Three factors you need to know to perform the best

Do you want to keep training in good condition to make a great result?

Whatever you do, great results come from smart consistent effort. It is not only smart effort, not only consistent effort, but also smart consistent effort.

To keep making a consistent effort, you need the following three things.

First, you need to learn. If you don’t learn things, you don’t know how to do and what to do. Look at the world, many people say ‘I wanna get rich’ and immediately they disappear to a bar. They meld their money in the bar because they don’t know how to get rich and more importantly, they don’t know how to take the first step.

Second, you need to keep your physical condition good. This is the reason why we need to sleep. In Japan, there was a commercial film about 30 years ago. One man who wore a nice suit said to audiences ‘Can you keep fighting 24 hours?’ and he had an energy drink in his hand. That was a commercial film about the energy drink. But of course, you cannot keep fighting 24 hours a day.

You can do that if it is only one day. But, if you want to keep making smart efforts consistently, you always try to keep your physical condition as good as possible, especially if you want to run faster.

Third, if you want to keep your mental vitality as high as possible. All your mentality converges into the desire you want to survive in this world, no matter whether you know that or not. Appetite, sleep desire, sexual desire, the desire you want to achieve something great in your life, the desire to study, all these things come from your vitality as a live. And to keep controlling your vitality in the right way, you also need willpower.

It's OK to have many desires. If you are not hungry, you will not eat much and if you will not eat much, probably you cannot work and train harder or more than I do.

If you don’t like women, probably you have less desire to make money and get better physically than I have, so that you work, study and train less than I do.

It’s good to have many kinds of desires, but you need to control all desires in the right way. Yes, I like to eat, but I don’t eat chips all day on a couch.

Yes, I like to date with nice women (not necessarily beautiful but nice and cute). But mostly all I do in my life is working, study, training, eating, drinking(not alcohol) and sleeping. Nothing else.

Also, you need willpower to keep the positive thought. The positive thought here means, all thoughts which affect you in

a positive way.

Everybody has a bad day. The real matter is not having a bad day, but that bad day gives you negative thoughts like ‘Oh my gosh, after working so hard, all I got is like this? Now, it’s time to quit. This is no meaning for me. It’s not for me. I will quit. I am not talented, I am not genius. Maybe, I should chase for a normal life and deserve mediocrity’.

How many this kind of nights have you had in your whole life?

If you are honest enough, it would not be only one night or two nights.

It’s very normal to think like this. I also had this kind of day. I still remember how bad my first marathon was.

I sacrificed everything, money, stable good job, friends, girls, everything.

I put everything on my preparation for the first marathon. I moved to Iten in Kenya and lived with local Kenyan athletes in an apartment where there was no refrigerator, no bath, washing machine, no coffee maker, no flush toilet, nothing.

And the result?

I lost even by a woman. I had many this kind of experiences and of course, many negative thoughts came to my mind and I wanted to quit. I was thinking about being a teacher for high school students in my hometown. Quiet and peaceful life.

But, I knew that I could do more and that was not what I really wanted to do. So, I tried to change my mind into my vision for the future. It was not easy, but I tried to do that. Then, yes you need willpower.

This is just one example.

There are also many small things.

For example, the pandemic showed us who had strong mind and who had weak mind. Many people said ‘What if I get corona?’, ‘How is our life going ? The economy clashes and we can never go back to normal life?’.

Many people were so afraid of many things before those things happen to them. And those things have never happened to them yet in most cases.

You always need to have positive thoughts and ideas in your mind. So that you can achieve many more things which are greater than normal people can. And this is not an inherent character, but your willpower. If your willpower decreases, you get trapped by negative thoughts.

Now, I already explained about the first factor and the third factor.

First of all, you need to study more and more about what you really want to achieve in your life. Specific things and general things. Both are very important.

If you learn and study how to make money and never learn or study about life in general, you are going to be the next Epstein.

And in terms of keeping your mind always in good condition, you need to observe your thought and if it is something negative, you need to try to turn it into positive thought by using your willpower.

How about the second factor?

Today, I will give you some basic things.

First of all, sleep is very important. Never underestimate the importance of sleep. The volume and quality, both are very important. Researchers conclude that there are very few short sleepers who sleep only 3 hours a day and they recover enough and these people exist only as many as people who got thunderbolt.

In other words, most so-called short sleepers are not real short sleepers. They are just people who perform much worse than their real performance because of lack of sleep.

Also, the quality of sleep is very much important. Actually, the most important thing is not to decrease the quality of your sleep.

The biggest factor of decreasing your sleep quality is caffeine. I will not deny that you drink a cup of coffee or matcha. But, if it is after 4 pm, don’t do that.

Also, alcohol is not good. Also, in this case, I will not deny drinking alcohol at all because alcohol makes you fall asleep more easily. If you cannot fall asleep for 4 hours, then drinking alcohol is one of options.

But, remember alcohol decreases your sleep quality. The reason is pretty simple. What does alcohol do for you?

It restricts your brain function and it makes you stupider, right?

All our vital phenomena are governed by the central nervous system, in other words, our brain. So, if your brain functions go down, your sleep quality and recovery quality goes down.

