Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The 7 Figure Performance Manual Gary J Allman
The 7 Figure Performance Manual Gary J Allman
The 7 Figure Performance Manual Gary J Allman
PERFORMANCE MANUAL
By Gary J Allman
INTRODUCTION
I am here to give you my blueprint to
optimal health. Since my transformation,
I have become obsessed with helping
high-performing individuals improve
their performance, by improving their
health.
Gary J Allman
142
MY JOURNEY BEGAN WITH
SATISFIED CLIENTS
A SIMPLE GOAL
To transform my health and live a more fulfilling life...
These molecules are the gatekeepers of brain change (neuro plasticity); they dic-
tate whether or not your brain can change thoughts, behaviors, skills, anxiety, and
trauma, especially after the age of 25 when the brain stiffens significantly.
Our neurons get cemented in place by glial cells, no longer do we have plastic
brains, meaning trillions of neurons that can move around & connect freely with
one another, all the time, with every experience, like when we were children!
Children can learn multiple languages quickly etc.; now, only very positive or very
negative experiences change us, which we can mimic with artificial neuroscience
activation and deactivation protocols.
Acetylcholine = FOCUS
Adrenaline = ENERGY/ALERT
Dopamine = LIFE FORCE
Serotonin = RELAX/CALM
Plasticity doesn’t mean anything unless we make adaptive changes during that
window of time; adaptive plasticity.
Emotional news, movies, video games, music, substances, pursuit of sex &
sex, anger, playing hard, etc., are causing your plasticity to open randomly due
to very positive or very negative experiences meaning neurochemical levels are
rising very high.
We must have a good idea of what opens our plasticity so we can focus on mate-
rial/skills that will add value to our lives during that small window of time; adap-
tive plasticity/adaptive change.
At least once per day to take advantage of a 60-90 minute window of time, so
that I may become more attractive to the observer, and more valuable to the
world at a rapid rate.
ACTIVATE
Raise adrenaline/alertness/stress
Adrenaline activates systems in our brain and body designed for movement by
increasing blood flow to those areas, and decreasing blood flow to other areas.
Adrenaline controls blood flow, biases movement, and also helps mark neural
tissue for change, those neurons there, they need to change.
Acetylcholine and adrenaline work together like a little gang to mark neural tissue.
The change occurs while we sleep or consciously while engaging in a neurosci-
ence protocol called NSDR, which I describe further down.
DEACTIVATE
Reduce adrenaline/reduce alertness/destress
We become more attractive to the observer because our social system comes
back online if transitioning from a highly alert/high adrenaline state.
We have control over how quickly this occurs in real-time. We don’t have to be-
come neuroscientists, but we will be in a much better position by understanding a
small amount of scientific mechanism.
Example: The physiological sigh, which you will learn how to perform below,
because of the double inhale, activates a brain region called the parafacial nucle-
us. Parafacial nucleus activates the neurons that control our face, voice, vision,
digestion, reproduction, etc (parasympathetic nervous system).
THIS SIDE OF YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM IS CRUCIAL FOR REST AND RELAX-
ATION
Also, the double inhale of the physiological sigh is what reinflates the millions of
collapsed alveoli (ael-vee-ole-ee). When highly stressed, millions of tiny lung sacs
collapse within our lungs trapping C02/panic in our bloodstream.
I’ve yet to see self-help gurus, yoganistas, and whimhoffers explain this to people
yet.
People skip the double inhale because they are not aware of the scientific mecha-
nism involved.
Long traditional exhales don’t activate the calming system or help offload C02 from the blood-
stream at nearly the rate of just 1-3 physiological sighs.
The neurons that control your facial expressions and voice quality are part of the
calm system, which gets deactivated by adrenaline when adrenaline is too high.
Adrenaline controls blood flow by constricting or dilating blood vessels and says,
“no, you may not right now” to luxury systems.
“We do not need to socialize, mate, use the restroom, etc. in this situation; we
need to survive.” This is Adrenalines main drive.
KEY RULE
When you ACTIVATE, know that you can DEACTIVATE; I describe how below
with real-time tools grounded in physiology and neuroscience.
Most people do not know how to deactivate accurately and rapidly in real-time.
The mind is not good at calming the mind.
Meaning we can’t think our way to lower adrenaline levels. The common phrase
when frustrated, “I need time to calm down/de-stress.”
Deactivation protocols reduce the total time required to “cool off” significantly
and allow for alert but calm focus within stressful scenarios.
