Yes an injury can help you raise awareness, it can be a tool for learning. But no, injuries are not really a big enough “part of training” that they should be considered a “part of training.” If you, your coach, your trainer, your physiotherapist or anyone helping guide you in your physical movement journey is...

I work with quite a few business owners (gyms, coaches, PT’s, trainers, small businesses). One of the topics that arises is “content creation.” Due to the amount of information, advertisements and imagery that is bombarding us on the internet, there is feeling that as a business owner, we need to be creating our own “content”...

There’s a common misconception that we can start at “any time.” That we can wait, consider it for a bit and come back to it. When we look closer, “any time” is a myth, a literal impossibility. In fact, the only time that exists is the current infinitesimally small, sliver of now. When we then...

In the Access Potential Academy personal and professional development program, I don’t run a Facebook Group.* Here are some numbers and maybe you can see why: In Australia, in 2016, Australians spent an average of 46 hours per week looking at a screen, but just six hours with family and friends. In 2018, you spent...

We “work well” with recognised patterns. Linearity – change the input and see an expected output. Familiar faces, places and behaviours and habits – we can relax, go into auto pilot. It allows “efficiency.” Chaos, is disruption. The cyclone that hits our everyday environment and causes us to stop. To really look. “Chaos should be...

I’ll fly off of the island later today in a very small plane. When you land in Auckland – like many major cities, you get to look down see the fields and paddocks on the outskirts before you get to the landing area. You can see them all, it’s like a patchwork of different greens...

A week ago, we went diving (in this case, “diving” refers to free diving, or spearfishing, not scuba diving) on the west side of the island. You could barely see the end of your spear tip in the water. Heavy current and very poor visibility. We managed to stay in the water for maybe 40...

“Is the meal Dairy Free?” “Yes, but the sauce in the chips that comes with it has dairy in it.” “Ah that’s fine, I’ll still take the chips with the sauce, I just prefer dairy free generally. Thanks.” Gluten free, dairy free, wheat free, meat free, sugar free, nut free, egg free, soy free, grain...