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Technical Change and Adaptive Change: Overcoming Your Immunity to Change

Going through the motions is not the defining factor of character change.  For some it is difficult to comprehend why it is they have such a difficult time attaining the necessary skills to thrive in the environment of which they are a part.  There are times when people can objectively show the changes in their behaviors while within a situation; however, they still struggle to feel comfortable in their new surroundings.  What happens in these cases is the person more than likely has made a technical change; however, they have not made an adaptive change.  A technical change is the adjustment made in title or function, and an adaptive change is modification that involves altering more than routine behaviors.  Adaptive change is the alteration of preferences.   An adaptive change involves a transformation of a person’s outlook and beliefs.   This is something that I once found challenging while studying multiple martial arts simultaneously. Taking to the matter the martial arts I have trained for more than a decade, I have had to make adaptive changes before I could fully realize positive growth in the cross-study of the martial arts.  As similar as some of the styles were to one another, some of them had extremely different training styles and attitudes. 

In my experience people believe they can learn the physical skill-sets and thereby they believe they learn the style/art.  In this idea of learning the technical aspects of the art, learning the physical moves of techniques or forms, there is a tendency to believe one has made an appropriate total change, while in reality they have solely made a technical change; doing the form without the actual intent of the style.  To have a total change one must be able to face and overcome both the adoptive challenges and the technical challenges.  The technical challenges, in the sense of learning a martial art, are learning the visual aspects of the form set, leaning the moves to the point where one can, without pause unnatural to the style and form-set, execute the techniques.  The adaptive challenge is to be able to draw on the intended resolve of the style and form-set.  The same challenges are found in business relationships.

 In business, one may progress to a deferent position in the company, given a new title and given new responsibilities.  The change in title and responsibilities represents the technical change.  The technical challenges are to have the title change made official and learning the proper way to execute ones responsibilities.   The adaptive change happens once one becomes completely comfortable and proficient in the new position.  The adaptive challenges are the moments of emotional and mental disequilibrium involved with the overall alteration.  Moving from one comfort zone of which one is accustomed to another, may involve a time period in which one’s orientation will cause the changes made on the technical side to seem unnatural and uncoordinated.   This is caused by the adaptive change not being complete.  A person that is placed in a new managerial position may understand the technical aspects of the career change, they may understand the forms that need to be filled and filed, they may understand their responsibilities and when they need to execute their new tasks and errands; however, what they cannot gather are the subjective value-sets of the new department.  This inability to cope with the idiosyncratic natures of the new position is the adaptive challenge one as to face and overcome before they can fully realize their new position.          

When entering into new relationships make sure to understand all of the challenges you will face, both technical and adaptive.  Realize when you enter into new agreements with others there is more to becoming an efficient part of the bond other than you stating the existence and understanding what technical things that need to be done.  Make sure you are not only able and willing to change your objective natures; also, you must be able and willing to change the subjective natures of your being so you can fulfill the fullness of your new role.  

For more information Winston’s his martial arts academy please visit Internal Magnification.  

Winston Price, Executive Producer, has over a decade and a half of marketing, advertising and public relations experience. He began his business career in 1995 and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington. Winston also is a master martial artist and personal trainer with over 2 decades of knowledge and experience. Winston runs his own school, Internal Magnification Martial Arts, where he focuses on helping people reach their personal goals of health and fitness via At-Home personal training with martial foci of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Ch’uan, Hapkido and Ba Gua Zhang. As an executive producer for VoiceAmerica, Winston utilizes his skills in business and personal training to help new and existing hosts maximize their opportunity with the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network by supporting his hosts with the business and personal aspects of creating and developing their show. Winston believes that each host brings their own flavor to the Network. By properly coaching and motivating his hosts, they are able to produce THEIR show with THEIR style and THEIR passion being at the forefront of every broadcast.

