 First question is from just a young in How do you train someone that only wants to commit to one to two workouts a week very carefully? Yeah? That's it next but now this is this I like this question. Here's why when I was a new trainer When people would tell me that they can only work out one or two work times a week I literally would think that's a waste of time and in fact I know I turned away potential clients because they refuse to commit to working out at least three days a week or You're not ready yet. Yeah, in fact part of my strategy when I was a new trainer I've always you know enjoyed, you know discussing and being persuasive, right? So I get this person in front of me and I'd say how many days a week can you commit to the gym and they'd say Oh, just one day a week and then the rest of the time My goal was to persuade them to commit to three or four days a week because in my eyes one day a week Just wasn't effective now. I realized after years of doing this literally five or six five years Maybe that it was a terrible strategy The strategy was terrible because the reality is if you're going from zero days a week of working out to any more than that Days of working out. That's a benefit and on top of that. It's not just a physical benefit It's beneficial because the way people develop long-term Behavioral changes typically is a little bit at a time. So later on my strategy became Hey, I can only work out one day a week and I'd say no problem We'll design a workout around that and make sure it's as effective as possible. That's far as how would I train someone? Well, if I'm only training once or twice a week first off a lot of it depends on the person if I need to focus a lot on Mobility work, which is usually the case with a brand new client then most of my workout is going to be mobility work as They progress and they need less and less of that special focus mobility work more of it goes to Traditional resistance training if the person comes to me and they don't have tons of mobility issues Then I'll do a normal priming session or you know warm up for example And I'm doing just a full-body Resistance training routine and it's mainly revolving around compound lifts, you know squats and overhead presses and rows and that kind of stuff so I would do exactly the same thing except We're I guess another depends right is Sometimes somebody who says one to two times a week It's because they're saying that like maybe just Saturday and Sunday they have an option to work out And so the days are back-to-back So that's the only way I would split it I agree with Sal someone who's probably only able to commit to one or two days a week is probably Also the clients that probably need a lot of mobility So I would say that the bulk of my training would be focused around their posture and and dealing with any sort of chronic pain and those issues then the Other portion of it would obviously be a full-body type of routine unless it's back-to-back day So if it's if they're two days or back-to-back Then I would probably do a split where I went Upper body one day lower body the other day and that was just and all the only difference that I do is like So let's say Sal's riding it the way he just said where he has a full-body routine twice a week He's probably gonna do two to three sets of each body part on there If I know that I'm only gonna get the that body part once that week I might do four to five right so I might do four to five sets for every body part in the upper body on one workout and then the Other but a workout I would do four to five sets in the lower body Workouts if I was if I was gonna go back-to-back workouts if I had a Minimum of two to three days in between the two days Then I would do exactly what you alluded to which is a full-body routine with with mobility work is what that would look like Yeah, a brand new client. I mean this would be something I would definitely Start to build up their specific mobility routine their their priming session You know ahead of time to really focus in on that because they can repeat that the whole rest of the week As they you know have time available they can they can do that at their house But like I would I would slowly build on onto that with you know I'd take one compound lift and really try to you know teach them that specifically the mechanics and the technique involved and Then have them practice it with lightweight You know if that's the only amount of time I'm allotted and go through that for a couple weeks until I could really build up You know trust that they're gonna perform this exercise correctly throughout the rest of the week You know I want to I want to add to something you said Sal that I think is important to reiterate for the trainers That are listening is I too was like this where at the beginning I did not I get frustrated with this client I'd say oh, you know You're not serious enough or if you want it if you really want to see results We need to be training at least three times a week if I want to see and to be honest Later in my career. I actually preferred this to this is I would much rather in fact I found myself Talking clients down that were like all motivated because they had something coming up or they're like oh I could give you five days a week and I'm like well When was the last time you trained five days a week and they'd be like well never But I know now now I have the time or and then I would actually end up going Let's start off with just one or two times Build a really solid routine and a good habit and then we could start to build off of that also I mean you're teaching you're teaching them to fish So you're teaching them how to figure this out for themselves as well Like this type of a client versus somebody that's coming in and they're relying on you the entire time to just tell them what to do and be Mindless You know about the entire program of it like really spending the time to educate them in that one to two days that you have Available is gonna be super worthwhile And you know you can actually get two days a week you can get exceptional results Oh, yeah, that Doug worked out with me two days a week definitely for the first I think year or two that we trained together so Doug went from you know normal active guy to Deadlifting twice his body weight and there's this before and after picture that I've posted in the past where you could see his abs I was that was two days a week of resistance right now The other days he was active on his own normally But really it was only two structured workouts a week you can get very far with two really really good resistance Not only get really far you can also maintain a decent physique at that I mean I'm training that right now one maybe two times of Resistance training a week right now now by no means am I impressive but I also don't look like I don't work out You know it you can maintain especially if you're if your programming is tight And you are doing the the biggest bang for your buck movements Man if you're deadlifting and squatting and overhead pressing and benching twice a week You're gonna have a pretty damn good Zeke and base that's one of the things I love most about resistance training It does it sends the signal and then the every then the body does the work So it's not like you have to manually not manually building muscle there like with cardio You have to manually burn calories with resistance training You're setting the gears in motion and so if it's effective it can be infrequent And that's one of the hallmarks of resistance training It's one of the reasons why it's one of the best ways to exercise especially with our current busy lifestyles