THE IDEAL STATE IS ALERT & CALM; with neuroscience protocols, we can drive
our internal state to the ideal state regardless of how sleepy or how alert we are
as long as we are following specific rules daily.
The non-negotiable protocols are anchoring consistent states of alert and calm.
ALERT / ACTIVATE / ADRENALINE / STRESS:
When changes occur to thoughts, behaviors, skills, anxiety, and trauma. The brain
changes the neurons that were marked/highlighted by the particular neurochem-
icals released from focus and artificial activation protocols/adrenaline protocols,
which you will learn about below;
3. Fitness
I will explain these protocols and how to utilize them on the next page.
REFLEXIVE / MOVE / LIGHT
Your thinking will most likely be poor within the first 2 hours of waking because
adrenaline/alertness levels are lowest at this time.
FITNESS PROTOCOL
Focus on the area just above your nose, and refocus on that spot
when thoughts arise; the refocusing is what is training your ability to focus.
Your sleep drive aka adenosine will just build up while caffeine is parked in their
receptors and crush you midday when caffeine finally leaves those parking spots if
you wake up and drink caffeine right away.
Waiting 90-120 minutes before ingesting caffeine is essential. I would rather feel
tired right when I wake up vs. during prime time.
Focus on a/learn a motor movement to open plasticity before learning a cognitive skill
EXAMPLE OF MOTOR MOVEMENTS:
Anything that requires your brain or body to adapt to. IE; A movement or learning
pattern you don’t know that well. Or even a brain training app such as Lumosity.
Have a why; why is it essential you are learning this information? Move imme-
diately into a cognitive skill-building session following the motor movement skill
session for 60 minutes.
Example: 5-30 minutes of brain training straight into a high level meeting.
Don’t get super activated with caffeine, stimulants, music, etc., before learning or
working hard; this will inhibit learning and lower your desire to do similar work in
the future! DELAY GRATIFICATION
Example: If you were hiking and fell into a cold body of water, your brain would
want to remember the path that led to the cold water. The information after isn’t
as important to remember. Adrenaline helps place our experience of life that
occurred 90 minutes prior to adrenaline rising into long term memory, but chronic
adrenaline inhibits learning. It’s all about short acute increases that we control
with activation and deactivation protocols. Adrenaline up, clamp it off. We are
snipers, not machine gunners.
KEY RULE
Separate pleasure from the time you need to do hard work to continue enjoying hard work!
This has to do with how DOPAMINE TRACKS TIME. Dopamine is the molecule of motivation,
drive, craving, movement, and time perception.
Example: music, anger, nicotine, social connection, pre-workout, stimulants, phone, pursuit of
sex, video games, emotional videos, etc. ALL INCREASE DOPAMINE significantly and deacti-
vate your ability to generate motivation for yourself during hard work!
Only dopamine stack 1 X per week if at all; place pleasurable experiences outside of 90-minute
time bins/focus windows that you designate each day for hard work/skill building.
pleasure(dopamine layers) from hard work = your ability to enjoy hard work and maintain be-
havior throughout your lifespan. (DOPAMINE 101)
IMPORTANT: You will be able to FOCUS for 90-minute windows (ULTRADIAN WINDOWS)
Use NSDR (Non-Sleep Deep Rest) Protocol between focus bouts to reset your quality of focus
so that you can quickly get into yet another 90-minute intense focus bout. You will learn about
NSDR in the deactivate section of HLAB Simplified.
In the middle/latter half of your day, complete tasks that require less focus than the previous
hours of the day
Example: answering emails, responding to texts, etc., small amounts of time/focus needed to
complete the task and more reflexive than the tasks during primetime.
CAFFEINE after 2 pm, especially 4 pm, will significantly disrupt the transition to sleep and sleep
quality for most people
Caffeine parks in adenosine receptors for approximately 8 hours for a majority of people. This means that caf-
feine blocks sleep drive for roughly 8 hours. Be careful with caffeine intake during the afternoon, we want to
avoid anything that disrupts sleep transition & architecture on a regular basis.
NON-NEGOTIABLE DAILY PROTOCOL
Perform NSDR approximately 9-12 hours after waking. Control light, posture, and
breathing during NSDR Protocol.
Perform physiological sigh protocol when the NSDR script instructs you to
breathe which you will learn about in the deactivate section below. Physiological
sigh and panoramic view are the only two tools that can push back on adrenaline
levels in real-time.
