Transcribed from video: - If you look at any metric in life, be it finance, look at the stock market, or temperature and weather patterns, nothing trends on this perfect line. The stock market goes like this and over time climate may be a smooth line but day to day...
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How to decrease arousal levels to enter an ideal performance state
Transcribed from video: - And then if you're over aroused, if you're too fired up, who thinks that generally speaking they're more under aroused? Who thinks they're more over aroused, they need to settle themselves down? Okay, so different personality types and a lot...
How to do a deload week
Transcribed from video: - Deloading. So basically a deload week is where you reduce the stimulus of a session, over a week. So you're giving your body time to respond and time to repair, and we do those every eight weeks here and...
Correction for common musculo skeletal faults in the overhead position
Transcribed from video: - Over head. Someone's overhead squatting, and they do this sort of thing. Who does that? Yeah, like lots of people, yeah. People in general, yeah. They squat, the shoulder internally rotates. Why does the...
A checklist to stay injury free
Transcribed from video: - These are the things you need to be doing to minimise recovery, to maximise recovery. If you do get injured ask yourself, do I communicate with my coach? Do I prioritise mechanics? Do I do a specific pre-exercise routine before every session?...
Why strength training shouldn’t be percentage based
Transcribed from video: - The load, the weighting of this should based off previous results, not off a percentage of your max. There's something called neuromuscular efficiency. Some people can do 95% of their max for 10 reps. Some people can't do it for two, yeah? It...
Training Versus Practice in a Taper
Transcribed from video: - A taper is basically a period of reduced intensity and volume leading up to a competition. So, similar to like a deload, a deload is a time when you can start to recover. Your taper is that time where you recover to lead you into then high...
The importance of both mobility and stability in an overhead squat
Transcribed from video: - To give you an example of how important it is to be both mobile and stable in the same movement, let's look at something like an overhead squat. So, generally speaking, in an overhead squat what is the greatest requirement at the ankle? Do we...
How to Train to Increase Your Lactate Threshold
Transcribed from video: - Lactate Threshold. The purpose of this - now it's called the lactate threshold. Remember those levels of lactate, of lactic acid, correlated with the hydrogen ions. This isn't a bad thing, the hydrogen ions are what we're trying to buffer out...
Why You Shouldn’t Avoid Movements Your Body Isn’t Suited To
Transcribed from video: - Again, if you're using a conventional deadlift as a diagnostic tool and saying, okay, we can see a problem here, the aim is not to then, so therefore we can't do that. It would be to say, we do it to the best of our abilities, we prescribe...
The benefits of self confidence
Transcribed from video: - So why do we actually want self confidence? Why is confidence important? Well firstly if you feel confident, you are generally happier. Would you guys agree with that? Would you also agree that if if...
The benefits of imagery for performance
Transcribed from video: - Let's talk about imagery. So imagery is basically where you are taking physical external events and playing them in your mind. Taking the external and putting it internal. A couple of benefits of this,...
Correct versus incorrect pacing strategies
Transcribed from video: - We can actually graph pacing, so we can graph what pacing should look like. And we can also graph what it shouldn't look like. So let's about talk about faulty pacing. This is probably what a lot of you...
The Importance of Varying Training Session Length
Transcribed from video: - But session formats and time domains. Just make sure that you're sometimes doing stuff that's only 10 seconds long, you're sometimes doing stuff that's 30 plus minutes long, and there's an even...
Rep schemes to build strength
Transcribed from video: - Terms of the rep schemes. The way that I like to do this is let's say that you're doing your dynamic effort work is going to be a press variation. So then, your max effort, we're going to do back squats...
The Causes of a Poor Rack Position
Transcribed from video: - Rack position, little more simple this one and you guys are going to see if you can work this out. So, again, broadly speaking we call them flexors, extensors, I don't need to know science-y Latin names...
How Tight Ankles Affect Your Squat
Transcribed from video: - Let's talk ankles. Okay? Excessive foot turnout. Can you guys see that by turning the feet out further, there's less stress placed on the achilles? So that would be a strategy for someone with tight...
Execise order for Aerobic Benefit
Transcribed from video: Not only do you get an increase in the muscle length, but also it's ability to generate force. And we're going to talk now with the benefits of PNF. Why that is the case, one of the reasons that is the case when we get down to this fourth point...
The time taken for injury recovery
Transcribed from video: - Now, most people don't realise how long it actually takes to recover from injury, how long it takes for our body to repair itself. So this is a process of 24 months, of two years, from onset of injury...
Post exercise movement therapy and recovery
Transcribed from video: - Movement therapy post exercise. This stuff we have covered already. This is my knees are falling in in a squat. I can see there's a problem. I know what's causing that problem. I know how to fix that...
The common theme with all injuries
Transcribed from video: - Broadly speaking, two different types of injuries. Chronic injuries are things that take a long time to develop, acute injuries are one-off events. So imagine you've got a rope, and that rope is, there's...
The zone of optimal self confidence
Transcribed from video: - Again, we have an inverted U theory here. Exactly like we've talked about with some of these other things that we've looked at. This inverted U of confidence that if you are, if you are too confident, up...
The criteria of good goal setting
Transcribed from video: - This is, again, it's another cliche, yeah smart goals, it's so, new age self-help book. Though I almost don't like saying it. But this is what the science shows works. So, let me go all Tony Robbins on...
Why PNF is so useful to increase flexibility
Transcribed from video: - Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation. PNF to its max, let's go with that. What this does is, it increases the flexibility, the range of a muscle, not only does it increase the length , it increases how usable that muscle is. And we will...
How to build stability
Transcribed from video: - How do we build these things? Well, we build stability by resisting movement. So if we're trying to make a joint more stable, if we're trying to go into that scapula shoulder blade protraction because...
How Stored ATP Provides Explosive Energy
Transcribed from video: - This comes from a couple of different places. So the energy comes from a couple of different places. In fact, it only comes from one place, it only comes from this process. But, this process happens in...
Athlete Profiling
Transcribed from video: - So how do we construct this programme? This is the basis on which it's built. How do we put this programme together? We need to work out what the goals of the programme are. Now like I said, we can have...
The process of self talk
Transcribed from video: - [Dan] Talking about self talk, this I think is a really really important one and in terms of the concentration, this is where we're going to spend most of our time. Who's aware of their self talk? Who's...
Post exercise nutrition to maximise recovery
Transcribed from video: - You'd be doing. Post-exercise nutrition. Firstly, as soon as you finish, and again, we can make some changes on this for people to dietary stuff and, but the general over arching recommendation here is,...
The cycle of low self confidence
Transcribed from video: - This is going to be a really familiar cycle for a lot of you guys. And we're going to talk about where you fit on this cycle. Being self-confident is believing you can carry out, undertake, perform a...