Coach Ted talks about how you can have a profound moment and immediately lose the meaning of the moment when you allow the brain to bring you back to the familiar.
Just When You Break New Ground
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Just When You Break New Ground
Season 3/Episode 31
December 6, 2021
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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
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0:04 Jon
Welcome to the Ted O'Neill Program. We are discussing the 90/10 principle. We left off yesterday talking about... I just blanked. What did we leave off yesterday talking about?
0:32 Ted
See! The brain couldn't even accept information.
0:35
So, what you said and I think it was it was offline when we stopped recording, you said, This is where we begin to break new ground.
0:42 Ted
This is the groundbreaking episode.
0:45 Ted
Now. Let's pause on that for a second. We're going to leave this in, normally it would be edited out, but that's exactly how this works. You get to that squeeze point. And the brain doesn't want to remember the new information. But just a moment ago...
1:00
You had a recognition that it was something new happened.
1:02 Jon
A profound one!
1:04 Ted
Yeah. So, as we begin to define the concept...
1:07 Jon
just quickly, my brain said, Hold on!
1:10 Ted
Yep. Let's go back to what we know, because we're talking about changing the entire model of a repetition-based system.
1:15 Jon
Yeah. So, the profundity of that moment was caused by the revelation that the rep isn't the lowering and raising of the bar.
1:26
The rep is the entrance of the unknown. In that squeeze point, what do we do, and the ability to execute the rep is not lowering and raising the bar, it is addressing that moment?
1:39 Ted
Well, there's something that happens, for example, before you lower the bar.
1:43
Your brain is doing something and your body is doing something. And the thought...usually that something is freaking out. TO
1:51
When you get to that point. Now, I'm going to deviate really quick on this. Because years ago, I did a little test. In the deadlift, we had a couple of groups, actually, it was one really big group of dead lifters is like 15 of us. And the beginners were all under 500 pounds, and then the intermediate was 500 to 700. And then there were four or five of us who were over 700. So, you had kind of this, this display of beginner, intermediate and elites.
2:22
So, the commonality was, all the beginners and intermediates, when they were doing their warmup sets would just walk up to the bar, one breath down and go. And then as they got to the weight, that was their max what would begin to occur is their setup, which incidentally, in the deadlift, it doesn't require extra time to set up. If you can deadlift, 200 pounds. If you load 1000 pounds on the bar, it should not affect your setup. We'll say it that way because you don't have to lower the bar, you just have to set up.
2:57
So as the weights progressed, and as we got toward everyone's max effort attempt, the average amount of time changed dramatically from the warm up sets in the beginner and intermediate group, it went from x many seconds to an average of 15 times longer to set up. So, what was three seconds you walk up, you take a breath, you dip down, you pick it up is now 45 seconds. I thought that was an odd thing. Because it has nothing to do with being physical.
3:29 Jon
It sounds like an odd thing. But I'm absolutely guilty of it. I don't know if you remember the last day I deadlifted, the last thing that I did was I reached down I grabbed the bar, I adjusted my foot position, I adjusted my hips, I lowered my butt into the position. And then I picked up my shoulders and then I loosen up...
3:48 Ted
wiggled around a little bit.
3:49 Jon
Do it again... and
3:50 Ted
We're waiting for something to happen.
3:53 Ted
Now in the elite group that night, there was less of that, but still an average of three times as long as the prior setups on the warm up weights. So that was one of those, those nods to something else that's occurring here. So, you could just call it focus and call it a day.
4:10
Or you could say someone is psyching up, or I observed they were psyching themselves out. But regardless, it was an unnecessary function. And it clearly didn't serve any purpose because the longer the attempt took in relation to the person's normal setup, the less likely they were to make the lift.
4:31Jon
That makes a lot of sense.
4:32 Ted
So yeah, these are all just things that begin to congeal in my mind, then allow me to start thinking differently into this new paradigm that the actual rep then has to take place before the physical attempt at moving the weight. So, what would that be? That would be your mental and your emotional and your energetic state. So, we talk all the time about how there's four planes of existence that human beings experience in. Physical, mental, emotional and energetic. So then if it's clearly not a function of the physical, meaning the case of the deadlift, it doesn't require any extra time to set up with a bigger weight, it just doesn't that means you're in your head, which means mentally you're thinking about things that aren't part of what's actually going on in the moment.
