Achieve Athletic Peak Performance OnDemand

Learn how to create, trigger, and establish athletic peak performance on-demand with clinical massage and classical conditioning.  

Game day peak performance is every athlete's objective and the purpose behind every training session, — yet when the game day arrives, not every athlete can deliver their peak performance. Read on to learn how to tap into, trigger, and establish mental and emotional states that lead to peak performance.

We know that athletes deliver their peak performance when they're in a mental/emotional state known as the flow, also called being in the zone.

Flow or being in the zone is the ideal psychological state for athletic peak performance. Athletes achieve it during activities when a balance between the perceived challenge of the activity, the athlete's ability, and the skills meet the challenge. 

In other words, the flow state is characterized as an autotelic experience, meaning that the athletic activity needs to be enjoyable and rewarding in its own right. 

You get into flow or into the zone when your body and mind are relaxed, balanced and are free of negative emotions, worry and unpleasant physical sensations.

So, how can we trigger optimal peak performance states on the mental, emotional, and physical levels? Elite athletes train at least four-five hours a day, five-six days a week, leaving the athlete's body with physical fatigue, severe muscular soreness, inflamed soft tissue, pains, aches, and micro-injuries. And, on top of it all, mentally exhausted and emotionally depleted?

There are plenty of books and theories on how to achieve peak performance, and they talk mainly about training methods and visualization techniques, mostly. This is great stuff and all, but these techniques work to a limited extent. 

I'm yet to meet a person who can visualize away severe athletic soreness or chronic pain. 

It is possible to minimize those symptoms ten or twenty present, maybe thirty percent with visualization if you're a professional meditator, like Iceman Hof.  

With visualization techniques, firstly, no one will guarantee any results. Secondly, this does not address all of the physiological depletion and negative sensations that deprives the athlete of being at their peak.

I've met and worked with many athletes throughout my career, and they all train like crazy, to the maximum of their capabilities, and visualization is common knowledge in the sports community. So everybody does it, — yet no one has ever said that they can visualize their pain away, no one.  

This doesn't mean that visualization doesn't work, on the contrary, it does, but it doesn't deal with healing of the tissue and doesn't prevent athletes from injuries.

So how can we push this whole thing to a new level? How can we upgrade our athletes to a new level so that they can kick some major ass in a major way, and destroy the competition?

I propose a little different model with the healing of soft tissues and homeostasis in its core. Addressing the body and getting rid of the pain and severe soreness enables more neural energy to be available in the mental/emotional construct, which can be harnessed and utilized for guided visualizations, peak performance meditations, and for conditioning.  

As mentioned earlier, peak performance happens when athletes are in the flow state or in the zone. You get into the zone, into the flow when your body and mind are relaxed, when your mind is balanced, free of negative emotions, worry, and your body is free of unpleasant physical sensations like fatigue, soreness, pains, and aches.

The fastest and most economical way to achieve all of that with the least effort on the athlete's part is through clinical massage therapy. Clinical massage is a combination of sports, deep tissue, relaxation massage techniques, sprinkled with somatic breathing, and autogenic practices with specific performance goals in mind.

After a great clinical massage session, you feel great and it lasts for a day or two. It happens because clinical massage therapy boosts immunity by reducing muscle tension, and helps your body and mind to relax by rapidly relieving stress. There are many more benefits that clinical massage therapy yields, like lowering heart rate, increasing circulation, helping the healing of injuries, pain management, and prevention, to mention few. 

Because of these benefits, clinical massage therapy can act as a great springboard to condition optimal physical, mental, and emotional states for peak performance. By utilizing the natural results of clinical massage, it is coupled with visualization, peak performance meditations, and classical conditioning mechanics to create and establish peak performance states, and by use of unconditioned stimuli to create concrete recall mechanisms, to trigger flow.

These are complicated subjects that touch on many different disciplines like clinical manual therapy, practical psychology, classical conditioning, performance meditation, and cannot be all described in detail within a framework of a thousand-word article.

So, if you're interested in athletic peak performance and what you've read triggered questions in you, and if you are open to coaching on how to get into the flow, stay in the zone and achieve peak performance, contact me at 732-766-0897 or hi@zar.ink for a consultation.  

Have you heard the saying, power is power? What about strategic knowledge is power? You probably heard that competitive edge is the result of a powerful strategy.

Let me ask you this, if you have to perform at your peak during your next event, what is your powerful competitive edge strategy for peak performance?

At the elite level of professional sports, everyone and their mama is the best, but there are always one or two goats, Jordans and Tom Bradys of the world. 

Can you say that you're a goat?

DETAILS & THE PROCESS:

The whole process takes three weeks, so please plan accordingly. You don't need to be in the same state as me. I will coach you through Skype or face time. I'll provide you the plan, strategies, the execution schedule, the methodology and the triggers, but you will need to see a great massage therapist in your area. If you don't have a massage therapist that you work with, I'll help you find and interview a therapist in your area.

If you are a master of stretching or yoga, we can substitute the massages with a proper stretching routine, but clinical massage therapy works the best. I guarantee that you'll feel your best during the conditioning period.

What are you waiting for?

Shoot me a line, and let's get you the goat coaching you need, so you can achieve, cultivate and trigger mental/emotional and physical peak performance states whenever you need it. 

Thanks for reading...

Hayk Zar LMT

@haykzar