A trainer explains why chasing the latest programs like those from Christian Thibodeau or Mark Carroll fails. Principles are permanent and scalable; techniques are just how you apply them. Most trainers never master the underlying why, so they can't adapt methods to their clients or understand what actually works.
Principles can be scaled up and down. A principle doesn't change. The technique of mechanical drop set, you do the technique or you don't, but you can understand the principle behind it. So understanding principles behind the technique is, is the key, because without— with techniques without principles just makes you like a rubber bouncy ball, which— and I see this with a lot of trainers— is they go from program to program to program to system to system to system, and, you know, they've had careers of coaching, and then, you know, this month they're doing Christian Thibodeau's program, and next month they're doing Mark Carroll, and the month after they bought Kasim's program, and the month after that they go to Ben Pakalski, and the month after that they do Sebastian Oreb, and the month after that— there's no shortage of influences, right? And they bounce around and they don't actually learn the principles behind any of them at any of the coaches. They just go from program, program, program, and they do a system, and they wonder why their clients don't get results. You got to understand the thought process behind all of them and what makes those systems work. What are they trying to achieve in that, and why? What is the construct of making it work?
