Be Outstanding

that's what a leap year, and today...Feb 29'th are.

what are you doing today - in recognition of
and to be OUTSTANDING!

AMPLIFY IT
galvanize

ignite the success
Boom-Boom

Performance V's Science

The cutting edge isn't 'sports science'...

It's PERFORMANCE 'SCIENCE'

1. or perhaps even more simply: performance
a.) that's the fuel for progression.

2. Science is driven to create formulas, prove hypotehticals
a.) it's actually a very rigid process to please the scientist! and their views.
b.) just another process 'within the box'

3. Performance is an Art
a.) 'Artists are Performers!'

4. Performance is driven by progress
a.) the stretching of belief
b.) culturing fresh echelons

Perform is the answer

Muscle thought...

Do you think a muscle really care's what mode/method/action is used to stress it beyond current-capacity?

The important thing is to successfully stress the muscle beyond current-capacity
in essence the mode is of secondary importance.

V.simple
1.) achieve BENEFIT INTENSITY
2.) do it with as little effort as possible

Optimize!

do everything essential, don't waste anything
do it without damage

Tick-Tock

Wisdom is valuable when your time is precious

1440 mins each day
86,400 seconds

they don't come back!

wow

courtesy of the Wizard of Ads

goal-setting

Here's the 'typical' goal-setting approach
1. Set your goals (ie. know what you want)
2. Take action-steps towards your goals
3. Evaluate & analyze your progress & process
4. Adjust the action-steps & your approach based on your evaluation (#3)

HOWEVER!
Doesn't really work like that in the 'real-world'

a.) Your thoughts are so clouded, you don't have clarity and truthful knowledge and desire of what you actually want
b.) so you just keep spinning your wheels
c.) depressing you, as you don't seem to get any closer to successes
d.) then you keep trying (as you're motivated!) - hoping that somehow you're going to get a different result


You need someone to help you work out what you EXACTLY want is step one

Boom-Boom
Ignite Twenty12

Ocean-Love

courtesy of Jesse Cadman

Show the ocean your love today

Your CORE...

"The source of lasting happiness can never come from outside yourself through consuming values – but only from within yourself by creating value."

Your CORE is the foundation where you create value

Your CORE is
a.) Physical
b.) Mental

Intertwined through your nervous System!

Nurture your Neuro-levels

Learn back to advance forward

amazing the claims, some companies make.. 'the creators of 'suspension training'...!

see above: seems to have been standard literature almost 200 years ago

then the Industrial Revolution came along and warped alot of people's minds

1. Keep going backwards to find true principles
2. Then fire forward optimizng the tools

Caveman meets Spaceman

Science Update: Multisensory

Interesting research just completed at Oxford university in the UK: highlighting our amazing multi-sensory skills
(remember: we are just a bunch of dynamic systems bundled together NOT a machine)

crisinel et al
A bittersweet symphony: Systematically modulating the taste of food by changing the sonic properties of the soundtrack playing in the background

1. Found that the music played affected each person perception and response of the same food they all ate.
'bitter' music, forced them to respond that the food tasted 'bitter' and vice-versa with 'sweet' music and "sweet" taste!

Cherish the fact that you are merely trillions of cells befriended together!
Galvanize, amplify and optimize the 'messages' they send to each other!

PS. Just like a Pineapple isn't a single fruit (but merely lots of fruitlets combined) so are we. A combined and connected system of wonder!

Stay in the NOW

Present time can be hard, but life unfolds as it will and the universe will wait as we make our way into the unknown.

1. Our lives are guided by natural rhythms that are particular to each of us and cannot be altered by force of will alone.

2. Life itself is a journey made up of processes and events that manifest before us only to be swept away when time marches on.

3. Whatever you envision for yourself. Hold patience! We instinctively know when the time has come for us to realize the visions - because it'll all come together harmoniously.

4. When the time is right, destiny can't be blocked. Yet as desperate as we are to touch the amazing future we have visioned and imagined, we cannot grow if we aren't fully present in the NOW

it's the evolutionary experience.

Keep flying!

Keep making those right choices
sometimes the decisions seem tough (but right is always right and beyond wrong!)

Yeah: you're worth it! It's not selfish, but you have to nourish & nurture yourself first. Then you can spread joy, wonder and share your thoughts, love, energy and vitality.

ignite your passions, thrive your dreams, galvanize your soul

Boom-Boom!

are you doing single leg squats

You should be!

Science just being published
Jones, M., Ambegoankar, J., et al. Effects of Unilateral and Bilateral Lower-Body Heavy ResistanceExercise on Muscle Activity and Testosterone Response. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 2012.

highlights the amazing strength and anabolic power of single-leg squats

Also: the 'real-world' functionality is unsurpassed!

Be neurokinetic with your training

Massage and Recovery

The Mighty Mitochondrion (featured above) is the secret to why 10+ mins of massage boost recovery and healing in your muscles.

Researchers at McMaster University announced today the highlights of a study that will be published in Feb. 1 issue of Science Translational Medicine.

Massage works because of it signals muscle to make more mitochondrion.
Mitochondrion have amazing healing properties
it doesn't work because it helps clear lactic-acid from your muscles (proving the false myth of that)

PS.
Bio-Oscillation also stimulates your muscles to make more mitochondrion, and only takes a few minutes!
plus you don't need to hire a masseuse

Science Update

Just released today
Researchers at the Univ of Illinois are highlighting that exercise triggers stem cells to fuse and generate new muscle

get Juiced!

Science Update

Being overweight causes more PAIN

a study of more than 1 million Americans published January 19 in the online edition of Obesity: In “Obesity and Pain Are Associated in the United States,” by Stony Brook University researchers Arthur A. Stone, PhD., and Joan E. Broderick, Ph.D.

they report
A clear association between obesity and pain – with higher rates of pain identified in the heaviest individuals

Impact!

How is fitness going to improve your life today?

How's it going to make things
better,
easier,
faster,
more efficient

for you today?

Juice it up

Now time fitness...

IGNITE-IT!

1. The best way to get started is to get started.

Life rewards action...not reaction.
Wait for nothing. Attack life. Don't plan to death or ask for permission...
but act now...and apologize later.

BOOM-BOOM

go and exercise NOW

fitness is simple! make muscles move!

Science Update

Just more evidence... a new study published Am J Clin Nutr. 2012 Jan 18.
concludes: "It doesn’t matter what you eat. It’s how much."

Internal map & drive

When we learn to attune ourselves to our inner compass we follow a map that only we can see, our own path.

Up an at em!
ignite your instincts