Strength Prescription for the Sick Aging Phenotype - #454

<div> <p><a href="https://barbell-logic.com/team/jonathon-sullivan/">Dr. Jonathon Sullivan</a> and <a href= "https://barbell-logic.com/team/noah-hayden/">Noah Hayden</a> continue their Barbell Health podcast series, this time discussing in-depth the strength prescription for the sick aging phenotype.</p> <p>This episode laid out Noah's thoughts on exercise & programming criteria, and an important discussion into the role the criteria play for the coach.</p> <p>You can check out more of Sully's work on the <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/@GreySteel">Greysteel YouTube channel</a>.</p> <p>Check out the <a href= "https://barbell-logic.com/podcast/">Barbell Logic podcast landing page</a> for free resources, recent offers, & more.</p> <h3>Strength Prescription</h3> <p>In <a href= "https://barbell-logic.com/exercise-medicine-through-barbell-training/"> the last podcast</a>, Sully & Noah discussed the problems with conventional medicine and its inability to treat the sick aging phenotype.</p> <p>Keeping the notion of medicine, with the intent to actually address your athlete's root problems, helps frame the problem (and the solution).</p> <p>If force production underlies the various fitness attributes, and strength is force production, clients need to gain strength.</p> <p>Because strength helps all the physical attributes, barbell exercise need to be incorporated into the exercise prescription the client receives.</p> <p>As the client progresses, conditioning (especially <a href= "https://youtu.be/ifvBSfmJUrs">HIIT</a>) can be added, but initially, a simple, linear progression provides enough stress.</p> <h3>Dosage Criteria for the Strength Prescription</h3> <p>If we think about this under the concept of medicine, be start to think about dosage, the frequency of the dosage, and what exercises fall under that prescription.</p> <p>Barbells are good. Strength is good. How do we pick exercises.</p> <p>What follows is Sully and Noah discussing the traditional 4 exercise selection criteria, then Noah positing criteria for p