing your food and supplements properly you are wasting your time so call/mail them to get their gut protocol. Depression can be caused by poor gut health. Glutamine is of great help and digestive enzymes

Very interesting, there is alot of research going on at Massachusetts General Hospital called the Functional Brain Gut group. They regard the Gut as almost another brain in terms of the number of functions it performs.

For example on patients who have extreme obesity and have stomach reduction procedures. Researchers discovered that it wasn't actually the reduced volume of the stomach that supressed appetite but the cutting off of certain neural pathways from the gut to the brain.

The link to depression is also quite well documented as well.

hunnymonster

Great information there transform. I have a follow on question from the magnesium suggestion.

<inserts numpty qualifier> From what I understand the absorbtion of minerals by humans is measured by either seeing how much dissolved in an acid of similar pH to digestive tract and/or measuring input v's output (pee!). Given that it's well known that the bioavailability of Mg2+ from MgO is much lower than from something like MgSO4 (sulfate) or MgCl2 (chloride) [according to google and it fits with what Transform says] and the manufacturers of suppliments traditionally counteract this by using the cheaper MgO in larger doses. Is there still a difference of taking 20 mmol of something you'd expect to adsorb 50% of compared to 10 mmol of something where you'd adsorb 100%?

cousin_borat

My view is simple that inferior multivitamins contain essentially crushed rocks. From which humans can't absorb into their systems. Whereas those made from plant/herb extracts are in a form that can be readily absorbed. Gross simplification and I'll let others elaborate further.

Sleepy

What amazes me is that most of this info, even at the fitpro level is pure and simple common sense! If only common sense was so easy to turn into common action!

Transform

Sleepy i have given a very simple overview and there are points that were made that are too complicated to cover here and i need to apply to my self first.

Take a qulaity magnesium supplement - males 1g/day and females 600mg/day.

One of the points a speaker made was that most trainers know enough to get most people in good shape - getting someone in GREAT shape is a different ball game. My goal is to have all my female clients under 18% fat and males under 12% year round. Most trainers are not even at this never mind the clients

Froot

Transform wrote:

One of the points a speaker made was that most trainers know enough to get most people in good shape - getting someone in GREAT shape is a different ball game. My goal is to have all my female clients under 18% fat and males under 12% year round. Most trainers are not even at this never mind the clients

Thanks for the report anyway, some interesting stuff there. I have to agree with what your saying about trainers not being in great shape. I have to say I have met one trainer in my entire life who I would consult regarding fitness, the rest just didnt seem to look like they had ever tried any of their own medicine.