JustFly Perfomance #153 | Keegan Smith on Environmental Dynamics in Sport, Skill Building and Human Performance
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It was a great experience to be on Joel’s Podcast together with so many thought leaders in the world of Performance.
Joel Smith looks outside the box and is prepared to go where most won’t to get uncommon results.
Some of the quotes Joel pulled from the podcast…
“Everybody needs to feel like they are an important part of a social system, not feeling like you are part of a community is going to massively negatively effect (your) performance”
“You are not going to train the same unless you see (athletics) as a vehicle for social change”
“In strength and conditioning, thinking of someone as a human is often too zoomed in, start thinking of the requirements of a plant, and you might start to get better results with people”
“This is where strength and conditioning needs to start, the level of a living organism, the level of a living organism, the level of human psychology and human psyche”
“You can’t separate psychology from physiology”
“If everyone is fighting for their piece of impact, then that athlete is getting pulled all over the place… having a lot of coaches can be harder in a sense… less team members is probably better”
I feel like I’m always the biggest limiting factor on the people that I work with, if I can jump a little higher, if I’m a little bit leaner, if I’m a little bit stronger, then everyone I work with will get pulled in that direction as well, by osmosis, by culture…. It’s pressure, but it’s also opportunity”
“It’s a shame for days to be passing when you don’t know what you are building”
“If you lose your ability to be a human, if you lose your ability to move in multiple directions, you become fragile and your peak will be lower”
“I don’t think you can get to the peak of physical performance by overly specializing”
“The stupider you feel about it, the more you should probably do it”
“I think of Olympic lifting as throwing and catching barbells… I don’t think many people would disagree with throwing 20 kilo medicine balls… but how do you get a hold of a 140 kilo medicine ball, but if you turn it into a barbell, you can throw and catch that thing”
“If you can throw and catch 140kg then everyone on the field feels light”
“There are so many people today who live in bodies they don’t want to be in”
“When you change people’s physiology, you change their psychology”