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First an analogy.
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You are a human being. The human body has a specific design and function. Treat it the way it was designed, and you not only can live a long and healthy life, but also can have athletic abilities you thought not possible.
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Ignore the facts about the way your body functions and you can forget about a long and healthy life, let alone a successful athletic career.
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Imagine a Lamborghini sports car. It is designed. You put gas, not water in the gas tank. That is how it was designed. You must rotate the tires, change the oil, replace the spark plugs… you get the picture.
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If you treat your Lamborghini especially well, with the highest performance gasoline, the best quality oil, etc., then what will happen? It will perform proficiently.
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If you put water in the gas tank, never change the oil, etc., what is going to happen? It is not even going to get you down the street. Why?
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You are not treating it in the way in which it was designed.
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You may spend a fortune on the appearance of your Lamborghini, special high gloss paint, chrome wheels, etc., but that is simply the façade. Your Lamborghini was made to run. Moreover, run well! Appearance alone cannot make a Lamborghini run.
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Now let us talk about you as an athlete.
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You are designed. You function optimally when treating your body the way it is supposed to function.
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Listen to this.
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Your body is made up of 75 trillion cells.
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99% of your cells replicate, or in other words, create new cells.
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Why?
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Because your cells get old and stop functioning properly. Then they die off.
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Chad Vaughn of Konowa, OK became won the National Weightlifter Championship May 7, 2005.
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You create more than 150 billion new cells every day.
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Where do they come from? Thin air?
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Are the cells just automatically made, or do certain criteria need to be met?
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Can things go wrong in the creation of new cells? Can the process be slowed down?
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Can it be speeded up?
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Can stronger, longer lasting, optimally functioning cells be created and maintained?
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The answer to most of these questions is obvious.
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As an athlete, you need to be aware of how your body functions. Physiology 101 anyone?
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(Keep on reading. In a shorter period than you can image, you are going to learn more about your body in relationship to your sport, than you ever thought possible. Information that will give you an extreme advantage over others.)
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There is a ‘key’ to cellular replication, cellular health, cellular longevity, and cellular function.
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This ‘key’ determineseverything about how well the cell performs. How long it lives. If it creates a new cell to replace itself before it wears out.
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Courtney Zablocki member of the US National Luge Team and 2002 Olympic Team Member.
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What is this key?
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Environment.
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Say it out loud as you read this, “Environment is the key!”
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Your body has seven internal environments. These seven environments regulate everything in regards to how your cells function.
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You could say that these seven internal environments determine whether your cells live or die. Whether they function optimally or malfunction. Whether they create new healthy cells to replace themselves or not.
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Imagine your body with 75 trillion healthy, optimally functioning cells that last a long time.
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Now, imagine your body with 75 trillion weakened, non-functioning cells.
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Just like the Lamborghini, you may look good on the outside (muscular, etc.), but really what do your cells and organs look like? How are they performing?
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It is all determined by the seven internal environments.
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The seven things your cells need 24/7 are:
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Proper nutrition.
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Proper oxygenation.
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Proper hydration.
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Proper detoxification.
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An alkaline environment.
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A flowing hydrated lymph, measured at 45 dynes, surrounding the cells.
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A proper electrical construct.
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Environment is everything!
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Don’t believe it?
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Ever seen a desert? Ever seen a rain forest? Think about it.
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No, stop right here and think about it.
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If you were transported this very second, with just your underwear on, to a barren uninhabited region of the South Pole, how long would you live?
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Since I've been taking Royal Velvet, it has been quite evident that it has had a positive effect on my exercising. I feel strength and stamina that I've never felt before. Also, my pump seems to be more phenomenal than ever! My strength has steadily increased over the six months that I've been spraying this under my tongue. What has been extremely impressive are those weeks in which I come back when I've been unable to workout for a week or more. I simply don't lose what I've accomplished like I had before.
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Joe Kasallis
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Environment is the key.
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If you took a thousand fish out of the ocean and placed them on a cement parking lot in your hometown, what would happen to them?
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They all die. Why? It is not their environment.
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Can you grow mold in direct sunlight, zero percent humidity, and 35 degrees Fahrenheit?
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No, it is impossible! Why?
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You need a dark, warm, moist environment!
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Imagine living in a place where the temperature was 125 degrees Fahrenheit 24 hours a day, everyday.
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Imagine living in a place where the temperature was -25 degrees Fahrenheit 24 hours a day, everyday.
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Imagine living in a place where it rained one inch per hour, 24 hours a day, everyday.
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Imagine living in a place where it never rained.
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OK, enough of the analogies.
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What does this have to do with being an athlete, athletic performance, getting considerably more advancement out of your training, and you becoming a much better athlete than you are now?
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Everything.
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As an athlete, you need to realize there are two parts of your body that control how well you perform.
