Self Experimentation

Do not be afraid to experiment, but use good judgment, be prudent, use common sense. Whether you realize it or not, every time you change your work out, sleep at odd hours, work late, wake up early, drink alcohol, smoke, eat a lot of fruit, get sick, go hike, be in love, just about anything, it affects you, and you are doing an an experiment on yourself. What I am encouraging is to log and control your experiments. That's the birth of everything we know about the body.

In the end no one knows you as well as you know yourself because no one spends as much time with you as yourself. A doctor can only tell you so much off of your symptoms but they are also not following you around all day to see what you are doing to yourself.  Not only that but there is a big difference between doctors and scientists. Scientists do experiments to figure something out then teach it to doctors, doctors go apply this new information.

For instance if you have problems sleeping, look at days when you did sleep well. What was different? Did you eat something different? Eat later? Earlier? Different mind set? Did not nap? Took a bath? Etc. Or how eating breakfast or skipping breakfast affects your weight. How cardio affects your body as opposed to weight training? If you believe weight training alone will make you bigger, how will you know unless you try it?

The same is true for trainers. Everyone is different, every time they do something with a client they should log and see what happens and make adjustments based on their findings. If workouts and routines and changed randomly, how will you track anything? Any trainer needs to be more scientist and less a cheerleader.