| Core
Strength and Balance
With winter off
to a quick start, and better December snow than we
have had in the North East in many years, I hit the
slopes last Friday for the first time this season.
This was the fresh,
deep and sticky snow. Again, real unusual in recent
memory in December in New England. Now, those of you
who Ski downhill know that first run can be tentative,
and rightly should be.
I had been unable
to workout (running) for a week after some minor surgery,
so I was not really as sharply conditioned as usual.
I was a little apprehensive and vowed to my wife not
to go nuts the first day out.
Don’t get me wrong,
I’m in decent shape. I have run for 30 years, and
the last few years have added back a few races, some
real trail running, and even a run ‘til you barf trail
race last fall.
This past year though,
I have trained harder since January, have run several
10ks and a 20k hill run, 12-14 mile training runs
and maintained a disciplined regimen of road and trail
running. I have added more spinal stability, calisthenics,
stretching and balance exercises. I also do some biking
when I can.
Anyway, I get to my
favorite local mountain, conditions are great, and
crowds were surprisingly minimal. No sweat with finding
a great parking spot either. I had a little boot trouble,
before I realized my right ankle was a little swollen
and tender, but with a change in latch adjustments
I soon felt great in the boots (which is so critical
to performance).
Now, I had not been
on the boards since March, but within 3 runs, I was
skiing one of my best first days ever. You know the
type, smooth linked turns, reasonably fast speeds,
etc.
I felt so good after
the first seven runs, I went right inside and demoed
for the rest of the day the new skis I have been eying
(Nordica Speedmaker Mach 2s, which by the way, cost
way more than my first car!).
By the third hour,
I was a little surprised at how good I felt. I knew
I had trained hard most of the year, but “What’s so
different this year I kept asking?”
Then, on my next ride
up the quad, it hit me - Core Strength and
Balance. That’s it!
As simple as it is,
I had done more of my stability and balance regimens
at least 2 nights a week on the floor after coming
home from practice, usually while watching sports.
And what enormous
gains in skiing performance, especially on the new
high performance boards! The difference in trunk strength
was so noticeable. Turns were much smoother, edging
and initiation much better than ever. Really big gains
in balance too. (I know, your thinking this guys a
DABCO, is he getting soft?).
And then I looked
for the lesson here. It really is Core Strength and
Balance which has kept me going hard in so many ways.
And its also always
Core Strength and Balance in my top performing clients
too!
And you know what,
all of my teleclasses, writings and products at Perfect
Practice are based upon these very same principles!
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Like my ski adventure,
enormous quantum and exponential gains in practice
are really about simultaneously mastering (The Steps)
time tested, core principles, which form a rock solid
life and practice.
Then adding high performance
tools and systems (The Platform) for producing maximum
gains! The bigger you want your practice, the more
systems you add that produce revenue!
You probably know
by now I am nuts about the core strengths, and what
happens when they are missing in practice and especially
in life. I still remember, and my friends will tell
you 20 years ago even, it would always drive me bezerk
when one of my colleagues would complain about practice,
(how hard it was, patients won’t pay, staff is killing
me, you know all the usual gripes, insurance companies
still suck).
In my early days,
I really had no patience for complaining (and still
don’t). These same complaints from doctors haven’t
changed much, but I learned very early on in practice
that there are right and wrong ways of dealing with
these realities, some of which are in the long term
especially very counterproductive.
Because by year four
in practice 200+ visits were already reality. I had
an associate, and a big paycheck. And I was building
a fabulous private life, even while getting an MS
and DABCO! Every time practice or the environment
changed, I went to mentors, masterminded and then
redesigned systems that worked better. And when things
got really tough 11 years into practice I totally
reinvented my practice, and have done so at least
twice since then!
You know, these same
complaints from doctors haven’t changed much, but
I learned very early on in practice that there are
right and wrong ways of dealing with these realities,
some of which are in the long term very counterproductive.
This is how my Steps,
Gold, Plus and Platinum Clients especially are experiencing
phenomenal periods of growth, gains in income and
reduced stress they spoke about 2 weeks ago (call
if you want the download). And it’s all done at Perfect
Practice Web with solid Principles of Core Strength
and Life Balance. One Perfect Step at a Time!
Lets face it, if anyone
can do this, so can you!
Now, when someone
asks I say this is what we do at Perfect Practice
Web. Share time tested principles and above all help
to implement modern systems. That work in today’s
world. Help teach each other doctors Core Strength
and Balance. No BS.
And help Doctors fulfill
their dreams. All you need to do is choose which pathway
is right for you, and stay with it!
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