Small Steps to Success

  You talk a lot, yet authentic questioning is your downfall. You know more than you think, yet you think more than you know!   The word of the day is "Polarised" (divide or cause to divide into two sharply contrasting groups or sets of opinions or beliefs) If you become more polarised than is really required to create a successful outcome, then confusion, pain and ostracization normally follow.  Following the New Zealand elections, I'm sure you know what I mean, let alone looking at America! I will spend this time on subjects I know more about.  Body discomfort . I suffered from chronic back pain personally from the age of 20 to 32. My entire career is built on the fabric of understanding physical dysfunction and living within the cage of the 5 senses.  Sports performance Is always the dream for young trainers and coaches. Performing at elite level, working with higher functioning super stars.  The reality became for me, a realisation t...

 My career is not about counting reps for people, being an accountability boot camp leader for lazy exercisers, or making people jump around like mindless monkeys. I truly want to be the guy that is known for giving really great advice, insightful knowledge, producing comedic memorable analogies, and allowing people to understand enough about the human body- physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually to have a worthwhile human experience on earth. Seeing results that can last a lifetime are the success stories I wish to help produce, and they are the only ones that get put up on our advertising case studies. I am going to give you a list today of the best tips I think will stir you to check your current systems, beliefs, deficits, and promote a few more habits in the gym you may wish to consider. #1 Get posture pictures taken! This is so valuable, I cannot state it enough. If you have sub-optimal posture, then you will always be chasing pain, imbalances, and compensations....

  It's mostly bullshit!! The thoughts that ruminate inside your head most of the time are lies. You get told what to eat, how to exercise, what will kill you, how you should live, and what society expects of you. Whether from good intentions or not, you follow along blindly. You have 70,000 thoughts daily. It takes some real concerted effort to be the master of your own domain.  Let me start with some lines from a favourite movie of mine, "The peaceful warrior". "There's never nothing going on". "Pay attention to everything". To truly pay attention to everything, you would have to be in control of your conscious, subconscious, superconscious and supra conscious. (Sorry to throw that idea at you. That can be another discussion) We have a super computer inside of our heads. We are infants in a holistic machine that has infinite possibilities. No wonder we have trouble being human. It's like being put in a formula 1 racecar and expected to underst...

  So, you are in pain again? If you haven't studied my last 20 blogs, then I would suggest you make the time. The theme this week is how to truly understand what HOLISTIC means when it comes to movement. You can't keep on looking at the world through a straw!. This narrow way of seeing things is always going to lead you down a road of ruin. Becoming a flat earther may seem like fun for a while, but in the end you just look like a knob! I love the saying "Stop chasing pain". It gives us a glimpse of the need for more exploration, understanding and experimentation. If you went searching for books on how to get better abdominals and a stronger back, you would literally find 1000's of books on these topics. What this seemingly shows is that we have spent the information age (last quarter of the 20th century up to now) searching for answers to our woeful physically weakened existence. And guess what, we are still searching. I can't go past some of the most diabolic...

  When you are focused on your own passions, mission or legacy, you have no room or place for drama. You become the people you hang around with. You are the books you read. You are your habits.  We now have unlimited platforms for communication. It is an amazing world of information sharing like no other time in history.  I do not agree with the extremists that think eradication of cell phones, social media, internet and the likes is needed to create a sustainable planet long term. I just think with power, comes responsibility.  There is always going to be opposing views on every topic under the sun. Polarity is what drives experience. Experience fuels pressures, and pressure creates growth. In essence what I am trying to describe is a modern day Matrix! You have to see beyond the chaos, illusions and find your personal truth and peace. There has always been and always will be chaos. It is the chaos that will teach you to unravel your strengths, your weaknesses and c...

  Just do the bloody reps!! The only reason you have not reached your desired realistic objective is because you lack the reps. The 10,000 hour rule is so painfully true it will put most people off actually manufacturing success.  Let me use some examples of some of the great sports athletes of all time that have been accused of just having extremely lucky genetics: Greg Norman (The shark) - Who hit more balls per day than anybody Larry Bird (Celtic basketball legend) - Who was the first to arrive at every game practicing shots all the way up to the bleachers. Tom Brady (NFL legend) - Every part of his life meticulously planned by teams of experts Travis Stevens (Master judo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu) - 44 hours of workouts weekly If you really wish to see the extreme skills of human movement, look no further than Ido Portal, an Israeli movement specialist or what I would call believe it or not: the Shaolin Monk training regimes.   The list could go on and on about athletes wh...

Just eat real food! It's not your birthday You are not 5 anymore Crap, non nutritious food has infiltrated our society! This easy quick cheaply produced food calls to you every day from the cabinets of cafes, supermarket shelves at eye level and all work or sport celebrations. Can we just leave this crap food for occasional moderated parties? All food still on the market has passed as non toxic on the GRAS list (generally regarded as safe) This means it has not been proven to kill us!! I agree with these standards, to the degree they are moderated.  We do not have enough studies definitively proving large combinations and volume of junk food that can kill us. Do you think just maybe this is common sense?. Large quantities of most food can present a problem. I don't really want bleat on about every food colouring, additive, artificial sweetener, or fake fat anymore. I would rather just focus more on making sense of this "everything in balance" suggestion and teach peop...

Have you ever tried to wrestle a farmer? Have you wondered why gymnasts look so strong? Do you want to know the secret as to why you are weak and have the metabolism that weight watchers franchise owners thrives on? You lack raw functional strength! Gyms now look more like a sales showroom than a productive strength building laboratory.  I know the treadmills have lots of shiny buttons and all the machines look like they are worth their weight in gold, but they are overbuilt and over-priced to sucker you into a non teaching workout plan that will buy more BMW's for franchise owners. I've even seen leg press machines that have automatic counters on them! I think gym machine engineers are getting paid way too much as well! I remember an experiment that was done on a professional gymnast. He was sent into the gym for the first time and was recorded for his maximum lifts on a select range of exercises. The one that stood out was a standard bench press. He was able to complete a 1 r...