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Your brain and your physical body.
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If your brain (made up of 100 billion brain cells) is functioning optimally, then the following is possible:
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A basketball player can considerably increase the percentage accuracy of three point shots, or free throws, or …
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How?
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The brain can communicate with the arm and the hand, telling it to release the basketball at the precise split second, the exact angle, with the proper force, for it to go in.
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A boxer can move his body out of the way quicker, punch more accurately, and act upon information input at lightening speeds.
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A golfer can swing the club so accurately, that he can lower his handicap dramatically.
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The brain can analyze where the ball needs to go and tell the arm to ‘put it there’ by properly swinging the club/putter to the infinitesimal degree.
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Just imagine what your abilities will be when you bring your brain to its most optimal functioning state!
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OK, I know you want to know how to do this, right now! But, whoa! Just a minute. Don’t you think it best you take a minute, find out actually what the brain is, and how it functions? Learn this one now, and you will benefit from it for the rest of your life.
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Ready? Here we go.
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Your brain controls every bodily function. Remember this, it is very important.
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Example, to make a point. You ‘stub’ your big toe. You feel it. So what really happened? The nerves in your big toe sent your brain information; your brain analyzed this information, sent signals down to your big toe to have the sensation that it was ‘stubbed’. Without your brain doing what it was designed to do, you would have never felt anything. Honest!
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One more example, so you really get the importance of this.
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You eat at a restaurant that serves you spoiled food. The sensitive lining of the gastrointestinal tract sends the brain this information, “toxic stuff down here”. The brain analyzes this information and tells your body to expel it immediately. Either through vomiting, if it is still in the stomach, or having the peristalsis quickly move it along out the gastrointestinal tract (diarrhea). Without your brain analyzing this information and making the decision, nothing would happen!
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Your brain controls every bodily function.
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Here are the logistics.
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Your brain is made up of 100 billion cells. These cells are called neurons. Incredibly, none of them touch each other. There is a huge ‘empty’ space surrounding the cells, called the synapse.
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However, the main function of the cells is to communicate with each other via electrical impulses. One problem. Electrical currents cannot jump across this ‘Grand Canyon” size gap, the synapse.
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Enter the neurotransmitters. The brain manufactures liquid chemicals called neurotransmitters that fill up these spaces, acting as the conduit for the electrical impulses to run across millions of brains cells per second. When the electrical impulse gets to a brain cell that has no ‘bridges’ (neurotransmitters), it is forced to stop. When this happens, the brain does not function optimally. (It analyzes less information, sends fewer signals to the rest of the body, etc.)
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The identical athlete performing his sport on two different days, one day with only half the optimal amount of neurotransmitters in the brain, will have an ‘average’ performance. The next day, with properly replenished neurotransmitters, they will have an exceptional, possibly record setting day. Motor skills, accuracy, and performance, can all be dramatically improved over the previous day.
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Don’t believe this?
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Stay awake 48 hours non-stop, drinking an alcoholic beverage once every four hours, then go do your sport. What will happen?
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You will make a fool of yourself. You will be stumbling, bumbling, tumbling. Why?
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Not enough neurotransmitters.
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On the other hand, do The Athlete’s Protocol for a month. Then go do your sport. What will happen?
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You won’t believe it until you experience it.
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So where do these neurotransmitters come from and how do they get into the brain? Glad you asked.
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Every time electrical impulses use neurotransmitters as conduits, many of these liquid chemicals are ‘used up’. They need to be replenished daily. They simply do not appear out of thin air.
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There is only one reason for sleep. To replenish the neurotransmitters that are used up in the course of a day.
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There are four dimensions of sleep. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta. In the first two dimensions of sleep, you are basically going from consciousness to unconsciousness. However, in the two deepest levels of sleep, called Gamma and Delta sleep, the brain takes building materials and manufactures neurotransmitters.
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This is how you replenish the neurotransmitters that are used up throughout the day.
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Example:
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Have you ever had one of those restless nights? Too hot. Dogs barking. Sirens blaring. Spouse snoring. Cats fighting outside. Cannot get comfortable.
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When you wake up in the morning, you feel more tired than when you went to bed. You may feel like someone has beaten you with a baseball bat. You drag your wagon all day long. Why?
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You never got much Gamma or Delta sleep. You did not replenish your neurotransmitters. Your brain cannot function optimally without them. As an athlete, this is exactly opposite of what you want to happen.
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Example number two:
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Ever been drunk? (I know, bad example, but it is going to clarify a point.) OK, ever watch one of those cop shows and see how a drunk acts. They slur their speech. They cannot walk a straight line. They cannot touch their finger to their nose. They cannot count backwards. They stumble. Their eyelids are droopy. You get the picture.
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Why do they act like this?
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