Scott White is a certified nutritionist and personal trainer who is sought out by top clients around the world; he has trained models, athletes, and professionals and consulted with many others to help them achieve maximal results. Scott is an Optimal Performance Exercise Kinesiologist (OPEK) whose credentials include a BS in Kinesiology from Arizona State University and International Sports Science Association certification.
Scott’s training experience began at the Reikes Center for Human Performance in Menlo Park, California in 1998 when he worked as a specialist in speed training and enhancing athletic performance. That inaugural fitness job increased his knowledge about strength and conditioning, as well as specialized performance program design (increasing athletic performance).
From the Reikes Center, he went on to work for 24-Hour Fitness where he earned certifications in nutrition and personal training. Scott has worked at 24 Hour Fitness locations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Scottsdale, AZ as a personal trainer and nutritionist. While working as a personal trainer for 24-Hour Fitness, Scott designed programs for fat loss and increased muscle mass. As a personal trainer, he also worked with clients who had disabilities such as physical injuries, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, emphysema, missing limbs, as well as many others.
In Los Angeles, Scott also worked at VERT, a private studio for professional and Olympic athletes, specializing in high-speed isokinetic equipment that gives athletes the edge at speed training without momentum or stress on the joints.
Scott has modeled professionally and worked with many fitness models in his career as a professional trainer. Since 1998, Scott has been offering expert fitness training and providing nutritional guidance for optimal results to elite clients, including:
l Producers of major motion pictures, and primetime TV shows
l Directors of major motion pictures, and primetime TV shows
l Top actors from hot TV shows and major films
l Stuntmen from Pirates of the Caribbean and other motion pictures
l Major agents for models and actors
l Olympic medal winners
l Professional football players from the Arizona Cardinals, Philadelphia Eagles, and San Francisco 49ers
l Collegiate football players from UCLA, Cal, Stanford, Arizona State University, University of Arizona, Oregon, and other major unive
Learn the secrets to visualization and how you can focus on any thing to achieve success in your life through some simple visualization techniques.
Visualization is creating a mental picture of something. Visualization is important because it makes the future become more clear. Seeing yourself already achieving your goal makes your brain believe that attaining that goal is possible. Focusing consistently on any given goal will enable you to manifest it far sooner than if you didn’t focus on it at all. Focus brings the goal closer to you.
Have you attempted visualizing, but find it difficult or impossible? Try this. Pick up a photo and study it closely; then close your eyes and tell me what you see. If you see anything resembling the picture, you are visualizing. It’s that simple. If this doesn’t work, or if you want to improve your visualization skills, take the same picture and while looking at it, close your eyes and open your eyes and close your eyes again. Do this as many times as possible for a few minutes. Soon you’ll be seeing the picture, but you won’t know if your eyes are open or closed — and you will be visualizing better than before. Practice this technique often. You can focus on anything: people’s faces, pictures, buttons. Get creative and have fun with it.
Additional Visualization Tips
§ When visualizing, it’s important to view the action from the first person — that is, see yourself achieving your goal through your own eyes, rather than watching yourself from the outside. This method is very powerful because this is the way you already see and experience everything.
§ Less powerful is viewing your goal from the third-person perspective, seeing yourself achieving the goal as if you were watching a movie. It still works, but it’s not as effective as viewing from the first-person perspective.
§ Make visualization fun — the more real your image is, the better this works. Make the image not just a still picture, but a full-length movie staring you. Replay it over and over, seeing yourself as the hero, achieving your goal. Create background music, pump it up, make it feel real, and have fun with it. This is how you want to see your goal — in vibrant Technicolor on an IMAX screen — not in dim, dreary, out-of-focus scenes shown on a shoebox-size theatre in the multiplex.
§ Your goal is a picture located somewhere in your mental image frame. When you close your eyes and see the image of your goal, determine where your mind is locating the picture: top, bottom, right, upper left, etc. Now, recall an important goal you have already accomplished, and find out where that goal is located in your mental image frame.
So now you have two goals in mind: one you’ve already achieved and one you want to achieve. Note every little detail about these goals: Where are they located? What are the colors of the images? Are they big, bright, and clear — or are they small, blurry, and distant?
How do these images feel to you? Does one make you feel happy, excited, and thrilled? Does the other make you feel depressed, wistful, etc.?
Once you’ve noted every detail about the two images, take the goal you have not yet achieved and give it the same qualities as the goal you have achieved. Make it bigger and brighter; move it to the same location as the image of the already-achieved goal; make it feel the same by inserting every detail. Adjusting your mental image of the current goal to mirror one you’ve already achieved makes your new goal seem easier and gives you the feeling that you have already achieved it.
Physically act out your goal in action moves. For example, with your eyes closed, envision yourself buying a new home, walking through every detail. First, you get on the phone and talk to your realtor; later you shake his or her hand (yes, pick up an actual phone and really shake a hand). Greet the realtor and explain, in detail, what you want your house to look like. Take them to the house you want to buy (yes, really walk in place and explain the details out loud, using lots of gestures). I know this seems silly, and you may feel like a kid playacting, but this is a great visualization technique, not to mention a great stress reliever. Go through all the motions and experiences, as if they were really happening. Notice your emotions, and have fun with this!
Allow yourself 10 to 30 minutes every day or every other day for visualizing your goal. Set aside time to rest and remove yourself from everything else going on. Find a quiet, uninterrupted area to perform these techniques. Remember, the more you focus on your goals, the sooner you will achieve them.
| Scott White is a certified professional trainer and nutritionist, located in Scottsdale. To contact him, visit him on the Web site http://www.personalpowertraining.net; phone him at 480.628.1607; or e-mail him at swhite@personalpowertraining.net. |