In April this year, I was very lucky to be able to spend a week at Altis in Phoenix, Arizona. Altis is an organization that has an elite training environment for track and field athletes and is a global leader of education in sport performance. As a remedial massage therapist, I was very keen to learn from the Altis team what they did to ensure that their athletes are “ready to compete”, and I have to admit, I was very happy to find out that we shared a very similar mindset to approaching the health and performance of their athletes – that is, it’s important to look after people from a holistic perspective, and crucial to this is communication and collaboration and telling your ego to “get out of the way”.
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Who’s really running your life? You the adult, or you the child?
Did you know that your subconscious mind controls over 90% of your behavior as opposed to your conscious mind? And following on from this, did you know that many of the experiences that you went through as a child can still influence your behaviour right now as an adult and you have NO IDEA that it is actually the little child in you that is acting out as opposed to your rational adult self?
Continue ReadingVenous Sinuses – Your Internal Plumbing System
Whilst most of us know that our digestive tract is one way to flush out toxins from our body, did you know that our body has many other parts that also do the same thing on different levels?
Continue ReadingDebunking the myths around recovery
The majority of my clients really take their exercise seriously. For many of them, when I ask the question “How many days/hours do you train per week?“, a common answer I get is “5-6 days and about 1-2 hrs each time“. Whoa! That’s hardcore!
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