What Can Be Looked Into & How To Spot Certain People

 Good morning. Not feeling my best but doing what's possible today. Here's something that ran through my head.....

A man of fitness and exercise is meant to encourage, teach with self respect and practice with firmness and help create opportunities. It's all great until you find out that person barely does any of those things at all and is nothing more than a self absorbed POS human being (which is putting it mildly) that shows more of treating people like dirt, teaches you how to manipulate and practices biased methods that ultimately wants you to believe it's their way or the highway.

I've seen guys in the industry like that and it truly is heartbreaking and fucked up they're like that. A lot of the time, they don't even talk about fitness at all, they act like spoiled rotten children with Sociopathic Tendencies and formulate some sick and twisted outlook on others, especially women and those that are doing their best to get their life together. They treat women like garbage and try to teach men how to be assholes.

Fitness is a constant journey of self discovery and learning from others in order to benefit you. Sure people need to make a living selling a few books here and there but most, If any, of those books are nothing special yet some fitness "gurus" treat them like if you don't buy their product(s), you're a loser. That's manipulation and guilt tripping.

The idea is to give people insights to what you bring to the table, not what the customer can do for you. Some guys charge decent prices for courses, others charge an arm, a leg and eyeballs in order to satisfy their bank account and many are gullible to fall for it. They're not really in it to help others get fit, they're in it to keep the dough rolling in. However, some are worth the price to train with or a course that changes someone but that's extremely few and far between. I know of maybe 10 people who are worth the price of badass training and courses, all of them are humble, encouraging and good people with little to no ego that are successful. 

The ones that are in it for the money, in the end are nothing more than greedy dickheads who act like God's gift to the fitness industry when hardly anyone with any credibility knows who they are. Shit I've brought up a few names to people I know who have great knowledge of other trainers and fitness entrepreneurs and not one has heard of or even cares about those names I bring up. Tells you a lot about those greedy money guys. 

In reality, a course is a course, it's not the Holy Grail of anything but it can do something for an individual that leads them down a path that has beautiful and amazing intentions. The opposite of that would be manipulating others to buy something that doesn't do much but has this false advertisement and doesn't bring Jack shit to bringing people down a noble path. Be careful who you look into. 

There are lessons in everything. What can you learn and find out? Be amazingly awesome guys and have a beautiful morning or afternoon or evening wherever you are.

What Wrestling Taught Me & What You Can Learn From It

 When I was a senior in high school back in 2002, around this time during the year I wanted to join up the wrestling team. I knew some knowledge about wrestling but never understood the training of it as only seeing glimpses of wrestling training. I was in a rude awakening, up until then I didn't have any credentials on conditioning and how to do it and I’m here to tell you here and now I got the crapped kicked out of me, technique drills, push-ups, squats, sprinting, running up and down stairs, it got to the point where in my 2^nd or third workout I had to tape up my hand because of the beating I put on it. My training lasted three days because I ended up hurting my knee in a training match and once the adrenalin wore off I was in bad shape. One of my friends at the time named Jesse who was an assistant coach told me to keep trying and not quit. I wish I had listened to him but I was way too stubborn and a bit of a wimp back then and just quit the team. If I had any regrets in sports it would be this but it gave me a lifelong lesson later on in my later years.

 If you’re not use to be being in that environment, you better learn quickly or are like me at the time and quit. It gives you a reason to be tough but if you’re not tough enough you won’t get very far, I now know that and have been through training sessions that I could used back then and might be in way better shape now. I’m happy with where I’m at and I continue to improve and because of this lesson I've increased my toughness by 100 fold. Being tough is not who’s the strongest, the most agile or who has better guns, being tough is taking that extra crawl from taking all the torture and still willing to keep going and its about making your limits go beyond your capabilities.

 The one thing about wrestling that I've learned was that even though in school and teams you rely on points and having a bit of a team effort, in reality when you’re on the mat, no ones there to help you or fight your battles and the only person you can rely on is yourself. It’s like this in life, if you want to make something happen you do it, people can show you a few things but after that you’re on your own and you win some, you lose some and when you lose you can’t blame anybody but yourself. You don’t need to be a wrestler to understand this, this happens not just in sports but business, relationships, life and it’s up to you to get the things done for yourself. Even after 10 years I’m still learning this and it continues to improve but not easier, actually the opposite but that’s the beauty of it.

 Respect is one of the biggest things you can have not just for yourself but those who were around you. Even to this day I have high respect for wrestlers and other world-class athletes, they get the job done and they take the torture with a grain of salt. That assistant coach I mentioned earlier, me and him grew up together and were still friends to this day and I consider him one of my brothers. Another guy I have found respect for what he accomplished in his life is Luke Rockhold of MMA fame who is I believe still or was the Strikeforce Middleweight Champion and why am I saying this, I wrestled in the same exact gym with him back in High School. I don’t know him much and never really had a chance to get to know him and hope one day I will but I’m proud I got to be in the same room with a world-class champion for a short period of time.

 Whenever you win at something it’s awesome and you learn certain strategies or keep that same strategy to run that winning formula but it’s the losing that makes the big difference. Losing makes you think about what you did wrong an what you can do to correct or just quit but in this case quitting is not an option, make it a habit to learn your mistakes and turn them into strengths and later on understand your winning ways when you find that formula. Hating to lose means you can’t stand it and you want to find out what you can do to prevent it, losing with pride is a whole different ball game and this goes one of two ways, being cocky when you lose or you understand what the mistakes were and handle them OK  Overtime I've come to hating losing because I want to be the best at what I do, I want to be stronger and more conditioned, be a better writer and learn more to do better business and bring in money and when I lose at times its frustrating but you learn your mistakes and make them your strengths by working smarter, harder at times and push it the way you want it to be.

 Life in general is a wrestling match, it’s a game of Physical Chess, you win or lose, you have good matches, bad matches, certain things work and some don’t and it’s usually unpredictable. The key is to keep fighting, keep driving to get better and make adjustments, be adaptable and learn to use your intuition. Find what works and stick with it and throw out what doesn't  Bruce Lee even knew this and now he’s one of the biggest Icons in history. Be consistent, make it happen and who knows, you might find yourself being a winner but even as a winner, you want to remain who you are and not lose sight of what’s important. Believe in yourself and trust in who you are because no one knows you more than that person you see in the mirror every day.