TYPE 2A
General Overview
Most adaptable and changing personalities, able to adapt their behavior to the person(s) they are with or the situation they are in. Lower levels of self-esteem, want others to like and respect them. Great at reading people.
Neurological Overview
Elevated stress causes their personality to change. They will go from calm, relaxed, and friendly to confident, driven, irritable, and energetic as if they have shifted to become more like a 1B or 1A.
When not stressed, 2A’s are friendly, easy-going, and have easily adaptable behavior. However, since they are easily influenced by stress, this can change quickly.
Second only to 1B’s, they are very athletic and have good motor learning.
They have a good amount of empathy and naturally lower levels of self-esteem. When under stress or due to nutrition they behave more like a 2B.
Personality Characteristics
• Main motivation is to seek admiration,
respect, and to be liked by the person
they are with
• Can adapt to any situation
• Low self-esteem at rest but potentiated
by adrenaline and becomes alpha
version of themselves
• Want to be liked by everyone
• Great at reading people
• Indecisive
• Procrastinators
• Experience FOMO frequently
• Fun to be around
• Care a lot about the opinion of others
• Need variation, constant change
• Perform better when up against a
deadline
• Great impersonators, actors, creating
personalities
• People pleasers
• Letting someone down is destructive for
them
• Hate to feel left out
Nutrition Overview
Adherence tool: Type 2A’s need variety in their nutrition protocols or they will get bored quickly. The good thing about 2A’s is that typically everything works. Personal preference will play a factor, but they can really implement any nutrition protocol. Type 2A’s will do really well with carb cycling and calorie cycling (hard training vs easy training vs rest day numbers). They need rotating food choices to give them variety. Intermittent fasting works as well.
Fat loss structure: Calorie Cycling + Variety
Type 2A’s need a more moderate deficit and a plan with more variety. This is accomplished best with carb or calorie cycling: high days, moderate days, and low days. An interval approach where the specific strategy changes every 3-4 weeks will help to keep them motivated as well. Simply put, variety is key.
Muscle building structure: Moderating and variety again are key here. Having a variety of day “types”, surplus days mixed with deficit and maintenance days to balance out as a net small to moderate surplus. Carbs around training also are effective for type 2A’s when building muscle.
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