Deep Immersion into the Entire Training Curriculum
What to Expect
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You will be pushed and challenged physically and mentally, but within your own capacity, to facilitate growth.
Training over the three days will be a combination of the following elements:
1. Understanding stress and pressure, their underlying mechanisms, and the effects they have on your body and mind.
2. Equipping you with scientifically backed skills so you can leverage stress and pressure to your advantage while optimising performance and balancing your nervous system.
3. Putting you in practical, real-time, and dynamic situations that will test your ability to apply your new knowledge and skills.
Training Components
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You will receive the same targeted training that we deliver to our elite-level athletes and senior leaders. We focus on giving you the skills you need to control and optimise key body systems, enabling cutting-edge performance. All aspects of the training will be tailored to your specific needs.
• You will spend three full days immersed in 1:1 training at Piha beach. Dive deep into all aspects of movement, mental game, recovery and breathwork in dynamic settings, in person.
• This also includes an online session prior, and a follow up online session after your intensive, to make sure you’re on track with the programming.
What You Will Learn
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Immersive training: Combines theory, skill and practical simulations to embed learning.
• Mental skills development. Focus and unlock creativity in high stress, high pressure environments. Learn key mental skills that are easy to integrate into your existing training regime.
• Stress tolerance training. Improving your ability
to work with agitation and leverage stress to your advantage. Develop an in-depth awareness and ability to control your body’s stress response.
• Optimising recovery. Improving your ability to shift into a calm, centered and focused state as a daily practic, getting the balance right between stress and recovery.
• Performance breathing. A breathing programme that directly targets your respiratory system in order to improve your breathing capacity, endurance, recovery, power production and mental focus.
• Ironsand Training. A unique system of training that incorporates all of the integrated training pillars into a dynamic beach training session.
• Pool training. A challenging environment where every aspect of the training can be tested and applied.
• Decompression and Mobility. Optimise your muscular skeletal system to enhance strength & recovery.
• Contrast therapy. Learn the application for icebaths and sauna when it comes to mental skill development and improving your stress tolerance and control.
• Introducing sleep protocols to help you recover optimally.
• Mindset training. Improve your response to tough situations, thoughts, emotions and avoid overthinking. This is about creating a clear system and framework for the most important thing you have - Your mind. Identify subconscious patterns of behaviour that are detrimental to health and performance and using these to develop personalised mindset protocols.
• Stress & Recovery. Getting the balance right, improving your ability to shift rapidly between
energised and relaxed states on demand.
Accomodation
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Our cottage, aptly named Pinecone Cottage, is about two minutes walk to Piha beach, where the majority of the training takes place. The cottage is private and is the perfect place for you to remain removed from the noise, relax and reflect.
The cottage is completely self sufficient and has everything you need, including a sauna, spa and plenty of storage for any gear you might bring with you.
You are welcome to find accomodation elsewhere in Piha, but the Cottage is included in the Three Day Intensive pricing.
Cost
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Price on Application
Options for payment by instalment
Accommodation is included in the price. We have a fully self-contained private unit close to the beach at a reasonable price.
“I was fortunate enough to experience the 3-day performance intensive with Dave. To be able to have this opportunity was pretty surreal, I was amazed with the knowledge he brought to the table, his experience with athletes was incredible. I was mind blown with the breathing development work I learnt and how many new performance skills I learnt over the 3 days.
To this day everything I have learnt I am putting into practice and I can say it has changed the way I think and am able to handle stressful situations. My sport is a high stress sport so what I have learnt plays a valuable role in bringing me to the top of my sport. If I could, I would have stayed another month, It was that good haha. I would highly recommend this 3 day intensive to anybody who is looking to enhance their health and performance!!”
“It was a massive eye opener, Dave is incredibly in tune with the mind and body, he had me sussed out pretty much as soon as we started but waited a couple of hours to sit down and talk to me about what he’s observed.
Some things I was aware of, but others I wasn’t, it related to the way I moved, my breathing, carrying tension, stress, mindset, individually they weren’t massive, but when you start putting all those issues together it has a massive effect on the way you move and the way you feel.
I used to think stress was not being able to handle your shit, but Dave exposed me to how I was constantly keeping my mind and body in a stressed, sympathetic state to try and get shit done.
I had no idea that was even a thing, but once you understand it, you can start to control it, which is incredibly powerful stuff.”
“My time with Dave was awesome. We spent time enjoying the raw elements of Piha, getting out in the ocean and sand each day, and really noticing each bloody amazing element that you are exposed to.
The focus of the 3-day intensive was stripping everything back to how you relate to your environment, both internal and external. Stripping everything back to basics may be simple, but it’s not necessarily easy. Dave makes it simple in the sense that you can practice various stress mitigation techniques in real time, recalibrating ways of operating that might not be serving you.
The thing I can hear still hear Dave saying is “don’t tether to the end” and I think that is applicable to so many situations. When we tie ourselves to a certain thought, sensation, or outcome (for example, focusing on getting out of an uncomfortable situation), we find it harder. The experiential learning Dave took me through was pretty sweet in shifting my way of operating in relation to this. The way I relate to my thoughts and experiences has changed after my 3 days in Piha with Dave – I feel more equipped to move through challenges and continuously learn ways of navigating all the stuff that is part of life.”
“While working with Dave I could see why his work is unmatched working with elite level athletes. I had full immersion in a 3 day intensive with Dave which provided me a deeper understanding of my body. He gave me the tools I needed in order to gain control of my mind and body in high stress situations. If you are wanting to grow in your given area of expertise then I highly recommend you take the time to invest in yourself. Connect with Integrated Training, as it is life changing.”
“I was lucky (and so privileged) to be able to spend three days with Dave a while back learning about performance and stress mitigation. He has a deep knowledge and understanding and brings such a practical approach to his subject matter. On top of this he is an absolute legend and amazingly humble! If you can get to one of his workshops don’t hesitate – it will be life enhancing!”
“I worked with Dave for 3 full days, covering everything from breathing development to mental skills and stress tolerance training. What really resonated with me was the endless potential of the human body and mind and how important this work is in order to achieve sustainable peak performance in life and Rugby. Dave really helped me achieve consistency in terms of how I train to optimise my mental game.”
A life changing experience out at Piha. There is a reason high performers from all over the world go to learn from Dave.
I strongly recommend Integrated Training to anyone who is wanting to become a better version of themselves.
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