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Neuroscience, physiology, and technology to help all of us, from professional athletes to ordinary people, perform at our potential.
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Monday Feb 13, 2023
Monday Feb 13, 2023
To perform to our potential requires us to actually show up. In fact, Woody Allen once said, “Ninety percent of success is just showing up.” But too often, we fail to show up and really be present, focusing on where we are, what we’re doing, and who we’re with.
Often what keeps us from showing up and being present is that we are obsessing about the past and the future. We get caught up in the “What Abouts?” (the past) and the “What Ifs?” (the future). One of the consequences of being caught in the past or present is that we burn up our two most valuable assets: our brain and our time.
We need to learn to shift our brains so that we’re operating in the present tense, not the past or future tenses.
How do we do that? How can Inner Armor help us to preserve our most valuable assets and operate in the present tense?
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Monday Feb 06, 2023
It's Super Bowl Week! To prepare for watching the big game, Dr. Royer shares his insights into what it took for these two teams to get here, what they need to be doing in the days and hours before the kickoff, and what it will take to win.
Having worked extensively with NFL and NBA teams, as well as champions from other sports, Doc knows just how hard it has been for these organizations to survive the season and come out on top. Having helped pro athletes prepare for the biggest games of their lives, he knows what it takes to be ready, and what will allow them to perform at their potential for 60 minutes on the biggest stage in sports.
Listen to learn what to watch for on Sunday night, and how to prepare for the Super Bowls of your life.
Monday Jan 30, 2023
Monday Jan 30, 2023
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 psychological training can improve aspects of human performance. But they leave out a hidden element that’s upstream, influencing our physical and psychological condition. It operates autonomously and unconsciously.
In this episode, Dr. Royer discuss how we can strengthen these hidden factors using neuroscience, technology, and training using Inner Armor’s performance-enhancing methods.
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Monday Jan 23, 2023
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 ability to shift gears to always be in the “right gear.”
The Autonomic Nervous System (sometimes called the “involuntary nervous system”) is like an automatic transmission. But if it’s putting your brain into the wrong gear, you’re out of rhythm for the situation. These mismatches result in everything from mental lapses, missed instructions, vision problems, upset stomachs, sweating and shakes and tics, impaired motor control, exhaustion, to needing to pee at the worst possible moments. So, what can you do about it? How can you gain greater control over when and how your ANS shifts gears?
In this episode Dr. Royer discusses the neuroscience, technology and methodology that Inner Armor and Royer Neuroscience uses to help everyone, from professional athletes to ordinary people, perform at their potential more consistently.
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Monday Jan 16, 2023
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, turning them on and off, and controlling their interactions.
The ANS “upshifts” or “downshifts” the body to respond to situations, stimuli, and stresses. In a crisis, the ANS tells the body to speed up, to react, think, and process more quickly. But that comes at a metabolic price, and tissues and organs need time to recover. Normally, when the crisis passes, it tells the body to slow down and recuperate. But sometimes we get stuck in crisis mode. And when we do, our performance and health deteriorates.
Inner Armor and Royer Neuroscience work with athletes, executives, and students to better manage their ANS and their body’s cycles and systems so they can perform at their potential more consistently.
Sunday Jan 01, 2023
Sunday Jan 01, 2023
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 and build more resilient brains and nervous systems.
Dr. Royer shares the origins of Inner Armor and Royer Neuroscience. He began as a clinical neuropsychologist in a major children's hospital, but came to realize that we couldn't just treat behaviors. We have to go upstream to what causes the behaviors. This led him into neurobiology, physiology, and the science of human performance. He began using technology to isolate, analyze, and strengthen the brain-body connection, and to improve the performance of other body system.
Everything that Royer Neuroscience and Inner Armor has done for peak performance professional athletes and executives began by discovering the uniqueness and resilience of those children's brains.
Dr. Timothy Royer
Psy.D., BCN, BCB-HRV
The founder of Royer Neuroscience and Inner Armor, "Doc" has worked with professional athletes, including NBA teams, PGA golfers, and ten of the starting quarterbacks in the NFL. For the last six years, Doc and the Inner Armor team have been working with the San Francisco 49ers. But he also coaches business executives, students, and ordinary people who want to learn to perform at their potential.