Author: JoshPerryBMX

Simple Nutrition Tips

Few simple steps anyone can take to support their brain:

1-eliminate sugar, alcohol, refined vegetable oils, and grains.

2- add in brain healthy fats like grassfed butter, MCT oil, olives and olive oil, avocado and avocado oils, coconut oil, and wild caught fish/fish oil.

3- switch your protein intake from conventionally raised and grain fed to grass-fed, organic, pasture raised, and/or wild-caught.

*This applies for vegans, too. Low-carb, fermented, organic, un denatured vegan protein sources are key. 👌🏼

-Josh P.

No One Will Do It For You

Hi! For those who don’t know me, my name is Josh Perry.

I’m a pro BMX athlete living with 4 brain tumors and I coach people to help them leave where they are stuck within their health and wellness goals and achieve their goals of removing weight, pain, headaches, fatigue, having motivation, and so much more.

I also started raising funds for a non-profit touring BMX stunt show/wellness event that’s mission is to raise funds for direct brian tumor and brian injury patients by creating faith, inspiration, and partnerships through sport and education. Being in the shoes of someone told “you have a brain tumor” or “you have a traumatic brain injury” has given me great perspective and appreciation for my life. Brainy BMX is my way of sharing all I have learned and become grateful for with others in their greatest time of need. 🙏🏼

I have a great team that supports and loves me, but the reality is that I still have so much I need to do and learn on my own everyday in order to make my dreams/goals manifest in my reality. It’s important to have a vision, which sets the goals and motivation, but the most important factor that follows the vision is taking action.

I firmly believe everything I say in this video as well as getting at least 6hrs of sleep a night. But that often requires sacrificing a lot of which I used to do aimlessly everyday that no longer serves me. Things like television, movies, hanging out with friends, even riding some days, and so on. I make it a priority to get my training in each day, eat nutritiously, and sleep at least 6hrs, but I live my message 100% and some days require 12-14 hours of hustling and grinding.

I wouldn’t have it any other way though.

What do you work your ass off for in life?

Power of Suggestion

When I was 21, I was told I had a brain tumor, I’d probably never ride again and would be lucky to walk, and that I would die unless I had the tumor taken out.

3 weeks later and after a 6 hours surgery, I returned to BMX riding 5 weeks after that surgery. That’s yet another opportunity for me to learn the power of suggestion. Aka, what we allow determine our beliefs, which then manifest into our reality.

I chose to not believe what that doctor told me and decided to visualize what I love to do and to look at other successful people who had battled adversity of all kinds. It really comes down to what suggestions from outside sources that we allow to dictate how we choose to move forward with our life’s.

Choose love, faith, and optimism. Because, why not? 💚✌️

Thanks, Livestrong, for the love and support!

Quality over Quantity

We have been taught that a calorie is a calorie, doesn’t matter where it comes from. It’s all about “balance”.

The truth is, protein, fat, and carbohydrates interact with our biology completely different from one another. Epigenetic’s, the expression of our genes, is effected by which foods we choose to eat and their quality, amount, and timing.

You can literally turn on health promoting genes or turn off disease promoting genes. You can change the health, function, and make up of your brain. You’re not destined for anything negative or positive. You’re destined to have choices to manifest either what you want or don’t want.

80% of the American population has this reality, so it’s truly important to open your mind to this, educate yourself, and take accountability for your life. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

Motivation

As a pro #bmx athlete & brain tumor survivor, I’ve gone through many challenges in life. #Motivation has always been the determining factor at overcoming each challenge. I believe this to be true for any person.

What helps?

  1. A Clear Vision for your life with a strong Goal, WHY, or Purpose.
  2. Health: Mindset, Nutrition & Fitness.
  3. Music.

My Cape Cod brother, Tommy Rowland’s music motivates me each and every day. His story and affirmations in his music inspire me to reach further and further for greatness.

Shit is going to happen in life and that’s just reality. What separates people that reach greatness from the norm is motivation to continue when times get time.

I challenge you all to foster a new perspective next time you come across a challenge or hardship. At the end of the day, there are no failures. Just opportunities to learn how to succeed moving forward. That is, if we CHOOSE to see if that way. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

“See lately I’ve been talking shit like two commas is light. And lately the shit I’m talking manifests in my life. Lately I hear they words and it’s a cry of neglection. I never bragged the way I do when it wasn’t the truth.” – Rowlan

📸 @jciake

Cupping & Dryneedling

Lots of controversy surrounding #cupping and #dryneedling but, in my experience, it works every time. Even if the literature/research hasn’t caught up, personal experiences mean more to me than any text book or piece of paper. Same with “professionals” and “experts”.