Also, negative thoughts like fear, anger, irritation decrease your sleep quality. There are many people say in their minds ‘Goddam it, I didn’t realize then, but he also said to me ‘You are lower than pond scums’. I need to beat him tomorrow’. If you are so angry, you cannot sleep well, of course.

Or many people are fear of losing something.

‘What if I lose this job?’

‘What if I lose my husband?’

‘What if I lose my girlfriend?’

‘What if my business collapses?’

I’ll tell you one stupid story. One 60 years old white woman fall in love with a Kenyan man when he went to Masai town for sightseeing. She was already married and had two children. But she decided to divorce her husband and married the Kenyan man.

After that, she said ‘The marriage life is not as much happy as most people think. Kenya is a country of polygamous and I am so afraid of that my husband gets another young lady’.

I thought that this woman was one of the most ridiculous women in this world. She does not appreciate what she got, but afraid of losing something she has not lost yet.

If you are this kind of person, I’m sure that you cannot sleep well in terms of the volume and quality.

Once you are fear of something or you get anger, stress hormone comes out. Stress hormone is not as bad as it sounds. We need stress hormones to work hard, fight well, train hard etc. The reason why we want caffeine when we work hard and don’t want caffeine when we go to bed is because caffeine makes us produce stress hormone.

There are two ways to reduce stress hormones.

First one is, staying as relaxed as possible. Based on many researches, meditation reduces stress hormone and increases quality of sleep.

The second one is, using low level laser machines. It is also called LLLT. Low Level laser is light energy which its wavelength is from 600nm to 1000nm.

Physically speaking, the shorter the wavelength is, the higher energy that light has. For example, radiation’s wavelength of an atomic bomb is approximately 0.01nm or shorter than that. So, it is very powerful and it breaks human body down.

While, light which its wavelength is from 600nm to 1000nm has relatively low level energy. So, it is called low level laser. Although it is called low level laser, the effect is powerful. It reduces your stress hormone level significantly and it increases your quality of sleep.

By the way, the simple theory that you cannot train hard and sleep at the same time is easy to understand, right?

You take a rest and work hard. When your body goes into rest mode, you cannot train hard, that’s why in army, captains say ‘at tension (attention). You need to be tense when you work hard.

And when you want to go into recovery mode including deep sleeping, you need to stay relaxed as much as possible. At the same time, if you think about your ideal future in this time, it becomes your unconsciousness more easily. The deeper relax mode you go into, the more easily your thoughts become your unconsciousness and the deeper level your thoughts become your unconsciousness, the more likely it comes true.

The second factor is nutrition. But, you don’t need to think about it much.

Basically, what you want to eat and drink is good for your body.

Anyone who wants to eat sand?

Anyone who wants to drink oil?

No?

That’s good.

Basically, if you eat and drink what you want to eat and drink, it is good.

However, there is a problem. That is, we human beings produced many artificial things and our instincts do not understand how bad artificial thing is. Alcohol, drugs, artificial food dye, artificial color, artificial preservative, meats from live stock factory, farmed fish, all these things very often make inflammation and oxidative stress in our bodies.

Inflammation and oxidative stress damage our body condition and decrease the quality of recovery.

But, there are also anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative stress foods. That’s colorful vegetables and fruits and any kinds of spices and seasons. All colors of fruits and vegetables have anti-oxidase effects and anti-inflammatory effects. Also all kinds of spices especially ginger and turmeric have them.

So, just remember here, go for natural, organic foods, any kinds of natural carbohydrates, colorful fruits and vegetables.

I very often get asked ‘Which vegetables or fruits is the best one?’. I cannot answer the question because all colors play a different role in our bodies. So, the best answer is, eat as many colors fruits and vegetables as possible. This is the best answer.

Also, don’t forget about carbohydrates. This is one of the most important nutrition for us long distance runners for recovery.

Additionally, taking multi mineral and vitamins is a good idea. There are many kinds of anti-oxidants in the world and the strongest one is anti-oxidative enzyme in our bodies. To optimize anti-oxidative enzyme in our bodies, we need multi minerals. So, it is also a good idea to take multi mineral supplements.

Although, we can take minerals from foods, nowadays foods do not have as much minerals as before because of the progression of farming. Now, farmers can take 7 times more foods than before from the same size of farm.

That means, foods scramble for minerals and each food (carrot, potato, cabbage or whatever it is) might have less minerals than before.

So, it is a good idea to take multi-minerals.

The last one is low level laser machines. I already mentioned this machine to increase the quality of your sleep and improve your brain function.

However, low level laser machines also improve your energy production in your cells. All physical energy for activity and recovery comes from mitochondria in your cells. And there is very important enzyme called cytochrome c oxidase in your mitochondria. If cytochrome c oxidase does not work well, you cannot produce enough energy for activity and recovery, in other words, you cannot perfume the best daily. So, the future is also worse than your ideal life.

To avoid this, you can use low level laser machines. Once low level laser is absorbed by your mitochondria, you can produce more energy and so that you can recover quicker, more energized and stay younger.

My recommendation is to emit the low level laser 15 minutes to your whole body in naked once or twice a day. I also do this almost every day.

It is not only good for my training but also my work because with more energy I can focus on my work longer than usual with high productivity because low level laser increases my brain function.

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