Ambition Performance Lab

It’s a simple process when you break it down 💯

Figure out what adaptations you need to target, then design the program around achieving those adaptations 🧬

Overall volume load and the fatigue-fitness paradigm should be considered to ensure athletes are as fresh as possible when they need to be. The goal of the S&C program is to improve sports performance, so if athletes are too fatigued going into team training or games/competitions, we are missing the mark 🎯

Lifting weights is not just for young people!!!

There are many benefits of resistance training for older individuals. Besides the obvious benefits in body composition, undertaking regular resistance training is imperative for older individuals to retain their total body strength, which decreases as we age.

One thing I tell all of my older clients is you should NEVER lose your ability to pick yourself up off the floor. As soon as you do, it’s game over unfortunately. You cannot call yourself an independent individual if you have to rely on other people to help you up from the floor.

It is use it or lose it when it comes to our ability to perform activities as we age. When we stop taking the stairs everyday, taking the stairs becomes difficult. When we stop getting up and down from the floor, it becomes difficult.

Why should we stop doing things just because we have gone around the sun a certain number of times. Age is just a number 🧠💪🐅

Health… it goes beyond just the physical.

The reason I love my job as an exercise physiologist is because we are responsible for looking at the human as a whole, ensuring all aspects of health are considered, not just the aesthetic. Educating individuals to understand how their decisions effect their health as a whole empowers them to make decisions which benefit them in the long term. Our focus is on long term behaviour change and health outcomes, rather than 6 week body composition transformations.

Too often in today’s “fitness” industry we see people equate body composition to health, leading to reductionist views on calories and food quality.

Food goes beyond calories, health goes beyond appearance and actions go beyond the individual. There’s levels to this. 🧠💪🐅

Is it possible to be generously selfish?

In these uncertain times, we need to look out for our friends, families and significant others. But be mindful to look after yourself FIRST. Imagine you have a cup full of water, each time someone needs something from you, you pour out a portion of your water into their cup. Each time you do this, you are left with a smaller amount of water in your own cup. If you only worry about filling up the cups of others, sooner or later you will run out of water in your own cup.

Now this may not seem like an issue to you, you may rather see other people’s cups filled than your own; but what happens when someone is is need of some water and you have no more left to give? This is why it is important to fill your own cup up FIRST, so that you then have some to give to those who need it.

Today more than ever, people’s cups need topping up. Take the initiative to top your cup up first so that you are in a position to afford some of your valuable resources to those in need. In this way, you can be generously selfish 🧠💪🐅