Some executives thrive under pressure.  Others wilt.  Sustained high achievement demands physical, mental, and emotional strength.  Learn how and why executives are turning to strength training to reach peak performance in their businesses and corporate world.

If there is one quality that executives seek for themselves, it is the sustained high performance in the face of ever-increasing pressure and rapid change.  Yet, the "key" to achieving this level of peak performance has always been elusive... up until now.

The search for this ideal performance state (IPS) goes well beyond what most executives usually work on - things like public speaking skills, negotiating, sales strategies, and business savy.  In today's business world, executives are looking at sustaining high performance much like world-class athletes do, starting at the "physical level".

Physical Capacity: A Means Of Exploding Your Maximum Potential

Obviously, it is possible for executives to perform successfully even if they smoke, drink, and weigh too much.  It is done everyday.  But they are doing it the hardest way possible, and whether they know it or not, simply cannot perform to their full potential or without cost over time to themselves, their families, and to the corporations for which they work or the businesses they own.

Research shows us that the best, long-term "top performers" know how to consistently tap into positive energy each and every day by doing two things:

1) activities that increase their physical capacity so they can mobilize needed energy on demand;

2) activities that promote renewal (recovery) from the day-to-day work stresses that can cripple an executive's performance over time.

In the living laboratory of corporate business, we find that the real enemy of high performance is not stress.  Rather, the problem is the absence of disciplined, intermittent recovery.  Chronic stress without recovery depletes energy reserves, leads to burnout and breakdown, and ultimately undermines performance.

It has been the search for one, comprehensive activity (if possible) that promotes both increased capacity and energy renewal without a large time investment that has lead to a very specialized activity:  short-duration, high-intensity "strength training".

Specialized Strength Training:  The Best Paradigm For Reaching Peak Performance

Building an executive's capacity to perform at peak levels actually comes down to training the physical body with activity that "oscillates" between energy expenditure (stress) and energy renewal (recovery).  The only activity that answers this call effectively in the shortest time possible is short-duration, high-intensity strength training.

Different from most forms of weight lifting or bodybuilding, this specialized form of "executive training" is the key to increasing the first level foundation of the 4-part ideal performance "triangle" in which an executive's strength increases through a phenomenon known as supercompensation.  When this occurs, a balanced work-rest cycle is created that promotes increased capacity and thus performance, on all three higher levels.

In the Genesis Executive Health & Performance Program, our efforts aim to help executives build their capacity beyond their primary business competencies in areas like strength, endurance, self-control, and focus so they can bring their talents and skills to full ignition in their businesses and corporate world.  We find that executives we train end up using the full range of their capacities to thrive in the most difficult circumstances and emerging from stressful periods stronger, healthier, and eager for the next challenge.

For more information on the Genesis Executive Health & Performance Program, contact us at 215-504-0100.