Had to share this study I came across last week… In a survey of two thousand people, one thousand of which exercised regularly and one thousand who didn’t, they found a few interesting correlations. Those that exercised: * Made on average $25,000 more per year. * Had more sex! * …
Why aim for Flow in Movement?
When it comes to fitness, we tend to think about tangible things. Strength is pounds on the bar or kettlebell, or the progressive step of a bodyweight exercise. Endurance is the time in which you can complete an event or workout. Body transformation is largely about pounds on the scale …
How to Boost Performance 300%
Yesterday, I mentioned the flow state and how the science has investigated this further. Specifically, studies have found that people in the “flow state” release a number of different neurotransmitters and hormones. These include: Norepinephrine & Dopamine: Tightens focus and keeps us in the NOW. Speeds up muscle reaction time, …
What is FLOW?
Flow… It’s a big buzzword these days, but what does it really mean? Ask different people and you’ll get many different answers. Inside of Mental Muscle, I included a large section about how to access and strengthen your flow state for greater performance. Much of that work was modeled from …
Confidently Confident
Yesterday, I shared some of my story about how I went from ZERO confidence to having plenty. What I’m about to share with you is something that became much clearer to me as I began to craft the hypnotic script for the new Confidence Maximizer Hypnosis. And that is how you …
On Confidence
You might think with the strength goals I’ve achieved, the businesses I built, and my writing these emails that go out to tens of thousands of people, that confidence has always come easy for me. If so…you couldn’t be more WRONG. Back around high school, I was probably one of …
Physical and Mental Toughness with Charlie Engle
Want physical toughness? Want mental toughness? Then listen to the audio below or read the transcript and you’ll learn how to get more of it from Charlie Engle. Download the MP3 Logan: Hey, it’s Logan Christopher from Legendary Strength. I’m very happy to be on this call. I haven’t recorded …
Multiple Ways to Imagine…
Two days ago, I told you about an idea I found from Ironmind’s Milo magazine that I really liked. (If you missed that one about injury prevention you can check it out here.) Now, something I disagree with. This is from an article on Mental Training for All Athletes by …
Rerunning a Mental Program
I put together a multi-faceted plan to get back in action on the Beast Snatch, and finally achieve this big goal. One part of that plan was for mental training. And one aspect of that was to listen to my own Fitness Maximizer hypnotic tracks. While I also do self-hypnosis …
How to Plan for a Big Training Goal
I’m settled into my new house, and things are mostly back to normal. However, much that I want to go off in a new training direction, I still have a big goal I need to hit before I can do that. The Beast Snatch Test. I was closing in on …
Mental Toughness in Workouts…You’re Doing It Wrong!
Susan: “It’s getting there. It’s getting there. No pain. That is a big thing. Natan: “Didn’t Logan say ‘No pain, no gain?’” (Everyone laughs) Logan: You just gotta try harder — that’s it! If you’re not getting results, you’re not trying hard enough! Some people believe that honestly! It’s kind …
Practicing, Training, Testing
Number 5, this is kind of an idea I’ve developed and found very useful. Understanding the difference between practicing something, training, and testing. So with testing, this is where you’re in a competition or you’re really going all out, see what you can do — this is where you break …
How to Use Your Imagination for Exercise
Hey everyone, you guys can do this while you are sitting. This just underlies the importance of the imagination in going further. Just go up straight. Take your right arm and go behind you. And notice how far you get. And come back. Neutral. Now just imagine yourself being able …
How to Focus Your Language when Coaching
When you’re coaching someone, you really want to feed back their words. I didn’t really point it out when I was working with you up here. This kind of goes into the hypnotic language, some of the stuff we’ll talk about tomorrow, but even though I don’t have him sitting …
70+ Year Old Martial Artists
A little while back Andrew sent me the following video, of a 75 year old martial artists doing a demonstration, breaking boards and blocks and much else. And, in a similar vein, on this page, I detail how I found a 70+ year old martial artist that became my mentor. …