Coach Ted talks about The Rep, the one that counts, the one that changes you. Of course, it changes you even more, the more you do them.
Finding that elusive Rep
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Finding that elusive Rep
Season 3/Episode 30
December 3, 2021
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This is the Ted O'Neill program where we explore the science and philosophies for performance optimization, and the elevation of the human experience from the mind of Ted O'Neill with John Leon Guerrero.
Jon
We're going to talk in great depth about the 90/10 model, and how much change it has created and how it's been a differentiator in the results that we've enjoyed. In our community.
0:36 Ted
Well, in this week now starts the discussion of the disciplines. All right PPT. So, the backdrop on this was we had a couple of weeks on what I call the foundations. That's the human machine, the framework and the veneer of reality then we had, I think, what a couple of weeks on the levers and the levers are essentially like variables that can be used independently, or they can be used within a variety of these different disciplines. So now we've arrived at the disciplines and the disciplines are like formulas, there are action steps, there are tools that can be leveraged in certain specific situations to elicit very particular outcomes. Yeah, and the 90/10 for me is all of these have a different or have a certain level of import. All of them are designed to create change. For me, the 90/10 is one of these things that if you really engage this with a tremendous amount of focus, you can see change instantly. So, I'll give you a little bit of an example on how this plays out in some ways, and then how we use it at Diablo so I've frequently referenced and I'll say Tony Robbins, for example. Yeah, simply because he's the guy that everyone knows about. And one of the things he's famous for at the end of his seminars is he has a group of people walk across hot coals. And so fairly or unfairly, that's the takeaway a lot of people have on part of his process is you get to the end of this thing and you walk across these hot coals and it's something that no one thinks that they can do and then they do it. And they have this transformative moment. Now I can do anything and then your kind of released back into the wild, back into the general population back into your regular life. And you walked across hot coals.
2:35 Jon
Yeah, you've had you've had enjoyed some sense of achievement. That's neat.
2:39 Ted
And if 10 years from now, you're still talking about that, then I would say you might have missed the greater part of the lesson. So, what is that moment in time when you walk across the hot coals? That's the 10. Well, yeah, so we're going to get to that in a second. But really, essentially, it's doing something that you did not believe you could do. You're faced with it in the moment. You don't have time to prepare for it. And now you have to walk across literally, these coals into a totally different reality. So, the very act of doing that is going to take you out of your comfort zone. It takes you out of everything that you believe to be true. So, an acknowledgement of moments like these. When I began to develop the parafiscal training model, I had this idea that what if we could create transformative moments like that? Not one time, but multiple times in a training day. Yeah. And that's what this 90/10 is designed to do. So, there's a huge measure of importance to this. I recently said to one of the one of the training groups that if you're not in full recognition of what the 90/10 is, how to use it. And if you're not in a place where you're engaged in this with the utmost of urgency, then you're really not even training that Diablo that was the statement that I made because I feel that this is that important. This is one of the ways that we've created separation away from the norm. And one of the ways that we can create world class life changing results, and fractional amounts of time, or doing things that have never been done before.
4:28 Jon
Yeah. Well, the other difference is that when Tony Robbins has you achieve your 10% That's it. That's a life event. Yeah, and a Diablo when we've achieved our 10%. That's Tuesday.
4:45 Ted
Yeah, so when you start the first half of Tuesday, the first half of Tuesday. So, when you start to string these moments together, moment after moment you recognize you can train this as a skill. Yeah, if you do it one time, it becomes a story. Right? And it might sit with some people for a longer period of time. But if that's the story, then you really missed the point. That just became part of your story. If this becomes part of your reality, if this becomes part of your operating system, on how you can approach these moments and walk across those hot coals, so to speak multiple times per day, if that's what your focus is. Then now you have something that can create change beyond anyone's expectation. And this is this is what we begin to see from some of our highest achievers. So, what is the 90/10 essentially, in my view of this 90% of the time or 90% of the work that we do is really the prerequisite work for the event that 10% that actually can create change. So, there's a moment in time when real change has the potential to occur. And these changes occur in the minority of our moments. That's the 90/10. These moments are what I call access points. So, in other words, we have to do a certain front-loaded amount of work to get to the gateway of this moment of potentiality. So, learning how to navigate these access points determine whether or not you move into a state of mastery and higher demonstration, or stay stuck forever performing the same tasks, patterns and tendencies. In PPT, we engage these moments by using the 90/10 rules. And this is where I affirm the magic happens now, huh?
