Coach Ted talks about testing our limits, creating a new identity, and having to go into the unknown to challenge paradigms.
Using the Body as a Lever within the 90~10 Concept
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Using the Body as a Lever within the 90~10 Concept
Season 3/Episode 23
November 24, 2021
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0:04 Jon
This is the Ted O'Neill program. The 90-10 concept is one that we've discussed on this podcast probably several times before. And it's something that we revisit as we go through training. And as we advance as lifter athletes, however, you want to describe what we do physically, to express our pursuit.
0:39 Ted
90-10. The 90-10 discipline is, in fact, one of the primary PPT disciplines. One of the ones that to me, may be the most important, and so I want to touch on this not necessarily, to fully go into the 90-10, because that's going to come up in a couple of weeks, okay. But what I want to talk about is using the body as a lever within that construct of the 90-10. So, I'm just going to give a quick definition of the 90-10 for those who haven't heard it, and then in a couple of weeks, we're going to spend a lot of time on this. But the 90-10 rule, as I call it, I guess that's not really a rule. But you get the point, indicates that 90% of the time we spend on anything, is really just the prerequisite for the 10% of the time, or the moments that actually can create physical, mental, emotional, or energetic change within us. So, what does that mean? Well, let's use a practical example, a really easy one is, let's say you're doing a set of 10 reps in the squat, and you receive substantial training, and this 10-rep set is really going to challenge you. In other words, you don't know if you can make all 10 reps or not. But you're going to go for it, the weights on the bar, you're getting under it, you're a trained lifter, and the Diablo system, even to where we have this formula, we have all this specific training these sets of non-negotiables. And so, you've received a vast amount of training, and your training up until this point has been very severe, right to create a certain outcome. Well, the first 5-6-7 reps in my observation are always the same the right on point, I often say to my lifters don't give anything away. In other words, you don't give your mental edge away, you don't give in to an emotional state, you don't let your body cave in on you, you go into full lockdown mode, and you execute every single rep in the ultimate and optimum definition of what that would look like according to your training. But what happens when we go farther? Because if we don't know, we can make all 10 those first seven or eight, guaranteed almost all the time are going to be perfect. They're going to be in accordance with the training. But then something starts to happen around nine or 10. When your chemistry changes into that of fear and anxiety because now you're getting into the unknown. I don't know if I can do this. What happens? What do we seek in the unknown? The familiar.
3:07 Jon
Ah, here we go attempting to nest?
3:11 Ted Well, yeah, so the brain and body's job is to keep you the same. So, when you're pushing yourself when you're redlining, you feel like there's very little left to give, the natural tendency is for someone to just go into full panic mode, and completely lose the elements of their training. Now, this can look like that example I just gave or can look really, really minor, we need to train eye to see that person, cut and run and that last fractional second, or did they go into full lockdown, and then execute a will that was greater than their perceived situation or circumstance, and what they were feeling in their body? So that's the 90/10 description, it's the 90% of the work we do prepares us for the moment. So that's a paradigm shift in and of itself. In other words, that first eight or nine reps in a set do not have the ability to change you in the physical. Yeah, you have to push into the unknown, to see any kind of quantifiable change in the body. So those first reps are ones we've already performed. And we can perform any day anytime we want. Yeah, because they don't, they don't test our limit. But when we're testing our limit, what we're really doing is creating a new identity, we're having to go into the unknown. And so, when using the body as a lever, this to me is one of the crucial elements, you would have to then transcend the moment, you would have to be above your chemistry. And the only way to really experience that is within a body. If you don't have a body, you can't find that access point. So, you know, we frequently create different definitions and we're always challenging paradigms at Diablo. So, the struggle for example is the opportunity. If you can rewire that concept in your mind of, the moment I begin to struggle, all that means is I've reached the limit of my subconscious belief system. And anything new now seems outside of me. And so, I have dissonance. It's the same with this 90-10, that 10% that has the ability to change me, if I cut and run, so like, if I do a touch and go on the box, if I cut it higher, if I just sit on the box and get really loose, and I get buried in the squat, none of those things will create a new outcome. If you stay totally locked in and you miss the rep, I would affirm that creates a much greater change than if you try to rush or panic your way through it, even if you make it. And I can say that with great confidence by putting these things into this ever-evolving lab that we would call training days. So, we can see this and it's, it's something that's clearly discernible, and you have to overcome yourself in that moment. So, you can you can only overcome your own internal chemistry, by thinking above it, that's your conscious awareness, but you're going to experience it first in the body. So, the very act of then of having to call on your conscious awareness, not your brain is your brains going to check out and say, just go with what we know, not your body, your body's going to say we're freaked out. And so, we're going to go with what we know we're going to be demonstrating fear and anxiety. We already have that chemical in my body. You have to call upon something different. Yeah. And that's how you're using the body as a lever to reach higher states of consciousness, to use the physical to transcend and go deeper into the mental, emotional and energetic training.
