AS A LIFESTYLE EDUCATION BUSINESS, WE WORK WITH PROFESSIONALS AND BUSINESS OWNERS WHO ARE DEDICATED TO OUTPERFORMING IN EVERY ASPECT OF THEIR LIFE; THEIR HEALTH, RELATIONSHIPS AND WORK. With such high-performing clients, you'd likely not be surprised how often we hear from our Tribe how they struggle to switch off on an evening, don't get enough sleep or not enough quality sleep... Whether you want to improve your performance at work and training, have a healthy and strong immune system, function optimally physically and mentally, have energy for your loved ones around you… The secret is to get some QUALITY shut eye time!Yes life is hectic… you’re a high performer who is always on the go and finds it hard to shut off or get some down time. I get it… it’s not straight forward! But if you want to be successful and have longevity for your health and relationship you know you must change something.After having dealt with this personally for years I’d like to share some of the tools and habits that myself and most of the AIM TRIBE implement. Take control of your sleep habits and hack your sleep as we have, it's had a profound impact in so many areas of our lives!So if you want to learn and implement a handful of simple and effective hacks to improve the quality of your sleep, catch those elusive 💤 ‘s and make awesome training gains... download this bad boy 😉Be sure to keep moving and hit me up with any commentsVik.Take home Over the course of your life, you’ve learned how to move in an astonishing number of ways. Not all of the ways you move are correct, in fact some of your habits are probably downright horrific. But that doesn’t stop you from moving. When you ask your body to do a job, your body doesn’t care what it looks like - it carries out an order using the resources it has available and the habits you have developed over the years.If you have poor body awareness, poor movement patterns, and the wrong muscles are inhibiting the right ones during your performance, if you haven’t already hit a plateau in strength, then there’s a good chance one is coming your way. And usually, injury is not too far behind. Download vik's sleep hacks pdf Sign up for updates from AIM below and a link will appear to download Vik's HOW TO HACK YOUR SLEEP PDF instantly.About Anatomy In MotionHave questions or want us to help you improve your body awareness? Hit the button below to get in touch and arrange a chat with us.Make an EnquiryFollowFacebookInstagramYoutube … [Read more...] about How to Hack Your Sleep
The Secret to Defying Gravity
A lot of people, especially women but lots of men too, find the chin up or pull up elusive in training. Vik shares how the AIM Method simplifies the process and makes it in reach... Being able to pull up or chin up your own body weight is considered a standard benchmark of upper body strength. It shows you are strong and able to handle your own body above the bar or rings. You look and feel powerful when you get up there, who wouldn't want to defy gravity!? 😊 Pull ups are used in training to build a strong and sexy back however the benefits they have on your health and quality of life outside of the gym are far greater (and in my opinion more important) than having great looking shoulders and back!A lot of people, especially females struggle with this movement because of lack of strength, mobility, poor functioning + de-conditioned shoulders, lack of grip strength and/or poor connective tissue (tendons/ligaments/muscle) health.Now there are a lot of Tom, Dick and Harrys out there who’ve graduated from ‘YouTube University’ who claim to know various secrets or have the latest short cuts to getting you stronger! We at AIM don’t have any secrets or magic sauce… just the knowledge and experience to break it down to simple progressions and help everyday people hit their chin and pull up goals.We get clients over the bar not only for the first time but building up to reps and sets. Once you attain that first chin or pull up, we progress to higher-level work like the archers pull up or muscle up. With that in mind, I'd like to introduce Gail in the video below, her goal has been to defy gravity!Gail started her journey by simply developing grip strength; her connective tissues and the overall health + function of the shoulders improved leaps and bounds because of this. Laying solid foundation takes time but pays huge dividends as it has been easier to build strength and the result within 9 months she got her first chin up. This feat didn’t happen overnight and is still a work in progress. Below in the vid is where is now + one of the phases from her strength training sessions last year.I want to share 6 key components of building a chin up we’ve used with her (and with all of our clients) in the hope it gives you the inspiration to start your journey to defy gravity, build/maintain a healthy shoulder, or for it to be helpful to get over any plateaus you may be going through with you quest to get that first chin up 😊. 6 key components to build to a chin-up 1. Hang out One of the first steps to your first pull/chin-up is getting comfortable just hanging from a bar/rings. Not only is this great for shoulder health and to decompress your spine, but it will build up your grip and forearm strength. Ensure the shoulders are fully relaxed with the chin resting on the top of the chest (a passive hang). Initially, this may be really uncomfortable for people with really tight shoulders.Target: Build to 3-5 comfortable sets of … [Read more...] about The Secret to Defying Gravity