Physiologic flexibility certification course
build robustness & optimal recoverability in your clients so you can finally help them achieve their fitness goals.
This new L2 certification by Dr. Mike T Nelson is the key to helping you and your clients unlock exceptional body composition, health, and performance beyond nutrition and time in the gym.
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LET'S FACE IT...
Coaching your clients to build their best bodies and achieve optimal health isn’t as easy as prescribing individualized workouts and nutrition. If it was, everyone would be winning at The Arnolds and living into their 90s. But something else is keeping them from following your program and keeping you from successfully doing what you’re here to do.
So, what’s the deal?!
People today are faced with so many daily stressors that negatively affect how they show up in the gym and kitchen as prescribed. Work, family, politics, the virus-that-shall-not-be-named… most people today are simply, what’s called in my world, fragile.
You know what I’m talking about.
People show up for a training or nutrition session and they’re exhausted mentally and physically. They’re beat or emotionally erratic and their hearts just aren’t in it. They see more downsides than upsides and the struggle of their busy lives are getting in the way of their goals… and yours! What do you do? We’re not therapists, but it sure does seem like that’s the job nowadays, doesn’t it?
You’re working your butt off trying to get results for them but at a certain point, you’re realizing what these fragile clients need goes far beyond nutrition, exercise and sleep. They need something you might not be qualified for… until now.
imagIne if...
You finally understood how to strategically program cold/hot therapy, breathwork, and other modes of building anti-fragile people.
You were able to help your clients actually grow as people from the uncertainty and stress that life throws at them.
You were able to program so that clients actually got excited about putting themselves in healthy discomfort - both physical and mental - because they know the benefit of embracing challenges.
Your clients recovered physically and mentally much faster from training.
Your clients are more resilient to distress.
You built a crew of anti-fragile humans who were role models for other people in their circles of influence to also become anti-fragile.
YES, IT IS POSSIBLE. BE ONE OF THE FIRST TO GET PHYS FLEX CERTIFIED RIGHT NOW FROM HOME!
introducing the
Physiologic flexibility certification
Your one-stop-shop for helping you build robustness and optimal recoverability in your clients so you can finally help them achieve their goals.
Here's how you're going to do it:
Learn "The 4 Physiological Intervention Points" that are at the core of all body composition transformations and performance improvements.
Create real results for you and your clients: Dr. Mike T Nelson will teach you how to work with human psychology, not against it.
Incorporate "sexy" recovery methods in a true systematic fashion. These include breath work, cold and heat exposure, intermittent fasting, high amounts of carbohydrates at specific times, high-intensity interval training (HIIT), zone 2 aerobic traiining and more
Understand the global big picture view of these homeostatic regulators. Without this understanding, you are just running around willy nilly applying random stuff for your clients to do.
Obtain in-depth knowledge about 8 specific recovery interventions. Learn what the actual real science says about each one.
Access this course anywhere! 100% virtual.
I created Phys Flex because I’ve been in your shoes…
That’s right. This is personal.
See that guy standing there all casual-like? Back in 2005, he was stressed AF with his clients because they were just not getting the results they wanted so badly because “life was getting in the way.” . . . sigh.
(That guy is me, by the way.) I understood how to help people with their fitness, nutrition, and sleep. I was an actual master of it. I spent 18 years in university so I could get a bunch of pieces of paper to prove it. But I was still stressed out of my mind and felt like I was missing something with my clients.
But that guy in that photo, standing there all casual-like is soooo chill and happy now.
What changed?
I finally started implementing something with my clients I now call Physiological Flexibility. I discovered that if I added simple things like meditation, breath work, cold water exposure, sauna, timed periods of low to no carbs (fasting) and higher carbs, specific high-intensity intervals, and also lower intensity aerobic work, my clients recovered faster, actually got excited about the challenge of increasing intensity to their workouts.
Even more awesome, they were taking their nutrition interventions face on. They were requesting to do more simple hard things like breathe work and cold showers.
Crazy!
Now I’m sharing the entire process with you through this certification so you can build your own crew of eager and robust clients - the ones you always dreamed of coaching.
I BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE 4 physiologic systems TO FOCUS ON:
Temperature
Your body has to hold its internal temperature at 98.6 F; however, you can be exposed to a wide range of external temperatures.
pH
Your blood pH is tightly regulated, however you can challenge it via high-intensity interval training (HIIT) via Wingates, different breathing techniques and even supplements.
Blood Glucose
At any one time you only have about 1 tsp of blood glucose floating around; yet, you can go for a full day without eating (fasting) and also consume 2 pop-tarts without it changing very much (in healthy people).
