“I’m big on the idea of balancing out the way you gather energy. If you’re doing an endurance sport, or whatever sport you’re into, your ability to gather your concentrated focus and enormous amount of energy is paramount. But if you don’t balance that out with something where you can learn how to dissipate it in a manner where you are just letting it go slowly, then you’re always relying on exploding it out and using it, then you have to go on and do an intensity you can’t always do. So balance that out. If you go and do something like a ying yang yoga class where you’re just breathing it out, you’re sitting in the same position and you’re gathering in a similar manner in amount of energy but you are dissipating it over time instead of an explosive manner is very important. You’ll find from a mental well being perspective if you are always relying on ‘exploding’ it out then that’s always the manner in which you have to do it. And if you can’t have that you have outbursts or you have places where you don’t have control over your emotional well being. So if you do things like ying yang yoga, meditation, walking or anything like that, then your are able to dissipate that energy in a manner that doesn’t require you to ‘outburst’. I think that’s critical.” – Simon Whitfield, Olympic Gold and Silver medalist in Triathlon, 4x Olympian, on the importance of balancing energy in a way that benefits our emotional and mental well being.
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