A god caught between two worlds; Mount Olympus & Earth.
Mythology’s strongest hero is one of the greatest stories ever told. In the
training world, it’s the pinnacle for us guys to try to emulate (At least the
strength). We are so amped when we develop our strength in many areas but
building physical strength comes with a price. Like the 12 labors of Hercules,
we too must conquer our challenges even as they get tougher. Unlike the Labors,
it’s never ending and sometimes we suffer to get what we want but we should
never give up on what can be ours.
Although we
can never have the strength Hercules possesses, we can however channel our
energy to create super strength and power by how we use our imagination. Our
strengths are different but we have similar goals and although we think
differently generally a certain outcome will remain the same. How we breathe
can generate or destroy our strength, how we move and think can lead a path of
strength or have it be given away. Building strength just by lifting or doing
certain exercises may be good but it’s not quite enough. Think big, dream hard
and make the impossible possible. Hercules also used his intelligence to help
his strength; we too must learn this concept for it is the very key to creating
results fast and powerful.
What do you
want; do you want to lift heavy weights, build more muscle or do you want to
become super conditioned? Why not all three and more? You don’t have to settle
for just one thing, that’s like saying if all you had for dinner the rest of
your life was steak, you’d lose your damn mind and just get tired of it. You
can develop great functional super muscle by applying the thinking of Hercules
along with what you want to achieve. We won’t always look like a Mr. Olympia
but we can create strength and muscle using techniques that can help our
breathing, our movement, the way we think and going beyond the very essence of
our strength and add even 1% of what scientists say about the amount of
strength we use.
To produce
results fast, we have to think differently and we also need to use things
differently. Grip strength is one of the most important keys in strength
development and there are many ways to do it, one of my favorites is using
sledgehammers particularly Thor’s Hammer to enhance my grip strength and
overall body conditioning. Another is thick bar training if you want to lift
great weights; this cuts your workouts in half maybe even a 1/3rd
because it takes a lot of strength to move a weight when it’s more than 2
inches in diameter like a barbell or a dumbbell. Some people can’t afford the
thick bars so what can you do, use Fat Gripz or Fat Gripz Extreme, these alone
can enhance your strength in ways that you never imagined possible.
Think about
getting strong in pull-ups, add thickness to those crazy machines and turn them
into strength enhancers. Slap a Fat Grip onto your barbells and dumbbells and
instantly turn them into one of the most difficult lifts around. Hercules was a
man of superhuman strength and was built like a house but he does teach us the
value of our strength and how we can apply it to create strength that all of us
want to achieve in some form or another. When you think differently, your body
reacts differently. The next time you lift or do a certain exercise, don’t look
at it as just an exercise, think as if you’re the mighty Hercules and you have
a powerful body, mighty hands and you have the strength and power to make the
impossible happen. See how you react and the way your body moves with your
thought.
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