 energy talk So that's what we're getting here. We're doing whatever I want whatever I want to create that's what this YouTube channel is That's what I love doing. So let's just jump right into it We're gonna talk about everything ask any questions you want from dunk training to quantum traveling. Let's go So look I want to start with my story I haven't talked about my story in a long time and it leads into the biggest mistake I see lately with training. I want to talk about my current training goals and current training PRs I want to talk about everything. So let's just talk about let's have some energy talk by the end of this episode I just hope that you feel good. You just feel good and that's what we're doing We're sharing in the energy we tap in to tune tune in with each other learn from each other Keep growing keep the energy moving and just chase our dreams and be courageous We're going and I know I've been wanting to make dunk vlogs I know you guys want to see that but I have all these ideas So let's just make something consistent where I'm gonna post this raw energy talk fill that Subscribe button with energy. Hmm zap it. Okay So my quick story of how I started dunking I get this question so many times And this is where you can use this for any part of your life So when I started dunking the biggest thing I want you to know is it wasn't possible It wasn't even a possibility. It wasn't like I wonder if I can do this. It was just a Dream a dream in the sense of I would dunk on low rims and a dream in the sense where it's like That's not possible in this reality. I can't emphasize that enough It wasn't one percent. It was zero percent Then one day I said to myself, what if I can touch the rim hence my latest video? What if so that's if you've seen that what if video if you see it in my recent videos That's the type of production. I want to do as well full high quality next level Cinematic, but I also want to do raw energy talks. So let's just keep it going so In that moment I said to myself, what if I could touch the rim and I did and I said What if I could hang on the rim hanging on the rim was a dream in itself? I was 510 I was 18 years old and I'm like, let me see if I can do it hung on the rim And then I'm like, okay now I know it's possible to go dunk I also saw Andy Nicholson dunking from touching there in the dunking and I got my first dunk now The thing is with that was such a huge paradigm shift in my Perspective of reality because not only did I achieve something that was like, I think this is possible I could achieve it. I achieved something that wasn't even in that realm of is this possible It was before that so now any other thing I thought about was if I think to myself I don't think that's possible. I have this new experience of I didn't think this was possible So now I believe anything's possible because I made one thing that was not possible possible So that's where we're at. So the point is the biggest mistake I see was so many people dunk training First of all, they hit these plateaus and I want to get into that but They don't start and the biggest thing for me with that is I didn't start knowing I could dunk I started with the question of what if it's possible and then when I started Touching the rim grabbing the rim my possibility my belief grew so wherever your dream lies Start walking towards it Without believing in it. So a lot of times we say we have to believe it But just think of whatever you want And think to yourself, what if I even believed in it start walking towards it So I want this episode to help you Take that first step and that's what I do. So if you want to work with me I will help you take that first step and it starts with which is a big part of what I want to talk about today So that's my quick story. Let me get back to my story and I'll talk about what I've learned from the 10 years of experience of training So back to my story. I got my first dunk Thought anything was possible and I just kept going from there and I'm still going. I'm in the best shape of my life I just lifted 405 pounds on the deadlift with decent form And I'm proud of myself and it was a goal that just felt effortless And I don't want to talk about training right now. So I'm going to go with where my energy is. That's how energy talk goes Okay, we go with the energy. That's what I want you to do today Find your flow and go with it because if you can go with the flow of your energy You're doing the best thing you could do for yourself your soul your body your mind your spirit. Let's go energy foundations So the biggest mistake I see is people not building A foundation of energy and the three are sleeping right eating right and training right Obviously we want to train right we all want to train and push hard But are you learning your body? Are you listening to your body? Are you understanding what you're doing to your body to get it to respond? And that is body awareness and that's what I've learned and that's why my training is very intuitive So if you ever watch my instagram you try to follow along That's why I haven't made the dunk vlogs because I don't want to just show you what I do Because I don't want you guys to try to do what I do I want you to learn what you need to do what's best for you And so that starts with the healthy energy foundations and the way I put it is If you don't have these foundations That's why we hit these plateaus because plateaus if you really break it down are just not Allowing our bodies or not stimulating our bodies to change anymore Our bodies are almost getting too good at what we're doing. So and early on we're trying something