The Ted O'Neill Program

Ted and Jon discuss how to break free of your limiting beliefs and how they have a tendency to drag you back if you're not careful.

Ted and Jon discuss the choosing and change of identity being the root of sustainable results.

Ted discusses the energy we waste on the things that are distracting or unimportant, and how much more we can perform be focusing that energy on our conscious intentions.

Ted discusses how your identity dictates your behaviors.  The new you will do all the new things with intention and purpose.  The old you will face the same challenges and slide into the same pitfalls.

Ted discusses some of this past weekend's best demonstration of intention.

Ted discusses the importance of community and how demonstration attracts and propels the like-minded and encourages those still familiarizing themselves with the importance of intention.

Ted gives more examples of demonstration, and the competitors on the powerlifting team who put their intention on full display last weekend. 

Ted and Jon discuss the indicators, or predictors, of a lack of commitment to your intentions. By contrast, Ted recaps Stephen Bartlett's performance at last week's meet where he became the first Diablo male to achieve a 10X body weight total.

Ted gives us a recap of last weekend's meet.  To go straight to the preamble, start at 12:37 where Ted will give us the theme of the week: Demonstration is your intention out loud.  Ted and Jon discuss the physical manifestation of this concept.

Ted goes deeper into overcoming attachments to the past and overcoming your chemistry by executing a level of change that is greater than the physical stressor.

Ted discusses the importance of desire and how to coach it.

Ted discusses the rewiring of your neural network that happens when you see past your momentary circumstance and engage with your preconceived outcome.

Replace existing definitions of self by resetting your neural network.

A review of the 90-10 rule and revealing what you're made of.

Ted and Jon explore the commonalities among the disparate personalities of the people who train at Diablo Barbell.  In their uniqueness, what traits bind them together?  Where are they all headed?  What on earth is going on there?

Tim Shields is an author and renaissance man who has agreed to be a test subject in Ted's concept of Paraphysical Training.  This episode chronicles his thoughts, and Ted's, of the first day of training in this experiment and gives us a glimpse of Tim's background and expectations.

Ted discusses how most people allow conditions to influence their experiences, their expectations, and the outcomes of their endeavors.  He talks about the necessity of overcoming the external factors to collapsing obstacles and making your objectives your reality.

Gregory Ray joins Ted O'Neill and Jon Leon Guerrero to discuss training days, good and bad.  They talk about approaching your training progress and the importance of understanding contrast.  Greg also fills us in about a tremendous weekend.

A summary explanation of Ted O'Neill's Paraphysical Training approach.  How do you identify an elite powerlifter in the making?  How does an athlete accelerate his or her maximum performance?  It's in the demonstration of mastery.

Ted discusses optimizing your lifts by maximizing the efficiency of your approach.  By decluttering and ritualizing your approach, your positions, and your mechanics, you allow the maximum energy for the task.  That factor could mean the difference between making a lift and failing.

To call Diablo Barbell a gym does not begin to scratch the surface.  But is it a gathering place or is it defined by the gathered?  And with so many disparate missions, can we call it a collective?