Skill, The Central Pillar | Part 1

If you're watching this, you're probably a thinking man. Congratulations. You've worked out that the education system or the food system or the money system or the housing system, one of those systems is a bit messed up. But have you worked out that the fitness system is also a bit messed up? The same people that engineer whichever one of those systems that you understand is not in favor of of the common man. What makes you think that the things that we're doing in fitness would be any good if none of those systems are built for our flourishing? Right. This is a big concept I'd like to challenge you with. So there are three foundations for us here within uncommon athletic. We need excellent health and vitality. We can see that through our skin, brain function, energy, gut. If these things are really good, then we're in a good place. This is our health. So we have to do diet, we have to do lifestyle practices and we can improve our health. We want health to be a foundation. It's not just about being lean, it's about feeling amazing, having great energy positivity, the energy in the brain that you need to be able to function very well. So that's one of these areas. The next area or one of the other areas is the strength. And everyone's kind of on board with strength. Endurance is really the expression of strength over and over again. Someone who's able to run a great marathon, it's not so much about their heart and lungs, it's more about the power to weight ratio. So they tend to be skinny, elastic and relatively strong strong compared to their body weight. So everything really comes from strength. When we're talking in that force realm. So whether we're talking about power, speed, elasticity, strength, endurance, they're all kind of the same thing. Even stretching is really a function of strength. If you get strong into a position, then you'll be able to access it. That's really how we started the range of strength brand that was my concept that I was sharing, which has today become one of the biggest brands in the loaded strength realm. But the other big area and the one that people don't really opt into and they maybe think of as a side project is the brain is skill. Now think about this for a second. How did we get to this point of fitness where heart and lungs are important, muscles are important, but we don't really develop the brain. And people are even sprinting for the sake of brain derived neurotropic factor, but then they're not doing anything to improve their skills. So this is the Core concept. I'm going to show you how I train skills to continue to develop my brain. If I'm able to do this, if you're able to do this, if we're able to do this stuff beyond 50, 60, 70, 80, if you can do things now that you want to be able to do at 80, then you're much more chance of being able to do them at 80, at 90, at 100. There are people who are able to shadow box and jog at 99. Their videos from back in the 60s. It's more and more rare to have function after 80, after 90. Let's be honest, most people in their 20s and 30s don't really have any significant level of physical capacity and ability anymore. And it's on decline rapidly. So we need to shift the paradigm. It's fine to be strong. I like being strong. I like strength, endurance. I was always pretty good at the endurance stuff. I want you to be strong and have good endurance. I want you to have great health. But let's also develop skill as a core foundation. I've got nine month old boy. I can tell you he's not getting up thinking about cardio, he's not getting up thinking about strength. He is getting up thinking about skill. Every single day he gets up and he works on skills while he's awake. He loves playing with balls. I'm going to take you through the paradigm and practice that we use within uncommon athletic for you to have the most excellent life you can have for the long term. Your interface with the world is your brain. And we need this thing to develop and we can develop it. There's all kinds of systems. I'm going to show you, the leading researchers in what it takes physiologically and biochemically to look after your brain, which also supports then your strength development, which also then supports your endurance, performance, etc. I'm going to show you the biochemical side of that, but I'm going to show you also the mechanical side. I'm going to introduce you to the leaders in these areas who are using these types of techniques and methods to rebalance the brain. So let's just get into it and I'll introduce you to the whole paradigm. And then you've got different tools, you're aware of different tools and why we're doing what we're doing. I want this. The whole overall concept of okay, yes, skills is one of the three big things. It's not something as a side project, it's what you've been doing since you're A baby. And it's what you should be doing until you're very old. They have this in Asian culture. They had this in every culture, traditionally dancing and being outside, being active. If you're putting in fences and stuff, you're keeping these skills going for your whole life. But the modern man is deteriorating rapidly in terms of skill development, and that's the biggest area that we need to reverse. And when we're motivated for that, everything's better. So the first one that I've been doing while I've been talking to you is balance. I'm a huge fan of balancing on the. On the cork. I'm a fan of balancing on. These people have told me I'm not much of a surfer or snowboarder up until now. I'm going to go do some surfing in Byron Bay when we go