This is the Ted O'Neill program. The 90-10 concept is one that we've discussed on this podcast probably several times before. And it's something that we revisit as we go through training. And as we advance as lifter athletes, however, you want to describe what we do physically, to express our pursuit.
0:39 Ted
90-10. The 90-10 discipline is, in fact, one of the primary PPT disciplines. One of the ones that to me, may be the most important, and so I want to touch on this not necessarily, to fully go into the 90-10, because that's going to come up in a couple of weeks, okay. But what I want to talk about is using the body as a lever within that construct of the 90-10. So, I'm just going to give a quick definition of the 90-10 for those who haven't heard it, and then in a couple of weeks, we're going to spend a lot of time on this. But the 90-10 rule, as I call it, I guess that's not really a rule. But you get the point, indicates that 90% of the time we spend on anything, is really just the prerequisite for the 10% of the time, or the moments that actually can create physical, mental, emotional, or energetic change within us. So, what does that mean? Well, let's use a practical example, a really easy one is, let's say you're doing a set of 10 reps in the squat, and you receive substantial training, and this 10-rep set is really going to challenge you. In other words, you don't know if you can make all 10 reps or not. But you're going to go for it, the weights on the bar, you're getting under it, you're a trained lifter, and the Diablo system, even to where we have this formula, we have all this specific training these sets of non-negotiables. And so, you've received a vast amount of training, and your training up until this point has been very severe, right to create a certain outcome. Well, the first 5-6-7 reps in my observation are always the same the right on point, I often say to my lifters don't give anything away. In other words, you don't give your mental edge away, you don't give in to an emotional state, you don't let your body cave in on you, you go into full lockdown mode, and you execute every single rep in the ultimate and optimum definition of what that would look like according to your training. But what happens when we go farther? Because if we don't know, we can make all 10 those first seven or eight, guaranteed almost all the time are going to be perfect. They're going to be in accordance with the training. But then something starts to happen around nine or 10. When your chemistry changes into that of fear and anxiety because now you're getting into the unknown. I don't know if I can do this. What happens? What do we seek in the unknown? The familiar.
3:07 Jon
Ah, here we go attempting to nest?
3:11 Ted Well, yeah, so the brain and body's job is to keep you the same. So, when you're pushing yourself when you're redlining, you feel like there's very little left to give, the natural tendency is for someone to just go into full panic mode, and completely lose the elements of their training. Now, this can look like that example I just gave or can look really, really minor, we need to train eye to see that person, cut and run and that last fractional second, or did they go into full lockdown, and then execute a will that was greater than their perceived situation or circumstance, and what they were feeling in their body? So that's the 90/10 description, it's the 90% of the work we do prepares us for the moment. So that's a paradigm shift in and of itself. In other words, that first eight or nine reps in a set do not have the ability to change you in the physical. Yeah, you have to push into the unknown, to see any kind of quantifiable change in the body. So those first reps are ones we've already performed. And we can perform any day anytime we want. Yeah, because they don't, they don't test our limit. But when we're testing our limit, what we're really doing is creating a new identity, we're having to go into the unknown. And so, when using the body as a lever, this to me is one of the crucial elements, you would have to then transcend the moment, you would have to be above your chemistry. And the only way to really experience that is within a body. If you don't have a body, you can't find that access point. So, you know, we frequently create different definitions and we're always challenging paradigms at Diablo. So, the struggle for example is the opportunity. If you can rewire that concept in your mind of, the moment I begin to struggle, all that means is I've reached the limit of my subconscious belief system. And anything new now seems outside of me. And so, I have dissonance. It's the same with this 90-10, that 10% that has the ability to change me, if I cut and run, so like, if I do a touch and go on the box, if I cut it higher, if I just sit on the box and get really loose, and I get buried in the squat, none of those things will create a new outcome. If you stay totally locked in and you miss the rep, I would affirm that creates a much greater change than if you try to rush or panic your way through it, even if you make it. And I can say that with great confidence by putting these things into this ever-evolving lab that we would call training days. So, we can see this and it's, it's something that's clearly discernible, and you have to overcome yourself in that moment. So, you can you can only overcome your own internal chemistry, by thinking above it, that's your conscious awareness, but you're going to experience it first in the body. So, the very act of then of having to call on your conscious awareness, not your brain is your brains going to check out and say, just go with what we know, not your body, your body's going to say we're freaked out. And so, we're going to go with what we know we're going to be demonstrating fear and anxiety. We already have that chemical in my body. You have to call upon something different. Yeah. And that's how you're using the body as a lever to reach higher states of consciousness, to use the physical to transcend and go deeper into the mental, emotional and energetic training.
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