Absolute Concept: Stabilize the Internal Environment

Strength practitioners are the key to unlocking and stabilizing continual skill acquisition and high performance. Get to Point B and stabilize the internal environment.

Phelps is the most successful and decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 medals. His remarkable success can be attributed in part to him possessing a stable regular internal environment which allowed him to succeed at the external level in the pool through generating high performance. Source

Strength Practitioner: Oversees the Internal Environment - The Base of Skill Acquisition

Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize recipient in Economic Sciences, explores the prerequisites for the process of skill acquisition in his book "Thinking, Fast and Slow:"

"… acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions."

This process is intrinsically linked to the level of adaptation, which serves as the internal environment. As strength practitioners, we operate (i.e., coach) at this level, which is essential for the skill acquisition process.

Understand: By stabilizing the optimal internal environment (i.e., Point B), and integrating practice at the competition level with coaching that provides: "rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions," we, that is strength practitioners, check all the internal prerequisites for skill acquisition and subsequently enable emergent behaviors we all know simply as high performance.

Strength Practitioner: The Key to Unlocking Skill Acquisition and High Performance