Trick me up!

Hey everyone

I’ve been away for a while, but I thought I’d write up on this article. Recently I went to a large convention and for whatever reason, a large number of people got sick.

I got hit with it myself, but I was also one of the people who recovered the quickest from larengitis and the flu. People asked me how I do it and I share with them 3 simple areas I focus on that when all 3 are working in congruency, it works wonders. I’ve refined it over the years, but it’s still based on the 3 basic areas.

1. Dose up on goodness. This means taking vitamins where you body may be deficient in. Vitamin C is normally good as well as multi vitamins. Also taking up lots of greens and alkalizing helps. I cheat in this area by taking a vege supplement. It pretty much alkalizes as well as provide you all the daily nutrience your body needs from vegetables in 2 teaspoons. Goji berries also help with increasing anti-oxidants. Fruits are also good as it keeps the water content high. One thing I’ve started recently where I’ve been able to feel the effects is a slice of lemon for every 500ml of water. I was surprised how something so simple could have such a positive effect.

2. Exercise. Exercising helps the blood flowing and overcome the sickness. It also puts you in a better state for recovery. Don’t push yourself as hard as when you’re feeling well. It will tip you over the edge. Some exercises I HIGHLY recommend is trampolining. A rebounder will work just as great. The effects of bouncing up and down lymphises the body. It allows the body to flush out the toxins faster. Rebounding or trampolining for 15 mins a day works wonders. This is one of the best investments anyone can make for their health, hands down. It’s also great for weight loss as it generally puts the heart rate into zone 3 for metabolic heart rate for burning fat. Sickness doesn’t stand a chance when you have one of these :p

3. Positive attitude. This is one I use a great deal. I’ve recently incorporated the power of incantations, where you get your whole body into it. Not only just affirming you’re going to get better, you’re strong, powerful, fit, but you’re also sending a clear message to the body where sickness will have no option but to be defeated. By changing the physiology by doing chest pumps, power moves, whatever; you’re in a much better state to recover than being down in the dumps effected by sickness.

This formula has worked wonders for me through the years, take a proactive approach and it will do the same for you.

Cheers,
Raima

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Hey everyone,

Just got back from gymnastics tonight and I had a horrible night. I was thinking of not going to put anything up tonight, but as much as it sucked, there’s some lessons involved that many will experience themselves and prove valuable for beginners. One thing I learnt is

“Events will either define you or refine you.”

Meaning an event where a problem or challenge has occured, if the lessons were not learnt, that experience or event will define you as the person who could never do such and such, or you may choose to search for the lessons and let it refine you.

This is a blog to help you fasttrack by not only learning from the success, but from the mistakes.

1st thing I noticed tonight, I had a lot less sustainable energy. I had changed my diet on this particular day. Breakfast consisted of a bananna and some rice crackers, lunch I just had a sushi roll, some rice crackers and a bananna. For dinner I had a bananna, some water melon, and some rock melon. While this is generally fine for cardio for the purpose of burning fat to loose weight, it wasn’t for tricking. You need to get build up the reserves as much as possible.

Another lessoned learned was, over the last few days I’ve over trained and hadn’t given my body enough time to restore itself. I’ve been keen on trying to push myself as possible. On saturday I did some speed training while on sunday I did some weight training. On Monday my body was fatigued.

One thing I noticed tonight tho, the fatigue bothered me a lot less. The body is starting to adapt a lot better to the stress, but it was still quite far from being 100%

As for preparation tonight, well how can I say this… There was no preparation. The idea of just taking it a lot easier, and being vauge. Being vague will get vague results and possibly injure yourself. As the night rolled out, I wanted to have some fun with continuing to practise a gainer in the sponge pit. This time with a mat like I did the previous week. With the lack of preparedness in terms of energy and visualisation, it was a recipe for disaster. My first gainer resulted in my body landing on my neck. It wasn’t pretty and if it will help someone avoid this, then this blog would have served it’s purpose.

So what lessons were learnt?

Plan your week ahead. Areas that need to be focused on are:

1. Diet. Breakfast, lunch and dinner for each night. Have a set of guidelines of what you can and must not have. You can reward yourself one day a week to help stop the cravings, but don’t binge on it. Like if you’re going to have some pizza, have one or two slices at most, not the whole pizza :p Also map out any suppliments you’re taking. Before and after the exercises.

