26 strokes/minute means you have 26 opportunities to do it right. 180 pulls/minute means you have 180 opportunities to run correctly. 90 rotations/minute on a bicycle means 90 opportunities to pedal properly.
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Connect with your family and friends as best you can, in person. Look at them in the eyes and listen intently. Respond accordingly and thoughtfully. Slow down your thought processes and pay attention to the person you are conversing with. Genuinely be interested in what they have to say. Relate to them as best as you can. If you both are willing, then maintain physical contact; in order of importance and degree of physical contact: hugs, high-fives, and fist-bumps. In these moments of contact is when serotonin is released in each other’s bodies. This hormone and signaling molecule is important in creating happiness.
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Take it out after 35 minutes and put some cheddar cheese on it.
Stick it back into the oven for a few minutes.
Take it back out and nom on it.
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What’s it worth it for you to feel and possess the courage to create?
…the satisfaction and warmth you feel when a client says to you, “great work on that project this quarter,” as you feel the ridges of the pen ink on the check your client hands to you.
…the feeling of triumph and elation, riding the current of adrenaline coursing through your blood vessels, when you finally conquer that summit peak that you had been sweating, bleeding, and crying for months for.
…the opportunity to court that special person you have been pursuing who seems to always light up the room and stop the passage of time with their sparkling eyes and beaming smile everyday when you see them.
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If you’ve got any breathing-related problems, like (Exercise-Induced) Asthma, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, or if you even suffer from Anxiety, or Chronic Stress, then it might be due to how (much) you’re breathing.
We can address your skill of breathing, by using the right muscles, tissues, and bones, and not the ones that are compensating, which might be leading to some of the issues you’re experiencing today.
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“Damn it! I was there! I had it!” runs through your head, as you’re trying to calm down from that lift that seemed like it lasted forever. Everything slowed down and your vision got blurry; every single part of your body was squeezing and shaking. At the very last second, something told you that you couldn’t stand up with that weight anymore. You decided to bail in that split second.
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It does not matter whether we are running on asphalt pavement, cement, dirt, grass, in mud, snow, uphill, downhill or running short distance sprints, medium distance 5- or 10K's, or long distance half-marathons, marathons, or ultramarathons. Any activity involving running, like triathlons and duathlons, CrossFit, Spartan Race and other obstacle course races, in addition to all (team) ball sports, and even running to our cars, requires us to running with proper running technique, so we can do those to our highest and best abilities, and without pain and injury.
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By ensuring we progress one step at a time in our fitness and health journey, we stay true to our tenet of Mechanics, Consistency, and Intensity.
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We learn all kinds of skills this way. One skill for example, is the air squat. If what is programmed for the class to do one day is to perform 20 air squats in a row, as fast as possible, then the instructor should teach the air squat first. He or she will explain, demonstrate, and then lead you through how to correctly perform the air squat through drills on the Set-up, Execution, and the Points of Performance.
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Inhale. lasting four seconds, then exhale, lasting four seconds. Repeat that four more times. How much more calm and focused are you after doing that?
Read MoreIf you are not Metabolically Healthy, meaning that you do not satisfy all above requirements, including the requirement of not taking any medications for diabetes, blood pressure, or cholesterol, then we can do something about it.
Lifestyle changes will help you get you in the right direction, whichever the Metabolic Health Marker is.
Simple, manageable, and continued adjustments over time in your Nutrition and Movement will help!
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In the next 30 days, can you find a way to reducing or eliminating sugar from your nutrition?
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When we come take class, we’re here to train to get better at all the skills (see Fig. 1) to improve our fitness and overall health.
We’ll hear most everyone out there who go to the gym or their local boot camp class say that they “go work out” to sweat and to get their cardio in (see Fig. 2).
You can see how those who see their physical exercise that way as approaching it with no sense of specific purpose, or any thought to improve on anything in particular, which would ideally lend well to their improvement in their overall fitness and health.
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We were doing our Pumpkin Ruck at The Farmstead last Friday night, and while we were rucking with our pumpkins through the corn maze, our member Scott asked his daughter, “why do we do hard things?”
She immediately responded with enthusiasm, “…to improve our lives!”
What we encourage everyone who takes part in training here to do is to choose to do the hard things.
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Lose fat, gain muscle, and look good naked!
That’s everybody’s aesthetic goals.
Unfortunately, a vast majority of people’s goals end there.
There is fortunately, however, a small group of people out there who choose to have deeper and more meaningful goals.
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It is truly disheartening to see how we are misled into thinking that it will only take just a short of amount of time, without any effort to result in the positive changes we want.
We are all advertised and sold to based on our society’s growing need for instant gratification.
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When we’re training here at IMA, we have our Purpose, or “Why?” for what we are doing here. We also have our specific Intent, or specific training objective, for the training plan that is written on the whiteboard.
All the sets and reps of movements and exercises we do have a specific Intent and general Purpose to why we do them.
“We’ll get there.”
Read MoreYou can actually quantify how positive you are. Based on Gandhi’s words…
“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”
…you can change your destiny to a more positive one by having more positive Beliefs, Thoughts, and especially Words.
Read MoreCheck this Health “Balance” Equation out (source):
Health “Balance” = Recovery - (Physical Stress + Psychological Stress)
= R - (E + S)
We all have the ability to control each of the variables in the Health “Balance” equation.
We all can choose to view and experience Stress in a more productive and even useful way in order to maintain Health “Balance.”
For Recovery (R), we can control how much and how well we sleep and eat (meats, vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch, and no sugar) as well as engaging in other Specific Recovery Practices like massage therapy, acupuncture, physical therapy, self-myofascial release, etc.
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