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Making Your Life Easier on Yourself: Positive Framing

Sometimes the only thing needed to remove stress is a change of perspective.  Many times great mental and emotional stress is placed on a situation because of the mindset of the parties involved.  In my training of students in Tai Chi Chuan, I have come to find the lesson of “What is Winning?” as one of the hardest for people to grasp.  When training students there seems to be a grand necessity to win; however, when I ask my students what it means to them to win and I then ask them to match-up the ideas of winning they have with the ideals I have told them are held in the practice and study of Tai Chi Chuan, the students have a great inability to soundly match their ideas with the ideals that are being taught to them.  In that instant, the instant they realize that there is a major discrepancy of realities, I have come to find that students either end up leaving class shortly their after or they redirect their energies to better understanding what it actually means to win in the context of the Tai Chi Chuan.  Normally this paradigm shift happens in two situations: during practice of the solo- form and during practice with a partner or partners.

While training the solo-form some novice students get bored with repeating patterned sequences.  While training, many novices become progressively less attentive to the form of each posture and the transitions in the progression, and in many other cases they simply stop doing the exercise all together and they either start to do something else or do nothing at all.  I approach each situation differently depending on the student; however, the message is always the same: “You seem bored”.  I ask them to not think of the process as doing work to get to the next point.  I ask them to focus directly on what it is they are doing without worry or stress over what it is they do not know and/or have not been presented.   I tell the students once they are completely comfortable with what they are currently doing they open up the opportunity to progress to the next point without strain or stress.  I point out they never get comfortable with where they are because they are so strenuously focusing on the next point that it causes unnecessary mental and emotional stress.  Worrying over the unknown ruins the progress of the known and the present.  So even if they can do the postures shown, their unease, their worry and stress over the unknown, causes negative effects on their current situation and closes any opportunity for efficient progress.  If they change the way they perceive their current situation; if they focus directly on the positive growth that can be gained from where they are and what they are currently attempting to accomplish, they will naturally progress to the next level with ease and not stress.

To the point of working with people doing partner work, and seeing students having negative issues with their progressions, I have noticed many points as an instructor where I see the opportunity to help students gain a better understanding of changing their outlook to evoke positive growth.  When monitoring partner work, one way I have come to find, with those that allow me the opportunity to engage them, for a change in perspective is when I see someone who comes to the state function of a drill shown; however, their actions are completely inefficient.  What I have gleaned is that many students inefficiently force an issue to get to the state function of a drill given. What has a tendency to happen in these situations is one of the participants, or multiple participants, begins a battle to struggle overly muscularly to gain advantages of position.  This is never the point of any of the partner drills in Tai Chi Chuan. What I have come to find through instructing is that participant(s) get more involved in the idea of competing to win as oppose to studying and practicing to gain proper skill.  What happens is the will to defeat and compete overrides the nature of the teachings Tai Chi Chuan provides, of which include minimal effort to produce the maximum product to a total positive gain throughout all point of a situation.  The participants that decide to progress a negative framework as their base to produce the state function frame the encounter as a battle with a definite winner and loser.  This mindset has the tendency to breed inefficient skill and inefficient technique with high occurrence.   Giving tactile examples in these circumstances to the participants who are struggling through the drill progressions is one of the most efficient ways I have come to find to start the change of their paradigm.  I allow each participant to do what they did during the drill; however, I allow them to do it with me so they can feel the difference, so they can feel the different types of energies put forth to reach the desired state function.  I tell the participants that I do not frame the encounter as a battle; I do not see the situation as something I have to conquer.  I do not believe that there is a point of winning or a point of losing.  Everything that is done is a point from which I can efficiently study and properly learn.  So in essence I am always gaining.

Having the mindset of not caring of winning or losing throughout my training, not focusing on defeating someone as a point of victory versus shame, opens the opportunity for me to gain the skill of gaining advantages without the product of stress or strain.  Freeing myself from the confines of portraying those around me as combatants, as negative beings, allows me the opportunity to see and focus on multiple and more efficient ways of dealing with situations.

