22/01/2026
COMMENT ATHLETE IF YOU NEED THIS! 💪🏽🔥
This is the biggest first step inside The Athletic Physique Method.
Before we throw more work at your body, I give you a testing framework so we can actually match your training to your current recovery capacity.
We run four cardio-based tests to understand how your body is actually responding to training, not how hard you think you’re working.
From there, you’re placed into a specific pathway, based on where the real bottleneck is:
-Aerobic deficient: You don’t have the aerobic base needed to recover well, sustain work for longer periods without burning out, or spend enough time in a parasympathetic, recovery-dominant state. This often shows up as feeling tired/iut of breath quickly, or like frequent training wipes you out more than it should.
-Anaerobic deficient: slower/lighter training & endurance is fine, but you can’t produce or tolerate higher outputs/power well. You might struggle to handle carbs well & often feel inflamed/puffy after hard training
-Poor recovery / nervous system bottleneck: Your work capacity is there, but the issue is switching gears. You have low nervous system flexibility, meaning you struggle to shift from sympathetic into parasympathetic. Heart rate stays elevated too long, sleep can suffer, and you feel “tied but wired” after training
• Low across all systems: You need broad capacity building across the board. The answer isn’t more intensity, it’s building a foundation first so your system can tolerate and adapt to training without constantly feeling overwhelmed.
• Balanced across systems: You have good balance and resilience across the energy systems and recovery
In the Athletic Physique Method we identify where your bottleneck is across the energy systems, then train that deliberately. Just like nutrition, the inputs matter, but the ratio matters also!
That’s the difference between guessing & training in a way your body can actually adapt to & it’s how you improve your resilience
If you want to build strength, fitness, and resilience without burning yourself into the ground, this is the work!! I can help you 💪🏽💪🏽
