{"id":100,"date":"2014-08-31T13:38:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T13:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2014-09-01T09:39:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T09:39:24","slug":"everything-flows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/everything-flows\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Flows"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cEverything Flows, Nothing Stands Still.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Heraclitus<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recognise you are entering into a powerful cycle of change, literally remodelling yourself and use adaptation, progression and feedback to keep moving forwards.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dave is keen, very keen.\u00a0 He trains so hard that the following day he\u2019s walking around like Robocop without his joints lubed.\u00a0 He\u2019s pleased with himself and through his grimace tells everyone about it. They stare blankly at him, particularly his Mum, who worries.\u00a0 A lot.<\/p>\n

Each workout is part of a big picture, not the be all and end all in and of itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Robocop_2\"<\/p>\n

Poor Dave.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Dave\u2019s effort is admirable but he\u2019s got it wrong.\u00a0 What Dave\u2019s actually doing is overwhelming his capacity to recover and adapt. It\u2019s very difficult to actually change if your body is being pummelled daily like a rugby player or american footballer every time you go to the gym.<\/p>\n

Find the sweet spot where you are taxing yourself adequately, enough to trigger the responses you want, then recover properly.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Heraclitus, a seriously clever Greek dude philosopher said \u201cNo man ever steps in the same river twice, for it\u2019s not the same river and it\u2019s not the same man.\u201d\u00a0 Say what?\u00a0 This is truly a \u201cmovement mantra.\u201d As we develop and absorb the stress of each session, we adapt and increase strength, skill, capacity and mental stamina so we tolerate more discomfort.\u00a0 We literally change and therefore our environment needs to change also.<\/p>\n

As you track your progress, appreciate that each session you successfully learn from and adapt to demands t<\/strong>hat each subsequent workout changes slightly also, a rep, a set, a new skill.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Keep your eye on your mood, appetite, sleep and stress levels, for you.\u00a0 Keep an awareness of how your body feels day to day.\u00a0 Are you stiff and aching all the time?\u00a0 Is your energy level tanking in the day?\u00a0 Are you drooling onto your workstation half asleep by ten in the morning?\u00a0 Keep a log of feedback that should be showing some steady increases in energy, vibrancy and endurance.<\/p>\n

No athlete trains maximally every session.\u00a0 Keep track of your overall wellness level to determine how hard you push and pull from workout to workout, making sure there\u2019s an overall progression.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\"man-asleep-on-desk\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Poor poor Dave.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Heraclitus wasn\u2019t Roman but I bet Greece wasn\u2019t built in a day either.\u00a0 The small gains are big if they stay.\u00a0 The shortest path is the fastest if you never get lost on your journey.<\/p>\n

In six months time, the blink of the cosmic eye, you and your gym session will have changed if you\u2019ve abided by Heraclitus \u201cnatural training laws\u201d quote.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEverything Flows, Nothing Stands Still.\u201d Heraclitus \u00a0 Recognise you are entering into a powerful cycle of change, literally remodelling yourself and use adaptation, progression and feedback to keep moving forwards. Dave is keen, very keen.\u00a0 He trains so hard that the following day he\u2019s walking around like Robocop without his joints lubed.\u00a0 He\u2019s pleased with… Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}