new We're pushing ourselves a little harder But and then we make progress because our body is adapting But then we stop or we don't know how to get our bodies to adapt to this next level And where that comes in is that belief because you're going and then we stop because it's like you're going towards your dream And you lose sight of it and you don't know how to navigate that So you're stuck at that point because you don't know which road to take right But if you just keep taking steps forwards, you will make progress past that plateau Now if you have that solid foundation behind you of the sleeping right eating right and moving right Now you have this foundation that eliminates all these variables because if you're not pushing past a limit Do you have enough energy? Are you recovering good enough? Are you? Pushing yourself hard enough and pushing yourself hard enough a lot of fear and mental blocks come into play So you have to have the energy to push yourself But you also have the ability to understand those fears to see if you're holding yourself back But a big one is like if you want to push yourself at a high level You have to have high energy to push yourself past that level Dunking takes max energy. So you got to push past that level. So energy foundations are huge So start with sleeping right and I'm going to go off on the sleeping right and habits because this is what I really want you guys to take away from What I've learned from my own story is that Everything starts off really hard, but if you build these habits they become Routine and when they become routine, they take less energy to do more energetic things So what I mean by that is if you look at my day right now, if I go to sleep at 9 p.m I wake up and I intermittent fast. I don't eat and then I have nutrition And it's like salad for lunch and then I'm eating like counting my calories and I'm shredded out of my mind, right? and then I do it again and then I train perfectly and I train intuitively and then I'm flying and then sometimes I'm resting and And I don't go out because I'm training so hard and I don't do any of it Looks like I'm super disciplined is the point. It looks like I'm living this restricted life But what I did was have enough discipline for these habits that helped me fuel my life that I love I have enough discipline for that to turn into a routine, which means it becomes subconscious I don't have to think about going to sleep at 9 p.m. Because I'm exhausted see what I'm saying So it fuels my life. My habits now become to fuel my life. They are my foundation So on the surface is somebody that has no foundation or none of these habits It looks like I'm super disciplined and I'm working so hard all the time But what I'm telling you if you start super small and you take those first steps those habits become effortless And those habits turn into a routine So for example, if you sleep every night at 9 p.m. And you get that routine, that's a hard one I'm telling you that's really hard to do But if you wake up early and you plan your night and you overcome these things and you journal your thoughts And you help your mind unwind which is what I do with my coaching and with my Mindfulness practices, but once that becomes your routine Now going to sleep at 9 p.m. Is something you love to do because when you wake up with full energy and you're creative And your brain is sharp and you have energy to train and you're training better And then when you train better you're making that progress and you have these breakthroughs The going to sleep at 9 p.m. Is your favorite thing to do It's not like what it is now where it might be something that seems impossible, right So all these healthy habits that seem so disconnected because they're so far down the line It starts with the first step and the first step is the healthy foundations, which is sleeping right eating right and moving right My phone disconnected so I wasn't sure if I start doing energy talk. It's how we get back in the flow. Okay So that is the first step that's a little bit about my story ask me any questions you want my all my stories on youtube I have so many videos, but let's just keep the energy moving of what we're doing right now today Tomorrow's earth day. I love earth day. We're going to celebrate earth. We're going to celebrate living on life We are all on this planet. So whatever you're thinking is not possible. Remember we're on a floating rock That's hurling through space Why right so if that's happening and you really connect to that Enjoy your life go for things try things I guarantee you like the what-if video if you take that first step and you make progress down the path Now as you make progress down the path You will start to see the obstacles more clearly and navigate them But if you're looking down a huge path and you have no idea how you're going to get there You don't even take the first step, but take the first step and then the belief will start to grow Okay, another thing I want to talk about is creating your own art because a big part of my life is expressing myself as you can tell And I want to help you guys create content. So whether it's dunking as a physical expression or creating digital content like this video Is tapping into yourself. So this play everything's intertwined. Everything's connected. Everything's one song, baby So if you notice these things about creating art, it's going to help you create your physical. So When you're creating your best art, you want to create what's true to you and what makes you excited make the video You want to see make the music you want to hear Uh, write the words you want