The legendary Catch Wrestler Karl Gotch once said that to become strong and agile you always work your muscle from every possible angle. Muscles grow and look larger than life but like everything else there’s a consequence, if you work too much muscle and not enough of your tendons, you will be more vulnerable to injury. Isometrics is the key method not to just hit a muscle from a certain angle but every angle imaginable. Holding a certain position and hammering in only that particular spot will give you a sense of great strength from that position. One of the beauties of Isos is if you hit a spot where you can’t go anywhere else, that’s where you press, pull, squat or whatever to get beyond that position and no matter how you slice it, your strength will skyrocket with enough practice.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Make Just About Any Angle Your Strength
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Getting Mad? Get Out & Train
We all have certain emotions that get to us through stress, certain people in your life and many other things but getting mad and taking it out on the wrong things can lead you to a path of destruction that you will have a lot of trouble getting back from. I have had a bit of temper and it makes me sometimes the biggest ass in the world. Whenever I got mad at something, it drove me to a point where I have put holes in door with one blow of my fist and have thrown certain things at a wall or even have punched my own window and shattered every square inch of glass from one hit. I’m not ashamed to admit this and have paid a price with scars both physically and emotionally. So after a few years of self discovery I wanted to learn to control my temper.
Monday, June 18, 2012
Follow Blindly With Pride
When you first really learn something, you don’t know what to expect, if you did, learning wouldn’t be that fun or adventurous. When you first learn to walk as a baby, do you research and follow the mechanics, no because you don’t know any better and you learn to do it yourself by putting one foot in front of the other than before you know it you’re off and running. People have this belief that following a certain people blindly without looking into who they are or what they really represent feel that it’s stupid and you don’t know what you’re talking about.
In the strength training world or in fitness for that matter, we follow all kinds of people, programs, diets, exercises and all sorts of things. Even the “experts” who have big egos try to take down those who don’t believe in their system and that they are blind to what they should really strive for. Hate to break it to you buddy but as cool as your name is on a piece of paper doesn’t make you god among men. Not all people in this industry are like that but it’s very annoying when they give you this B.S about facts and scientific methods that are proven and they expect you to believe them. This is where instead of listening to what they say; find out for yourself what works and what’s proven in your own experiment. Testing the waters is one of the best to learn from.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Big Muscles Don’t Mean Jack Shit
In every major muscle magazine, you’ll find a minimum of 3
articles that “teach” you how to build giant looking muscles. Come on are you
fucking kidding me, most of these guys can’t write a single program that shows
any realistic approach to building massive muscles with functional strength.
Having big muscles can actually ruin your chances of having success in your
exercise program, sure some are genetically built to have big muscles and still
find a way to be extremely flexible and very strong. If you don’t believe that
then take a look at a couple of muscle bound looking guys I know of.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Living With Incredible Health
Throughout the world and more famously in Asian and Middle
Eastern cultures, health is a journey of learning to find the best qualities in
the body, mind and spirit. Finding health doesn’t always mean finding the right
exercise, the best meditative practices, the right kind of food to eat or even
believing in a higher power, all these things have great advantages but the
real key to building superior health is finding your true self and how you
apply it to make yourself vital, vigorous and living a long and happy life.
Today however, health has become a near last-on-the-list mockery of what we’ve
become in this country, too many bad foods, too many TV commercials and way too
much exposure to the wrong kind of what health is believed to look like.
Looking at certain models, pro athletes, global entertainers
and hate to say this but gurus as well that really take looking at health down
a spiral of bad influences and a lot of egotistical people. I’m not saying all
these people are like that but seriously, you’d rather trash your body for a
few bucks than to actually get a grip on it? The mind/body connection is a
symbol of our yin and yang of life; one cannot exist without the other. Think
of a great and beautiful looking Ferrari, what does it need, gas, oil, water
and parts to keep it not only together but to drive in a smooth and
ferocious fashion, if our bodies are weak, so are our minds and vise versa.
Superior health starts combining the mind and body as if they’re one whole unit
other wise our conditions won’t be the way we really want them to be.
Monday, June 11, 2012
It Ain’t Easy Being Green
All of us have different traits, physical structure and certain intellectual abilities, however, being different scares people period. Many people want others to see the world the same way they see and force you to not challenge their opinions and philosophies. Fitness is a lot like that too, if you challenge the system, they’ll ridicule you and make you feel guilty that whatever you’re doing is wrong and their system is the end all be all.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Steel Cords From Isometrics
Picture for a moment and see your tendons and ligaments as if they were cords of steel and it would take a ton of pressure to break if they can break. Those cords are not only stupid strong but just as supple with a dose of great flexibility and power at the same time. Would you want that kind of strength? I bet you do.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Opening Your Mind To A Whole New World
When it comes to mental strength, people look at certain methods that help open the mind but not enough to walk through the door itself, very few methods do this such as some meditation, chi kung, postures in yoga or even muscle control can be a form of mental training. I have practiced this type of method and it’s given me a new look of the world both reality and imaginative and that’s coloring Mandalas. Mandalas are the different shapes and sizes of patterns that can have many angles and never knowing which one’s come next. To me it’s the adult version of a coloring book.
As kids, coloring was fun to do and saw different drawings of animals and designs of cartoonish delights, as a painter, you see the color and picture beforehand and you grasp it as if you can reach out and touch it with your very own hands, sculptors have that exact same passion and mandalas are no different. At the bottom you’ll see a mandala I colored in over a year ago and it’s still as beautiful today as it was being colored in at the time I did it. It’s fun to see something you can appreciate not just as a person but a creative individual.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
There Is A Magic Pill
Now that I have your attention, got you didn’t I? In reality nothing gives you results like a serum given to Steve Rogers turning into a Captain America. However, you can get magical results from putting in the effort and finding a whole new you in the mirror after doing great workouts and giving yourself the rest you need. Tablets can kill you, putting in the effort is actually safer and more efficient. If you want magic, find a wishing lamp, good luck with that.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Training Like A Superhero
Ever since we were children, we were fantasized by the extraordinary powers of Super Heroes, if you were a DC Comics fan, you were in awe of Superman, loved the gadgets of Batman, wanted to wear the ring of the Green Lantern and if you were a woman, you wanted to battle like Wonder Woman. As a Marvel fan, you wanted to see Spiderman swing through the streets of New York , watched and read about the X-Men and wanted to triumph like Captain America and so on and so forth. Super Heroes are our every fantasy of being strong, fight for injustice and have powers beyond belief than you come back to reality and for some your life sucks to you. It doesn’t always take a Super Hero to do extraordinary things, some people are just like you and me but when that light turns on and you have to run from a mugging or rescuing someone, you can find the strength that goes beyond the levels of your own abilities and I’m here to tell you, you can make those things a reality.
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