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Physical Fitness for Creatives

The problem is that when we are sort of addressing, you know this area of performance and sort of optimized human function, right? How how do we live? The fullest expression of what it means to be human? What we've we've done this said, Hey, let's redefine mobility. Let's give people a template for fixing their their soft tissue problems is give them the tools for understanding the motor control, the technique of what it means to be human. But that's only 2/3 of the problem when we sort of build a schema for understanding, he sort of the performance right, and on the way we kind of track these things is that, you know, I get injury prevention. I get injured resolution in the bargain. But if I really keep my eye on function and better being a better human than the performance, things sort of dribbles backwards. But one of the biggest sort of errors we see, it's sort of this environmental lifestyle adaptation air. I live that and you cannot. You could be a ninja on the other side's right...

role and, you know, and do all the things you need to do. An exercise. Yeah, But the problem is, if you're still, you know, stealing on this other side. You know, one of my good friends is that kind of Alan Lim. He's, ah, exercise physiologist to the stars around cycling. Just brilliant athlete, really, Coach. And he says you can't cheat your physiology. And so I think the problem is for a long time we've leveraged the fact that we are immaculate human beings and have an immense capacity to eat little chocolate donuts and smoke cigarettes and still win world championships in spite of that. And if we really kind of get to the bottom of this, you know, no one really sort of is grows up. Maybe my Children are different, but no one grows up with the embodiment of this is how you're supposed to move, and this is how you're supposed to eat. And this is how you're supposed to sleep. And what ends up happening is we sort of get by anyway. We we, you know, win Nobel prizes anyway. And then suddenly something pops up. You know, the check engine light comes on your like I understand. You know, I've always run my car like this. I don't understand what's going on. So you know what we want to do for people say, Hey, look, there's a whole bunch of things that you can control that make a huge difference in terms of the quality of your mental function. The the sex you're gonna have the skin quality you're gonna have that I have attention. Now that's about my skin. Facts today is a personal PR. I'm not talking about sex related worry personal p. I put my makeup on this morning. The are, you know, person. I was like, You know, she's like you are really tan. I was like, because I'm on the Jack Tin Tan plant on the Jackson Tan plan is about sleeping Mawr. It's about being in the sunlight mawr, and unfortunately, you know, we see professional athletes is an example, sometimes get injured or pulled out professional soldiers, and they get sent to these camps where nutrition is taking care for them. And imagine, like a professional athlete spa, right where you get to warm up for an hour and you get to cool down for an hour and you get a massage and you do recovery work out and strength training you bliss out and get mental coaching and we were like, I feel so great off problem solved and then assumes you go right back into your life as a soldier, professional athlete, mother, father, business, creative person. That is not the way the world works at all. And we have to have a better set of tools that really allows us to make do with what we have and sort of optimize the fact that we're going to get hammered and we're making basic errors and we can talk about this today. Great. I the you just outlined. Basically the reason I'm standing. I don't normally host. I host a show called Chase Service Led. But when I knew Kelly was in the building, I took the other host and hid them somewhere. And I just wanted to be able to be, like, coach to manipulated and bent around by you for ah, at least what we got Now. We got 50 minutes in this secret, and I don't know if you want to break him down by functional areas. Maybe I should start by telling you a little bit about my background. And again my goal is I am. Hopefully, I in some way, shape or form relate and connect back to everybody out here at home, in the in studio audiences and the folks here in that you're working hard, core, creative, where you're like you said it just a part of life. Your mother, father, dad, husband and life gets busy, you have to travel. And if I think I'm probably the most broken because I travel hundreds of thousands of miles, not just the occasional one, and I've been hanging holding £20 in front of my head terrible posture like this for the last 10 or 15 years. And I think that whether you're photographer, a designer or whatever it is that you do in life, hopefully there's a lot of overlap with my problems and the problems that you all out there in the world or face. They are ubiquitous in nature. I mean completely universal to all of us. This if we just look at the studio audience, How many of you guys slept nine hours of sleep last night? It's laughable. Okay, you have misunderstood. Raise your hands if you're so okay. So nine hours and some of you guys have a training practice, like a strength finishing practice, Right? That means that most of your training like demons because the Internet now it's full, like I know how the Tour de France guys, you know, girls trained, You know, we're buddies with these people. We know how the Olympic lifters trained. You go online and see what West Side is doing. I mean, the bag is out. I mean, my mom dead, lifts right and talks about eating paleo. So my mom is talking about her personal PR on the dead lift on an artificial knee. Then something has changed in the world. Well, what we're seeing, though, is as we have optimized our workout function, you know, And now we're seeing that some of the low hanging fruit has been picture where they're making some of these basic areas. So how many people got eight hours of sleep last night? All right, so that's like four or five. You great. Less than six hours around six. Raise your hand to fix six. So six means that you're 30% immune compromised, so don't worry about that. Just your immune function. And this is what's really crazy. You're pre diabetic problem for the next 24 to 48 hours That that blood shock to the system that that poor sleep your body treats that like it is a primary