Podcast: Garin Bader

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This podcast features Garin Bader a master magician, world champion musician, martial artist and more. He discusses his outside the box thinking on how to instantly add strength or speed to anything you try. [display_podcast] How your words dictate your results. How to instantly add your full body behind a …

Podcast: Wizards of Strength

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This podcast digs something up from a few months ago. Chuck Halbakken and I talked at length (over an hour) right after the Wizards of Strength Workshop in San Diego, California, recapping all the awesomeness that occurred. Oh yeah and we drank a couple beers to celebrate at the end. …

Are you hitting your training goals?

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This is an important question to ask. Are you hitting your training goals? If you are then great, keep doing what you’re doing. If not, then something is wrong and something needs to be changed. Everyone promises you that you’ll add inches to your biceps, pounds to your squat, and …

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Podcast: My 2013 Training Goals

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In this podcast I discuss setting goals for the New Year and what my specific training goals are for this year. [display_podcast] What are my training goals for 2013? Public commitment as a double edged sword. The positive and negative sides to this tool. The difference in planning for a …

Stay Tough and Endure, Comrade!

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This is a guest article from Matti Marzel about staying tough. It’s a long read but a good one showcasing his time in the army and how to transfer the toughness required there into training today. Even if you’ve never been in the army and don’t plan to you may …

Effects of Music on Strength

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I got a free copy of Men’s Fitness magazine the other day and was glancing through it. I came across a small paragraph about a recent stuff on the effects of music on strength. This comes from a study at California State University Fullerton. I dug up the complete paper …

NLP 11 – Walt Disney

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It’s funny. I keep a really open mind usually when working in this type of environment. But I was skeptical if this technique would do anything for me. It’s not that I didn’t think it would work, but I thought I already had this type of thinking down, and it …

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NLP for Fitness Part 10

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I think I may have uncovered a huge key for training success. It’s fairly easy to make progress in training. Even if it’s not always the most linear progress, you should be making some form on improvement at all times. But is this as far as it can go? What …

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NLP 9 – Submodality Shifts

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Submodalities are the HOW behind your thinking processes. The common modalities are visual, auditory and kinesthetic, known as sight, hearing and feeling in layman’s terms. So the submodalities make up the qualities of those pictures, sounds and feelings, for instance, their location, size, volume, intensity, texture and many more. As …