To me life should never be about winning or losing.  When properly done, living should always produce positive gains.  To me life is about taking every opportunity and framing it as such that there is never a stress or a strain on my physical, emotional, mental and spiritual self; so that no matter what I do I allow for the positive and natural occurrence of the opportunity of prospering efficiently to always produce itself and always to take efficient advantage when efficient opportunities present themselves.  In my training, study and instructing of the Tai Chi Chuan, I have come to find that removing the need to defeat to win, removing the worry and stress of the unknown, and replacing it with the positive mindset of efficiently taking advantage of situations leads to one having greater opportunities for positive natures and opportunities to occur.  It is up to us to always take efficient advantage of positive natures and opportunities. It is up to us to remove ourselves from our habits that affect us negatively.   It is up to us to place ourselves in positive frameworks we produce so that we are able to take efficient advantages of conditions when they present themselves.

For more information Winston’s his martial arts academy please visit Internal Magnification.  

Winston Price, Executive Producer, has over a decade and a half of marketing, advertising and public relations experience. He began his business career in 1995 and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington. Winston also is a master martial artist and personal trainer with over 2 decades of knowledge and experience. Winston runs his own school, Internal Magnification Martial Arts, where he focuses on helping people reach their personal goals of health and fitness via At-Home personal training with martial foci of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Ch’uan, Hapkido and Ba Gua Zhang. As an executive producer for VoiceAmerica, Winston utilizes his skills in business and personal training to help new and existing hosts maximize their opportunity with the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network by supporting his hosts with the business and personal aspects of creating and developing their show. Winston believes that each host brings their own flavor to the Network. By properly coaching and motivating his hosts, they are able to produce THEIR show with THEIR style and THEIR passion being at the forefront of every broadcast.

 

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“Well, It’s Better Than Nothing.” – Training Yourself to Fail

What sparked this post is the saying, “Well, it’s better than nothing”.  This saying is an excuse used to make one feel better about failing.  This is one of the worst things to actually believe.  The meaning of this phrase is that one did something to the positive affect of the actions completed.  But does that really even make good sense?  Think about it this way; is taking out the trash halfway to the proper spot of placement better than nothing?  Is turning in unfinished, below minimum work better than nothing?  Doing a below minimum job is never better than doing nothing.  When an action is completed ask yourself if what you did is something that if you consistently did things in that manner would raise you to your goals efficiently?  The answer to that is always “no”.  The reason I assert this is that when you look at the phrase, “Well, it’s better than nothing”, from a mental health point-of-view, what one does when they believe in this ideology is they minimize their failure to properly prepare and execute the necessary/wanted action.  This minimization accesses one’s ability to believe a non-truth that can lead to the understanding that what they did was good, causing them to allow this happening to reoccur without fault or negative consequence.  People fail to realize that this form of thinking lends itself to producing less than mediocre results.  They fail to realize that it is okay to harshly criticize one’s self for failing if it leads to a healthy realization that their lack of preparation is what they need to focus on in the future.  Telling yourself that you did a passable job when you fail is harmful for your overall health and development.  Rationally and critically managing and maintaining your well-being, thought processes and preparation tactics is healthy; it leads to positive and efficient growth.

Don’t believe lies that allow you to take failure lightly.  When training in Tai Chi Chuan, an instance that I encounter when studying, training and teaching is that people believe that because Tai Chi Chuan, in general, is practiced slowly, relative to other martial arts, there is very little necessity to diligently train and study.  Many practitioners go to class thinking that if they can just follow along with the instructor that they will efficiently grow and develop proper skill.  They believe that going to class is just enough and that is all that is necessary.  To them, showing up to class is good enough and being able to follow along without properly focused thought is better than nothing.  To them, they believe that if they can mimic the movements it is the same as them mastering the movement.  Something that I tell them is, just because you can read the words on a page it does not denote that you understand what you just read.  Proper study needs to take place.  There is a respect for what it is you are doing that has to be present.  There must be a standard you place on yourself, that if you fall below that standard you discipline yourself appropriately.  Do not train with the idea of just coming in is good enough.  Make sure you are always challenging yourself.  Make sure you always hold yourself to appropriate standards that allow you to develop efficiently.  If it is not challenging, it is not changing.  And to me, that is one of the grandest pieces of evidence that the message of “Well, it’s better than nothing” is a false message of progress.

