10/02/2018
How Important Is The First Thing You Do Every Morning?
I first take my dogs out into the backyard and close my eyes and look at the sun. I also use a blue light therapy app on our iPhone on overcast days and in the Winter (setting the proper timing of your Circadian Rhythm is critical). I then make a black cup of coffee in my Keriug, along with a tall glass of water from Mountain Valley Spring Water (I do Intermittent Fasting 14-16 hours daily... I'm a hunter of hunters, not a grazer, who eats 6 meals a day).
With coffee in hand, I review my "To Do" notes I made for the day the night beforehand. This is a very good method to release your brain before bedtime so you don't ruminate over tomorrow's task and develop insomnia.
Then I start my first training session of the day. The first session is an adaptation of Soviet Nikolai Amosov's original rejuvenation routine in spirit, which I individualized and tunned to re-train daily proprioception and the body's brain maps. Amosov was a key fitness figure in Russia and a doctor light years ahead of his time. This is the secret to moving and feeling well. Injuries and day to day wear blur your brain's proprioception maps. For extreme performance, these maps should always be tune with the proper movement patterns before actually engaging and executing in any movements at maximal velocities. And our goal is always to accept, direct, and redirect force at maximum velocity. This is a cornerstone of Combatives. Tune and move until it's right. Accurate maps are critical. You are your neural proproception maps. Too many emphasize and reinforce improper movement patterns and motor circuits in the brain, in an attempt to shortcut or hack performance for the sake of intensity. Too many confuse intensity for results. If you want to be one of the best, it's as much about unlearning harmful and bad movements as it is about practicing proper movement patterns. And it is quality over quantity. It's not just the movements chosen. It's "Slow Is Smooth And Smooth Is Fast". And ingraining conceptual knowledge over procedural rehearsal. While there is a place for both, there's still a proper place for each. In combatives, improper training results in great loss that can literally be the difference in life and death.
We all have our own reasons for training, but we don't always have a say in how important that training might be for ourselves and our family in the future.