Dr. Duncan French

Obviously, there's a resilience and a robustness with an incremental training age.

So a protocol like that, we would look at two times a week, something that's pretty intensive like that.

Because again, it comes back to the point you make is that you really need to be, for want of better terms, suffering a little bit through that type of protocol, both in terms of the challenge of the load, but also being able to tolerate the metabolic stress that you're exposed to.

It's a

it's a bit of a sicko feeling, right?

Because of the lactate that you're driving up.

So I wouldn't promote as an athlete doing that type of modality multiple, multiple times, unless you're from the realms of bodybuilding, and then you really, that's the sole purpose of what you're trying to achieve.

If it's just somebody, a weekend warrior that wants to keep in shape and look good, I would say two times a week for a really challenging workout like that, and then flex the other types of workouts within the week

to have more of a volume emphasis where you reduce the intensity and you might just look at larger rep ranges from 12 to 15 to 20.

Another workout where you're looking at reducing the volume, but increasing the intensity and really trying to drive different stimulus to give you more end points of success.

I mean, so this was what all my PhD work was looking at was the pre...

The exposure to a stressor and the pre-arousal of how your body essentially prepares for that stressor and then how it manages it throughout the exposure to the stress.

We use a resistance training protocol that these athletes knew was going to be very, very challenging.

It's gonna be, there's gonna have some anxiety to doing it.

They knew there were gonna be some physical distress from doing it.

And therefore, their mindset of how they were going to approach that was already set.

So what we saw 15 minutes prior to the start of an exposure to the workout, the epinephrine, the neuroadrenaline, the adrenaline was already starting to prepare the body sympathetically to go into what it knew was going to be a very, very challenging workout.

That's a great question.

From my data, certainly the greater the arousal, the higher the performance was from a physical exertion perspective.

There's definitely an individual biokinetics to some of these hormonal kind of releases.