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April 20, 2023 • 15 mins
The Power of Muscle podcast shares motivating insights, proven tactics, and inspiring stories from professionals and experts in longevity, sports performance, health science, and fitness to advance your breakthrough and unlock your potential.

Life is long, so stay strong.

Here is a glance at what you'll find in this episode:

How long it takes to improve physical strength and increase in fitness level.

What is the foundational agility and mind muscle connection needed to gain functional strength and conditioning.

Learn the stages of the Power of Muscle challenge to adapt the metabolism for higher output of calories.

For more information about stretching and recovery click the link to the article below,
https://www.mindmusclememory.com/the-secret-to-changing-your-mental-health-today/

If you'd like access to tactics, resources, and skills to help you take action on what is talked about, please visit: https://www.mindmusclememory.com/
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, and welcome back to the Power of Muscle podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm Miles Becher, your host here for the Power Muscle
and today we're gonna highlight some of the mind part
of the mind muscle memory, and that's gonna be you
know that mental skills, mental health and how the power
of the mind it really lends itself to the power

(00:24):
of muscle. Right, So the Power of Muscle is our
Power of Muscle Challenge. You can find that at Mind,
Muscle Memory dot com. It is a web app that
we have web based challenge where you collect stars and
points so that you can accelerate and get to the
apex of your physical fitness capabilities.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
And you know, the way we.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Look at it is, you know, having those those step
by step goals is part of what is developed for
the mind and the power of the mind and also
for mental health. So if we if we take a
just a general look at where we start as we're younger,
and we know that we want to say, you know,

(01:09):
improve our grades or improve our skill with saying, uh,
you know some type of sport that we have kicking
the ball, soccer ball, dribbling the basketball, or shooting the basketball.
We we're look to say we want to improve on that,
but but a lot of times we don't have any goals.
We don't know what our goal is except that we

(01:30):
want to get better at it. So they're very much
the same with physical fitness, strengthening our body, improving our coordination,
our agility, and we want you to be able to
get with the power muscle challenge where you have enough
strength for two.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
You can handle your.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Own body, but you can also handle somebody else that
you might need to rescue. You might need to help somebody.
And this is the one of the basic foundations of
you know, staying strong throughout life. Because remember the saying
that I put together and I UH created was that
life as long as it stay strong, and that means

(02:12):
that you should be strong enough for two. Can you
go ahead and help somebody up or down a flight
of stairs if they need if they need help doing something,
can you can you you know, pick up a ladder
and help somebody, you know, by putting the.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Ladder back in place.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
All these different things are all about having enough strength
for two. And that's where you want to stay throughout life,
and you want to be able to get strong enough
for two. Stay that way and and keep your mental health,
your fitness, and your strength all in the right place.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
So we do that.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
As I would say, and all of our all of
our team members here at Mind Muscle Memory, and all
all of our programs that we run for the Power
Muscle Challenge, is that we are looking to make sure
that the mind has.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
A few goals to go off of right.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
So on our on our challenge, we have four different levels,
and typically as you see level one is you kind
of have a slower metabolism, You maybe have imbalanced muscles
where you know, the right shoulder is stronger than the left,
or maybe that's that's not the case. It could be
the front of your right leg is strong in the
front of your left leg, or it could be that

(03:34):
the you know again that the front of the legs
on both legs is strong, but the back of the
legs or the hips aren't just aren't just strong on there.
So when you go to run, you're using all predominantly
thigh muscles or quadriceps when you're running instead of using
the hips and hamstrings to run in coordination with that.

(03:54):
So these these things have to be trained, and we
set goals to train it. So the first part and
level one is to test out and find out where
those imbalances are and set a goal to adapt and
engage them and improve so that you have equalization across
those joints those muscles. And that's what the equalizer figure.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
That you see is.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
The core is the that sphere that's the ribs, the abs,
the rib cage, and the hips that inner sphere. The
second sphere that you see is the shoulders and the hips.
The third sphere just before the outermost sphere is the
elbow joint and the knee joints. Those elbows on those
knees should have good, excellent agility control and equalize strength.

