Ep 24 Gavin Barrilleaux – Customize Your Wellness Approach
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Meet Gavin:
My passion lies within coaching.Coaching can fall within the weight room, a conference room/auditorium, or a consultation office. I love the feeling of letting my interest and knowledge of health and wellness flow from me when speaking. It gets my adrenaline going to see people’s faces lock in on what I’m saying and really listen and seek to understand and implement. Being in the weight room, coaching is definitely my natural habitat.
My main message would be to NOT buy into one method. Whether that be a specific fad diet, a specific training routine, etc. The best thing you can do as a man or woman is to diversify your health approach. But do so in a strategic manner without burning out and losing motivation or over training and getting injured.
Working in the health and wellness field the past 8 years, I have worked with a lot of women. Aside from female athletes, most women are looking to reduce body fat and “tone” up. Really what they are trying to say deep down inside is, “Hey, I want to look like I did when I was 16-20!” As women start to develop more responsibilities in life, have children, work part-time/full-time, and many other time consuming activities, they tend to neglect their health. Specifically getting more movement in and eating food that is more convenient than it is “healthy” or as I like to say, “Mindful” or “Intentional”. Aside from these 2 components of living a healthy lifestyle, there are many other factors that can be overlooked and also can add up overtime.
EXOS systematic approach of the 4 pillars for human performance and optimization: Mindset, Nutrition, Movement, Recovery. Giving an understanding of the definition of each, examples, and how to learn how to apply them into your specific lifestyle.
Show Notes:
ABOUT GAVIN
- I want to refer to myself as a strength and conditioning specialist
- I attended University in Louisiana where I got my undergrad and grad
- I focused in behavioral science in my undergrad and human performance
- And then, I went on to get my masters in exercise physiology
- That kind of lead me to the private sector of strength and conditioning where I did my internship with the company that I am working for called EXOS
- I interned with them in Phoenix, Arizona back in 2014
- They are a health and human performance company
- EXOS focus sports performance, corporate wellness and special operations in the military
- From there, that kind of lead me to managerial roles where I came down here to Dallas, Texas for the past 2 years
- Now, I am hoping to manage a site over here under EXOS contract
- It’s never too late to get started
- And that kind of starts more from the mindset from an individual
- It’s letting yourself know and really communicating to yourself that it is not too late
- The initial benefits you’ll get from strength training, if you will just take that leap and dive in are your mindset, mood, energy levels – just your positivity all around
- Seeing those initial benefits from the psychological are some of the motivating things for any woman out there
- I have done every scenario from 1 on 1, small groups to large groups classes
- Right now, I am more on focusing to 1 on 1 training
- I tend to be able to impact them on an individual level a lot more compared to a large group class
- But there are benefits in those both
- I think one of the most motivating components is group training
- I like the group training because of the motivation aspects
- It kind of break the ice for a lot of people starting out
- When it comes to group classes, you are probably going to find a lot of beginners
- It helps to break the ice because you don’t have all that focus on you
- It also allows the individual in the group to learn from each other
- I think one of the biggest myths is women thinking that they are going to put on a lot muscles and they are really hesitant in lifting weights
- When it comes to mindset, that’s a big layer of onion that is being peeled right now
- I think in the past 30 years or so, it has been strictly around science and research
- Right now, we are kind of shifting into the psychological things and really being able to communicate with athletes or clients
- That’s where kind of the mindset comes into play
- I am starting to realize with a lot of clients now
- You have to figure out what is your client’s why
- There’s always a reason. There’s a why behind them all
- From there, you are able to link components of health and wellness
- And allow those components to motivate them along the away
- When they start to understand what health and wellness all about is, it’s almost empowering and self-motivating for them
- One of the things that is often times get overlooked is physical resiliency
- Those people come to me or to a coach or trainer because of their goals
- Typically, their goals aren’t always to be resilient
- It is typically to lose weight, put on muscles, gets stronger, etc.
- All those components lead to physical resiliency in the end
- One of the biggest setbacks when it comes to gaining weight is an injury
- Life is just trying to tear us down
- Once you hit a certain age, it’s an uphill battle
- The best thing you can do is to build that resiliency for your joints to prevent injury and to be able to do the things you love
- In the strength and conditioning, it depends
- People want that exact day, exact number, exact workout and it’s not that easy
- I think we could start for a beginner
- A beginner is someone who hasn’t trained consistently in a year
- So, they are deconditioned
- Someone like that, you have to build up work capacity for them
- You have to worry about them not getting enough recovery
- Because that’s when the benefits come into place, during the recovery process
- For someone like that, I would say 2 to 3 days per week
- You have to earn your right to be able to do strength training
- Your body can’t recover that quick anymore especially if you are not a teen anymore
- Within this 2-3 days per week, I would recommend a rest between sessions
- If you want to get stronger, you can’t constantly use the same load
- You have to overload it and change the variation of your movement, because your body will adapt
- With 3 days, you could probably do total body with rest in between
- With the 3 days a week, what I would do for a safe bet is, I would do a 1-day upper body, 1-day lower body and on a 3rdday, kind of lower intensity total body movement
- The last thing you would want to do is stay put
- If you stay put, things are going to be sore for a long time
- So, you want to do an active recovery
- Getting some type of active recovery is a safe bet
ADVICE
- Variety can come a bunch of different stand points
- It doesn’t have to be training
- Provide variety in different approaches in health and wellness
- Yoga is a good active meditation
- It is your chance to escape technology
- Find your why behind your mindset
- What really motivates you to get in health in wellness
- Find a diet that works for you
- It’s okay to dabble around with a few different approaches and be consistent
- It’s okay to dabble with different training
- The most important is recovery
- Because that’s where you are going to get better
- In order to prevent injury, make sure you are getting the proper recovery
- Work smarter, not harder
HOW CAN PEOPLE FIND YOU
- Facebook: Gavin Barilleaux
- E-mail: Gbareilleaux@teamexos.com
