Posture -- the reflection of self-confidence

These five lazy half-effort workers are then converted to hard-working full effort workers. And when a bigger rock is provided, and your boss sees that you have fully utilized the ten workers, he or she then hires another two lazy workers in which you have to convert to hard-working workers. And this process repeats itself again and again, until you soon realize that the first rock you have ever tried to push, is now just a sand pebble because you now possess thousands of hard-working workers over time. In building strength, to recruit these higher threshold motor units, there are only two ways of doing so. Vladimir Zatsiorsky, Ph. High-threshold motor units are activated under two conditions--a single maximal repetition and the final repetition of a set of multiple repetitions taken to maximum. This simply means that if we want to activate these motor units in your body, it can only be done with a high load for a maximum repetition, or for the last couple of reps in multiple reps set. So let's say you are doing ten reps, the first seven might be easy, and then grind out the last three. With this resource hijacked for the purpose of thinking about how well you are thinking, you simply have less mental capacity to focus on the task at hand. The comedian Jerry Seinfeld remarks on the common fear of public scrutiny: According to most studies, people's number-one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy. Other kinds of performance don't rely on working memory capacity. Becoming an expert in a domain such as basketball, piano, or whichever first-person shooter game is currently flying off the shelves means practicing to the point that certain actions become automatic. When you reach this point, you no longer need to focus your conscious stream of attention on the step-by-step elements of the task at hand. When people feel the threat of social evaluation and doubts creep in, they slip out of the routine performance they have practiced and begin mentally micromanaging their movements--dooming themselves to failure (Beilock & Carr, 2001). Personal devices are helping to take a bite out of food waste One of the great opportunities for tackling climate change and improving the health of people all over the planet is stopping food waste.

Globally, nearly one third of food is lost or wasted. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 45 percent of all fruit and vegetables, 35 percent of seafood, 30 percent of cereals, and 20 percent of both meat and dairy products--1. It also carries a huge environmental and economic cost, because producing all that unused food demands resources and contributes to soil erosion, deforestation, water and air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. Plus, food that's thrown in the garbage ends up in the landfill, which creates emissions too. But in the age of personalization, tech innovations like smart kitchens, sensor devices that detect food spoilage, and tracking systems are having a big impact. Fridge Pal, Foodfully, and similar apps help you make shopping lists, track expiry dates, and suggest recipes based on the food you have at hand. Companies like Leanpath do the same thing for commercial kitchens, using food-waste smart meters to track and identify areas of overproduction. The hospital at the University of California, San Francisco, cut their food waste in half, and now directs unused food to charities in the city, thanks to a combination of this high-tech tracking system and personalized menus that allow patients to choose their own meals. Those last three reps are when higher threshold motor units are activated as the body needed extra help to finish off the reps. To activate high threshold motor units without weights is to run as fast as possible, jump as high as possible, throw as far as possible. Oftentimes it is best when done through competition with someone or a group of individuals. Competition is a strategy we always use because if you run on your own, you could run at a max effort. But when you are competing, you have certain other hormones that come into play like adrenaline. Adrenaline helps you excite the nervous system to activate high threshold motor units. When there is a competition, there is something that excites you to compete at a higher level - it is human nature. For young athletes, we always get them to play, get them to compete in a safe environment. They may feel uncomfortable, or they may not have the confidence to win and just give up. We often remind them that it is not about winning or losing, it is about giving it your all, each and every time. Thus, a professional tennis player who gets nervous and thinks, I have to remember to get my racquet back, step into my shot, shift my weight, and follow through is likely to have found that Rafael Nadal's blistering forehand has whizzed right by him before he can set up for the shot. So how do you go about preventing what happened to Memphis from happening to you?