O2/CO2
Your body relies on getting oxygen in and carbon dioxide out. By using different breathing techniques, you can change the amounts of each to enhance recovery / adaptations.
in phys flex, you will learn why, how, & when to use these systems in your programming.
what others say about dr Mike
My mind is blown on a near-weekly basis.....
Dr Mike combines both research and real world experience. I have seen so much progress over the past year it has been amazing. I am breaking both strength and endurance PRs. Thanks again for everything you have done for me over the past year and I am looking forward to what this next year brings!
Ryan Baxter
OCR athlete and trainer
Dr. Mike T. Nelson has put in a great deal of time and effort to not only push forward the evidence base in the field of metabolic flexibility, but also to help translate this complex scientific knowledge into practical applications that actually help individuals, athletes, and coaches make meaningful improvements.
Daniel Pardi, MS, PhD
Chief Executive Officer humanOS.me
Dr. Mike T. Nelson is one of my go-to guys for applied physiology, which is particularly impressive considering that he always seems to be kiteboarding and must have ears full of blood from his taste in gym music.
Tommy Wood, MD, PhD
Research Scientist. President, Physicians for Ancestral Health
physiologic flexibility certification is perfect for you if...
- You’re a trainer/coach who wants to help your clients feel less daily stress and more happiness and wellbeing in their lives
- You’ve mastered fitness, nutrition and sleep but want to get to the next level of performance, recovery and robustness
- You’re a trainer/coach or athlete who wants to recover faster and increase your physiological capacity for stressors - in and out of the gym
- You’re a beginner who’s interested in improving your physical and emotional robustness beyond nutrition, fitness and sleep improvements.
I have known Dr. Mike now for about 4 years. I can honestly say he is one of the smartest guys I know. He has dedicated his life to research, study, and learn as much as he possibly can about nutrition and S&C. If there is something I am stuck on he is the first guy to call. And don’t think he’s all science and books. He kiteboards and loves Heavy Metal too.
Angelo Sisco
CEO, Alpha Hippie
More than 2 years of CrossFit, and I could barely pull myself up on the bar. I honestly thought I would never be able to do a strict pull-up from full extension. After working with Dr. Mike T Nelson and changing my programming, I can easily do several strict pull-ups in a row! I highly recommend you check his work.
Suzie Glassman
Coach, Trainer, Mom
You want actionable information, not opinions from a reality show or internet guru that hasn’t worked with a single real person. Mike is a brilliant researcher, coach, teacher/professor, and strength athlete. He practices what he preaches in all aspects of life. He doesn’t live in a lab wearing a bow tie “hypothesizing” about what the rest of us are doing in the real world. Mike is living it through his own clients and his own training.
Scott Umberger
Coach
I met Mike by happy accident at a conference in Florida. I was sitting in a lecture and turned around to see him sitting right behind me. I admit, I was totally star-struck, as I am a big fan and read everything he writes. I struck up a conversation with him and was blown away that he took over an HOUR out of his day and missed an entire lecture session to talk to me personally. I learned more in that one hour than I learned in lectures that entire weekend.
Most important in my eyes is his genuine desire to educate and to help others.
He is a huge asset to our community and his unique and questioning approach to ingrained ideas about health and fitness will surely lead us in exciting new directions.
Jessica Herschberg
Triathlon Coach, FTP Coaching
faq's
your instructor: Dr. Mike t nelson
Mike T. Nelson, CSCS, CISSN, MSME PhD, is a research fanatic who specializes in metabolic flexibility and heart rate variability, as well as an online trainer, associate professor at the Carrick Institute, presenter, creator of the Flex Diet Cert, kiteboarder, and (somewhat incongruously) heavy-metal enthusiast
- PHD IN EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY FROM UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
- BA IN NATURAL SCIENCE FROM ST. SCHOLASTICA
- MS IN BIOMECHANICS FROM MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT CARRICK INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL NEUROLOGY
- MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SPORTS MEDICINE (ACSM)
- CERTIFIED SPORTS NUTRITIONIST FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SPORTS NUTRITION (CISSN)
- INSTRUCTOR AT ROCKY MOUNTAIN UNIVERSITY
- PROFESSIONAL MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NUTRITION (ASN)
- PROFESSIONAL SPORTS NUTRITION MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SPORTS NUTRITION (ISSN)
- NATIONAL STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING ASSOCIATION (NSCA) CERTIFIED STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING SPECIALIST (CSCS)
