Peter Park

Episode - 05 Summary: Craig interviews Peter Park, personal trainer of high-level athletes  (Giancarlo Stanton, Lance Armstrong, Justin Verlander, Ken Roczen, and Diania Taurasi) and celebrities and author of the book Rebound. Show Notes: 01:20 - About Peter Park. Best known as a trainer of high-level athletes and celebrities. He grew up in Newport Beach, California and started really young. He did surfing followed by volleyball, he then started getting interested in training. He got a scholarship to University of Hawaii to play Volleyball and realized he wasn’t tall enough. He would lap the field in endurance exercises and get into endurance sports and iron man competitions. In between triathlon and volleyball he got into strength training. 05:20 - Work with endurance athletes. He started training Lance Armstrong and realized that he was outworking people. 07:51 - Talks about working with Dr. Phil Maffetone and Pavel’s strong endurance 09:08 - Explains Maffetone’s system. The diet is a little higher fat, using fat for fuel. If you can use fat as a fuel efficiently you’re going to do better. It’s important to build that aerobic base. Once you build that aerobic base you’re endurance is incredible, but it takes patience to get there. 12:22 - What can you say about using lactic but not getting to glycolic? Once you figure it out, it’s a game changer. It’s a whole different idea of training. 14:14 - Talks about longevity with this way of training. Your body can handle the free radicals better. Move from thing to thing and keep your heart rate under 150. 19:20 - Talks about metabolic systems. People aren’t being efficient and they’re burning sugar the whole time. You’ve got to learn to burn fat for fuel. 20:25 - Talks about athletes going keto. If you’re doing a-lactic intervals, you’re fine on keto. As soon as you’re trying to push it you can’t handle it on keto. UCAN starch has no influence on your blood sugar and insulin levels. 22:27 - How do your systems change for sports? You have to be in the trenches with your clients. You have to test things out in the real world. 23:56 - Do the new protocols work better on advanced athletes. Those who can generate more power get more out of power protocols. Once you’re aerobically fit, you have more energy. His endurance athletes don’t do more than 3 or 5 reps on anything. 27:18 - Power training allows people to put their full effort into each rep. The athletes love the 033 training. 28:48 - What do you see people doing better on? Everything. Most clients don’t want to be big, just strong. 30:18 - There is more body composition change from strength training than aerobic. You’ll see more metabolic change with more of a sprinter-type look. Baseball players love more power training than aerobic. 31:45 - What do you do with your motocross racers? They have to be as fit as marathoners. They ride 35 minutes with a heart rate of 190+.They take an hour off and then do another race. They have to be aerobically and strength strong. Motocross guys are retiring at age 24 and they haven’t peaked physically. 37:17 - Talks about adrenaline highs. There’s a time to go hard, but the recovery is just as important or more. Don’t trash your body all the time, make a program sustainable. Teach what’s right, what works, and what’s sustainable. A good hinge and getup is important. People try to make it too fancy and it’s not. Tweetable Quotes No matter what you do, it’s super important to build that aerobic base. People don’t feel like they’ve done anything if they’re not worn out after. Don’t trash your body all the time, make a program sustainable. Resources Mentioned Strongfirst.com Rebound: Regain Strength, Move Effortlessly, Live without Limits at Any Age - Book by Peter Park Kettlebell Simple & Sinister book