Perhaps we can find wisdom in the advice of the basketball legend Charles Barkley, who said, I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena. By disengaging his own self-evaluation from a single game, from the audience in the stands, and from the court more generally, he's less vulnerable to the disruptive evaluative pressures of being in the spotlight. Performing with Others: Social Loafing Research on social facilitation reveals how performance is affected when people perform in front of others. But what about performing with other people on a common task? Those who coach teams or manage organizations know that it can be challenging to get group performance to equal or exceed the sum of its parts. Part of the problem is simply coordinating behavior among two or more people (Latane et al. Often food is wasted before it even makes it to its final destination--but again, personalized technology is stepping in to solve the problem by making it easier to redistribute unwanted food to those who need it. Food Cowboy matches transport trucks with food they need to unload--say, pallets of overripe tomatoes--with charities happy for a donation. The food gets eaten, and the shipper gets a donation credit. With Transfernation, an on-demand food redistribution service operating in New York, food left over from receptions, weddings, and business meetings is picked up by volunteers, or by transportation networks like Lyft or Uber, and delivered to food banks and shelters. Donors get a tax receipt, deliverers get fifteen dollars a trip, and people in need get delicious food. Healthy produce often gets thrown away for cosmetic reasons before it even reaches the grocery store. Instagram images of ugly yet adorable-looking fruits and vegetables sparked the @UglyFruitAndVeg campaign to encourage people to see less-than-perfect produce in a more accepting light. Imperfect Foods works directly with farmers and retailers to source ugly produce that would have been thrown away, and deliver these healthy items to your doorstep for up to 30 percent less than buying food in the grocery store. In cities all over the world, you can download apps like Feedback, goMkt, Food for All, and Too Good To Go that alert you to restaurants nearby offering deep discounts on meals for pickup near closing time. NoFoodWasted in the Netherlands does the same thing, but for grocery shopping, alerting you to supermarkets offering discount prices on products reaching their best-before dates. It is about aspiring to win and making sure they understand that the effort they put in today may not pay today, but it will MAXIMUM EFFORT & VOLUME INTENSITY

Through research and field experience, we have found that athletes committing to a proper off-season strength training four days a week for 12 to 20 weeks yield the best results. The goal is to always activate higher threshold motor units during these four days and then having the rest of the week for recovery and skill work development. Maximum effort and high volume intensity must never be done until the preparation for the body is done. That means the balancing of the body, the mobility, and any high-risk deficiencies must be addressed before proceeding to this phase of training. In these phases of training, we prescribe two maximal effort days and two high-intensity volume days. During the maximal effort days, athletes are maxing between three to five different exercises. In the first week, they are setting the standard. Each week, on maximal effort days, the athlete must beat their weight by at least 2 kg or 5 lb, otherwise they will drop the weight down to between 80 to 90% of their last maximum set and grind out high-intensity volume work after all of their maximum attempts are completed. But another challenge to optimizing group performance is a phenomenon called social loafing, in which an individual exerts less effort when performing as a part of a collective or group than when performing as an individual. A cartoon strip conversation by Mark Parisi and off the mark. The bottom of the cartoon strip reads text Mother Natures' Sweatshop. Social loafing A tendency to exert less effort when performing as part of a collective or group than when performing as an individual. Consider this study: Participants were asked to clap or cheer as loudly as they could as part of an ostensible study of sound generation and perception (Latane et al. They had to be as loud as possible either alone, in pairs, in a group of four, or in a group of six. What would you do in these different contexts? If the social context doesn't matter, then you would probably clap as loudly when alone as when you are in a big group. But that's not what the researchers found. And if you're moving to a new house or going on vacation, or you've simply got food in your fridge you know you can't use in time, you can donate it to your neighbors--or ask for that egg you need for a cake--using Olio. This app promotes free food sharing, and its more than 1.

By making things accessible in real time through our personal devices, these innovations are actively reducing greenhouse gas emissions, building more equitable systems, and deepening our sense of belonging to communities that care about making positive changes for the planet. Personalized technologies support collective campaigns In the Age of Personalization, we participate in environmental action in ways that reflect our diverse identities and shared passions. Climate change activism has become a cultural movement. Pink Floyd's David Gilmour raised $21. Lil Dicky and dozens of famous musicians released Earth, using their music and their huge followings to gain vital coverage of climate change. Coldplay chose to end tours until they can be environmentally sustainable, while Massive Attack has commissioned the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research to provide guidance on how to decarbonize music tours, which they will share with others. When we get individualized feedback on our personal devices, enhanced by access to real-time analysis, it helps us understand how our everyday actions impact the planet. Let's say you are able to hit a maximum back squat of 200 lb for five reps on week one. On week two, you will attempt at least 205 or more. If you succeed, you move onto the next exercise. If you fail, you will move onto the attempting maximum efforts on all other exercises that require maximum effort, but then come back to the back squat for high-intensity volume day training. That means weights between 80 to 90% for multiple sets. In this case, it will be 180 lb which is 90% for five for a prescribed amount of sets. If you come back and fail 180 lb on the 3rd set, then you drop it to 80 or 85% which is 160 lb to complete the rest of the prescribed sets. During the two volume days, or a missed maximal effort attempt, I need athletes to stay as close to the intensity as possible. I do not want you to stray too far from the high-intensity work. Anything less than 75% to me is a waste of time. Instead, the sound generated per person was highest when people were clapping and cheering alone and decreased each time the group size was increased. This slacking off occurred even when people were doing their clapping and shouting in individual soundproof chambers and believed that the sound they generated would be combined with the sounds of other group members in separate chambers.