threat. And you, we've just talked with Dave aspirin. You can manage that for 24 hours. You do not need to sleep the night before world championship or a big event. You can do that. But what happens the next night and the next night and we start to see this cumulative Michael Trump, I personally feel that, like, I can liken go four hours sleep. Oh, yeah, man, I only I literally took 10 years of my life and bragged about only needing for asleep. Oh, yeah. You know, we spend a lot of time getting up. I mean, six, our energy 500 you drink three. I have espresso, have t I do all these things and we are terrible at coming down, which is one of the problems. So one of the things that we don't understand is that we came about these concepts and they became important to us and Jermaine our life because they were messing up our athletes and so understand that you may not be an athlete at home, but our whole model is to take what we think is best practice at the performance of a like Formula One, and we spend those concepts backwards. In fact, we don't think something is valid unless, for us it translates from moms and dads, grandparents all the way down to my daughter's those. The scheme. It has to be the same. And sure they very degree a little bit like kids need a little bit slighted. Nutrition may be pregnant, lady that right, But the bottom line is, though, we have toe. Only reason we ended up caring about this is that we saw that the sleep was such a big impact on her. Athletes work with the sounds of sharks, their coach, their strength nation coaches, Mike Potenza, brilliant, brilliant coach. And one of the things that they were seeing was that those guys were traveling in so many different time zones and competing. So you like That's no big deal to the sharks. They compete. But the sleep research at Stanford says that for every our of change, it takes an entire day for your body to catch up, going to London and rough. Well, if you're not, if you're going to stay for two weeks, I just a for about four hours. Right? So, you know, the real question is what happens. And how do you manage that? Because, you know, we started seeing this, that we start seeing this in the quality of our tissues and our athletes that we were dressing all of the big, you know, red flags and that we have this underlying pathologies. You know, we're eating better now. I think most of the people are pulling out the process. Foods were taking fish oil, and we're trying to do the right things. And But what's happens? We're still leaving some of these big problems and we're pretending like it doesn't matter because you're still extraordinary. You still get a lot done in spite of the fact that you're sleep deprived. One of these that we're big fans on is measuring this. It's observable, measurable, repeatable phenomenon than crossfit. That's the thing that matters most to us. Is a physical therapist. I'm trained. If I can't see changing experience change, there's no change. And one of things that we did at home was we bought a glucose meter from, like, eight bucks at Walgreens because I was traveling, you know, teaching like you, Thanh every other weekend I was traveling for about five years and I would come back, and I feel wretched. And one of our friends asked, Is that yours at me? Sorry, I ate something on one injection. One of things that happened was that we, uh I start taking my blood glucose When I got back the next morning and it was wildly diabetic, like my fasting blood glucose was off the chart. So it almost doesn't matter what I eat. It doesn't matter how I train. What only matters is, Well, how do I mitigate some of those factors? So that's some of things we've got We've got to drill down on. Great. I think you described in the last several minutes articulating what? All the different folks out there feeling what I'm feeling. My sort of three areas, the my craft, the thing that I do every day we're talking about or have done every day for the previous 10 or 12 years hold the camera really busted up, uh, sleep. And because I travel a lot, that's another like functionally that I want to get to in the next 20 minutes or so. And then the last one was my last 10 yeah, Just on on the Plains. It's crucial I'm sitting for, like, sometimes 8 to 10 hours at a time, or I mean, let's face it, if you're an illustrated, you're sitting down. If you're, like worse, we sit, you know, work. You don't have to. That's true. We'll talk about that. Great that we're not sitting right now. And you guys were sitting. Fact, I don't get a camera on the audience for me. Great. Now watch this. Sit up. No, no. Sit up. Like set up like you're actually like human beings. Eso what happens? How difficult is it to maintain a good position? You're sitting. How many of you guys have meditated? An hour of meditation? Pretty easy to do. Right? Maintain a perfect position for an hour, right? No big deal. Well, what's gonna happen is and are one of the coaches are gyms. You can call Palley genius, freestyle movement thinker. And it was a national champion gymnast. And one of the things that he's big on its saying How do we block patterns? What does that mean is that we'll give an example when kids jumping land. We teach them to jump in with their feet together so that when they land, even if they don't have the skill or strength poop, they can't tear their A C L Z. Just look at their knees or do any damage. So they're blocked. When we have kids jump out of the airplane in the military, we teach them to jump in land with their feet together because what they found was that feet together, landing. No one got injured, right. We saw fewer injuries. Okay, so one of the questions is, how do we block your environment so that you don't end up defaulting and compromise? Is technology going away? Juliette and I were just in Korea and they spend an average. The National Koreans are the most connected people of South Koreans, are the most connected people on the planet, and they're spending 4/2 hours a day on their smartphones. 