# @andrespreschel on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DKAh6yquEcE
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/61422138-andrespreschel-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-05-23T19:48:23.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Andrés Preschel, BSc, MSc(c) | Health & Performance Coach (@andrespreschel) — https://gondola.cc/andrespreschel

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You don’t have to be in the top 1% of one skill to be elite.

In fact, you can be more rare, and more impactful, by being in the top 20% of just three skills and combining them in a unique way…

Let’s run the math:

Top 20% = 0.20

0.20 × 0.20 × 0.20 = 0.008 → Top 0.8% when those skills are combined.

That’s rarer than being in the top 1% of any one skill.

In the world of exercise physiology, the three core skill domains that define the specialized generalist are:

1) Biochemistry of Human Performance: understanding energy systems, hormonal signaling, recovery science.

2) Data-Driven Coaching & Personalization: leveraging wearables, lab data, and behavior science for precision programming.

3) Mind-Body Integration & Behavior Change: translating hard science into habits, guiding clients through the psychological and physiological shifts.

Individually, these are powerful. Together, they’re transformative.

Now imagine you’re in the top 10% of each: 0.10 × 0.10 × 0.10 = 0.001 → Top 0.1%

Top 5%? 0.05 × 0.05 × 0.05 = 0.000125 → Top 0.0125%

That’s one in 8,000…

That’s not just mastery, that’s multiplicative mastery.

That’s what it means to be a specialized generalist in the era of personalized, precision health.

This is how we #KnowYourPhysio ;)

Learn more on my podcast with the living-legend exercise physiologist stevenmichaelmaven 

#ExercisePhysiology #HealthOptimization #SpecializedGeneralist #PerformanceScience #DataDrivenCoaching

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performancescience, knowyourphysio, exercisephysiology, datadrivencoaching, specializedgeneralist, healthoptimization

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