Rapid Fire Q&A: Remedials, Recomp & Smarter Loading

In this Rapid Fire Q&A episode, the KILO Crew breaks down several programming questions that strength coaches and personal trainers run into with real clients.

The episode starts with a practical coaching problem: how to fit remedial, accessory, and supportive work into a 40-minute full-body session for a beginner who trains three days per week. From there, the conversation moves into session structure, exercise pairing, training economy, warm-up integration, and how to decide what belongs in the program when time is limited.

The crew also discusses when a client actually needs more direct isolation work versus when they simply need better execution and more time under the bar with compound lifts. That leads into a deeper discussion on functional hypertrophy for body recomposition, why it works well under a moderate deficit, and how the right training structure can support both hypertrophy and strength retention.

The episode also covers ascending and descending mesocycle loading, when each strategy makes sense, why they are not beginner tools, and how they can be used to organize fatigue, volume, and strength expression across a phase. Finally, Pauric explains the difference between acute and chronic training load, and when those metrics become useful for coaches managing mixed-modality athletes.

This episode is about making better programming decisions, not adding more exercises for the sake of it.