The Ted O'Neill Program

Ted challenges the group to experiment with pushing the 90-10 Rule in your training and nutrition to maximize your results.

When the masters division is setting the expectations, what happens to the level of performance overall?  Ted challenges the vintage athletes.  To do what ..?  We'll see.

Ted discusses a series of experiments in our training community.  Can you reach the hypnagogic state?  What ideas and inspirations await you there?

Ted and Jon discuss understanding the conscious choice of contraction, experiencing the change of deliberately softening training or nutrition, and launching into the next expansion.

Ted discusses the development of Paraphysical Training (PPT) as a means to replicate the results of extreme human achievement in the face of non-extreme circumstances, or how clarity of purpose and intention allows a path through an escalating series of unknowns.

Ted discusses whether we are indeed our bodies, or whether our performance is driven by something closer to our energetic core.

Ted discusses cymatic representation as an indicator of mastery in the human form.  If you are resonating mastery, you will demonstrate in a way that is recognizable.  So as you strive for mastery, consider that connecting with an energetic resonance that is free of fear, anxiety, and attachments to previous experiences will display as symmetry and beauty.

Ted discusses overcoming your brain and body with your conscious awareness, the purposes of the brain and the body, and how they differ from our desire for accomplishment.

Ted discusses the great things that happen when you are able to release your attachments and make room for a new story.

Ted talks about how all of our obstacles are exactly the same regardless of our goal.

Ted discusses identifying the results you want with absolute clarity, and then making it real by locking into the feelings associated with that new identity.

Ted talks about establishing your path by staring down the destination.

Ted and Jon discuss applying the 4 A method to achieving training success.

Ted talks about the importance of reflection of the process and the events that make up your path to achievement.  It is crucial to own the things that you executed well, and to identify your areas for improvement and make adjustments.

For many, the period between nutrition challenges is a gray area of nutritional misbehavior.  Ted talks about how identity shapes your choices in these times.

Ted discusses the trap of contraction following a training event or milestone.

Ted lays out what we do with data: Do more of what you did well, adjust what you know you can do better.

Ted talks about how to look at the data from your body comp results, and how the combination of numbers often tells a story that others can miss.

Ted refers to the moment when he can recognize the change in someone's identity as when they stop arguing for their limitations.

Ted and Jon discuss being stuck in the quagmire of the pack, and how identifying your moment gives you the chance to surge ahead.

Ted and Jon discuss the ultimate level of commitment - the point at which you no longer care for the result in any form because you have come to love the process.

Ted talks about the institutional memory of Diablo Barbell, how every athlete should tap into it at every step along their journey, and about how giving back to the training community gives you perspective on your own technique.

Ted and Jon discuss the expressions of identity and self-esteem, specifically in the form of your nutrition.

Ted talks about taking the penalties, in the gym and elsewhere, and choosing them as opportunities.

Ted and Jon discuss determining what to reframe by understanding the mechanics of everything you wish to improve.