Former STAR Group officer and founder of Human Durability · Season 3, episode 9
Derrick McManus on The BEYOND Podcast: Sustained optimal performance instead of peak
Short clip from Derrick McManus's episode of The BEYOND Podcast, Sustained optimal performance instead of peak.
Derrick McManus on The BEYOND Podcast
Transcript
The thing that kept me calm at that time is that in STAR Group, in any special forces, we are trained to operate at 100%, 100% of the time. If I had tried to sustain that peak performance at that time, I would have been pushing myself, I would have been rushing, I would have been trying to do more than I was capable of. My heart would have been racing, my blood would have been pumping, and because of two severed arteries, I would have been dead within minutes. But I knew that I needed to control panic, control shock, slow down my heart rate, slow down my breathing. By doing that, I was able to logically think through what I needed to do to sustain that optimal performance.
Derrick McManus, Former South Australian Police STAR Group officer and founder of Human Durability
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Derrick McManusGuest
Aleksandra KingHost
Human Durability
Derrick McManus