The Flex Diet Certification opens today, October 18, 2021. Go to https://www.flexdiet.com/ to enroll. The course lays out a complete system of how to use nutrition and recovery for yourself or your clients for better performance and body composition for better health. Today in the podcast, I break down the top 8 interventions you can do in those areas to improve metabolic flexibility.
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Flex Diet Cert Is Open July 19-26
Hey, welcome back to the flex diet Podcast, where if you're looking for information on all things to increase, better body composition and performance, all without destroying your health, you were in the right spot. And today, we have a short announcement that the flex diet certification is open once again for this quarter. This is as of July 19 2021. It'll be open through July 26 2021. If you're listening to this early and you're on the newsletter, you can also have the ability to get fast tracking bonus do so go to flex diet.com flxdt.com. And if you order within the first 48 hours, everybody who does that, when it's open, we'll get a cool bonus also.
Yep, so go there, flex diet calm, it'll send you over to the sales page with all the info. And if you're listening to this, and it's not during that time, you can still go to flex diet calm, and you'll have a way of getting on to the waitlist and the newsletter for next time. So one of the main questions I get about the flex diet cert is, is it all really on physiology? Or what do you do about the psychological component of it? Because we all know that it's one thing to know what to do. And for a lot of clients, it's another thing to actually get that done. So initially, when I set out and got everything organized, the biggest problems I was trying to solve was, how do we line things up so that people are working on the biggest leveraged items first, everybody wants to see more success when they start a new program. But we all know that the crazy crash diets and everything else, while they can work for a short period of time always come with interest and a very high cost. This could be to your health, this could be to the reversal of possibly body composition changes later on, or just making it very hard to sustain any of those changes. Most people do pretty good losing weight initially, but they do a not so good job keeping that weight off. recidivism rate is usually around the high 90%. So one of the things I was trying to solve was how do we get all of the higher leveraged items to be earlier in the course. And those would be action items that you would do early on with clients. So they are taking action, and we're doing the things that are going to have the biggest effect the most leverage. At first, I thought, well, we'll just do this based on physiology, right, we can come up with a whole list of nutrition and recovery tactics, and things that have the most effect on physiology. And we'll just list those sooner. So things like calories, protein, etc, are going to be better than trying to micromanage the amount of copper in your diet. So there are things to do, first that have a higher leverage. But then I realized that in practice, this may not work out so well. The example would be Sleep, sleep has a lot of physiologic impact. We know that if you become more sleep deprived, your odds of making good nutritional decisions are very slim. We know that it changes your metabolism, you become more metabolically inflexible. You have a less capacity or percentage at night that you're using fat as a fuel. And even during the day, your ability to use carbohydrates to the fullest degree also, you're kind of scrunched so you become more metabolically in flexible. So there's lots of reasons that sleep is super important. The downside is that getting most people to sleep more a you can do things to help quality of sleep, and those things can make a huge difference for sure. But if you're only sleeping four and a half to five hours a night, unless you're a genetic duck to genetic outlier, odds are at some point you are going to just need to be in bed for a longer period of time. You'd have to find not just a few minutes, but hours in your schedule to accomplish that. And this is Very difficult for a lot of people. So while sleep has a massive impact on physiology, and reality, it is much harder to get those things in place because of lifestyle and just things that everybody else has going on.
So if I was only prioritizing by physiology, sleep would be up quite high. But unfortunately, where the rubber meets the road, and we're talking about the psychological impact, or like client's ability to change, sleep is pretty low. And so when I ranked the eight different interventions, sleep actually came out to be dead last. And again, this wasn't necessarily for any physiologic reason, and had everything to do with the psychology or the client's ability to change. So what I came up with is something called coaching leverage, which is the physiologic effect of any intervention times a client's ability to change. And it turns out in the flextight, insert, eating more dietary protein is the number one intervention, most people can do better eating more protein. So there's a lot of physiologic impact from recovery, satiety normalization, and potentially blood glucose. Most people tend to handle protein pretty good, you see less intolerances, and even straight out allergies with it. And most people are able to eat more protein takes a little bit of education for them to know what it is, and a few habits to prepare protein and have it around. But compared to trying to get someone to go to bed earlier, eating more protein is also way easier. Because you're subbing out one thing for another, even if they're eating three times a day, we're gonna sub in more protein during that time that they were already eating. In the case of sleep, we may have to be trying to find one to three sort of extra hours in their day for them to accomplish the intervention. So on the physiology side, again, protein is pretty high on a one to 10 scale, you should give it a nine client's ability to change on a one to 10 scale also gets a nine. So your composite score, there is a 81 compared to sleep. On the physiologic side, we can maybe even give that a 10. But on the client's ability to change the psychological aspect and get so one. So your Composite Score there is 10, which actually puts it via coaching leverage dead last. So this allows you to have better and more productive conversations and interventions to do with clients earlier. And I know I've made this mistake of trying to really emphasize sleep early on. And it was very difficult. And even for me as a coach was very frustrating. The client was also then frustrated because they were attempting to make changes, they probably underestimated how difficult that was. And then they kind of felt bad that they were