Swimming with Sharks and Loosening the Grip of Our Fears

Seconds ago, you surprised yourself with the level of calm, poise and fascination that you held whilst immersed 10-metres deep on one single breath, staring contentedly out of your mask and straight into the curious eye of a 2.5m long Grey Nurse Shark suspended there like a torpedo, very much within your arms reach.

Underdog to Top Dog, the Quest to Expand Our Capacity for Challenges using Breathwork

In Australia, we love the underdog. The struggler, the battler.

The one we least expect to overcome adversity. The least likely to come out on top. The one considered weaker of the opponents. Less powerful, less funded, and unfairly treated, less just. The one entrenched in some kind of adversity, struggling for success.

We love to see them rise to the top. And take out that poppy. The tallest one, with its neck stuck out.

Breathe the Forest – Gravity Eden: Deep Slow Breathing for an Optimal You

Cranking my way up After Burner towards Power Up track, my mental moaning rises to just behind my forehead, trying to get in the way of my frontal lobe duties that are keeping watch of the trail, interpreting the bumps, variations, shadows and light. The frontal lobe is as much under load as my quadriceps are as I seek to retain a regular rhythm of strong low-cadence pedalling in a tough gear up the steep inclines.

Ambition aspires to descend. Letting go of goals

Ambition aspires to descend. Letting go of goals

<a name="">  When we're talking about performance, letting go of goals seems like the exact opposite thing we should be doing to excel. But what if letting go of the goal enabled the attainment of objectives beyond the original scope? "Ambition aspires to...

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Balancing the scoop

Balancing the scoop

<a name="">  Today's technological society keeps us hyped up on status updates, likes, tweets, tips, tricks, and positive re-enforcement techniques. Really though, all that represents is sprinkles on the cone of an ice-cream. Sprinkles add a bit of flavour...

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Simple questions like: Glass or Plastic?

Simple questions like: Glass or Plastic?

<a name="">  Simple questions, simple answers. Neat, very neat, very quick. A simple question such as: When buying a soft drink, is it better to buy one contained in a glass bottle or one in plastic? Maybe your first thought is the aesthetic. Glass is more...

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The lens through which we ‘see’

The lens through which we ‘see’

<a name="">  How do we see? Not through our eyes, but our mind? How do you see things in the environment from the context of your experience. How does this differ from the way I see the same experience whilst being there with you? Locals securing photos of...

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Mindfulness: Hocus Pocus or Renewed Focus?

Mindfulness: Hocus Pocus or Renewed Focus?

Way back on the 1st February this year, I despatched this prediction via Twitter, meaning that mindfulness is set to become mainstream during 2012. I stand by it. So what is mindfulness? My favourite description is this from Ruth Baer: "The non-judgmental...

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Is your behaviour eroding your personal ecosystem?

Is your behaviour eroding your personal ecosystem?

"Do not feed or handle wildlife." What if inadvertently you'd adopted a new behaviour that resulted in you becoming a little less wild, or that you lost an important behaviour that dulled you forever? You'd be sad, wouldn't you? Keeping them a little bit wild Why do...

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Sometimes it can help to go back, reverse

Sometimes it can help to go back, reverse

On a bicycle you're always looking ahead, scanning, anticipating, looking at the path forwards. Your head is up, identifying obstacles, changes or hazards ahead, searching for clear space. It's a very rare occasion you'll fully look back whilst going forwards, it...

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Team building 101 – IT Execs on mountain bikes? Why not!

Team building 101 – IT Execs on mountain bikes? Why not!

There’s something brilliant about seeing people outside their comfort zone exhibiting all of the inner drive, enthusiasm and genuine eagerness to overcome the situation. It was with excitement that an invitation to assist Ride International deliver a guided mountain bike group day. Pat Fitzpatrick, who spends much of the year in Europe hosting tours to the major road races or providing high level MTB and Road cycling coaching services, lead a group of senior executives on a MTB tour around Melbourne’s Lysterfield Park trails.

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Targeting optimum performance and optimal preparation?

Targeting optimum performance and optimal preparation?

The period leading up to a new role, project or event is an exciting time. The anticipation and excitement is enveloping as thoughts of the unknowns run free. How can this energy be best channelled for optimum performance upon arrival? These last weeks the countdown...

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Performance potential. At work?

Performance potential. At work?

At maarq, we're not ever too far away from a training program, a cycling fitness training program that is. The training program tends to bookend the day. In the morning it's usually completing a fitness workout on the training plan (TP) and at the end of the day it...

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