9 sets: Enter the Hyperphase
I was with my personal trainer earlier tonight.
In preparation for an upcoming photoshoot he did a "hyperphase"- which is 9 sets of everything (upper, lower, upper, lower).
Having worked with him for the past five years, I've been able to observe how he ticks and what happens when he is functioning at his peak, vs. when he is overtrained.
Arms twitching, shoulders and traps tense, bouts of paranoia.
He was overtrained.
Instead, of taking a rest week off like he usually does he took three intermittent days. Bad decision.
The lack of a complete rest, totally fucked with his nervous system.
His nervous system was in overdrive and he was feeling the effects.
He begged me to run him through a meditation. One of the hundreds that I had run him through previous.
Note this time was different, since I had never run him through a meditation to this extent of overtraining.
But I asked myself:
"Can a guided visualization relax a rev-ed up, overtrained nervous system?"
Prior to answer this question let me set the stage.
I walked my trainer over to his desk chair and sat him down.
The following dialogue ensued.
PT: "Dude, I've tried everything man in the past three days to get myself to relax. Youtube guided meditations, I tried to walk myself through it. Nothing worked.
I feel like people are against me man."
Me: "Chill, man. Relax into the chair, all you need is a guided meditation."
PT: "Total fight or flight response man. I ready to either fight *proceeds to air jab* or run."
Me: "Let's get to this."
*The meditation starts and a 180 seconds pass by of me guiding him through.*
The nature of the conversation changed.
PT: "Dude, I feel like I am walking on could nine man! I couldn't have done that without you man. This is some super smash brothers shit man."
Me: "Don't mention it brother! Get some rest."
So, "what happened?"
I've been asking myself the same question. All I know for sure is that I helped him down-turn his nervous system. I had him picture that he was shutting down all the neurons and allowing them to heal. I tossed in some NLP in their too.
In turn, he got up and his previous physiology completely changed.
-Relaxed traps
-Calm voice and calm energy
(no more of that nervous energy I walked into earlier)
-No twitching and no bouts of paranoia.
3 days of agony for him gone in 3 minutes.
Quite an interesting case study, indeed.
The conclusion that I am drawing is:
Guided meditation coupled with a guided visualization may be able to calm down a "rev-ed" up, overtrained nervous system.
The physiological changes of trainer were outstanding; He feels better, and as a result he will be able to offer his clients a higher quality of service.
Quite an interesting case study, indeed.
I was with my personal trainer earlier tonight.
In preparation for an upcoming photoshoot he did a "hyperphase"- which is 9 sets of everything (upper, lower, upper, lower).
Having worked with him for the past five years, I've been able to observe how he ticks and what happens when he is functioning at his peak, vs. when he is overtrained.
Arms twitching, shoulders and traps tense, bouts of paranoia.
He was overtrained.
Instead, of taking a rest week off like he usually does he took three intermittent days. Bad decision.
The lack of a complete rest, totally fucked with his nervous system.
His nervous system was in overdrive and he was feeling the effects.
He begged me to run him through a meditation. One of the hundreds that I had run him through previous.
Note this time was different, since I had never run him through a meditation to this extent of overtraining.
But I asked myself:
"Can a guided visualization relax a rev-ed up, overtrained nervous system?"
Prior to answer this question let me set the stage.
I walked my trainer over to his desk chair and sat him down.
The following dialogue ensued.
PT: "Dude, I've tried everything man in the past three days to get myself to relax. Youtube guided meditations, I tried to walk myself through it. Nothing worked.
I feel like people are against me man."
Me: "Chill, man. Relax into the chair, all you need is a guided meditation."
PT: "Total fight or flight response man. I ready to either fight *proceeds to air jab* or run."
Me: "Let's get to this."
*The meditation starts and a 180 seconds pass by of me guiding him through.*
The nature of the conversation changed.
PT: "Dude, I feel like I am walking on could nine man! I couldn't have done that without you man. This is some super smash brothers shit man."
Me: "Don't mention it brother! Get some rest."
So, "what happened?"
I've been asking myself the same question. All I know for sure is that I helped him down-turn his nervous system. I had him picture that he was shutting down all the neurons and allowing them to heal. I tossed in some NLP in their too.
In turn, he got up and his previous physiology completely changed.
-Relaxed traps
-Calm voice and calm energy
(no more of that nervous energy I walked into earlier)
-No twitching and no bouts of paranoia.
3 days of agony for him gone in 3 minutes.
Quite an interesting case study, indeed.
The conclusion that I am drawing is:
Guided meditation coupled with a guided visualization may be able to calm down a "rev-ed" up, overtrained nervous system.
The physiological changes of trainer were outstanding; He feels better, and as a result he will be able to offer his clients a higher quality of service.
Quite an interesting case study, indeed.