6:35 Jon
So, to create the long-term magic or the meteoric rise in achievement, every time we find the 10, we take that nugget and incorporate it into what becomes the new 90.
6:51 Ted
Well, that's a way of looking at that. So, let's go a little bit deeper on the explanation for those who haven't heard this. And so, let's create some examples because that's a great way to internalize some of this process. You know, Diablo barbell appears to be a gym, at least we have things that we lift and we do exercises. And when you're exercising, you're working in a repetition-based model. My first question is, what is it you're repeating? We'll save that for later. But in a repetition-based model, and I'm going to keep this easy so we can either look at this. We're famous for training power lifters. So, you can think about a weight you've never lifted or maybe more conveniently for our discussion right now say you're going to do a set of 10 reps, because this numerically is going to work for our demonstration. This isn't a hard and fast rule. It doesn't have to be 10 reps with this as this as a point. When you're doing a set of 10 reps, the first 7, 8, 9 reps aren't going to change the muscle they're just not. There's not enough stimulus. There's not anything new happening. If this is a weight that you're not sure that say for example, if you picked this way, if 10 is the actual number you can complete and that's going to exhaust your potential in that movement. The first seven or eight or nine reps are within your potential. Therefore, nothing new is occurring. Okay? So, when we get to that 10th rep, that's that access point or that squeeze point as I sometimes like to call it. And you know, for me in putting this stuff together, this is one of the first things that really jumped out at me is you would have people of all different levels of experience yet up until this squeezed point or this access point and they would totally fall apart. It didn't matter if they could bench-press 50 pounds on their first day or if they could bench-press 500 pounds. So that was kind of an odd thing, because it seemed then the people who rose to the top who got strong, maybe naturally had something a little different, you know, different lever lanes, different muscle density, there was something that they already brought to the table that made them stronger than average. And then some were just really hard workers and super diligent. So, they had different level of focus. But it seemed to me that there was a way that we can close the gap. And that's an acknowledgment of this place where everyone tends to fall apart. So, what happens when you get to that 10th REP. The one you don't know if you can make or not. That's where we tend to revert them to what's familiar so if we think about what we talked about earlier, a couple of weeks ago, the human machine, the brain and body's job is to maintain homeostasis to do the least amount of work possible to keep you alive. So, there's no rate incentive within your brain in your body. To push into the unknown, especially physically, right.
9:44 Jon
The unknown is dangerous.
9:45 Ted
It's dangerous and it's not really what we're designed to do and it’s kind of goes counter to the to the model of machine that we are human beings, simple survival. So, this is this is hardwired into us. So, the people who naturally navigate this might have an exceptional amount of desire or a little different level of focus because these are all things that are skill based, it can be built and so some people have a different starting point and others.