back there. I've been surfing a few times. I tell you what, I feel more confident about going there to Byron Bay to do some surfing on a longboard, having spent a few hours on this thing over the last few months. There's lots of different options within balance. There's going to be. There's things that we do that we all do that have standards, and then there's things that you can choose to play on. This one, you can find. If you look it up on. On Instagram and YouTube, you can find people who are standing, specializing in these boards. But at a basic level, we know that if you fall and break your hip, then you're likely to die as an older person. Right. Part of not falling and breaking your hip is being strong. But part of not falling and breaking your hip is being balanced, being comfortable in falling in itself. So this is one of the tools that we can use, other simple ways to balance. Close your eyes, stand on one foot. Stand on one foot while you're juggling. Stand on one foot with the heel off the ground while you're juggling these simple movements. A lot of the things that we do can be combined as well. So we want this balance to be as strong as possible. You can see this really clearly in a baby, that the balance isn't there. My boy is just starting to walk. He started to walk at eight months. He's walking pretty well now at nine months. Balance is the key thing that he's been working on there. As people get older, their balance deteriorates, the gait deteriorates, and that's a good predictor for death. Right? So we want this balance. Balance is the first of the bees. We're going to Go through five key areas. Balance is one of the key ones. Also balancing. We balance on our hands. Balance, balancing on the hands with the eyes closed. Balancing on the hands in all the different positions is going to keep us young and healthy. You'll find whole guide handstand, push ups handstands. There are better methods, much better methods than what you're finding out there on the Internet. Within the workshops here inside of Uncommon Success, of course, Ask questions. Uncommon Athletic is here to support you to get to these goals targets faster. There's always going to be more to do. So don't worry about trying to be slow and make it difficult for yourself. Just get as good as you can. Get as fast as you can get working on balancing. So balance on the ball is a great way to then bring a new surface. Where my boy was going to be born. When my boy was being born and these little, yeah, these little, like almost kill myself moments are actually really healthy as well. Tend to save myself. But my boy was being born, I was like, all right, he's going to be going through this, this big journey to be able to walk. What's the journey that I'm going to go on? So for me, the Swiss ball gave me an opportunity to have a new surface. That gave me like a parallel experience to what my son was getting. He's dealing with all this uncertainty and instability. And so I wanted that for myself of like, okay, what's it like to learn to squat again? What's it like to learn to stand again? And yeah, I've fallen off this thing a few times, but you don't have to fall off it a lot of times. You can have wrestling mats and you can go really slowly with it to not, to not fall off. If it took you a year, fine. There's a good story. Tim Ferriss podcast with a guy named Jersey. That's the English pronunciation of his Polish name. He moved from Poland during communism to the United States. And he tells the story of one of his students who at 60 was extremely unathletic and then by 70 became very athletic. So from 60 to 70, he learned to be able to snatch. You learned the mobility component, the balance component. If over the next 10 years you learn to be able to stand on a Swiss ball, you've done well. And if you can keep that for the rest of your life, probably won't take you that long. Chances are you're going to learn it faster than me. So the first one is balance. That's the big concept. We should continue to develop balance like skaters do, like surfers do. Skateboarders. Think it's going to rain here, but let's. Let's just see how we go balls then. So specialized. I've specialized in juggling, and that's fine. You can choose to specialize, but anything with balls. My boy loves balls. I'm working on a rhythm from drumming. So it goes right, right, left, right, left, left, right, left, right, right, left, right, right, left, right, left, left, left, right, left. Didn't get it. You get the idea that I'm trying to do it with the rotation and doing that. Left, left, right, left. This is a paradiddle. That's something that comes from the beats, but then we bring it to the ball section. So hitting this ball against the wall, playing partner, back and forth. Table tennis without the table is a. Is a great thing. Playing with both hands, you can get deep in a flow state with this stuff. Reflexes are getting better. You can do all of it with putting your strength or your cardio in between as well. And so you go in between strength and skills, you're going to get a hard workout you don't need. It's not like it's not hard enough. You can work yourself hard enough that you can make it as hard as you want while you're doing your skills. Tennis ball, fantastic tool. We want to be good with the ball, with the hands, but even more important is being good with the ball, with the feet. Because when we're good with the ball, with the feet, like some of these Asian games that have been in their culture, in the Asian culture for a long time, if you're good with the ball at your feet, then you've got.