Creativity
and productivity
Training success is a matter of efficiency, passion, and hard
work. I have followed many people 0n my journey. Goals are of supreme
importance. Patience is a close second. Education is important if you are
staying drug free. Education combined with ingenuity is what excellence is made
of. I watched a TED Talk video and thought it worth sharing. Here is the link:
Creativity
Creativity is the artistic touch I have written
about in previous posts. Formal education, in sports sciences, is vital if we
are to elevate our athletes above the fray. Coaches must be able to see
individual needs. This attention to details produces results. Creativity is a
broad topic. Intention passion, and vision lead us down the path of enthusiasm
according to Behrokh Khoshnevis. Then, imagination and education carry us to
creation. He states that creation moves civilization forward. Great athletes
are educated and creative.
Great athletes become great coaches. Great
coaches can see things average coaches miss. But this is not all. Great coaches
adjust after seeing the needs. The sciences must be understood for the needs to
make sense. Where the great coach exceeds their competition is in the artistic
touch he/she applies to the adjustments. It takes an artist’s eye for details;
others cannot see these details.
The sciences are solid in strength and
conditioning. Athletes have been training with these techniques for decades,
centuries even. Many believe that CrossFit is the realization of imagination. It
isn’t. Don’t get me wrong I am happy they are doing full body movements. They just
don’t understand the repetition. CrossFit just gave it a new name. Take a look
at these texts and see where CrossFit was born:
Paugh, J. (1728). A Physiological, Theoretic and Practical
Treatise on the Utility of Muscular Exercise for restoring the Power to the
Limbs.
Webster, D.
(1976). The Iron Game. Scotland: John Geddes Printers.
Roman, R.
(1988). The Training of the Weightlifter. Livonia, Michigan: Sportivny
Press.
Medvedyev, A.
(1989). A System of Multi-Year Training in Weightlifting. Livoni,
Michigan: Sportivny Press.
Zatsiorsky, V.
(1995). Science and Practice of Strength Training. Human Kinetics.
Siff, M. C.
(2003). The Origins of Strength Training Science. In M. C. Siff, SUPERTRAINING.
Denver, CO, USA.
These
late editions are the foundations of everything included in CrossFit and
everything else in training today. Read these books and see where we have been
before you create something “new”. Real athletes and coaches have been there.
Competitions are the proving ground and always will be. Use these as your
foundation. They taught us everything we have ever considered. Until we pass
the 300kg clean and jerk our science is conclusive.
Creativity, science, and not steroids,
produce world and Olympic champions. Athletes who win championships are
practicing the format outlined by
“I’ve
never let my school interfere with my education.”
-
Mark Twain
Creativity takes place in the gym not the
lab. The lab work has been done. Our work is not finished. I have rejected
formal theories on purely logical terms. Their rejection is not logical. It is
egotistical. The best sports science programs are outside the United States. If
scientific truths are unavailable we must use intuition. Intuition doesn’t make
elite athletes alone. Work is required.
Hard work is dogma in the U.S. “Work hard
and you can accomplish anything!” Just do it! Just do what? Oh, work hard. If hard
work accomplishes anything why are so many people not getting the results they
should see? There is a time and a place for hard work. I say working moderately
for a long time is better than putting in 110% (which only exists in the future
in sports sciences). Working hard means being consistent, in the moment, and
recognizing your mistakes then adjusting for them.
Productivity
A formal education will make us work
really hard for someone else’s dream. This is the American dream for business
owners. This is why the cost of a college education has increased over 1000%
since 1978. You are in debt. You love what you went to school to study. Now,
you need to live with your parents after graduation because the pay ratio is
ridiculous. For output to amount to anything requires diligence. If I am
working hard and no one is helping me I should receive all of the profits. Productivity
is for business owners. Passion is for individuals.
If you are truly passionate about what you
do, work for yourself. Pay the bills and make all of the profits yours. Do not
allow some suit in New York to benefit from your passion. His passion is money.
That’s why he takes the lion’s share of your hard work monetarily. Oh, you love
what you do so you will do it for 30%? The overhead is covered by membership
fees. PT is pure profit.
Ø type A
personality – talks about productivity
Ø type B
personality – talks about passion
Type A people are passionate about you being productive and making
them a very good living. If a type A talks about passion step back and observe.
They want you to equate productivity and passion. Their passion is money NOT
fitness. If you are passionate and concerned with productivity do it for
yourself.
Type B people are passionate about what they do. They do it
7/365…366 in a leap year. Follow your dreams and make them real. Be an
introvert. Think it through and through. Introverts are better thinkers and
better listeners than extroverts. Introverts are better individual athletes. Extroverts
need a team. Be the team. Pursue your dreams. Make it happen.
Success
Success has little to do with money. You cannot buy health. You
cannot buy happiness (…but it is easier to be happy sitting on a jet ski!). You
certainly cannot buy strength because it is the same thing as health. Stop hating
your job if you are staying. Love what you do because that is happiness. Everything
we do is to be happy. I have set and achieved many goals down the roads I’ve
travelled. I have not squatted 800lbs, yet. I am alive and strong and that goal
gives me a reason to wake up every day. I have a little more than 100lbs to
reach this goal. It leads me. I wasted years trying to pursue money and people.
Yet, when I look at my feet the road is there. Like an old friend. We can pick
up where we left off with no hard feelings. Success is relative. Happiness is
success.
Creativity and productivity are interwoven. One may be
productive without being creative. Assembly lines exist to this end. Creativity
determines one’s ultimate productivity. Create what you want and produce a life
worth living.
Get stronger
following YOUR dreams!
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