Small Steps to Success

  The healthiest people I Know are real weirdos! Stick with me, and I will put weird into context. This is for the conservative Boomers, the broken gen X, lost Millennials, and maybe a few Gen Z's (if they can scrape themselves off Tik Tok.  Nothing grows in a comfort zone! I like to teach people to flow in and out of that safe zone.  If you don't learn to bend you will eventually break. Hormesis; what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. The paradoxical beneficial effects of low dose stressors compared to chronic relentless ass kicking stress.  From a cellular level to an extrinsic body, to relationship, to a world scale all the way to a universal scale. The powers of polarity run life as we know it. (just ask Bill Nye the science guy) This is a concept you all understand if you look at every single human experience. Look at the largest version of earthly human change. The pressure that creates diamonds so to speak. 100,000 years ago the basic animal survival needs...

  Let me paint the picture for you: It's been a while since you truly moved like any form of a fitness enthusiast.  General life stress has taken on a whole entity of it's own. House, mortgage, kids?, work, and now as you rise one morning to see a glimpse of yourself in the mirror, you say to yourself; this is not the body or the discomfort I dreamed of having when I was younger (or just the sound hmffff!) Then you get this spark of enthusiasm as you gulp down your first coffee of the day. Maybe I'm overweight and tired because of a boot-camp deficiency?? A local dude (lets call him Chas) is running an outdoor early morning wake me up, get my life back boot-camp. He guarantees you will lose 5kg in the first month! This sounds exactly what I need . I don't mind losing an extra hour of sleep to get up and get yelled at. I'M IN! I must say at this point, the big motivator for this whole idea for general population (gen pop) is a support group of like minded people, who...

  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...