The Roaring Heads Podcast Grant Giles

Ive been punching away at blogs for many years. In many ways that writing has become my own teacher. Raw curiosity has dragged me headlong into a personal investigation of my own state, and the writing it spawned has held a mirror up to the world of performance. The curiosity brings the questions, how do we live our best life? How do we bring ourselves to the zenith of performance? The answer is we don't! We bring the performance to us. The simple answer I have learned and...

We are full of patterns. Habitual, unconscious ways of being in the world built mostly around safety. Programmed patterns are running all the time in our training, many of them separating us from our own internal power. The past drags us around by our bootlaces unless we are very consci to itAll the metal, subconscious scripts that we run under pressure play at the forefront of our minds eye drowning out the potential in us. If you are going to interrupt any physical or...

Sport and indeed life, demand our attention, our presence and our focus. That focus is about retaining our personal integrity. It is to not speak against ourselves, or descend into self blame, self judgment or the self defeatist talk which can often lead to a fracture in an athletes focus. It's about remaining self possessed and free from the internal agitation that deregulates our nervous systems and send us into a stress response when we need the full force of our own power. ...

Don’t define yourself as an athlete, embody it!What does that mean? It means bringing it home. The measurement of the process is useless without the awareness it takes to integrate it. The integration is about the intelligence and the self awareness that you apply to the suck and the embodiment of the physical unfolding that is taking place right here and now. This is how physical consistency, adaption and development work. Cognition and consciousness are not just functions of ...

This week we had a chat with Mark Jansen about the challenges an athlete faces being an elite level age group triathlete and cyclist while working full-time in the corporate world. Mark is a super strong willed athlete, racing successfully in 70.3 and Ironman. A twice top 5 finisher in Hawaii and a multiple sub-9 hour Ironman, he is well positioned to speak about the balance of work, life and sport. We talk about the gift and the curse of the type A personality and the management it...

Want the best of yourself?It's not about how you react; it's about how you respond. Critically, it's about your state of mind as you respond that governs the quality of the action you take in that response. You're programming around what you think you can and can't do radically affects your capacity to respond from a place of power rather than from a place of defense. If you are responding from defense, you are out of your power and trapped in your head. All that you see in fro...