10:04 Ted
But the end of this is that it's when you really get squeezed. What happens if you fall back into the patterns of the past. So, if as you get to those last couple of reps, your chemistry is going to change. And your chemistry could be defined as a state of being. So, if all of a sudden if you're in a state of being that's full of anxiety, or avoidance or maybe fear, right, this happens to the biggest toughest guys in the world. When they're under a bar Sheriff can see fear. The squats get shallow, the bar bounces off their chest in the bench that isn't the demonstration of confidence. Right? That's the demonstration of fear or anxiety or avoidance through fatigue or through not knowing what's going to happen next. That would be the unknown. So, if you think about the unknown, as just a field of potential, then that's where all new things would occur is in the field of potential. New things don't occur from what you've already done. That's not how it works. Because we've already done those things, and so we now know what's going to happen next. So that's the rub of that stat that we threw out when we were talking about the human machine that 95% of the time of our waking hours as adults. We are running pre-programmed, the subconscious programs that happened by 90% of those programs are developed in the first zero to seven years of our life. So, we have this fractional amount of actual awareness to create the new and when I first heard this, of course, I thought that's total nonsense. We're having a conversation right now I'm intentional my words. That means I'm in the new Well, this repetition-based models a perfect way to observe this program perfect. When you get squeezed, what happens? Well, almost everyone checks out, especially if they haven't had specific training for this. And in fact, even when they have had specific training for this, this is not a super easy one to navigate, or yet because you're really working against the entirety of your brain and your body's programming. So, we're talking about this so far, just in the context of doing repetitions, because how you repeat something, oftentimes is going to determine the outcome. Yeah, so if we fall back into the familiar on the reps that count the most, we're missing the entire point of the rep. So, you couldn't say it this way. The rep is no longer the movement of the bar. The rep is addressing the mental, emotional and energetic state you have in that moment in time of the squeeze point. That's actually the rep that changes everything. Yeah, and this is something that we don't talk about anywhere in sports psychology or in training or in coaching. Nowhere have I seen this exist as a coached element. But it's the entirety of it. This is what the rep actually is. If the rep is simply the moving of the weight, and then every coach can observe that that last rep or the one rep max totally degrades and falls apart the words outside the performance of a trained individual than what's happening. There's a breakdown somewhere and the breakdown was strictly in the physical, then we would see it in many other ways as well. So, there's a precursor to the moment of that panic, and it's rooted directly in the state of being a state of being as your thought matching your emotional state. So that's the chemistry in your body aligned with a thought. So, when you get into that place, then your body is going to move differently. So, if we don't address the state of being as the thing we're actually training, we miss the entire power of a repetition-based model. So, this doesn't just work in lifting weights. By the way, we can apply this to any squeeze point in life. And that can be if you're going into a negotiation with your boss, if you're having a challenging discussion with you with your partner, any place in your life where you have to decide and affirm in the new. That's the rep. Otherwise, we're just repeating the exact same things we already know in a situationally different way. I mean, nothing new is going to happen for us in our life and no change. is going to occur.
Jon
We're going to talk in great depth about the 90/10 model, and how much change it has created and how it's been a differentiator in the results that we've enjoyed. In our community.
0:36 Ted
Well, in this week now starts the discussion of the disciplines. All right PPT. So, the backdrop on this was we had a couple of weeks on what I call the foundations. That's the human machine, the framework and the veneer of reality then we had, I think, what a couple of weeks on the levers and the levers are essentially like variables that can be used independently, or they can be used within a variety of these different disciplines. So now we've arrived at the disciplines and the disciplines are like formulas, there are action steps, there are tools that can be leveraged in certain specific situations to elicit very particular outcomes. Yeah, and the 90/10 for me is all of these have a different or have a certain level of import. All of them are designed to create change. For me, the 90/10 is one of these things that if you really engage this with a tremendous amount of focus, you can see change instantly. So, I'll give you a little bit of an example on how this plays out in some ways, and then how we use it at Diablo so I've frequently referenced and I'll say Tony Robbins, for example. Yeah, simply because he's the guy that everyone knows about. And one of the things he's famous for at the end of his seminars is he has a group of people walk across hot coals. And so fairly or unfairly, that's the takeaway a lot of people have on part of his process is you get to the end of this thing and you walk across these hot coals and it's something that no one thinks that they can do and then they do it. And they have this transformative moment. Now I can do anything and then your kind of released back into the wild, back into the general population back into your regular life. And you walked across hot coals.
2:35 Jon
Yeah, you've had you've had enjoyed some sense of achievement. That's neat.
