The launch, the take-off. When we start off and hit the ground running, but just a little too much of a sprint. The crash and burn happens on any number of time-frames. It typically gets us when we are pretty good at what we do, from an early point. When our progress is accelerated in...
There are gyms, personal trainers and gym owners, and then there are guys like Vik. Vik and his wife Sarah own and run an amazing gym in Sydney’s Northern Suburbs. We were fortunate to spend some time with them recently on our second unplugged Expedition Retreat. The energy they brought was amazing. Vik is not only...
Recently we had a new sink unit put in at the gym. There were 5 or 6 tradesmen there to do the job. Most were watching while two worked. When they left, there were foot prints and dust everywhere. There had been a small effort to tidy up, but the clean up process after they finished...
We are bombarded with images of people levitating. People doing amazing achievements: marathon running, big wave surfing, handstands, starting amazing businesses, trekking for hundreds of miles. So we too set off on the journey. We buy a surfboard, enter the race. The human body and mind is capable of supernatural feats. Of rising above gravity....
The conversations we have. The comments, debates, discussions. typically, we are amongst friends, colleagues, or people we seek out. We rarely find ourselves next to the opposite. Or even next to the someone in the middle, or on neutral ground. Language is the left hemisphere – the logical mind. We need to understand that often...
Well, we are always starting out, we never get anywhere. But still, a few things to consider in terms of the “health and fitness” journey: – We constantly are getting brainwashed/conditioned/confused by media, education, society. The right foods, the right exercise, the right job… This brainwashing is a given – We can’t know what to do...
So what sort of power are you averaging? What are you holding when you’re just tapping out tempo? “It’s around 310 watts (a measure of bike power output) for a period of over four hours – or whatever it was, four hours 12 minutes.* This was Cameron Wurf talking to an interviewer about his effort...
The action is clear: Show up, put in the effort in a mindful, consistent manner. Slowly learn, modify and implement lifestyle factors that are proven to be effective. However, despite often knowing exactly what it is we need to do, we’ll often find ourselves down a deep, dark rabbit hole looking for more information. The...