The Robbie Bourke Podcast

Episode 170: Pat Davidson - MASS 2 - Judgement Day - Part 4

May 21, 2018

01:25:00

PART 4 BABY!!

Pat and I are back with Part 4 in our MASS 2 series.

You can check out Part 1 - here, Part 2 - here, Part 3 - here.

On this episode Pat and I discuss:

Pat gives us an update on whats new
Pat fills us in about his hope to open his own facility and also speaks about a power metric device he is working on to measure an individuals work output in training
Pat fills us in on his speaking engagements that he had coming up at the time of this recording
Pat and I get onto a discussion about the design of the programs that make up the 16 weeks of MASS 2.
Here we discuss the 30:30 day, and Alactic-Aerobic day of Phase one
Pat tells us why trying to use percentages with 30:30 are pretty much useless
Pat tells us why he still loves the 30:30 and why his loves Cal Dietz Tri-Phasic model within the first 3 phases of MASS 2
Pat discusses the sensory input benefits from utilizing Tri-Phasic Training
Pat and I discuss dynamic systems theorys, quantative vs qualitive overload, overloading the perception and cognitive system, and the need to increase variation as athletes reach higher levels of mastery/ qualification
Pat and I discuss how certainty and dopamine reward can have a negative effect on adpatation as it can decrease variation, which can in turn can decrease the robustness of an organism
Pat gets into a deep discussion on Post-Activation Potentation (PAP)
I ask Pat why he uses a glycolytic warm up on his alactic-aerobic day

This was an outstanding episode and I hope you all enjoy it as much as we did!

Stay Strong,

Show Notes:

Pat's Website

MASS 2

Pat's Facebook

The Reckoning

Books Mentioned:

The Dopaminergic Mind in Human Evolution and History

The Mastery and his Emissary

Polyvagel Theory

On Intelligence

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