The secret to success is overcoming your habitual quitting place
If I have success, what does that mean? And, how am I going to live up to it again?
Sound like a familiar inner voice?
The ones who conquer it, hear it loud and clear.
They know it exists but they do not surrender.
The ones who are defeated by it usually never hear it in the first place.
It has...
The secret to training speed is moving faster than you did before
All athletes want to be faster.
Most have never truly trained for speed before.
Why?
Because just moving as fast as you can is not actually improving the speed that you can move.
It's making you better at moving at that exact speed but not any faster.
There are great benefits to moving quickly...
Develop your fitness and rehab your injuries at the same time
The TMP vision has always been to create an experience that bridges the gap between rehab and fitness.
We don't consider these two things separate entities.
It's all relative to the person and where they need to start.
If you treat people like patients they will remain a patient.
Rehabilitation...
Do you really need to warmup?
Sounds strange, I know!
First thing to realize is that if it's taking you a long time to feel prepared enough to exercise, there are some underlying metabolic factors involved.
This is not ok!
Regardless of what our fitness culture has taught us, humans are designed to kick ass immediately when...
Are you striving for fitness or for health?
It's funny how this works.
Being fit and being healthy are often totally separate entities for people.
I see the separation everyday from a fascinating perspective.
I assess young athletes all the time that play a year round sport but they are unable to stand on one leg.
I assess successful...
The movement box represents your health and personal capabilities
The movement box represents your health, personal capabilities and options as an athlete.
When we begin life, our movement box is small.
As a person tries new things and explores more, movement quickly develops in its complexity and size.
By the time you are a young adult you might own a very...
Movement is the vehicle to improved health
Movement is why we are here.
Movement is the language that our brain understands.
Regardless of a persons' problem, the right movement will open the right door to improvement.
Some forget, others have no idea.
Pain, injury, depression, digestive problems, illness, high/low blood pressure, sleep...
The 3 Basics of body ownership and how it correlates to pain
The 3 basics of body ownership:
- Movement
- Contraction
- Breath
Everything else we do should be to support and make these things better!
I've never had a chronic pain client who was able to showcase any of these basics to me.
Never.
Not once!
Movements look ratchet-y.
Contraction maps are blurry.
...Rhythm is the magic ingredient to fitness and sport performance
I get the same question over and over again - "what types of variables can I use to create smarter training sessions?"
Remember last time I told you to try it with your eyes closed! Well, this time I want you to try timing your favorite exercise to a beat!
You can use a metronome or even...
Are you motivating or enabling your clients?
Are your clients renting your motivation?
This is perfectly acceptable at first.
People want to work with you because they see a healthy, motivated, intelligent professional and they want to feel these feelings too.
But beware!
If you continue to allow them to rent your motivation it will likely...