People do not state, “Well, it’s better than nothing” if what they did was something that actually challenged them.  This is something that is stated when there was no challenge because of a lack of preparation and due diligence.  I do believe that doing something that betters yourself is better than doing nothing to better yourself; however, rationalizing failure as success is never better than doing nothing.  In the stead of saying and thinking that something that brought no productive challenge and no productive growth actually begat positive change, what one should do is face the fact that they failed due to  their own inadequacies and challenge their self to execute more effectively in the future.

There are times that I set aside to practice my Tai Chi Chuan forms, and there are times that I do not properly prepare and spend less time on the forms than I had planned.  In these cases I have self-disciplinary actions that I take.  One thing that I do is note that what I just did was a failure.  I recognize the fact that I did do something; however, I note that even though I did many good things it was not enough to call what I did a success.  I liken it to taking a quiz or an exam.  If one gets 4 out of 10 questions correct, and each question is worth one point, they still failed.  No pats on the back for failure.  Another thing that I do in my self-disciplinary action is remove time from things, that for the most part, are leisure activities and add that time to the time that I schedule for future training; making even more time for training in the future.  Doing so, adding time to future training/ studying sessions, allows me to do the repetitions that I missed during my failure.  Once again, likening this to taking a test or quiz, make time for more study in the future to be able to sufficiently review what was missed.  Too often the miscued message of “Well it’s better than nothing” leads to the idea of, “Well now that I know that I missed it, I’ll get it right the next time”, and then people don’t study what they missed.  They just move on to the next time, not adding extra time to study what it was they missed.  When they fail again they are surprised that they missed the same question again. 

Just showing up is not good enough.  Doing something is not always better than doing nothing.  When you fail, when you falter, you have to do even more work than what you previously planned to catch-up, and then even more work to properly and positivity progress.  If you rationalize failure as success you will train yourself to fail.   Don’t train yourself to fail.          

For more information Winston’s his martial arts academy please visit Internal Magnification.  

Winston Price, Executive Producer, has over a decade and a half of marketing, advertising and public relations experience. He began his business career in 1995 and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington. Winston also is a master martial artist and personal trainer with over 2 decades of knowledge and experience. Winston runs his own school, Internal Magnification Martial Arts, where he focuses on helping people reach their personal goals of health and fitness via At-Home personal training with martial foci of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Ch’uan, Hapkido and Ba Gua Zhang. As an executive producer for VoiceAmerica, Winston utilizes his skills in business and personal training to help new and existing hosts maximize their opportunity with the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network by supporting his hosts with the business and personal aspects of creating and developing their show. Winston believes that each host brings their own flavor to the Network. By properly coaching and motivating his hosts, they are able to produce THEIR show with THEIR style and THEIR passion being at the forefront of every broadcast.  

 

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Check Yourself: Be a Good Partner

One of the concepts that I consistently promote when doing any type of partner work is the idea of giving only what you are willing to receive.  This is something that I have come to find people easily place directly on the physical attributes of partner work.  And that’s a good thing, don’t get me wrong.  Understanding how much to give in the physical realm is of the utmost importance when doing partner work in Tai Chi Chuan, or any martial art for that matter.  Knowing the level at which one should drill, practice and play is extremely beneficial in the development of proper and appropriate skill.  The root of my message when telling people to only give what they are willing to receive is: listen to your partner, understand yourself, and how you and your actions effect the environment of which you are a part.   A more specific account of the message of this article is: be mad at yourself not your partner if your partner doesn’t want to work with you.  So often partner work is unproductive because one or more persons in the partnership either have no interest or lose interest in actually listening to what the other(s) want to gain from the relationship/partnership. 

