Learned Helplessness (Martin Seligman)- this is the concept of voluntarily submitting to a stressful situation. When an animal believes it can’t escape from a stressful situation, it’s heart slows down instead of accelerating. Usually in a stressful situation, the heart rate would race – but in a trapped situation in which the animal doesn’t “believe” it...
When developing a long term movement or training practice (which is the only one worth pursuing), one of the keys is learning when to use intensity vs. when to cruise Because of the way we are conditioned daily in our work, schools and peers (more is better), many times we’ll oscillate between no routine at...
When we start out on a health/training/(business), things are difficult. Habits are not formed, so there’s a huge amount of conscious effort involved just to turn up. It can be exciting, but it’s exhausting. Then, if we stick at it, we make some early progress. On a percentage basis, this early progress is usually pretty...
Exercise or training should feel good most of the time. If you feel tired, drained, or sick, it’s a sign that your system is a little cooked. Maybe you have a lot at work, or something going on at home. Or you have eaten poorly.. Often, people ask me if they should still come to...
Our energy building practices: sleep, food, meditation, restorative movement etc, need to outweigh our energy depleting practices: training, work, mental-emotional stress. If they don’t, we become depleted, unwell, injured or sick. The interesting part of it though is the “band” in which these can sit. The energy building practices have only small tolerances – not...
In our work, there’s a lot of emphasis around the ability to say “no.” It is a powerful skill, that allows us to focus on our task at hand, specialise, excel in our field and can protect us in a way. With movement of the body, it’s kind of the opposite. Rather than narrow the...
Often we move, eat, train, live, work… according to a method The methods are handed down to us, from our peers, from social media, from the books, from the course lecturer Of course, we get to take advantage of this previous work. Of existing knowledge. BUT, eventually you will find yourself at a crossroads. At a...
In marketing there’s a concept of “meeting them where they’re at.” I’m no marketing expert, but as I understand it, it’s making sure you use the language, imagery and concepts that are directly relevant today to the market niche. Resonate with where their conscious mind is at. In training, there is a similar thing going...
