Olympic Gold Relaxation for Super Strength
In the intense coverage on the training and personal lives of the Olympic athletes, one of the things you discover when you listen closely is how massage and recovery are just as important as the actual physical training regimes. It’s down to a science and is taken very seriously. Many athletes have personal massage therapists to make sure the tiniest of kinks are massaged out several times a day.
Without putting importance to this, they know there is no chance for Gold. Even the slightest tension will hinder peak performance physically and mentally. Milliseconds are what win Gold medals and attention to minute details such as every aspect of relaxation is also scrutinized very closely in Olympic training.
Some Olympians are lucky to have even two full-time therapists to make sure optimal muscular strength, body energy, and mental focus are flowing without hinderance.
Of course, most of us “civilians” are lucky to have a massage once a month if even that. Most spas and therapists charge an arm and a leg just for that one massage. To even consider hiring full-time massage therapists would break most people’s bank account. So if have neither the money or time to do this and we still want to achieve Gold in our daily lives, what do we do?
If you’re not lucky enough to be married to a massage therapist like I am, then it’s certainly much harder to get in the “Gold zone” like Olympic athletes and other top performers.
Think back to how fantastic you feel when you’ve had a massage and how every cell in your body feels ready to exude maximum execution of movement and concentration. I’m sure most of you have thought, “Wow, just think of what I could do if I had this every day!”
Other than the cost, I know many of you simply can’t afford the time with work, family, and workouts all demanding attention. But, recovery and relaxation are musts to think clearly and to make certain the body has recuperated from workouts before you pile on more pain and tension creating layers upon layers of damaged muscle tissue and injuries. Both the body and mind need recovery time – clearing time, rejuvenation time, breathing time.
A great massage can certainly speed up clearing your mind from senseless chatter and thoughts that contain little focus that play over and over creating undue tension. But something easy you can do to help clear your mind is to take frequent and scheduled breathing, meditation, or “intention breaks” and to make certain that the sounds that are coming into your brain aren’t accumulating debilitating tensions.
I’ve installed a program on my computer that plays incredible scenery and sounds of nature from all around the world – from underwater tropical reefs, to the snow blowing over the Alps, to crickets in grassy meadows with horses.
At work and the gym throughout the day, you can hardly go anywhere without hearing some kind of music, chatter, industrial sounds, and freeway noise. We tell ourselves we don’t hear it. But believe me, scientists will tell you that it’s influencing your psyche and body mechanics in ways we’d hardly think possible. Usually those sounds add to the tension instead of taking away.
Whether you’re aware of it or not, your mind adjusts to the tempo of your surroundings – hence the science of music manipulation that is crafted to influence the unconscious psyche. Scientists have found that classical music played in malls decreases violence and theft. Music with tempos at 60 beats per minute slow your heart rate down. The list goes on and on.
All kinds of music is crafted and logged into specific playlists to relax you and make you more likely to buy because of your relaxed mood in groceries stores and malls.
But, just as music influences, so can the screeching of tires, motor engines, and whirs of city traffic. Pointless chatter in the office can decrease your concentration on work just as easily. These outside “tension influencers” begin encouraging shallow tight breaths day in and day out and other tensions that affect our speech, our handwriting, our choice of words, to the quick tiring of muscular strength and speed.
We’re being influence whether we’re aware of it or not. So why not be in charge and start taking back your mental focus with quick breathing breaks – quick meditation breaks away from all the endless tensions that come through the tiny vibrations inside your inner ear?
My computer program not only plays the sounds but even has the ability to set breaks whenever you choose. When the time is up, a screensaver much like the one that plays on my desktop begins by hiding my work until after the break. Not only are the sounds of serene nature landscapes playing when I work to help influence less tension in my physical and mental states, but they can also be set to remind you that working in long stretches with tension and shallow breathing is not good for creating inspired work and encouraging mental and physical peak performance.
Think of what you could do if your mind and body were cleared from tensions on a regular basis like some of those Olympic athletes who get pampered by daily massages. If there’s not way you’re going to get those, then why wouldn’t you take out every bit of tension you could to create optimal performance whether you get a medal or not? In the end treating yourself like Gold with Gold quality relaxation will more likely give you Gold results.
I hope this will inspire you to take away “tension inducers” and start adding “relaxation solutions”.
Mental massages to get the kinks out of your mind are just as important to put in your daily schedule just like an Olympian training for Gold. Why train for anything less? Super strength can only come with super relaxation – Olympic Gold relaxation. Regardless of a medal, why not take relaxation as seriously as an Olympian? Without it, it’s nearly impossible to achieve peak performance in anything.
A massage can take a long time out of your day. But keep in mind that working while relaxed can make not only your work better but will put you in the state of mind so that when you get to your workout, you’re not spent from tension and can put everything you’ve got into creating super strength and performance. Super strength and super creativity will always evade those that don’t take relaxation and inner cultivations seriously.
Whatever time you can afford to spend, remember that it’s YOUR time for setting intention and reflection. It must be a moment that can not be intruded upon even by a second by your own self-limiting thoughts, deadlines, uninspiring music, or chatter that isn’t important for you to hear. It must be treated sacredly. Clear heads will always create better performance and bring you closer to Gold.
To Your Strength and Mastery,
Garin Bader
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Garin Bader is the creator of CoreForce Energy, the astonishing system that instantly gives you superhuman strength and speed.
It’s the revolutionary system that supercharges your mind and muscles to work together congruently -- with a system so powerful that it can often double your muscular strength and speed - regardless of your athletic abilities, gender, or age.
He is also an internationally acclaimed award-winning concert pianist and master magician, as well as a martial artist, sculptor, painter, and author.
Garin is also a mixed martial artist, strength trainer, kettlebell instructor, author, illustrator, and sculptor. Many call him a modern-day Renaissance man because of his mastery of many arts.
His diverse background has given him unique insights into how all these skills interrelate and that he reveals in his extraordinary CoreForce Energy dvd system, seminars, and private coaching sessions.
Garin and his wife, Vanessa, also travel throughout the world with his internationally acclaimed show, “Musical Magic”, combining music, magic illusions, and martial arts. They’ve thrilled audiences worldwide from Carnegie Hall to the London Palladiumto Las Vegas.
