Last week I was so fortunate to be a part of the two-day training Principal hosted in Annapolis MD. The leaders of this training were Coleman Ruiz and the Team from O2X. I have included their respective websites below.
The focus was on Nutrition, corporate fitness, mindfulness and sleep. You may recall that this same team was on stage at our national sales meeting when I got the news that my cancer had reared its head again. I was excited to be back with them after seeing positive results. Thank you to this team for setting me on a good path. I absolutely picked up a few things last week that will aid my recovery going forward and others might find useful.
Principal values their employees in such an amazing way that they recognize the stronger we are physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually the more effective we will be in every aspect of our life. I am grateful for this support. I thought you may find some of the highlights of value as you work towards improving your awesomeness! Today what are you doing to be 1% better!
The Picture is the team I did my morning sweat with.
We do 4 things in our job each day:
– Functional Excellence is table stakes
– Physical and Mental readiness
– Team Cohesion and Leadership
– Warrior mindset (want to vs have to)
** what are we doing to improve the bottom 3?
– what do we absolutely have to do every day to master any of this- Breathe!! If we do not breath we will die.
-When goal setting- visualize, visualize (very similar to a recent blog of mine)
-Tip- compression socks for long flight travelers
-Whole30 diet- effective for inflammation. Lime disease etc…
-Eat your collieries not from juice
-JFK Challenge- PE in school 1960’s video- find it on YouTube- hilarious
-Stay away from added sugars- for a 2500 calorie diet you can get 25g of sugar (does not include natural sugar)
-3g of carbs per lbs. of weight- 190lbs- 570G of carbs
-Ice bath for recovery/ start with shower. Breath through your nose/. If in a bath fully submerged- 3 minutes/ just feet 10 minutes.
-In Prepare/ Sweat/ Recover- if cutting anything cut sweat- As you age the prepare and recovery become more critical
-4 types of pain- Nociceptive (mechanical, chemical, thermal), Inflammatory- excitation of a nociceptor from inflammation, Neuropathic- caused by a lesion or disease of the nervous tissue ex… diabetes, spinal cord injury, stoke, pinched nerve, Cognitive affect- increase or decrease of- poor coping anxiety abuse genetics beliefs
-PAIN- an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage
-Tissues with good blood supple heal with Blood: muscles, bones, tendons, organs, fat
-Examples of Tissues with poor blood supply are Cartledge labrum disc nerves and ligaments- healing this are different
-If you take in too many calories in a meal or carbs in a meal- Blood sugar spikes, body stores fat
-Foam roller and foot roller- very important for the recovery part of the equation
This is incredible, Uncle Matt. Love you! Cant wait to hear more about it and see you soon.
Glad you enjoyed your time with Coleman. Glad you are being awesome!