to read all these different things are going to bring your unique art To whatever you're making because you're a combination of all your inspirations and when I say inspirations I think it's a fantastic practice to find somebody you like photographer videographer Dunker and try to emulate what they do that you love because In the attempt to emulate what doing what they love you're going to learn How to get there so photography is a fantastic example for me because I would see this picture of like the street And I would try to take a similar picture. I couldn't do it. It wouldn't look anything like it But then By me trying to emulate that photo two things happened one the fear that I was just being a fraud because I'm just I have no style of my own I'm just trying to be this other person that was illuminated and I overcame that because I understood that I'm not going to ever make it just like that person And I'm trying to make it like that person and that photo I loved and all these different types of photography Is going to make my own unique type of photography and number two is in the attempt of doing it Trying to emulate it. I have something to shoot for so instead of not doing it I'm trying to take the photo try different angles compare and contrast and I'm learning So just like training if you're trying to dunk a certain way if you're trying to jump higher Notice your technique notice what you're doing notice who you want to dunk like and why because that excitement is going to lead you down the right path Because it's pure joy and at the end of the day if you're following that joy That's going to be unique to you because for example, I like dunking. I like photos. I like videos. I like talking So that's going to make the most unique content possible And then when I put my what I like is my style my colors my music all those Combined are going to make the most unique piece of art So that's where it comes back to training is that's why I don't give you just go do 10 squats Because your body is so unique to you that I want you to start learning all the unique qualities of yourself Are you able to push yourself? Like for example, if I say go make a video You might be terrified of talking to the camera where I can do it in infinitely, right? But when it comes to training, are you effortlessly pushing yourself to the nth degree? And you need to actually allow yourself to rest more and be more patient and live out of Courage and be courageous to I'm going to talk about courage in a second Or are you acting out of fear that you're not making enough progress and anxiety that you you're going to lose progress If you don't work too fast or are you on your ass and you need some a kick in the ass to To push yourself and you need to push past that limit That's for you to figure out and we can work together on that I help illuminate those thoughts But that's way different than saying go do 10 squats because those two people have such a different universe of their own experience together So With that being said I'm going to use the power verse force book from David Hawkins And this is part of what I wanted to talk about my recommendations Courage is the shift from you changing your entire reality because under courage is fear doubt anxiety Anything like that is going to keep you stuck So if we think of courage it's going to help us illuminate the distinction between Do we need to push harder or do we actually need to rest more and for me? I need to rest more and the reason I was able to help myself do that Is because I have plenty of courage to push myself to the limit even when I'm not feeling it But it's actually more courageous to rest because I am trusting that I've done the work And I'm trusting that my body needs to rest and I'm trusting that One day of rest two days of rest. I'm not going to lose progress And if I look at it from the flip side, I can see that it would be fear Not courage by pushing myself to the limit because you could say to yourself You need to push past these limits when I'm feeling tired feeling down Do I need to push past these limits? But the reason I would be pushing is because of a fear and anxiety that I'm not Doing enough It was out of a fear and anxiety that I'm not making enough progress or I'm going to lose progress by not working today But if I think of what's the most courageous thing I can do That's going to help me get clearer on the workout I need to do today. So I hope that helps you so That's the energy talk for today. I would love your feedback I have more on my podcast every monday celebrations That is all about celebrating the day and that's what I want to bring to youtube And I have way more content for youtube. I want to do vlogs. I want to do comedy I want to do those high level motivational next level cinematic trailers. So Fill me with energy hit that comment button what slash clap the energy cycles buzz solve the buttons Hit me up if you want to go nuts, baby, and I want you to live a fantastic life That's the end of the day is I want you to live fantastic I don't want you to just live baseline baseline is the healthy foundations Once we're healthy, we can find what we do best So if you're having confusion if you're lost if you're stuck if you're hitting plateaus Go back to the basics build that solid foundation of health And anything is possible when you start from there because now you eliminate variables But you also have something to build upon that gives you the freedom to think clearly Be creative and find your genius god. I love energy talk energy talk, baby Coming to you every day or maybe not or every other week. Let's go