(04:43):
And then of course the wrist and the ankles is
the fourth outer outer sphere. And that was something that
I created to make sure that you have a way
to test things, and all of our programs and all
of our people that we have and our trainers can
all test those areas. And every time you improve the
strength and conditioning of those, you help out your kinetic

(05:04):
chain so you can move better and have more body control.
You also improve improve your muscle metabolism. How well does
a weak muscle use energy, No, it doesn't really use
energy very well does it. So more tone, endurance, strong
muscle has a lot better muscle metabolism, So you're boosting

(05:25):
that metabolism up. And that's what you see on the
other side, is you start. If you don't have that
adaptation and that equalization, then you have a lower metabolism.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
And we're looking to.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Go to level two and that that level you've you've
started to and you've engaged. You've balanced those muscles out right,
balance those and tested them all and tested out those
areas your shoulders, your knees, your your right left hips,
your ankles, calves, all these things. You've tested them and
you equalize them. Now the next level and that takes

(05:59):
a while, by the way, right, the next level is
to use all that to get overall stronger. So there's
a there's a big problem, uh uh in the in
the fitness industry, in the in the in the physical
fitness and performance and sports performances, is that we come
across it all the time. People are trying to get
stronger and athletes trying to get stronger. You want to

(06:20):
be faster, you want to run you know, longer distances,
but you never tested to find out if you are
capable of doing that because of what happens is those
muscle imbalances, Uh, they cause injury, so you you can't
really get your full body stronger, really get yourself to
go the further distance. If you have these muscle and

(06:42):
balances that are always causing injury or limiting your you're
limiting your performance, limiting your your kinetic chain, limiting your
your physical functional movement right, and of course you want
to seek out a physical therapist for a functional movement
screen if you have that come up. If you find
that you're trying to get say your knee on the

(07:06):
left of the right more balanced to the front back
of the leg, but it's sore, it doesn't want to
work properly. It's it's maybe recovering from an injury. Where
you go to a physical therapist, which we always send
our clients to, and that is to get a functional
movement screen, functional movement screening, and then the physical therapists
will recommend what movement paths are you're lacking, what strength

(07:29):
are you lacking for certain areas, and you'll then be
able to adjust your hips in your alignment and your
your bones position lined up, maybe because of a tight
tendon or a weak muscle, and now you can start
to get that performance back where you can actually elevate
your performance, so you won't want to adapt and get

(07:51):
to that point where we're striving to reach our apex
and seeing our whole daily output. So when we do
our activities, our daily output rise it. You know, we
burn more energy when we can be at a higher
level physically, stronger physically having more endurance to capabilities.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
And that means our output is greater.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Okay, So at times in doing all of our general
functional movements, our strength any movements, and doing some balance
and agility movements, if there's some discrepancy, remember there's there's
experts the call certified. You know their physical therapists, they're

(08:33):
gone doctors and physical therapy know how to make sure
to test those functional movement screens and that way you
can get back to proper joint control and proper joint
alignment and positioning. Then you can go ahead and go
back to doing all of the strengthening and the.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Functional movements, but don't try to push.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yourself and try to improve everything without having all your
joints moving properly and having the muscle balance.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
That's what being an equalized there is.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
You take that first level, you get started on the
power muscle challenge.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Your first level is to test everything.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
If you don't have the balance of the right arm
and the left arm, then.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
You work towards attaining that.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
In that goal, that is where your mental health comes in.
Once you get your right arm and left arm the
same strength and muscle control, you feel amazing, like you
feel like you just got a goal. It didn't take
that much. It took a certain number of weeks. It's
a short term goal. You got it, and now you
feel good. Okay, Now let's look again in the body.

