James Nightingale - Inspire Health

What’s up? National champ 🥇

At Inspire we believe in mastery, not perfection.

Perfection creates an unrealistic perception of what high performance looks like. It creates a perception where failing isn't an option.

Mastery on the other hand suggests a level of learning and understanding that offers substance. We believe the sign of mastery is the ability to teach. To be able to take a complex set of information & break it down to a digestible format for anyone is a unique skillset.

We aren't perfect at it but we are working towards that skillset everyday.

Massive congrats to charlize 🌺🌺] for taking home her first international gold medal! Well done on the hard work, rewards match effort.

charlize 🌺🌺]

Catching up with Harry Wills] while away on the Queensland Pro-Am Swing aka the “mining tour”.

For professional athletes their body a their work. It’s key to stay on top of posture and strength. For most people back pain is an annoyance - for a golfer it can mean an extra shot to the pin and 5mph less clubhead speed.

Specifics from today;

🏌️‍♂️ left TFL tightness
🏌️‍♂️ right hip external rotator tightness
🏌️‍♂️ hamstring tension creating posterior tilt of the hips and lower back tension
🏌️‍♂️ quad and hip flexor strength work

Harry Wills]

Congratulations to new u19 sprint cycling Australian champion !

Sprint race 🥇 + Aus record ⏱
Keirin 🥇
Team sprint 🥈

Unreal mate and a big congrats from the performance team :

Great end to the weekend! 🌧 ☀️ ⚽️

18 months to finish this one!

Takeaways: be kind to people, work to understand each other’s perspectives, life has a lot less friction if the barriers between us and them can be broken down.

Big increases in testosterone will make most people do what they think others want to see. Perceived conflict or stress can drive this up. Culture in the environment will dictate that what people think others want to see.

Culture is what is perceivably rewarded.

Some people are as****es, and dangerous - they can’t be changed.

The four aspects to maintaining physical health - for anyone, including athletes:

Train, often. Most days, steady state cardio at least once, weights at least twice/wk.

Sunlight, 15-20min skin exposure during the day. Every physical part of your body has a Vitamin D receptor, and the minimum amount of sun needed gives the same stimulus as 20 vit D supplement tabs (1000iud ea). Free performance and mental enhancement, and worth supplementing if you can’t get outside during the day.

Water, more than feels necessary. Similar to above the body is two thirds water. Nothing great happens when it’s running low. A few percent dehydration is enough to feel the effects - tiredness, foggy thinking, drops in performance.

Nutrition. Carbs to fuel performance but no more, omega-3 fats, protein. Your body sheds it’s cells completely every ninety days, and they are replaced using the building blocks you provide with the food you eat. You have a completely new body every ninety days! You won’t feel great with poor quality resources to build with, however you don’t feel the effects of a good or a bad diet until a few months down the line.

Sleep. Two different types; REM and non-REM. Four different stages of non-REM. What is important: stress impacts stages three and four of non-REM sleep which is where most adaptation to training and flushing out of unneeded metabolites occurs. This means recovery - you can go again the next day without getting injured or feeling fatigued. It also means results - the training session produces damage. The response to this damage which creates strength/fitness increases happens mainly when asleep. It also consolidates memory from the previous day and helps learn new skills and things faster. Pretty important when studying, learning a new training block or trying to grow in pretty much anything. REM sleep is impacted by alcohol - this is dream sleep and your brain needs it. Every part of the brain except the forward thinking logical part (pre frontal cortex) is increased in actin fort during REM sleep.

Where to start? Grade yourself on each one using this five point scale: -2 terrible, -1 not good, 0 fine, +1 good, +2 almost perfect.

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