The Intelligent Body | Health | Wellbeing | Therapy | Stress | Performance | Emotion

Our fascinating discussion covered a wide variety of topics including:  - Healthy body, healthy mind, when does dedication become obsession  - Exercise, health and identity  - Sex role stereotypes and exercise  - Individual differences in the benefit of exercise  - Exercise and stress reduction  - The role of emotion and mental state during training and competing  - The application of sport psychology principles to everyday life  - What can we learn from team cohesion and dynamics in sport and the workplace  - The effect of task cohesion and social cohesion on team efficacy and group think  - The role of conflict in teams 

In this episode, Nate and I discuss:

• life as a professional wrestler and how his training regime differed to training as a natural bodybuilder and fitness model
• the psychological effects of over-training and managing training efficiency
• the mental and emotional impact of injury and recovery.  
• motivations for training and the wider implications in life, and how motivation impacts upon progress both in and out of the gym
• Nate's loves of Kaizen philosophy and continually seeking improvement
• life challenges, life lessons how they fit with training, and the importance of connection to who we really are
• the difficulties in being authentic and the dangers of losing authenticity in a fast paced, consumer based, externally referenced culture, where we are constantly pushed to compare ourselves with others and meet externally set standards

Chris Walker and I discuss the impact of his brain tumour on his training, exercise and life.  We talk about the stress response in the body, motivations for training, and the positive impact of training on self image and success in life.