Achieving your health & performance potential includes development of your thought process. OFM is not another "Me Too" program. As a program designed around the individual it requires the athlete to think like one.

OFM Mental Roadmap

Curiosity

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Information

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Assessment

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Decision & Commitment

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Action

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Reset

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Transition

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Individualization

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Awareness

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Transformation

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OFM

Curiosity

You may have heard about OFM. The concept of “fat as fuel” makes intuitive sense to you even though it counters conventional wisdom.

Information: Precisely because OFM runs counter to convention it is crucial you gather information to understand the basics so there is no doubt this approach is not only plausible but makes scientific sense. Most importantly, OFM is right for you.

When you separate yourself from the herd you need to be armed and dangerous because people will want to take you down, especially concerned “loved” ones. You need answers to quell their doubts but mostly to flush out and kill off any lingering ones tucked deep away in your psyche. This process of developing independent thought is crucial to your development.

Assessment

Once you have gathered information it’s time to assess where you are metabolically taking into account your environment, lifestyle and sport. You may want to fill out the OFM Intake Questionnaire, get some blood work, or hire a personal OFM coach to help with assessment. Most of all you have to be willing to step outside yourself and your current belief systems to objectively assess:

Where you are.
Where you want to go.
How to get there in a realistic, objective way.

Assessment then becomes a subconscious part of the OFM journey.

Decision & Commitment

This is key for the mental game, follow through and ultimately SUCCESS! Because YOU are stepping outside the 'Herd Mentality' to forge your Individual health & performance potential you are going against conventional wisdom/methods. This requires commitment. One thing we have consistently seen is this: Athletes who commit always get results.

Making the decision to embrace the OFM journey is a big step because it is committing to a life-transforming journey. It is stepping out of your comfort zone and away from the herd mentality to truly becoming an Individual. Such conscious decision means you are taking responsibility, committing and recognizing this is your journey, not a quick fix.

Action

For long term success and follow through Information→Assessment→Decision are necessary to lead action. Action alone is reaction. Set the things in motion you need to get your OFM journey on its way.

Reset

This is the period of carbohydrate restriction to make the physiological shift back to fat as fuel for most of your aerobic activity, including higher intensity. This may take as little as a few days to 3 weeks. OFM’s Metabolic Reset is the first step.

Transition

The Metabolic Reset is just the first step in shifting the physiology to a fat-based energy source. Once this occurs there is a period of approximately 4-8 weeks of “upregulation” of:

The hormonal and enzymatic pathways necessary to optimize fat metabolism.
Developing the cardiovascular potential necessary to metabolize fat at high rates and intensities.
On a cellular level, the mitochondrial biogenesis to give your cells the mitochondrial capacity to metabolize fat at high rates and intensities.
“Strategic” use of carbohydrates are introduced during this period to increase performance potential and drive the adaptive stress to be a better fat burner.

The Transition phase means you can now begin to train up from your base but using an approach which increases your fat burning capability as you train up. Patience and diligence are key to seeing this phase through to the first level of OFM.

Individualization

After the Hard Reset and throughout your OFM journey you will be individualizing OFM to meet your specific genetics, athletic goals, environmental conditions and lifestyle. This is a highly dynamic process so understand there is no end point but a state of constant discovery, experimentation, and learning which leads to continual improvement.

Awareness

Understanding the true meaning of awareness is critical to success in any endeavor. For most serious athletes this is not as simple as it seems on its face value because of the subtle and nuanced differences between being simply “aware” rather than OCD, overthinking, anal etc. …..all of which are easily mistaken as awareness. These states go beyond awareness and their thoughts become stressors and distractions. Awareness allows one to remain focused on the task at hand yet cognizant of other factors which influence the task at hand.

Transformation

After the initial physiological changes of the Metabolic Reset and, subsequently, the transition you are now on a journey of transformation. As both your physiology and lifestyle become adapted to OFM everything about this approach becomes simpler and more sustainable. The longer you are in it the simpler it becomes. Most changes will be minute and unnoticed because, when you burn fat as fuel at higher metabolic levels, perceived effort is less so you don’t think you are actually going as fast or putting out the wattage even though you are faster, stronger, performing better. You will also make conscious changes in what you eat, how you eat and when you eat. Over time this will transform your dietary patterns. You will Intermittent Fast (IF) with ease and without thought or planning.

Mentally you will be more focused and emotionally stable. You will easily be able to adapt to situations and changes in environment and easily find ways to maintain yourself in an OFM state. You will be in control of your journey amidst the chaos of modern life.

OFM

When the OFM athlete integrates these 10 mental elements into their OFM Program they achieve a certain level of “OFM Zen” or “The Zen of OFM”. Athletes who achieve this state intuitively and instinctively know what to do (how to eat, what to eat and when, how to train, when and how to recover). They achieve a balance in their lives which allows them to face the challenges in their sport, profession and personal lives with focus, quiet confidence and resolve. As any athlete knows performance is as much mental as physical and, at times, more so.

This is possible through the fundamental physiological shift provide the brain. The mental focus and clarity of thought are some of the benefits many athletes comment on when they first begin try VESPA and as they adapt more and more to “fat as fuel”. This consistently heightened level of mental clarity only improves over time.

The fat-adapted physiology of the OFM athlete is such that a large reserve of aerobic capacity primed to burn fat actually allows a large range of tolerance for the occasional “less than optimal dietary choices”.

Largely due to the sharply reduced inflammation, OFM athletes develop the sensitivity to recognize the impacts of poor diet, overtraining, chronic or acute stress, or a lack of rest/recovery.

While arriving at “The Zen of OFM” is the pinnacle of the OFM program it is “The Awakening” or “The Beginning” for the athlete into a new realm of overall fitness, performance and health. It is simply the next step in a lifelong journey.

OFM Mental Roadmap

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Welcome and Overview

Week 1: Preparation

Module 1: Introduction

Module 2 : Assessment

Module 3: Cleaning up the Diet

Module 4: Identifying and Mitigating Stressors

Module 5: Supplemental Reading

Week 2 : Initiation

Module 1: Pre-Flight Checklist

Module 2: MR Takeoff Time!

Module 3: Eating and Hydrating

Module 4: Nutrition and Supplementation

Module 5: Using Vespa During the MR

Module 6: Lifestyle and Training During MR

Week 3: Stabilization

Module 1: Stabilization Overview

Module 2: Diet and Supplementation Review and Tweaking

Module 3: Training

Module 4: Lifestyle Review

Module 5: Identifying Underlying Issues

Module 6: Training - Supplemental Material

Module 7: Identifying Underlying Issues - Supplemental Material

Module 8: Lifestyle Supplemental Material

Week 4: Transition to Adaptation Phase

Module 1: Stabilization, Review & Transition to Adaptation Phase

Module 2: Training

Module 3: Nutrition and Supplements

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