Now before I get into two of the most common reasons for a of lack of caring for being with/working with a partner, I want to bring up a common fault that seems to be something that drives partnerships into deeper negative holes than it actually helps.  What people are commonly told is that when they have a problem with a partnership/relationship is that they and their partner are not communicating.  I believe that to always be a false statement.  What and how it should be stated if one wants to focus on the word communication is they the problems that have are bred from what is being communicated.   We as conscious being are always communicating and receiving communiqué.  Communication is to convey information, the problems we commonly face in relationships/partnerships happen because there is a lack of understanding, not because communication isn’t happening.  I have come to find that once people start working on gaining better understanding of what others want and of what they actually want; communication between parties becomes less strained.  So point, stop working on communicating for the sake of communication possibly not happening.  Communication is always happening.  Start working on the messages we convey.  Start understanding that communication is made of many pieces: messages and messaging, sender, receiver, situation, context, relevance and understanding.

So, back to it; two of the most common reasons for a lack of caring are that one party is ignorant and/or the other party feels ignored.  In Tai Chi Chuan partner work there are many fun martial applications that can be learned.  A large reason for partner work is to gain an understanding of the concepts that had been previously thought.  One of those concepts is gaining awareness of and being able to control one’s environment in a positive manor.  The concept of environmental awareness contain the models of you aid in creating the environment, and the sum of your past acts dictate the present and future of your environment.  When looking at and/or through a strained relationship, first look at and/or through yourself.  Have you actually been listening to your partner and doing what they want to do and not just what you want to do?  Have you spoken up and stated to the other parties that you believe you have not been given equal part and play, and have specific examples of why you believe it so?  Do you put as much effort into the partnership/relationship as you expect from the others of which you are a part?  Do you hold yourself to the same standards you hold the rest of your team?  Do you often ask others for their thoughts and fact-based opinions and change yourself and ways accordingly?  Are you as fervent in bringing practical solutions as you are at bringing up problems?   These are all question you need to ask of yourself, note the answers and properly adjust to what you want.  Maybe you really don’t care about the other(s) so understanding them honestly does not matter to you, in which case you need to understand what type of environment you are creating.  Maybe you actually do care about what is going on; however, you keep a closed mouth and never voice your feelings or opinions on matters properly and appropriately.  Maybe you think you don’t care; however, you really do.  Maybe you think you do care because it is what you have been educated to think is proper and right; what you should think, feel and do, however the actual fact is that you don’t care and you want out because the partnership is a waste of your time.  Our actual wants don’t always line up with what we are taught we need.  You need to know why you are compelled to stay in a situation and if you really want to be in that situation; and then act accordingly.

So, moral of the story: Be the partner you want to work with and partner with those that show they want to be a positive and productive partner with and for you.

For more information Winston’s his martial arts academy please visit Internal Magnification.  

Winston Price, Executive Producer, has over a decade and a half of marketing, advertising and public relations experience. He began his business career in 1995 and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington. Winston also is a master martial artist and personal trainer with over 2 decades of knowledge and experience. Winston runs his own school, Internal Magnification Martial Arts, where he focuses on helping people reach their personal goals of health and fitness via At-Home personal training with martial foci of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Ch’uan, Hapkido and Ba Gua Zhang. As an executive producer for VoiceAmerica, Winston utilizes his skills in business and personal training to help new and existing hosts maximize their opportunity with the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network by supporting his hosts with the business and personal aspects of creating and developing their show. Winston believes that each host brings their own flavor to the Network. By properly coaching and motivating his hosts, they are able to produce THEIR show with THEIR style and THEIR passion being at the forefront of every broadcast.  