2:39 Ted
And if 10 years from now, you're still talking about that, then I would say you might have missed the greater part of the lesson. So, what is that moment in time when you walk across the hot coals? That's the 10. Well, yeah, so we're going to get to that in a second. But really, essentially, it's doing something that you did not believe you could do. You're faced with it in the moment. You don't have time to prepare for it. And now you have to walk across literally, these coals into a totally different reality. So, the very act of doing that is going to take you out of your comfort zone. It takes you out of everything that you believe to be true. So, an acknowledgement of moments like these. When I began to develop the parafiscal training model, I had this idea that what if we could create transformative moments like that? Not one time, but multiple times in a training day. Yeah. And that's what this 90/10 is designed to do. So, there's a huge measure of importance to this. I recently said to one of the one of the training groups that if you're not in full recognition of what the 90/10 is, how to use it. And if you're not in a place where you're engaged in this with the utmost of urgency, then you're really not even training that Diablo that was the statement that I made because I feel that this is that important. This is one of the ways that we've created separation away from the norm. And one of the ways that we can create world class life changing results, and fractional amounts of time, or doing things that have never been done before.
4:28 Jon
Yeah. Well, the other difference is that when Tony Robbins has you achieve your 10% That's it. That's a life event. Yeah, and a Diablo when we've achieved our 10%. That's Tuesday.
4:45 Ted
Yeah, so when you start the first half of Tuesday, the first half of Tuesday. So, when you start to string these moments together, moment after moment you recognize you can train this as a skill. Yeah, if you do it one time, it becomes a story. Right? And it might sit with some people for a longer period of time. But if that's the story, then you really missed the point. That just became part of your story. If this becomes part of your reality, if this becomes part of your operating system, on how you can approach these moments and walk across those hot coals, so to speak multiple times per day, if that's what your focus is. Then now you have something that can create change beyond anyone's expectation. And this is this is what we begin to see from some of our highest achievers. So, what is the 90/10 essentially, in my view of this 90% of the time or 90% of the work that we do is really the prerequisite work for the event that 10% that actually can create change. So, there's a moment in time when real change has the potential to occur. And these changes occur in the minority of our moments. That's the 90/10. These moments are what I call access points. So, in other words, we have to do a certain front-loaded amount of work to get to the gateway of this moment of potentiality. So, learning how to navigate these access points determine whether or not you move into a state of mastery and higher demonstration, or stay stuck forever performing the same tasks, patterns and tendencies. In PPT, we engage these moments by using the 90/10 rules. And this is where I affirm the magic happens now, huh?
6:35 Jon
So, to create the long-term magic or the meteoric rise in achievement, every time we find the 10, we take that nugget and incorporate it into what becomes the new 90.
6:51 Ted
Well, that's a way of looking at that. So, let's go a little bit deeper on the explanation for those who haven't heard this. And so, let's create some examples because that's a great way to internalize some of this process. You know, Diablo barbell appears to be a gym, at least we have things that we lift and we do exercises. And when you're exercising, you're working in a repetition-based model. My first question is, what is it you're repeating? We'll save that for later. But in a repetition-based model, and I'm going to keep this easy so we can either look at this. We're famous for training power lifters. So, you can think about a weight you've never lifted or maybe more conveniently for our discussion right now say you're going to do a set of 10 reps, because this numerically is going to work for our demonstration. This isn't a hard and fast rule. It doesn't have to be 10 reps with this as this as a point. When you're doing a set of 10 reps, the first 7, 8, 9 reps aren't going to change the muscle they're just not. There's not enough stimulus. There's not anything new happening. If this is a weight that you're not sure that say for example, if you picked this way, if 10 is the actual number you can complete and that's going to exhaust your potential in that movement. The first seven or eight or nine reps are within your potential. Therefore, nothing new is occurring. Okay? So, when we get to that 10th rep, that's that access point or that squeeze point as I sometimes like to call it. And you know, for me in putting this stuff together, this is one of the first things that really jumped out at me is you would have people of all different levels of experience yet up until this squeezed point or this access point and they would totally fall apart. It didn't matter if they could bench-press 50 pounds on their first day or if they could bench-press 500 pounds. So that was kind of an odd thing, because it seemed then the people who rose to the top who got strong, maybe naturally had something a little different, you know, different lever lanes, different muscle density, there was something that they already brought to the table that made them stronger than average. And then some were just really hard workers and super diligent. So, they had different level of focus. But it seemed to me that there was a way that we can close the gap. And that's an acknowledgment of this place where everyone tends to fall apart. So, what happens when you get to that 10th REP. The one you don't know if you can make or not. That's where we tend to revert them to what's familiar so if we think about what we talked about earlier, a couple of weeks ago, the human machine, the brain and body's job is to maintain homeostasis to do the least amount of work possible to keep you alive. So, there's no rate incentive within your brain in your body. To push into the unknown, especially physically, right.
