 Alright, our next caller is Isaiah from Ohio. What's up Isaiah? How can we help you? Hey, good. I appreciate you guys taking my calls. This is pretty cool. I Have a quick question. I'm gonna be a police officer here start and actually tomorrow. I started the department Next after next week. They're gonna be sending me to the academy for four months I follow mostly mass program do pretty much all resistance training up until I found out I was going to the academy I started implementing more cardio. I'm not a cardio guy. I hate running But my main my question is how do I work in? Resistance training around everything that I'm gonna be doing at the academy. So obviously most every single morning We do, you know, the normal push-ups sit-ups in about two to three four miles of running every morning Which is quite a bit for me coming from my background of little running up until this point So I'm wondering How to program I follow pretty much all maps programs. I have quite a bit few of them But I'm trying to figure out what's gonna be the best programming for me while I'm trying to manage both the working out Still in the morning and then the stresses of whatever I'm doing during the day As far as the training that they put me through and then what would you guys say would be like the best Program for like after work should I be focusing on, you know, mainly recovery? Just do four months of figuring out mobility working on that because that's something I'm lacking Or is there a way I can still implement a good resistance training routine and not over stress my body? Yeah, I would I would do an anabolic although you just made another point about wanting to focus on mobility, which there's nothing wrong with Blending the programs right here's an example where I would do this with somebody I might follow the foundational training from anabolic and take the mobility days from performance I think since you said I wouldn't have said that until you just pointed out that that's an area that you know You can work on and so this might be a great opportunity for you to implement that But I yeah, I'd say maps anabolic with the mobility days from performance. Yeah, I say at first off I appreciate you doing what you're gonna do. We need more good police officers So that's awesome, but you're going to a police academy, right? So this would be four months of academy and you're pretty familiar I'm sure you know what you're gonna be doing. It's it's somewhat grueling. There's a lot of workouts They're gonna be training with them on an almost daily basis, right? Yeah Yeah, so with all those workouts and training that you're doing with them You don't need to add much more to your your total programming. In fact, if you try to add too much You're gonna run into some problems Honestly to be quite honest. I've trained a few people through the academy I've actually had clients who hired me and then went through the academy and they tried to follow their normal workouts While they also did the academy and within a month. They were like this is just too much so honestly what I'm gonna recommend is do the academy workouts and then add like another day if You want of strength training and then mainly focus on mobility. Are you gonna lose some of your max strength and stuff like that? Yeah, probably but not a ton But that's not the point the point is you want to get through the academy become a police officer When you graduate then you can go back to your old training and make sure you incorporate Yeah, that's what I was singing anabolic one day a week in the mobility. That's it. Yeah, that's it So like one day how long is is your academy? It's four months right around four months. I'm not exactly four months. Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would say during the whole period of time do maybe one foundational workout a week And then just do the academy workouts and yeah, you're probably gonna lose some of your You know bodybuilding gains or whatever you got from the maps programs, but that's okay You're kind of getting conditioned and following their protocol But when you're done with it, you can go back to your old programming and you know maintain a certain level of You know running because you're gonna need some of that stamina of course in your in the line of duty But yeah, don't don't try to like throw everything at your body while you're doing this the academy is yeah somewhat strenuous The beauty of it is you know muscle memory And so like right now like you said you haven't really adapted to the conditioning and the durability yet So I would embrace that as your new adaptation focus and really just try and reinforce your joints with mobility Practices to try and keep everything healthy and moving forward But you know embrace it for now and just try your best to just kind of focus on You know gaining that that type of conditioning Isaiah. Do you own anabolic and performance already? I? Have in a ball like I don't have performance. Okay. There we go. We shoot in performance Yeah, we'll send performance over to you And so you're using the mobility days from performance and then following a maps foundational day one Yeah, one a week and and honestly even with that recommendation still listen to your body because there is a possibility that That may even be taxing because of all the work that you're going to be doing there From what I recall I know that each academy is probably different right because they're run by the city but I worked with police with the people who went through san josei police academy And from what I recall it was like daily workouts Including running lots of calisthenics and then at some point they reduced the workouts and would focus more on You know like certain things like how to take someone down how to you know, you know You know how to use your weapon in a particular way You know law focus when that happens and you can incorporate more your workouts But you know to put it differently Your priority is the academy so place your energy and focus on the academy That's where your energy and focus is so stay in that and then if you add anything it's to Compliment it. Don't try to supplement. Don't try to replace it. Does that make sense? Yeah, for sure. All right, perfect What is the um, just the other part of the question was I was thinking like going into it I wanted to try and lean out a bit. I'm a little higher. I'm coming from like a 12 hour shift night's job So my sleep scope has been terrible I put on a little weight since since starting the job But I was wondering like should I go into it trying to lean out like keep my calories there Should I just really focus on you know getting through it not really have I think that's that's I think that's naturally gonna happen Yeah, focus on your I have quite a bit of muscle on me right now I'm worried that most of that with all the running is going to be my muscle going away And I'm not going to be like leaning out. No, no, no, no the body the body your to utilize Muscle it's it's an expensive tissue and the body doesn't want to use muscle it will in much rather Utilize fat as a source. I feel if it doesn't have carbohydrates, right? So if it doesn't have You know glucose it's going to move over to fat before it wants to move So your body does not want to to burn muscle So don't be afraid of of that going on you're not going to lose mostly muscle Especially if you're doing things like push-ups and pull-ups and sit-ups and then one day a week of foundational training You'd actually probably be really surprised. You're probably going to hang on to a good amount of muscle mass You're probably just lean out even if you do lose a little bit of muscle and strength as soon as you get out of the academy It's you're going to probably rebound really nice. That's that's the big one Like don't worry about it. It'll when you're done with the academy. You can kind of go back to your old Training, you know again incorporate some more stamina and the muscle whatever little muscle you lose You'll gain right back as far as getting leaner is concerned. Just eat healthy to feed performance You'll probably lean out from that. That's you know, but I wouldn't make it a focus I wouldn't sit there and be like i'm going to go in a calorie deficit I got to get shredded because the priority is the academy not your physique No, you need the energy to to perform at your best So keep that as a main focus and that'll just naturally occur because it's a totally new stimulus right, okay All right, man, we're going to send you over maps performance. Okay. Awesome. I really appreciate that No problem. Get those bad guys. All right All right, they don't even know I'm really looking forward to seeing where my pup goes for me You guys have changed a lot about the way I have to work out and the way I talk about fitness. So Awesome. Awesome. Thanks, man. Thank you guys. Yeah. Thanks guys. Have a good one. Get better Yeah, that's um again, you know, I get it by the way because I'm like that if I had to train I did this app this happened for me when I did jiu-jitsu or judo I remember I'd be like, oh man, I don't want to lose my gains and it actually took away from my performance In those sports because I was too focused on You know the muscle the way it looked and stuff It's like you got to prioritize one thing or the other and then it comes back comes back so easy and so fast I actually think that he's going to get because this sounds like it's so out of the norm for him The way they're going to be training body weight exercise. You're right. You might be surprised, right? I I bet you you it's just like what happens when you take a guy like one of us newbie gains Yeah, right and then we're and you're so into Lifting weights all the time then all of a sudden you do a body weight program or like a suspension trainer program and you see Phenomenal results from it. The body is just it's just a new adaptation and I bet his body ends up loving him for it So I I imagine if he so so long as he doesn't eat like an asshole He makes good food choices and and stays fed and and then follows the academy and stuff like that And maybe one day a week of maps anabolic. I think that he's going to be surprised on on how he shapes up from it Yeah, I agree