High-Performance Lifestyle
A thick back is an icon of physicality.
It means that you are serious about training and not simply a show body with a glimpse of the summer month’s motivation. It takes time to build thick slabs of back muscle and even slower than its progress, is what you can see in the mirror.
The making of a big, freaky back produces real-world function and makes world champion bodybuilders.
Building the back of an adonis will command the respect of an elder statesman. An icon in the gym. [Read more…]
There is a ton of fitness babble on the worldwide web.
The bottom line, which we beat to death, and is repeated by every reputable source on planet earth is this: Get Strong (and then get stronger).
It is the underlying principle regarding all physical pursuits. Strong people, as they say, are harder to kill. Which also makes them more efficient at sport and more dominant in competition.
The following rules adhere to the universal principles of physicality.
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Recall my previous blog post on exercise selection where I mentioned the Kalashnikov analogy. The bottom line up front was a quote from Pavel Tsatsouline: “The fewer parts something has, the less likely it is to break down. The success of the famous – or infamous – Russian Kalashnikov assault rifle is a case in point.” [Read more…]
Gym Jones is the near mythical training facility that produces superhumans (website).
Maybe you’ve seen the viral videos of the actors for the movie 300? It was a depiction of regular guys transforming into mega jacked, ultra fit, Spartan Warriors.
The website, the access to their content, their single location somewhere in Salt Lake City, it all seemed like the stuff borne of legends.
Hailing from this proving ground is Bobby Maximus (or Robert MacDonald if you want to be boring), a giant man of muscle that is capable of producing elite level cardiovascular output on pain-inducing contraptions like the air bike, C2 rower, and SkiErg.
However, his primary weapon is his mind, which makes him seem like a literal philosopher’s stone. [Read more…]
If you are obsessed with peak performance, achievement and psychology, then you will eventually find yourself thinking about talent. And most importantly, how to build talent.
Talent, in its essence, is the performance of skill with natural ease and sense of invincibility. It’s like watching a professional play against amateurs. Or like watching a normal human being perform feats that appear to be superhuman.
Talent is the ability to execute a skill in a way that makes you an expert. [Read more…]
