The Inner Armor Podcast

In almost every area of life, we must work hard to perform at our potential. But too often, our performance falls short of our potential because performance requires command and control of our body, and that requires a strong mind-body connection. Because you are a fusion of mind and body, your performance is determined by the efficiency and effectiveness of that connection. Physical or psychologi...

Our lives are not static, our bodies are not static, and so health and performance strategies cannot be static. And so, our goal is not to train or strengthen our organs or systems into an ideal state, but to dynamically adjust how our bodies work and perform relative to ever-shifting demands, circumstances, and stresses. This requires us to develop something called “dynamic resilience,” the abili...

The human body is a meta-system, a system made up of many systems. Our life, health, and performance depends on all these systems working together. But among all the systems of the body, the Autonomic Nervous System (sometimes called the “involuntary nervous system'') works like the operating system on our phones: our organ are like the apps, but the ANS is behind the scenes, managing power, turni...

The human brain is the most amazing and wonderful thing we have ever discovered–in fact, it’s how we investigate and discover everything else, including the brain. Health, performance, and resilience begins in the brain. Even on your worst day, your brain is the most amazing thing in the universe. Everything else is downstream, so to improve our health and performance, we must understand the brain...