NSDR:
Example: Go for a walk, bring a journal and pen or take voice notes on a device;
write down thoughts as they arise during walking or voice record your thoughts.
Your brain will be most creative when calm, relaxed, and somewhat sleepy. NSDR
(non-sleep deep rest) protocol is a powerful way to shift our internal state, prim-
ing us for a wonderful 60-90 minute creative session approximately 8-14 hours
after waking.
Narrow vision will deactivate creative thinking. Using your phone is an example of
your vision being zoomed in which may distract you and stop creative thoughts
from randomly coming to mind.
You will learn about panoramic view protocol in the deactivation/serotonin sec-
tion!
Do not zoom in on one particular thing for too long. Write down ideas as they randomly arise.
Keep the stakes low, not too serious! :)
NON-NEGOTIABLE PROTOCOL EVENING LIGHT
VIEWING
Try to view the sun within 1 hour of sunset for 10 minutes. Extend time to 20-30
minutes if very cloudy.
No blue or yellow artificial light after 10 pm, especially 11 pm! Light after 10 pm,
especially 11 pm can significantly disrupt our dopamine/life force system for 72
hours and removes the anchor from our melatonin and cortisol pulses which
changes our sleep and wake times etc.
Red light is fine. If you are viewing light after 10 pm try to make those lights red
lights.
• Increase the burn rate of your neurons by meeting their metabolic needs,
increasing total calories out/total calories capable of being burned.
• Vitamin D supplement or 20-30 minutes outdoors; don’t get burnt if your
skin is as fair as mine!
• Omega 3 supplement
• 1-4 servings of fermented food per day. Eg: Kefir, Yoghurt, Kombucha
• Robiotic + greens supplement = Athletic greens or Jocko greens are great!
• Selenium (3-5 Brazil nuts for your daily intake)
• lodine (splash of iodine salt in water/food or high quality kelp supplement)
• 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight (when trying to build muscle)
Protein will absorb best in the early part of the day
• 1⁄2 body weight in ounces of water + 125-150% of weight lost in ounces
after a workout, work day, or sauna
• LMNT electrolyte packets are great
SUPPLEMENTS IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE:
• Athletic Greens
• Jocko Greens
2. Omega 3
3. Vitamin D
6. Protein
7. Creatine
8. Sleep Supps;
• Magnesium Glycinate
• Theanine
• Apigenin
• 5 - HTP
NUTRITION
Fast until 11AM to help cultivate adrenaline for the ability to take action and
acquire energy. Make protein and fats the main portion of lunch (tyrosine->dopa-
mine). Ketoish lunch will help cultivate motivation and drive to attack the day and
store dopamine
Try making carbs the main portion of dinner 2-3 hours before bed
(tryptophan>serotonin) This will help us transition into sleep and unwind.
Carbs make us feel like we have everything we need; avoid them during
the day unless your workout is extremely intense. Most workouts will not even
come close to draining your carb storage. Refill the glycogen storage before bed-
time after tasks have been accomplished. If we have goals and tasks to pursue, we
want to stack adrenaline and dopamine; they work together like a gang to help us
accomplish our daily tasks.
When building muscle, I start the day with 60 grams of protein and ingest protein
every 4 hours. This is what has personally worked for me to maintain by weight of
215lbs at 6’ 3’’ with a BF Percentage of 14.2%
All of this is neural information, and the older you get, the more difficult it is to
change this information. Our neurons get cemented in place by glial cells at or
around 25, which significantly limits our ability to change in response to expe-
rience. Now our change is dictated by levels and timing of neural chemicals like
adrenaline (energy), acetylcholine (focus), and dopamine (life force).
SEROTONIN = CALM /RELAXED: feeling like you have everything you need. The
molecule of calmness, relaxation, bliss, and delight. We get serotonin from deac-
tivation protocols. Serotonin helps push back against adrenaline/stress levels and
allows us to maintain motivation and drive by protecting dopamine.
NSDR 9-10 hours after we wake is a NON-NEGOTIABLE protocol.
Deactivation is critical for high performance and mental health. When socially
isolated for too long, a sinister molecule called tachykinin builds up, which causes
fear, paranoia, irritability, etc. Serotonin from social connections with people, pets,
or things you truly find delightful and trust will reduce these tachykinin levels.
These protocols are always step one because they benefit all of us and have
detrimental effects on our physical and mental health if we do not perform them
correctly. After all, we all share the exact hardwired biological mechanism when it
comes to viewing light. Cells in our eyes need to sense 10,000-100,000 lux worth
of blue and yellow light at certain times of day and not sense blue and yellow light
at other times.
