Podcast — June 20, 2019

Inside The Mind Of A Master Hand-balancer + 90 Day Diet Experiments & Finding The Right Coaching Style With Sammy Dinneen

Hey Podcast! I have a really cool episode for you, on this episode I welcome my guest Sammy Dinneen. Sammy is one of the UK’s top Hand-balancers and has learnt his craft in both the UK and Ukraine. We discuss what it takes mentally and physically to be a top hand balancer and Sammy shares his experiences experimenting with Paleo, Intermittent fasting and keto diet practices. We also discuss how to find the right coaching style for you.

Sammy’s website is: http://www.sammydinneen.com/

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Sammy Dinneen

YOU'LL LEARN

Learn how Sammy’s journey directed him from a young age into performance and circus arts.

What was involved in building a solid foundation of mobility and strength when he first joined Circus School.

The developing knowledge about nutrition and psychology in the fitness world and how that has impacted his approach to his training.

Sammy’s experience of experimenting with the Paleo diet and Intermittent Fasting.

Why Sammy traveled to train to Ukraine to learn and develop his skills, and why the ambition and motivation of those learning circus skills there produces world class talent.

The reality of a performer on tour, and how you adapt to feed yourself while living with access to kitchen or even microwaves.

Sammy’s restorative practice and how it has developed over the years.

Finding balance between training and performing, and how overtraininga can impact performance.

The thrill achieved when Sammy has been able to perform a difficult skill within a performance, and allowing himself to hear the applause after.

How handstand training is not as linear progress as weightlifting is for example. Sammy explains how recently he has been developing and researching how to program his training to develop more linear progress.

Sammy also explains to risk of failure of a skill in performance is always there, no matter how perfect he has performed in training and rehearsal.

How Sammy evaluates everything he has learned as well as the psychology of training and how he feeds that back into his coaching and teaching the next generation of handstand artists.