Mike Hale

Run when I can, work when I should. I comment on social justice, health, sustainability, exercise science, spirituality, life...

[Mike Hale @revrunNZ]

@AthleticsNZ are you listening? If they get the standard, take them.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Track and Field = dumbest sport at the pro level

Imagine an NBA team saying “We’re only competing in the playoffs if we are a 5 seed or better”

Yet, that’s what occurs every year in track.

Countries decline spots/set higher standards then the governing body of the sport sets.

[Sean Mortenson @sean_mortenson]

A way too long thread on how churches exercise a quiet form of control by creating enmeshed systems of poorly differentiated people. Maybe this will help explain some of your experience.

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Fake toughness: pumping out chest, intimidating on message boards, going till you puke, bragging about all nighters, and so on.

Real toughness: the ability to make decisions under distress that align with your values.

7 ways to develop the real thing and why it's so important:

[Mike Hale @revrunNZ]

NZ has a love affair with the automobile? Hardly, driving a car gives 52% of us anxiety. But since we've made that the only safe/practical way to get around... #visionzero https://t.co/ESWSJjfHGO

[Mike Hale @revrunNZ]

Modern society is great at meeting our physical needs (selling us things) but rubbish at meeting our social/emotional/spiritual needs. This is not a mistake, it is how the system functions.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

How would you make an animal docile, depressed, and apathetic?
-Take away their sense of control
-Isolate
-Make it low status
-Don't let it exercise

Is that really so different than what modern society does to many?

We need to fill our psychological needs somewhere:

[Mike Hale @revrunNZ]

Great advice to build fitness. Start, then dial down the intensity and sustain.

[Gordo Byrn @feelthebyrn1]

CHOOSE

When we start we are binary: ON or OFF

We have one gear available to us: GO

1st step is to learn FIVE gears
• Easy
• Steady
• Mod-Hard
• Fast
• Very Fast

GO, for a novice, is usually 4th Gear, not sustainable

My 1st set of gears were built hiking

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Doing hard things of your choosing for their own sake is a wonderful practice. Not all the hard things. Not all the time. But a few, some of the time. This is less about science and more about spirit. It feels good to go to the well and challenge yourself every now and then.

[Mike Hale @revrunNZ]

Great thread on how to ensure feedback is beneficial. Applied neurophysiology in a sport context and applicable to other settings.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Research shows that if coaches are overly critical and have a "negative appraisal" post-game, testosterone levels will drop and it will negatively impacts the next game performance.

[Mike Hale @revrunNZ]

The line ‘where do you want to be in 5 years?’ I find so old fashioned for this reason. I want to be using my skills in a meaningful way and that could take many different forms.

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

Every interesting outcome in my life was unpredictable and was the result of good habits, strictly practiced.

This is the opposite of “vision” “big, hairy, audacious goals” and “accomplishments.”

The best kind of success is continuous, every day, not occasional.

[Mike Hale @revrunNZ]

@Gareth_Sandford Thanks Gareth really enjoying these threads. The last one converted me to using MAS for testing but is there a good conversion calculation from MAS to CS?

[Mike Hale @revrunNZ]

Apparent in Maungakiekie LTN too: @LeaverDebbie @PeterMcGlashan

Stay the course, complete the trial.

[Mike Hale @revrunNZ]

Great analysis of the consequences of early return to surplus. Summary: low inflation - low interest - property boom - increased inequality.

[The Spinoff @TheSpinoffTV]

Despite Labour’s rhetoric about improving wellbeing in the long run, it's making the same mistakes National did from 2011 to 2015, writes @bernardchickey

https://t.co/Al15E5j5jq

[Hackney Downs LTN @hackneydownsltn]

This is a short thread about tools. First up, the chainsaw 1/7

[Mike Hale @revrunNZ]

We need public health experts (and not necessarily clinicians) to lead in a pandemic.

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

“If you really want to take the pressure off the team, you have the adjust the workload.” https://t.co/657FBWhOBN

[Mike Hale @revrunNZ]

Endurance sport develops many things beyond cardiovascular fitness.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Running helps create two skills that are increasingly rare:
1. When running by yourself, it helps create an ability to be alone inside of your head for a long time.
2. When running with others, you learn to fill time with conversation instead of defaulting to your phone.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

When it comes to developing teams, whether in sport, business, or life, it comes down to a few simple things that most neglect:
People need to:
1. Know you care.
2. Feel connected to the mission.
3. Be able to make progress.
4. Have a sense of input and control over their journey

[Alex Hutchinson @sweatscience]

Congrats, @YoniFreedhoff!

Everyone else, this is the New Year's health piece you need to read:

[Mary Cain @runmarycain]

This was a long time coming. For years, I felt broken and alone- I waited, yet no one reach out to help.

Now I am ok. But the system isn’t. And I can’t stay silent.

This was hard to share, so thanks @lindsaycrouse & @nytimes for all your support. ❤️

https://t.co/9jyreuYKJ0

[Mike Hale @revrunNZ]

‘Starting from a blank slate, one would be hard pressed to design a less efficient, less healthy and more socially and environmentally destructive system of moving people around’ @rg_jones nails it on car-based transportation.