2. Exercise. Set up your daily exercises for each day, from warm up to the complete course. Map out which days are practise days, speed training days and weight training days. Be sure to map out the days for rest and to allocate time for visualisations. Visualisation make a world of a difference.

They’re the main lessons learned from tonight. That’s it for tonight. Have fun with tricking, and take the time to prepare

Cheers,
Raima

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Alright, as many would know, this site is pretty new, but I just had to get this information out.

I recently started gymnastics training 4 weeks for the purpose of tricking.  To give you a little background about me, I’m not your average person you’d think would want to be a tricker. I’m 34 years old, 89kgs / 196 lbs, 5″11 / 180cm tall, have very little flexibility and I work in IT, so my arms and fitness levels are way down.

It’s only since the last week I started weighing myself and I’m starting to see the results. I would have estimated myself to be around 90-93kgs / 198 – 205 lbs in weight. When I first weighed myself last week I was suprised I was at 89kgs /196 lbs. 6 days into weighing myself I’ve already lost 1.8 kgs / 3.96 lbs.

The goal is to reach an ideal weight of 75 kgs / 165lbs for tricking.

I’ve focused on 4 areas which I beleive is essential to making any progress.

1. Mindset
2. Exercise
3. Diet
4. Skillset

These are the 4 areas that I beleive will help you.

1. Mindset – Having the correct mindset will determine how fast and far you’ll go. It basically governs everything you do. If there’s an area you’re not progressing as you’d like it, it’s most likely related to the mindset.

Overcoming as many obsticles, fears and limiting beliefs will allow you to speed up yoru development in all areas. Remove any excuses that you have, know that anything is possible if you put your heart into, go for it and have fun.

2. Exercise – You’ve got to build up your strength, speed and flexibility. It’s very important to be able to develop the body required to be able to perform tricking. By increasing the strength, speed and flexibility, it will give you a bigger WOW factor when performing your moves. It’s very important to have a workout plan to maximise your potential. Mixing up weight training and cardio on different days is a great idea and is commonly used in the body building industry. It’s best to break weight training into 2 or 3 times a week. Each day will work out a section of the body while allowing time for it to grow and repair before working it again. In between days, cardio is used to build up your aerobic ability and burn any excess fat. Be sure to warm up before doing any form of exercise to reduce the risk of injury.

3. Diet – Your diet is the source of your fuel. You only get out what you put in. By putting in clean fuel, you’ll not only be doing your body favours, but you’ll have more energy and look great. I’ve wiped out a lot of greasy and sugary foods in my diet. Plain water is my main source of hydration, and I’m taking supliments to help my body grow and speed up the recovery process.

The foods that I do eat are:

Fruits – Banannas, water melon, rock melon, grapes

Meat – Chicken (lean, breast side, no skin), salmon and tuna.

Veges – Mostly green veges

Nuts – Almonds

Suppliments – Protein shakes, Flax Seed oil, Glutamine, Green vege drink (alkalyze), Vitamin C, BCAA, and Multi vitamins

Foods avoided – Bread, pasta, greasy food, red meat, butter, milk, cheese

I won’t go into too much detail on why the above are selected, I’ll leave that for another time as there’s quite a lot of information and logic behind it.

On weight training and gymnastic days, I increase the number of carborhydrate intake to help fuel the strenuous activities. On cardio days, I reduce the carborhydrate intake to help burn as much fat during the exercise process.

I’m already starting to see great results in the short amount of time, and I noticed a 6 pack is just starting to develop which I’m really excited about as I’ve never had one before.

4. Skillset – This is where you develop and hone your skills. Be sure to give yourself plenty of time on and off the floor to develop your skillset. Learn as much as you can through tricking tutorials, watch as many vids, be sure to visualise you doing your moves and go out to practise it.

Having started only 4 weeks ago, right now, my tricking skill level is at a very basic level. I can barely do hand stands, can do a kip up, but I’ve already started taking steps to do forward and backward aerial somersaults as well as learning forward gainers.

Be sure to practise in a safe environment, and just keep at it. Review your moves with a video if possible and find a mentor if you can to teach you.

This stuff works. Follow it and you’ll get simular results. If you have any questions or anything, feel free to ask

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