 

Know What You are Saying: Stop Ignoring Your Ignorance BY WINSTON PRICE

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# 10 Fitness Post

 So many people speak on things of which they have no first-person knowledge.  They believe that what they have been told by others they respect, for whatever reason, is true and they never do any research on their own.  Shame on you I say, and I have no pity for you when you start spouting illogical and misrepresented rhetoric.  Two major examples are people that use the words anaerobic and aerobic exercise incorrectly, and those that use substandard and/or antiquated ways of measuring and defining their health levels.  So often people are given bad advice by good people; like when people tell others they should have their cellphone-telephone up to their ear if they are walking home alone, either on the phone with someone or not on the phone with someone.  The first thing I help people to realize is how silly this is.  I ask them if they think it a good idea if someone drives a car while on a cellphone-telephone, they state that it is stupid to drive while on a cellphone-telephone because one is not fully paying attention to the road and the cars around them.  Then I ask them, if they hadn’t gotten my point by then (no need to beat a dead horse), do they think it proper for someone to be on their cellphone-telephone will crossing a busy street, and hopefully they get that I am that no one believes a person is paying attention when literally they are mobile and using their cellphone-telephone.  Those that are really stubborn state that having someone on the other end of the phone is like walking with someone and there is some sort of physical protection gained.  Then I ask them if they believe that if someone was being victimized and had someone on the phone, friend or police, if they thought the person could get there in time to actually aid in the situation.  I then state this is what I mean by information that sounds good; however, if you actually look into it is some of the worst advice to give.  So why is it that people don’t look into things on their own?  Why is it that people don’t do what they have been hopefully thought?  Why is it that people don’t look into things for their own edification?

People still use the words anaerobic and aerobic exercise.  Anaerobic and aerobic exercises are two ways physical exercise can be done, that’s it.  People fail to realize that running can turn into and become anaerobic and that one can aerobically lift weights.  For the reason of ignorance people use anaerobic exercise interchangeably with lifting weights and aerobic exercise reciprocally with running and/or biking type exercises.  One of the most disappointing things is that from their ignorance biases of exercises are made and people don’t do things because they give a negative connotation to what it is “they don’t do” because “all it does is nothing good”.  Runner rather dislike it when they are shown that they are running in an anaerobic manor thereby staying in the anaerobic state over too on of a period of time, as to that their body stops burning fat and starts burning muscle.   People that get off lifting heavy weights at low reps “to get ripped” sometimes fail to see the benefit of lift lighter weights at higher repetitions to isolate a muscle or muscle group and stay within an aerobic threshold to burn fat while lifting so that their muscles and more easily be seen through their skin.   This is one example.  The other one deal with Weights and Measures (pun intended) of fitness.

People still check their weight as a signal sign of fitness.  Others still use BMI (Body Mass Index) to measure their fitness level.  Those ways are out of date and completely inaccurate.  I have a BMI of 30.8 (6’2” 240 pounds US).  By the standard of the BMI I am Obese.  When people hear that I am a 240 person they state that I should lose weight and get healthy.  Weight solely is not a great marker for health and in my opinion the BMI has cause more health problems than it has solved.  What I tell people is that the only things they need to measure are there waist-line, body-fat and their physical ability as it comes to energy levels, balance, flexibility and endurance through strenuous physical exertion when it comes to their physical health.  Other measurable, logical standards are great too; those are just some that can really give a good account of a person’s health.  As I stated before, solely by my weight I am unfit, by my BMI I am obese; however, when my waist-line, body-fat and physical ability as it comes to energy levels, balance, flexibility and endurance through strenuous physical exertion are measured I am very health and nowhere near obese.

Moral of the story: Listen to and learn from everything; including, but not limited to, your own research.  Match what you find and know with as many differing outlets you can find and then find more info and other outside source in by which to gather data to be logically process.

Don’t believe everything you hear and read.  Always be open to easier and better ways of doing something.  Move out of the dark and into the light. Simply, “You know better, don’t be stupid”.

 

For more information Winston’s his martial arts academy please visit Internal Magnification.  

Winston Price, Executive Producer, has over a decade and a half of marketing, advertising and public relations experience. He began his business career in 1995 and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington. Winston also is a master martial artist and personal trainer with over 2 decades of knowledge and experience. Winston runs his own school, Internal Magnification Martial Arts, where he focuses on helping people reach their personal goals of health and fitness via At-Home personal training with martial foci of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Ch’uan, Hapkido and Ba Gua Zhang. As an executive producer for VoiceAmerica, Winston utilizes his skills in business and personal training to help new and existing hosts maximize their opportunity with the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network by supporting his hosts with the business and personal aspects of creating and developing their show. Winston believes that each host brings their own flavor to the Network. By properly coaching and motivating his hosts, they are able to produce THEIR show with THEIR style and THEIR passion being at the forefront of every broadcast.  