Just because someone has letters following their name doesn’t mean they know it all. Just because you can’t read an article “proving” the benefits of something, doesn’t mean you can’t excuse the manifestation taking place in reality.

It’s more than ok to have your own opinions, but it becomes disrespectful to direct ignorant comments towards those like myself and Jackie sharing therapies that have been practiced for 1,000’s of years with others in an effort to help others become as well as possible.

That said, I’m all for friendly debates and conversation and I want to hear your opinions. Not told what does and doesn’t work for myself, but what your view and experiences is with cupping and/or dry needling is/has been. 🤓💚✌️

-Josh P.

Alive

Hi! My name is Josh Perry, and I’m a pro BMX athlete living with 4 brain tumors and coaching people to make life changing choices in their lives to optimize their brain and enhance their life.

BMX is what’s me feel most alive. It’s not only shown me the world, kept me out of trouble, taught me valuable life lessons, and gave me amazing experiences and relationships, it saved my life in March of 2010.

That is the beginning of my journey with a braintumor that lead to me living with 4 today. It’s also what put me on the path to holistic health. It doesn’t stop me, it fuels me.

I’m thankful for brands like Kevita Drinks and their mission to provide health beverages that taste great and make you feel amazing and ALIVE. 🙏🏼💚

Comment or DM me to connect and share stories. ☺️✌️

-JoshP.

No Pain, No Gain?

Pushing your body and mind is very important to building resilience and strength. That said, too often as a society do we push our bodies and mind too high, too frequently, and unnecessarily.

Stress is a very important human biological response important for survival and strength. But, in personal and business life, we have introduced too many false stressors in our days like “I have to get this done”, “what will they think of me”, “I don’t want to fail”, “I’m going to be late”, etc. which is a made up stress yet still has the detrimental affects of stress hormones (adrenaline and cortisol).

As athletes, we are told to train harder, train through the pain, no pain no gain, etc. I ignorantly fell into this category for many years. Because of an immense passion to educate myself with an open mind, I’ve come to realize there are so many things we can do with our diet, fitness, mindset, and lifestyle choices to reduces the activity in the parts of the brain that trigger stress hormones.

Over the last few years, I have built and continue to work on building up an aerobic heart rate base for optimized oxygen intake and fat oxidation, which reduces excess free-radical damage, inflammation, and oxidative stress. I’ve worked hard to build up, and continue to build, strength, mobility, technique, explosiveness, and recovery while focusing 💯 on my nutrition and mindset to eliminate excess stress to my brain and body. Finally, I allow myself to rest when my body tells me it needs it. I’d rather have fewer days at 💯 than more days less than my full potential.

Rather than not training, like the old me, or training too frequently when not feeling 💯, I train hard 3 days a week, go all out 1 day a week, have 2 active recovery/aerobic and gymnastic ring days, and take a full day off when need be, while riding 4-5 days a week.

The benefits and improvements I’ve seen with my energy, body composition, strength on and off my bike, mindset, recovery, digestion, and mental focus were in fathomable at the beginning but now I’m a believer. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

Neurotransmitters Start in the Gut

This is why what you eat is so important, especially if you experience any kind of symptom with anxiety, depression, ADD/ADHD, anger, lack of “will power”, brain fog, etc. It starts in the gut then the brian goes to work setting off other chain reactions in the body. Thanks, Dr Mark Hyman and Dr David Perlmutter, for all you do.

It Must Be Nice

“For all the times when I was down, well now I’m on my way. For everybody that was doubting, well not I’m on my way. For the ones who ain’t believing, well now I’m on my way. For the ones who question everything, well now I’m on my way.” -@rowlan

It must be nice was a common phrase I used and that I hear all the time. I said this until I stopped making excuses for the lack within my life, took my life into my control, and held myself accountable for the reality in which I lived in on a daily basis.

People don’t just have things pop into their reality out of thin air. There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes. I’ve seen success manifest in my BMX career when I put in the work that followed a belief that it was possible. I’ve learned many things from BMX and one was that anything you set your mind to, believe wholeheartedly in, and take action towards without giving up is possible.

It’s only a dream until it happens to you.The difference between those who make dreams their reality and those who say “it must be nice” is taking action, an underlying belief it’s possible, and pushing through when times get tough.

I’ve been there when times were tough many times over my lifetime. Sometimes I gave up and other times I pushed through. Either way, it’s all just a learning opportunity. I call it collecting data.

Shit happens and you can either fall victim to the times you fell or you can be a survivor and push through with the new information at hand.

I choose to push through, no matter how terrible a time may be, and find a way to make my dreams a reality-because, why not?

I know I’ll be better for it coming out and that greatness is on the other side of any hardship in life.

Are you a victim or a survivor?

-Josh P.