Kassem Hanson, creator of N1 Education and N1 Training, discusses optimizing fitness outcomes, problem-solving within coaching constraints, the effectiveness of sumo stance exercises, isolations exercises for muscle growth, and the value of hands-on learning in training.
The N1 approach to training emphasizes individualized coaching and optimizing every facet of training, including biomechanics, program design, and nutrition, by identifying the most negotiable strategies for each person.
Understanding an individual's principle thresholds in training categories such as exercise quality, technique, effort, volume, and recovery allows for customizing workouts to effectively challenge and stimulate desired muscles or tissues.
The effectiveness of exercise selection in achieving specific goals is dependent on factors like anatomical motion, resistance curve, range of motion, and resource constraints, which need to be considered for optimal stimulus.
Deep dives
The N1 Education Approach to Training
The head of N1 Education, Coach Chasm, discusses their N1 approach to training, which focuses on individualized coaching and optimizing every facet of training, including biomechanics, program design, and nutrition. By identifying the most negotiable strategies for each person, they aim to maximize results while considering lifestyle preferences and limitations.
Principle Thresholds in Training
Coach Chasm explains the concept of principle thresholds, which involve reaching minimum requirements in various training categories such as exercise quality, technique, effort, volume, and recovery. By understanding an individual's unique thresholds and their easiest opportunities for improvement, trainers can customize workouts to effectively challenge and stimulate desired muscles or tissues.
Optimizing Exercise Selection for Specific Goals
The podcast delves into the importance of exercise selection in achieving specific goals. Coach Chasm emphasizes the significance of selecting exercises that closely match the targeted muscle's anatomical motion and resistance curve for optimal stimulus. The discussion also highlights how exercise selection can vary based on individual goals, range of motion, and resource constraints like time and recovery abilities.
Contextual Evaluation of Exercise Effectiveness
The conversation addresses the challenges of evaluating exercise effectiveness and how it depends on contextual factors. Various evaluation methods like EMG, directional vectors, and range of motion are discussed, emphasizing the need to consider goals, resistance profiles, and individual constraints. Contextual analysis helps resolve conflicting opinions and understand the complex interplay between exercises, goals, and outcomes.
Exploring High Volume vs. High Intensity Training
The debate between high volume and high intensity training approaches for hypertrophy is explored. Coach Chasm suggests that both approaches can be valid and effective, emphasizing the importance of exceeding certain thresholds of stimulus exposure and the need to adapt strategies based on individual preferences, recovery abilities, and long-term commitment. The optimal approach may differ depending on specific goals and individual responses.
Coach Kassem Hanson is the creator of N1 Education and N1 Training, which helps to educate coaches in individualized Biomechanics, Program Design and Nutrition.
He brings an incredible and unprecedented depth of knowledge to lifting weights.
Kassem is focused on bringing integrity, and real science to the fitness education scene. A lifetime student of biochemistry, physiology, nutrition, and biomechanics, and being blessed with a unique ability to process information, Kassem is reinventing our understanding of training and nutrition from the fundamentals to the most complex sciences.
