sIGNAL TO NOISE

PREWORKOUT TIPS!

IN THIS VIDEO Dr. Andrew Huberman and Dr. Andy Galpin discusS “Signal to Noise,” AND MANY OTHER TIPS THE BODY CAN UTILIZE TO PRODUCE OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE.

• They delve into the science of how our brains process information and how it applies to optimizing our learning and performance, drawing parallels to the meticulous way athletes fine-tune their techniques for optimal results. 

• The insights shared about brain plasticity, adaptability, and rewiring are particularly fascinating. It's akin to refining a movement pattern in sports, where you isolate the critical motions and cut out unnecessary actions – a lot like distinguishing the vital information from the distractions. 

• If you're keen on enhancing your cognitive processes and learning how to excel in a performance-driven world, this video is definitely worth a watch.Thanks to @hubermanlab and @drandygalpin for the content! 

  #SignalToNoise #BrainFunction #OptimalLearning #Performance #TPL #SportScience

leave room.

3 Takeaways:

• Leave room for the daydream, but never lose sight of the goal.

• Keep it loose. Expand the idea of what “plans” look like to you.

• Coaches will either believe in you or they won’t. It’s your decision on how you cultivate a work ethic through that.

2 Quotes:

• “Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back… play for her.” —Mia Hamm

• “Let yourself move within it, yet not be of it.” Rick Rubin

1 Story:

Movement is in my bones. I have been an athlete my entire life. I define an athlete as someone who would like to pursue a feeling or satisfaction while moving the body in a skillful way. Yes it gets tricky when we talk about athletic sports and skillful sports, and if they are two different things, I’m not ready to peel that onion quite yet. Moving on.

While the word Olympian is now forever attached to my name, most of my childhood athletic career screamed “B-team” status. When I was 11, I  decided that I would try out for select soccer, club, whatever. Every year, I would be put on the B team and it was devastating. Every summer, I would work harder. I went to the gym and took circuit classes. I would take a left hand turn out of the gym doors to run down the slough to sixty acres, the soccer fields, to play and proceed to run back to the gym to have my parents pick me up. I understood my hard work would pay off. At a tournament my senior year I was spotted by one college coach, he took a chance on me.

I graduated from college with a degree in fine art and graphic design in 2008. I am an artist at heart with a passion for elite peak performance. Creativity drives my love for sport.  Most everything I read has something to do with movement or psychology. I have been fascinated with how the body and mind connect under pressure and how we bring one back to self. I have had a vision to be able to study and dive deep into a subject the way I was able to with each of my sports and give back to my community. I was just never sure how that would evolve.

10 years ago, a small wacky bunch of humans took a chance on me in Fort Mill, South Carolina that launched my career into a sport that would forever change my life. Weightlifting. 

15 years ago I graduated from college when the market crashed and no one wanted to hire an artist

Now, after weeks of being waitlisted for a month and a half, feeling like education was never going to agree with me, I was accepted into grad school. A school that will bring language and techniques that bridge the gap that I have spent my whole life studying.

I am constantly being surprised at where my life takes me when I leave myself open to the opportunity of the unknown. I didn’t know then that my body refused to ever fail me. It chose me. It was the expression of the journey I was prepared for.

August starts a 3 year masters program in somatic psychology.

If I didn’t have the coaches that believed in me and the ones that didn’t along the way, I would not have the emotional understanding that I do of sport and how it correlates to life. I would not have been able to pursue sport at a high level without experiencing every emotion. 

I’m so encouraged about this next stage of my life and I can’t wait to share the knowledge along the way with you so we can collaborate and create a language that supports athletes in and out of sport.

Let’s be great,

m

7 Years.

3 Takeaways:

• Always be prepared to be unprepared.

• The process of doing the hard work is always worth it.

• Coaches believe in you for a reason. If you can’t believe it, believe them.

2 Quotes:

• “From the beginning, I wanted to be the best. I had a constant craving, a yearning, to improve and be the best. I never needed any external forces to motivate me.” Kobe Bryant

• “Events are objective, we tell ourselves what they mean. We make the story.” Ryan Holiday

1 Story:

May 8th, 2016

7 years ago I stood on the platform to compete at Olympic Trials. 6 months prior, coming off having a poor showing at the World Championships, I took a leap. I changed coaches. I would have one writing the program from afar and one proctoring it in person. We had to be able to work seamlessly. It was insane AND we knew it was the right thing to do. Dean and I had committed to this journey the second we first arrived at MDUSA in Fort Mill, South Carolina in 2013.

We were going out making sure that we did everything in our power to get to the biggest stage in the world. This led to insane hours at the Olympic Training Center with PT and Recovery, adding three training sessions a day. It was rarely pushing weights until the movement was proficient to hit the numbers at Olympic Trials.. Everything was in the details. We were all in. Keep doing the doing. Outwork everyone. Be intentional.

4 weeks out of trials, I was hitting numbers that had seemed like a steep hike six months prior. I believed everything was falling into place. No one had outworked me. I felt that deep.

When you deeply feel something, you understand that the outcome is just the icing. I was at complete peace standing on the stage getting introduced in the women’s session. I had never felt so present in my life.

65K in clean and jerk warm up my leg cramps. Panic sets in. 

It all comes back to having the right people in your corner. My coaches, doctors, and Olympians came to support me by rubbing my legs, speaking kind and inspiring words to get me to be able to finish. 

In the clean and jerk, you must lock your legs and come to a complete stop before moving on to the jerk. My leg would cramp when it would lock out. It was all or nothing, most lifters hadn’t even lifted yet.

Make the lift and put it out of reach. Find a way.

8 kilo competition pr, 17 kilos under my training total. It didn’t matter, the work was done. We had done it. Key word: we.

Let’s be great,

m