Exercise Focus

So today we have a lot of things going on as we work out. Phones, TV, computers, people complaining about how you took the rest of the Debbie Cakes, there's so much. So, what do you do to focus when learning a new movement?

   For some of you, I know it's not easy to turn your phone off or leave it charging when your learning something new and you don't need a tutorial or something playing in the background for help. You really just need to put off whatever it is that continuously drags your attention away from what your doing.

   I'll say that right now, American's don't have good attention spans worth crap. So, how does somebody who can't even pay attention to a colorful spinning board for one excruciating minute learn something so hard as a one handed handstand or flares? Oh geez, it seems pretty much impossible!

Individually we all have a specific kind of intelligence, and you have to learn how to focus that to the point of concentration on something new that you are learning. So what did you do to get that intelligence? Your worked hard, so why not work on something that you actually want to do but don't think you have the patience or concentrating will do?

   Well first, with a new movement, you have to make it a thought. Something you think about at least nine or ten times a day. For instance, the words handstand, flip, trick, dance, and calisthenics make their ways through my mind at least five times a day each. Because I've trained myself to have focus on the thought of those movements, I got them down.

   If you focus on something you can't do, but want to learn, surely, you will find yourself practicing this movement sometime somewhere somehow. Like when you're reading a book in your room and you're getting up to grab a pen to write something you really like down, and you look at the floor and say to yourself, "I think I'll  try to do a handstand." Or, "A planche? Yes!" Soon you'll get to the point that if it's an opportune moment, it won't get in the way of anything you're doing, you'll find yourself doing this movement in someway just to do it because it's fun and it feels good.

   So make something you want to focus on a thought, and when it becomes a thought, it will become something you can focus on and you'll find yourself getting good at it. Whether it takes and extremely long time or not, is up to your body and structure as well as level of strength, but it will come, and it will happen.

   So focus, and you'll learn.