Welcome to the Ted O'Neill Program. We are discussing the 90/10 principle. We left off yesterday talking about... I just blanked. What did we leave off yesterday talking about?
0:32 Ted
See! The brain couldn't even accept information.
0:35
So, what you said and I think it was it was offline when we stopped recording, you said, This is where we begin to break new ground.
0:42 Ted
This is the groundbreaking episode.
0:45 Ted
Now. Let's pause on that for a second. We're going to leave this in, normally it would be edited out, but that's exactly how this works. You get to that squeeze point. And the brain doesn't want to remember the new information. But just a moment ago...
1:00
You had a recognition that it was something new happened.
1:02 Jon
A profound one!
1:04 Ted
Yeah. So, as we begin to define the concept...
1:07 Jon
just quickly, my brain said, Hold on!
1:10 Ted
Yep. Let's go back to what we know, because we're talking about changing the entire model of a repetition-based system.
1:15 Jon
Yeah. So, the profundity of that moment was caused by the revelation that the rep isn't the lowering and raising of the bar.
1:26
The rep is the entrance of the unknown. In that squeeze point, what do we do, and the ability to execute the rep is not lowering and raising the bar, it is addressing that moment?
1:39 Ted
Well, there's something that happens, for example, before you lower the bar.
1:43
Your brain is doing something and your body is doing something. And the thought...usually that something is freaking out. TO
1:51
When you get to that point. Now, I'm going to deviate really quick on this. Because years ago, I did a little test. In the deadlift, we had a couple of groups, actually, it was one really big group of dead lifters is like 15 of us. And the beginners were all under 500 pounds, and then the intermediate was 500 to 700. And then there were four or five of us who were over 700. So, you had kind of this, this display of beginner, intermediate and elites.
2:22
So, the commonality was, all the beginners and intermediates, when they were doing their warmup sets would just walk up to the bar, one breath down and go. And then as they got to the weight, that was their max what would begin to occur is their setup, which incidentally, in the deadlift, it doesn't require extra time to set up. If you can deadlift, 200 pounds. If you load 1000 pounds on the bar, it should not affect your setup. We'll say it that way because you don't have to lower the bar, you just have to set up.
2:57
So as the weights progressed, and as we got toward everyone's max effort attempt, the average amount of time changed dramatically from the warm up sets in the beginner and intermediate group, it went from x many seconds to an average of 15 times longer to set up. So, what was three seconds you walk up, you take a breath, you dip down, you pick it up is now 45 seconds. I thought that was an odd thing. Because it has nothing to do with being physical.
3:29 Jon
It sounds like an odd thing. But I'm absolutely guilty of it. I don't know if you remember the last day I deadlifted, the last thing that I did was I reached down I grabbed the bar, I adjusted my foot position, I adjusted my hips, I lowered my butt into the position. And then I picked up my shoulders and then I loosen up...
3:48 Ted
wiggled around a little bit.
3:49 Jon
Do it again... and
3:50 Ted
We're waiting for something to happen.
3:53 Ted
Now in the elite group that night, there was less of that, but still an average of three times as long as the prior setups on the warm up weights. So that was one of those, those nods to something else that's occurring here. So, you could just call it focus and call it a day.
4:10
Or you could say someone is psyching up, or I observed they were psyching themselves out. But regardless, it was an unnecessary function. And it clearly didn't serve any purpose because the longer the attempt took in relation to the person's normal setup, the less likely they were to make the lift.
4:31Jon
That makes a lot of sense.
4:32 Ted
So yeah, these are all just things that begin to congeal in my mind, then allow me to start thinking differently into this new paradigm that the actual rep then has to take place before the physical attempt at moving the weight. So, what would that be? That would be your mental and your emotional and your energetic state. So, we talk all the time about how there's four planes of existence that human beings experience in. Physical, mental, emotional and energetic. So then if it's clearly not a function of the physical, meaning the case of the deadlift, it doesn't require any extra time to set up with a bigger weight, it just doesn't that means you're in your head, which means mentally you're thinking about things that aren't part of what's actually going on in the moment.
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