This has significant effects on mood, health, etc because light anchors and balanc-
es our chemicals, hormones, etc. these protocols truly set the stage for every-
thing else. Change requires consistent levels of chemicals, stored and ready to be
utilized. Light and sleep are the main contributors to these levels being accessible
to us on a daily basis so that we can make changes at a rapid rate.
KEY POINT: Master technique before adding weight to significantly prevent injury. I highly rec-
ommend consuming any information that involves Dr.Andy Galpin when it comes to fitness.
BUILD MUSCLE:
BUILD STRENGTH:
• Strength doesn’t require rest days unless very tender, you can squat 2 x per
day and get stronger, it takes TIME to develop tissue, strength is a nervous
system thing, not a tissue development thing.
• 85% + of 1 repetition max
• You can get stronger without building a significant amount of muscle
• Move weight across the entire body vs. target individual muscles
• Don’t focus on 1 individual muscle
• 3-5 minutes of rest between sets
• 3-5 exercises per workout
• 3-5 reps per set
Critically important for lifespan because muscle fibers die when we don’t use them with resis-
tance & full range of motion due to age related decline. Once these little guys are gone, they
don’t come back, they are gone forever. Movement + resistance is key to quality lifespan.
BUILD POWER:
Example: Power clean and shoulder press a light amount of weight as quickly as
possible for 5 reps. You will not feel like you did much work, but this is how you
train to become more powerful. Do this in the beginning of your workouts before
strength or hypertrophy training if you want to work several adaptations. If you
believe you moved the weight quickly, you will become more powerful. Intent
matters.
ZONE 3 CARDIO:
• 1x per week
• 20 minutes of total work
• 90-100% of max heart rate/intensity
• 1 set = 20-90 seconds of work max effort
• Rest between sets however long you need so that you are reset
• Use real-time deactivation protocols in between sets and immediately after-
wards, NSDR is a great to do after to clamp off the adrenaline
• When you feel the burn, breathe through it, not a time to quit breathing
• This adaptation is important for longevity and the cardiovascular system
• Most of the protocols you would use activate you can use for this, just repeat
them over and over for 20 minutes total time with rest in between
• See ACTIVATE/ADRENALINE protocols above
Example: An assault bike will get you to max heart rate in 30 seconds at max
effort. 30 seconds on, 2 minutes off, repeat 20 minutes total. Rest between sets
will vary between individuals.
You can use physiological sigh and panoramic view between sets and perform NSDR immedi-
ately after the workout for at least 5 minutes to speed up recovery. Control posture. Don’t do
these all at once; pick and choose; they all essentially do the same thing, max effort, get the
heart rate going Consult with a doctor before adding activation protocols.
• Make inhales more vigorous and/or longer in duration than your exhales
• Repeat 25-30 cycles
• Breath hold 15 seconds between sets with lungs empty
• 3 sets total
• At the end of the final set, I hold breath until I have a strong desire to
breathe, with lungs full of air.
NARROW VISION:
ASSAULT BIKE:
• 30 seconds
• This is a great way to activate. I highly recommend the assault bike for zone
4⁄5 cardio or anytime after a learning session
• The fastest way to reach max heart rate
SPRINT:
• 30-45 seconds
BURPEES:
• 60 seconds
• 30-45 seconds
CAFFEINE:
Success isn’t just about financial achievements, but also about regaining con-
trol, finding purpose, and experiencing genuine fulfillment in your life. Many high
achievers just like you, feel like they have reached the pinnacle of their career, but
lost their sense of self along the way.
They find themselves merely drifting through each day, working tirelessly, and col-
lecting their paycheck without truly living. Their health, relationships, and personal
well-being take a backseat, leaving them feeling isolated and disconnected.
I’m truly passionate and committed to helping my clients achieve their health and
performance goals. My network of experts includes sleep specialists, nutritionists,
and fitness professionals who work together to provide you with the best possible
support and guidance.
If you’re ready to take control of your health and increase your productivity, get
your performance blueprint today by scheduling your free consultation HERE!
Many thanks,
The opinions expressed are in good faith and while every care has been taken in
preparing these docu-ments, GJA makes no representations and gives no warran-
ties of whatever nature in respect of these documents, including but not limited to
the accuracy or completeness of any information, facts and/or opinions contained
therein.