4.5 hours a day right, which is not different than many of us think United States is 2.5 hours a day is how much time your spending bent over on your on your smartphone, right? And so we blame the technology and it's not the technology is not the camera. You you were always shooting always creative. And what changed, you know, to do the camera, get heavier on the sudden, and someone hit you, and then, you know, you know, So something changed. What changed was our capacities to sort of buffer, that which is so common for all the pilots. We see all that everyone else. So one of the things that we want to talk about is how do we manage the situation in a way that where I can optimize and protect myself in these block patterns? So the main thing around this is Do you have a movement practice? So is running a movement Practice running is a very infrequent one for me, but I do it because I can do it from anywhere in the world. Great. I have my other movement practices. I see Dave Warner up in Seattle across that love before crossfit. He's really put me on a good path right now. That's on the reason I'm not standing like all right now, Let's let's talk about that for a second. So the one thing he described was exercise right. Running is movement. Great. But do you express all the things that your body is supposed to do when you know? No. It does like two things. You extend the hip, your neutral spine, and that's it, right? This is your This is your running motion, which is a tiny, tiny sliver of all the things that human should do. Um, how many people ride bikes seriously here? Not a movement practice. Great job. And how many people swim Big swimmers, not a moving practice, create job exercise. Right. And the problem is, we've been confusing. I need to exercise with, because that's how I'm gonna keep my heart alive. And so people are doing the right things that you travel you like. Okay, I gotta get some work done. I gotta I got to stay alive, and I don't want to get too fat, because that's not funny either. Right? And my my So that's actually how I think about it. I don't want to get fat. I want to get to know you don't mitigate that. I just doughnuts And you're not jobs. I'm looking back just like you know that. Thanks. So the key here is that you need to develop a moving practice. One of the things that were strong advocates of and our movement practices CrossFit and take the exercise intensity out of it. And what we're doing is we're asking people to do the things that their body should do. Okay, So you need to develop a moving practice that could be yoga. And there's plenty of DVDs. Throw that yoga DVD in there on New Traveler. It's on your laptop and suddenly you've got a portable movement practice and you have to have a movement practice every day. Yes, every day. That is the goal of mine to sweat every day. Well, it could be sweating, but sometimes I just want to be learning. Right. And what you need to look at is that Pallotti's CrossFit yoga. These are codified systems of movement. Swinging kettlebells efficiently really forces into exposing the human us into moving in a way that supports the rest of the movement. That is what I loved about your last creative life class. Maintaining your body is you gave like is a very much a system, a construct that was easily fallible, that showed people how to move healthy and you adjust Very prescriptive. And that's what a guy like me needs. I don't really need Like a Here is just one thing you need to go adapted all the place because I'm not good enough at your craft to adapt it myself. So again, referencing cause earlier class maintaining your body great blueprint for me to be ableto have something I can stick with and know how to move my body So hoping to get there we told And what we're seeing is that people are working the limits of the understanding you're doing what you were taught or you should what the Internet tells you. Hey, I just had this health scare. I'm going to run a marathon to get healthy like Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You know, even prepared for that. And that really does set us up for what t. J and I tried to do. And ready to run was saying, Here are the movement skills that are required to be able to run correctly. You do have this basic range of motion. So the first thing foremost the thing that you can do is start, develop a practice. Okay, so that's that's a longer conversation. Means you don't need a coach or a teacher. And if you're serious about maintaining this, you know, and we see this everywhere, I mean, let's let's take this down toe. The fact that my wife, when I coached our local swim club, we did the strength conditioning. So these air young kids on a swim team. And when I asked a lot of them, show me the streamlined position, they were like, no problem. Coach and I was like, Well, that's not a streamlined position, full range of motion of the shoulders all the way here. And we saw that for half of the kids couldn't even get into the position to swim. Kids, kids, rubber. Well, evidently not even more rubbery. Right back in the day we were rubber presidential, physical fitness test made us or I remember that I do remember you. You're stud there, sitting reach, You crush that. Yeah, go ahead. Let's fire some questions off and you want say, I want to again try and relate myself. Toe as many people in the audience is impossible I did have a very athletic youth. Yes, like part of my life. I went to college on a soccer scholarship. I got really busted, broke both my ankles twice dislocated shoulder full rebuild, knee full rebuild. And you married a yogi. I did literally. My Yeah. My wife, Kate, is a Bikram yoga instructor on, so she helps me a little bit, but I come from Broken. Was want the high performing athlete? No, just enough to be dangerous. And I think that I feel like I'm aligned with a lot of the people that are in my social sphere in my group or creatives here in the audience in the in studio, because we think we have been given the tools to fix ourselves. But I don't know, we have the ability to, but we haven't really been given the tools like I don't know what to do. I think I'm gonna go run a marathon to get healthy, but I find that that actually makes me more injured. And and you know that what we see is two things. One is we take, you were refined it, and it's a moving target. You're never gonna be in this optimize state. Why go and have a baby? Let me know how that goes for you. How's your sleep? After that? You have two babies. What happens? Go and start a business. You know, like oh, work for yourself. Suddenly you know it is a disaster. We laugh that having Children is like a vampire. Like you wanna have beautiful skin, don't have a kid, right? And that guy who cut you off this morning in the mission who's a jerk? He's just sleep deprived because he has a lot of slack. You know, there's that Internet mean going around, be kind to people. They're fighting battles you know nothing about. I was like, their just have Children and they haven't slept for They got off a red eye.