(09:36):
Even with greater adaptation, get more energy output, right, burn
more energy out of the muscles. Now that's getting into
that second level. You're adapting and getting your body to
burn more energy and you will be able to test that.
Let's say in the beginning, a half hour bike ride
is a certain level seven, and you can burn or

(10:00):
you know, three hundred and ten calories on that on
that bike ride. But seven weeks, eight weeks, ten weeks later,
after you've adapted your your you've gotten the equalization of
your muscles. Now your goal was right on that next level,
your goal is to get a higher output. So at
same thirty minutes, now you're at level nine and you're

(10:22):
burning four hundred and thirty calories. And if you look
at that for half hour, look at that for an hour, right,
that's that's a huge gain in your hourly output of energy. Okay,
And that's what we want to look at every half
hour we're testing on those cardio measurements that we know
when we do an hour, we just double that. So

(10:43):
at first what I said it was three twenty so
an hour to be six forty, and now you're up
to you know, four thirty and an hour to be
eight hundred and sixty calories. I mean, the closer you
can get at the apex here and to be able
to be strong enough for two and everything is to
be able to burn you know, eight hundred one thousand
calories per hour because your muscle metabolism, your strength, your

(11:06):
endurance is all built up to that level. Now, just
gaining that improvement on that second level of the equal
of the power muscle challenge and seeing your numbers improve
for your output, that is a goal that is.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
A big boost to your mental health.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Not just of course, you just think about the good
chemicals that are produced every time we ride for half
hour bike ride or an hour bike ride. Excellent chemical
boost for our serotonins and our endorphins and everything. But
it's in uh, but it's what does it do just
for our presence? We know now we achieve that goal,

(11:48):
we burn more calories, our legs are strong on both sides.
The back of the leg in the front of the
leg are doing their job. This is where the mental
health aspect comes in our mind age control of more
of our determined goals for what we want out of
our body.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Okay, then we know we can go to the next step. Right.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
The next step is improving your agility, you know, being
able to have a better performance in your If you're
a swimmer, maybe you do want to get going again
in your masters swimming competitions. You know, some of our
clients in the master swimming that that was what they wanted.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
So as they got.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Through these different levels, then they became, you know, more
consistent and getting personal best at their master swimming events
because they had done it properly, not just trying to
push themselves in the water, but they did the outside things,
the training things to get them to that level.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
All right.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
So this is where the mind muscle memory comes in.
This is where the mental health really lies is in
goal setting. These achievable goals that we set for we
have all led lined up for you in the Power
Muscle Challenge. Make sure again you come over to mind
Muscle memory dot Com and become join the free challenge.
You gain your stars and get your points, and you're

(13:11):
gonna get those those awards along the way. As you
go in daily and check off that you did your
your you know what you need to do to energize
your body with your recommended amount of dietary fiber for
your meals and recommend a protein minimum amount of protein
to make sure that you're holding onto the strength that
you have because a lot of people don't need enough protein.

(13:34):
We should have twenty grams of protein three times a
day to make sure we're a minimum at sixty grams
of protein. Otherwise those muscles don't have enough supply coming
in to rejuvenate the strength.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
All right.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
So we want to just check those off, get your points,
and move move along in those levels and really build
that mental health. We're here for you on our social
media at the website, have all the different lessons we
have out there for you, and we're looking forward to
hearing from you and hearing how you move along in

(14:07):
your personal getting to your personal best UH in in
your respective events and different things as you go along,
and whatever it might be, it's always there.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
It's always for you.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
You adjust your way, to adjust your endurance and just
everything based off of what you can do now and
maybe setting that up that a little bit more.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
You can always ask us.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
We're always available here to you and UH and that's
what we had for today's focus on the mind, focus
on goal setting and UH and looking at how each
of these things produces this mental health mental health and
and not just the workouts but also the goal setting
and understanding how positive you'll feel when you attain these

(14:51):
different things with your body. So thank you so much again,
Miles betch you here as your host, look forward to
hearing from you and and keep listening and share the
power of Muscle Podcast with all you know so they
can become involved with their regiment and their routine as well.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Thanks so much. Have a good day,
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