not able to do the thing that they were paying you all the money to do. Yeah, this doesn't mean that there's not a time in place to work on sleep habits and hygiene, and everything else associated with it. But I would recommend that that's definitely not a place to start for the vast majority of people. So when I started the flex diet, sir, there's eight different interventions. And they're ranked in terms of order using the concept of coaching leverage. So your physiologic response times the psychology aspect, or the client's ability to change. Other interventions that we go over our intermittent fasting micronutrients, sleep, as we mentioned, need exercise, carbohydrates, and dietary fats. And the nice part is with each one, you'll have a technical lecture that's about one hour, but we break it down in actual terms, you can understand you have all the fully reference material there. We have an ongoing big picture that talks about the concepts of metabolic flexibility and flexible dieting. Those are kind of the two core concepts of the flex diet cert. And at the end of each intervention, you have five various specific action items. So different clients will respond to different action items. And this is all included within a system so that you're giving clients that kind of semi customized approach, because the goal is to make it work for their particular lifestyle. The analogy I use is imagine if you go to bowling alley, and you've never really bold before, and your coach just wants you to hit a strike after strike after a strike. Probably not gonna happen right now if you were able to do that, of course, you'd be very successful. Right, so expecting clients to radically changed their lives overnight and to magically, I hit the ball out of the park or bullet strike each time is unrealistic. But we can put up the little inflatable bumpers in the bowling alley, and just keep them in one lane, make sure they don't end up like three lanes down somewhere else, or even in a different bowling alley altogether. And the goal is to just keep knocking down a few pins. So we're gonna try to rig the system in their favor, will still allow them to kind of weave in Bob a little bit, but we're gonna try to keep that within a confined constraints. So this allows them to use a more flexible approach, but to constantly be making progress forward. And so to me, that is the key. So they're learning as they go. They're doing a little bit of practice. And in essence, they're also practicing for the real world once you are no longer there. And they have learned and acquired all the skills that they need to. So while the flexor died, cert is more on the physiology side, because of the different interventions that we're talking about. The Psychology of it is not necessarily forgotten at all, it's more or less baked into the system. And then we have a system to decide what action item is going to be best within each intervention for each particular client. That way, you're allowing it to be more customized to them. That's a little bit a question about the flex diet cert that I get a lot about the importance of both physiology and of psychology. So again, both of them are super important. And the flex diet surd, the psychology is more baked into the system. So most of what you'll be learning is more on the physiology side. But it is also a huge component of the system. The reason I designed it this way, was that most of the questions I got were actually about physiology and what we're better things to do with clients. Again, there's lots of nutrition certifications out there, I think a lot of them are good. A lot of them I don't really know anything about so I can't say if they're good or bad. But precision nutrition is one that I've used for many years was actually with a peer reviewer one of them on the latest edition. And I think they do a very good job of giving the background of physiology. And they do an excellent job of how to do habit change, using a kind of a bj Fogg approach with the tiny habits, small changes over time. So part of when I was writing the flex diet search, I didn't want to do the same information that was already out there. So if you've already taken precision nutrition, I think with the flex diet search, you'll be able to pick up a few more things in the physiology area, then gives you a little bit more of a simplified and a little bit more of a direct system to use. And I do think I'm Carson bias that they complemented each other quite well. I will honestly say that if your goal is to get really, really good, that habit change, and you're not necessarily as interested in the physiology component, that's not your main interest. That actually I'd recommend the precision nutrition certification actually over the flex diet cert. Even though I make zero money sending sending you to the precision nutrition insert. Maybe it costs me some money, I guess, but I'd much rather that you get what you want to do. And you'll be able to help clients that way, which is great that that's the end goal.
So there's a little bit of a difference between the flex diet certification and precision nutrition. Last question we had too is do you have CPUs available for the flex diet cert. And right now we are in the process of applying to a whole bunch of them, though still waiting to hear back from CrossFit. Other ones that we've applied for nsca nasm, acsm and AC II. Unfortunately, we're in a holding pattern with all of them right now. And we have not officially heard back from anyone yet. Hopefully we will soon. Hopefully they will get approved but they could just deny all of it too. I've had other certifications approved I've had other lectures and presentations approved for most of those organizations. In the past, and I've set it up so that they will hopefully be approved. Everything is fully referenced, but don't have any official word yet. So hopefully that they will. The other option is you can usually appeal to whatever your regulating body is. And if you have any questions on that appeal, or you need more information to do it, you can always email me, most of the time so far they have approved it, but again, there's no way I can say 100% for certain if they will or not. So hopefully we will have see you approval very soon. And we'll have more of an update on that. So there's three questions I usually get about the flex diet certification. If you have any other questions, there'll be a way through flex diet. com you can contact me or if you're on the newsletter list, just hit reply. Flex diet cert is open again. July 19, this Monday, through July 26 2021. Go to flex diet calm, FL exdt.com. That'll have all the information there for you. If you still have a question. There'll be a way you can contact me directly. Thank you very much. I greatly appreciate it. Stay tuned on the podcast here for some other great episodes coming up very soon. Talk to you then.