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“I don’t accept down. I only go up!”
This past week I got a chance to interview my fist mentor, role model and good friend… and a very successful businessman Robert Adams. Wow, was I inspired once again by this humble self-made man – 131 jobs held in his life (he is only 5 years older than me!), worked in construction at 12…
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3 Barriers That Stop You From Attaining the Dream Body You’ve Always Wanted
Your goal is to get in top shape. You are serious about your workouts. You eat clean, too. However, no matter what you do or try there are 10 or 20 pounds of fat that are just standing on the way between the body you have now and the body you’ve always wanted. In this…
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3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Do Bodybuilding
If you are engaged in body building for the sake of becoming as big and as muscular as you possibly can then I’m sure you’ve noticed that 1) Your confidence isn’t growing as fast as your muscles are; 2) Very often it seems like it’s a lot of work and the results are disproportionately low…
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Why you can’t do even one pull-up and how to fix it
I’m sure you’ve seen somebody do pull-ups with such an ease and grace that you were simply amazed. And, you probably thought, I’d love to be able to do pull-ups like him. And, that thought made you feel bad because you are painfully aware that you can’t do even one pull-up. Okay. Here is the…
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Video: Why fat people are fat – THE TRUE REASON
[arve url=”httpsss://youtu.be/302yXC8te5M”] There is a particular reason why fat people are fat! It isn’t slow metabolism. It isn’t the lack of exercise. And, it isn’t eating too many carbs or too much fat. Although, these are all good reasons they none of them is the chief reason. I’m so excited to talk about this issue that…
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Video: How to eat what you want and never gain any fat
[arve url=”httpsss://youtu.be/b6DHXH3dcBw”] It’s never a great idea to eat what you want but it is possible – without gaining any weight.. or fat, just to call it what it is. During my competitive bodybuilding years, I used to eat six times a day and I used to carefully measure everything I ate. It was cumbersome and…
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Video: Relative Strength – Hip Drive
[arve url=”httpsss://youtu.be/_oUR5o2AWNQ”] This is the last video of the 4-part video series on Relative Strength and the exercises that we use to test for it – and to develop it in the first place. In this video, I discuss the hip drive movement, expressed by the one-legged full squat – aka. Pistol Squat. Watch PART…
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Video: Relative Strength – The Push
[arve url=”httpsss://youtu.be/Vavg3wF8IN0″] This is PART 3 of the “Relative Strength benchmark exercises” series. In it, I discuss The Push – the handstand push-up – how to get into an inverted position safely, and how to progress to your first handstand push-up if you can’t do any. Watch PART 2: Relative Strength – THE PULL Watch PART…