 

Working Through Fitness: The “e”, “s” and “s” of It All BY WINSTON PRICE

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#8 Ftiness Point 

So we are at the end of the word.  By the end of this post you would have “Work Through F.I.T.T.N.E.S.S”.  As stated in the first post of this series the E is for Empirical, the first S is for Simple and the last S is for Satisfying.    To make sure that there is no confusion, I am making sure to have these three letters together.  The question I get is, “How can something be simple and empirical at the same time; and if something is too simple didn’t you say that it would lead to boredom that is not good for someone because they will just stop?”  So in this post I will answer that question, both parts and make sure not to conflict with what I have posted in the past.

So let’s deal with the E first, seeing that it comes before the 2 S’s.  When something is empirical it is capable of being verified or disproved by observation or experiment.  So, something that can be logically tracked and measured is something that is empirical.  So, make sure to track what you do so that it can be measured with criteria that you generate to rate progress.   If you run, track time and mileage and measure your outcomes with one another.  If you, lift weights make sure to track and measure exercises, sets, repetitions, weight and time of workouts.  If you change your diet make sure to note what you eat, why you eat it, and what effects it has on your body to make sure the results rationally and logically match-up to your fitness goals.   No matter what you do generate a system of measurement that is based on coherent and sound data taken from your fitness routine.

The first S stands for Simple.  Make sure that your fitness routine is not complicated.  Now this is where the questioning starts and this is how I answer the first part of the two part question.  By simple I mean what is simple for you.  As you grow and develop on your fitness journey your measurement and tools may become more advanced.  For someone that is just starting out with running they me only first track how many times a week they actually run.  Now, through time they may add different factors such as time, distance, weather and topography into their fitness matrix.  Doing this all in the beginning of their journey may make things not simple; however, through time, with growth and appropriate development of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual skill, their fitness matrix may become seemingly more and more complex to an outside observer; however, completely simple to the person on the fitness journey.

Moving to the last S, which is for satisfying, will end this series.  Make sure that what you do, whatever it is you do is satisfying.  Make sure that it, whatever it is you are doing on your fitness journey is efficient and just effective.  Make sure that at the end of the day you can stand proud and tall for what you did.  For some it may be walking a mile non-stop.  For others, it may be not eating, or eating, certain foods.  All and all make sure that you are able to lovingly state to yourself and others that you are proud of what you accomplished within and at any time period.  Here’s a tip, stop calling cheat days “cheat days”; call them “earned reward time”, look forward to doing things that you see as difficult and champion yourself after completing them.  Surround yourself with people that support what you do.  Let yourself feel worthy of praise.  Be able to accept the satisfaction of doing.   Have a fire and yearning that has to be filled, without desire there can be no satisfaction.

Measurable, simple to your skill level and sates your desires.  These things your fitness journey must contain. 

 

For more information Winston’s his martial arts academy please visit Internal Magnification.  

Winston Price, Executive Producer, has over a decade and a half of marketing, advertising and public relations experience. He began his business career in 1995 and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington. Winston also is a master martial artist and personal trainer with over 2 decades of knowledge and experience. Winston runs his own school, Internal Magnification Martial Arts, where he focuses on helping people reach their personal goals of health and fitness via At-Home personal training with martial foci of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Ch’uan, Hapkido and Ba Gua Zhang. As an executive producer for VoiceAmerica, Winston utilizes his skills in business and personal training to help new and existing hosts maximize their opportunity with the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network by supporting his hosts with the business and personal aspects of creating and developing their show. Winston believes that each host brings their own flavor to the Network. By properly coaching and motivating his hosts, they are able to produce THEIR show with THEIR style and THEIR passion being at the forefront of every broadcast.  

