During the week I came up with a new analogy, I feel like the karate kid just needed the Halo Sport… then he wouldn’t have had to paint Mr Miyagi’s whole fence or waxed his car 100 times. He would have learnt how to do the movements that Mr Miyagi’s was trying to teach him in a fraction of the time. Of course we all have the ability to learn and grow our muscle memory, however, if I can increase my ability to learn these new movements my workouts will be a lot more efficient.
Also from this week, don’t forget… #MakeShantiPinkPrimers
This has been another great training week, it has ended with me sore in the places I’m supposed to be but without any unnecessary aches. During my workouts this week I’ve gone from 15 reps to 10 reps and trying to focus on power and increasing the weights in each lift, having slow and steady eccentric with explosive concentric.
Why would I use a “brain stimulant” to help enhance physical training? Well, if you have ever had an early morning or 3pm PT or bootcamp session you have probably also used a nootropic… have you ever had a coffee to give you a bit of “pep” for exercise or something physical you needed to do? Well, you are actually also using a nootropic. Caffeine is a stimulant that increases the levels of energy and happy chemicals in the brain.
Having more energy for an exercise session is great, but there is also one other important thing that can get overlooked sometimes. That is the brain’s ability to connect to the body and different muscle groups which is crucial for quality training. My goal is always efficiency, I do enjoy training, I like being strong and learning physical things. But, I don’t want to spend 6-10 hours in the gym in a week, I also don’t want to cause my body excessive injury or stress because I have a life… I’m not a fitness professional, my various roles within my companies require my brain and energy.
Introducing nootropics and technology that can help you get that mind to muscle connection happening faster sounds to me like a really smart/effient move to make. So that’s exactly what I do, at different times I have used caffeine or modafinil or simple carbohydrates etc pre-workout to increase energy and ability to focus. Now I’m stepping it up to a whole new level, my goal is to maximise efficiency, so I give everything I have in my workouts because I only have four a week. I am now taking caffeine, modafinil and using the HaloSport pre-workout, to increase my energy, focus, increase the mind to muscle connection and ability to completely fatigue each muscle group.
I’ve just completed week three of training like this and it is going really well for me. I’m very focused in my workouts, I’m able to switch in and out of workout mode quickly and my muscles are fatiguing effectively and efficiently. I’m not totally exhausted by the end of the week but I know that I have done some hard work.
I will be researching and writing more on the topic of nootropics, for now I’m wanting to know more about the importance of mind to muscle connection for myself and my training.
Things I know so far:
After the media and interest around Microchips I ended up doing some very cool things, one of which was this interview on “Her Way Podcast”
This was a lot of fun to make, I think we could have kept talking for hours, it’s always fun to chat with people on the other side of the world who have a totally different perspective on life.
“In this episode we’re talking to Shanti Korporaal, a serial entrepreneur who has “too many ideas and not enough sleep”. She’s a futurist, a virtual reality specialist and “the whisky chick”. Join us for a talk on the stories behind whisky, opportunities and fears regarding virtual reality and the question of what the biggest changes, that Virtual Reality will bring us, will be.”
…Shanti