231: Louisa Nicola | Neuro Athletics - Do you have focus endurance?
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
What is focus endurance? Louisa, a professional triathlete, was in a car accident and told she would never walk or run again. As a trained mathematician, she delved deep into the field of neurofeedback and flow state. Her understanding of the algorithms behind human performance allowed her to make a full recovery. She utilizes these tactics in her athlete mental performance agency: Neuro Athletics. Time to get those neurons fit Spartans!
Lessons:
Do math- it's great for your brain!
Be mindful of the answers you accept
Visualize your end goal
Peak performance is achieved in "no mind"
Train your "focus endurance"
Links:
Louisa Nicola https://www.neuroathletics.com.au/
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Time Stamps:
0:00 Sefra, Joe, Johnny & Joe Di introduce the interview
1:10 Fitaid break
1:45 Interview with Louisa Nicola at West Point begins
3:00 Creating new neural pathways with mathematics
6:00 Conducting a neuro performance test: focus endurance
9:45 Prevention Vs. Bandaid model
11:05 31 Habits of Healthy Spartans: #4 "Add in the Good"
12:50 Fitaid Break
13:45 Interview continues- math & the brain: algorithms behind human performance
15:00 Flow State: "No Mind" - best results with minimal effort
19:00 Focus Endurance
22:20 Training reaction time
25:30 Reacting appropriately
27:45 The brain and how it helps us to survive
31:00 Sefra, Joe, Johnny & Joe Di discuss the interview & how to apply neural training to your day
36:20 Fitaid close
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra and guest host Joe Di
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody wishes that they could just be in the best mental state that they've ever experienced all the time. |
| 0:08.6 | I don't know. I'm already there. |
| 0:10.6 | Well for most of us I think I'm more human than Joe I think and |
| 0:13.8 | suffrag and Johnny. There are days when I'm not where I want to be mentally and |
| 0:18.5 | I wish you'd get there quickly. Not me. Right. No there are definitely days you're not there. |
| 0:24.0 | I think in this episode you actually talk about some of your struggles Joe. |
| 0:28.0 | We all have them and I really want to dive into this idea of |
| 0:32.7 | neural pathways and understanding like a |
| 0:35.0 | a dopamine pathway. |
| 0:36.3 | Yeah, that's what we do. |
| 0:37.6 | It's the Spartan way. |
| 0:38.5 | We're finding out how these people have tapped into |
| 0:40.9 | the Spartan mindset and help you to do that as well. |
| 0:44.3 | On our mental expedition, I'm a canoeologist |
| 0:47.2 | extraordinary Seth Alexander |
| 0:48.7 | with Flowstate Joe, Neural Hacker |
| 0:51.0 | Extrainer JoDio, and Hypnotherapist, Mecca, Canadian Johnny Waite, |
| 0:59.2 | with Mad Motion Marion and the wonderful Andrea as always. |
| 1:02.3 | And stick with us after the interview |
| 1:04.0 | because we'll talk about ways that we can integrate these principles into our own |
| 1:07.4 | neural pathways. This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by FIDA |
| 1:11.6 | recovery for your active lifestyle. |
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