 

Working Through Fitness “t” and “n” BY WINSTON PRICE

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Working Through Fitness “t” and “n” BY WINSTON PRICE

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I know, I know.  There is only one “T” in fitness; however, this is me using poetic license.  If you do not know what I am going on about, go back and read the post from June 21, 2013.  I spell F.I.T.T.N.E.S.S. and yes I use 2 Ts.  The second “t” I state stands for Time Worthy and the “n” is for Necessary.  These two things are a must when it comes to developing the acumen of fitness.

First, of the two letters of the day, the fitness regimen you wish must be worthy of your time.  What this means is that you must have a respect for what it is you choose to do when it comes to the activities of the processes you use as tools in your development of becoming and being fit.  You have to note that what you are doing is actually efficient in moving through and past your challenges and aids you fully in bringing your thoughts and goals to fruition.  Now also note, I never state that you have to like it for it to be time worthy; however, it will help in the long run that you do like it.  There are many time worthy things that I just don’t like to do.  The one example that I will always bring up is running.  I had a joke after I finished my wrestling career, “I’ve done all the running I’m going to do, and I am not running any more”.  Any wrestler will tell you that joining a wrestling team is darn near close to joining a cross-country team (figuratively of course).  And to this day I vehemently dislike running; however. I respect the heck out of it because of what it helps me accomplish.  For my challenges and goals in physical-fitness running is extremely efficient, so, I have a tendency to note that and challenge myself to continue to run through my process.  Something that is not worthy of my time as it comes to my physical-fitness is hiking.  Some people get what they want in their physical-fitness from hiking. I am not one of those people, and I love hiking.  For my physical-fitness goals, hiking is not time worthy.  Now when it comes to my mental-fitness goals it is.  We will get to my fitness square in later posts, so when I speak of mental-fitness and physical –fitness I do not plan on defining those so much as of yet.  I later will, don’t you worry, unless you want to; however, I do advise against it.  Worry is no good for your fitness on any level.  It is definitely not time worthy, and is completely not necessary.

So, what is the difference between something being time worthy and something being necessary?   Time worthiness is based on what the activity does to help you to achieve your goals and work through your challenges; necessity is the reason why the activity is needed and should be done.  There are some activities that are necessary at one point and may not be necessary at another point.  Let’s look at running and weight lifting.  For someone that is looking to shed body fat running is very time worthy, the amount of running is what we look at when we look at necessity.  Unless one is looking to compete in long-distance running there is no physical need to run 20 miles a day, 7 days a week.   Also, if someone’s goal is to tone one’s muscles; it is no physical need for one to max-out in weight bearing lifts every day.  Now, where being able to run 20 miles non-stop in one hour and lifting all the weights in the gym are okay goals to have, that does not mean that they are necessary for you to work through your fitness challenges and reach your fitness goals.  Of course that is if your goals are not being able to run 20 miles non-stop in one hour and lifting all the weights in the gym.  

You have to make sure that the work you do suits and fit the goals and challenges you place in front of yourself.  That way, what you do will always be time worthy and necessary. 

 

For more information Winston’s his martial arts academy please visit Internal Magnification.  

Winston Price, Executive Producer, has over a decade and a half of marketing, advertising and public relations experience. He began his business career in 1995 and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington. Winston also is a master martial artist and personal trainer with over 2 decades of knowledge and experience. Winston runs his own school, Internal Magnification Martial Arts, where he focuses on helping people reach their personal goals of health and fitness via At-Home personal training with martial foci of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Ch’uan, Hapkido and Ba Gua Zhang. As an executive producer for VoiceAmerica, Winston utilizes his skills in business and personal training to help new and existing hosts maximize their opportunity with the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network by supporting his hosts with the business and personal aspects of creating and developing their show. Winston believes that each host brings their own flavor to the Network. By properly coaching and motivating his hosts, they are able to produce THEIR show with THEIR style and THEIR passion being at the forefront of every broadcast.  

 

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