9:44 Jon
The unknown is dangerous.
9:45 Ted
It's dangerous and it's not really what we're designed to do and it’s kind of goes counter to the to the model of machine that we are human beings, simple survival. So, this is this is hardwired into us. So, the people who naturally navigate this might have an exceptional amount of desire or a little different level of focus because these are all things that are skill based, it can be built and so some people have a different starting point and others.
10:04 Ted
But the end of this is that it's when you really get squeezed. What happens if you fall back into the patterns of the past. So, if as you get to those last couple of reps, your chemistry is going to change. And your chemistry could be defined as a state of being. So, if all of a sudden if you're in a state of being that's full of anxiety, or avoidance or maybe fear, right, this happens to the biggest toughest guys in the world. When they're under a bar Sheriff can see fear. The squats get shallow, the bar bounces off their chest in the bench that isn't the demonstration of confidence. Right? That's the demonstration of fear or anxiety or avoidance through fatigue or through not knowing what's going to happen next. That would be the unknown. So, if you think about the unknown, as just a field of potential, then that's where all new things would occur is in the field of potential. New things don't occur from what you've already done. That's not how it works. Because we've already done those things, and so we now know what's going to happen next. So that's the rub of that stat that we threw out when we were talking about the human machine that 95% of the time of our waking hours as adults. We are running pre-programmed, the subconscious programs that happened by 90% of those programs are developed in the first zero to seven years of our life. So, we have this fractional amount of actual awareness to create the new and when I first heard this, of course, I thought that's total nonsense. We're having a conversation right now I'm intentional my words. That means I'm in the new Well, this repetition-based models a perfect way to observe this program perfect. When you get squeezed, what happens? Well, almost everyone checks out, especially if they haven't had specific training for this. And in fact, even when they have had specific training for this, this is not a super easy one to navigate, or yet because you're really working against the entirety of your brain and your body's programming. So, we're talking about this so far, just in the context of doing repetitions, because how you repeat something, oftentimes is going to determine the outcome. Yeah, so if we fall back into the familiar on the reps that count the most, we're missing the entire point of the rep. So, you couldn't say it this way. The rep is no longer the movement of the bar. The rep is addressing the mental, emotional and energetic state you have in that moment in time of the squeeze point. That's actually the rep that changes everything. Yeah, and this is something that we don't talk about anywhere in sports psychology or in training or in coaching. Nowhere have I seen this exist as a coached element. But it's the entirety of it. This is what the rep actually is. If the rep is simply the moving of the weight, and then every coach can observe that that last rep or the one rep max totally degrades and falls apart the words outside the performance of a trained individual than what's happening. There's a breakdown somewhere and the breakdown was strictly in the physical, then we would see it in many other ways as well. So, there's a precursor to the moment of that panic, and it's rooted directly in the state of being a state of being as your thought matching your emotional state. So that's the chemistry in your body aligned with a thought. So, when you get into that place, then your body is going to move differently. So, if we don't address the state of being as the thing we're actually training, we miss the entire power of a repetition-based model. So, this doesn't just work in lifting weights. By the way, we can apply this to any squeeze point in life. And that can be if you're going into a negotiation with your boss, if you're having a challenging discussion with you with your partner, any place in your life where you have to decide and affirm in the new. That's the rep. Otherwise, we're just repeating the exact same things we already know in a situationally different way. I mean, nothing new is going to happen for us in our life and no change. is going to occur.
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