There are two ways you can be motivated. You can be motivated internally from yourself. And you can be motivated externally by others. Both are discussed more in this video: Hey it’s Logan Christopher back from Legendary Strength to talk about some mental frames and specifically, motivation. If you missed …
What is Your Motivation Direction?
There are two ways you can be motivated. You can be motivated to move TOWARDS something. And you can be motivated to move AWAY FROM something. Both are discussed more in this video: Hey, it’s Logan Christopher from Legendary Strength and today I want to talk about mental frames. What …
What is the Best Music for Working Out?
Today I want to talk about music in working out. Now with music, like with so many things, there is no one right way of doing it. Not one general, right way for everyone to do it. Instead, there are benefits and drawbacks to different forms of music to use …
Should I Be Symmetrical in Strength?
I copy a conversation thread with a customer below as I figure some other people will find it interesting and useful. It covers how to target weak spots as well, body symmetry, and whether or not to aim for this. Enjoy! Laid writes: “If you remember I recently wrote you …
Full Deep Vacuum Box Breathing
A new breathing combination routine I’ve been doing which involves box breathing and the abdominal vacuum, along with a few other finer points. This method and much more with box breathing and beyond are fully explored in Outside the Box Breathing.
Research Benefits of Deep Breathing Exercises
What Deep Breathing Does for You Recently I came across some new papers on the benefits of deep breathing exercises. Like this paper titled, “Physiology of long pranayamic breathing: neural respiratory elements may provide a mechanism that explains how slow deep breathing shifts the autonomic nervous system.” (Yep, they pretty …
How to Be Breathed
“Be Breathed” is a concept I learned many years ago from Scott Sonnon. It is the idea of the movement breathing you, rather than you breathing…even unconsciously. If you missed the previous video and post, that covers the difference between anatomic (or natural) breathing and paradoxical breathing. You must understand …
Breathing Principle – Anatomic vs. Paradox
Understanding the breathing principle of anatomic (or natural) vs. paradox is very important when breathing is combined with any sort of movement. This is as opposed to just sitting there doing breathing exercises. This video breaks this down in simple to understand terms using squats as an example of how …
Get Fit…Be Happy, Make More Money
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. Logan: Hey, it’s Logan Christopher from Legendary Strength. I’m very happy to be on this call. I haven’t recorded an interview in …