Aside from Santa’s elves personalizing your hand-made gifts. Oh, and Santa traveling from the North Pole to your residence to deliver your gifts with Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.
Just the other day, I was listening to a motivational speech that got me going. That speech made it clear to me that an evolution of the thought process and perception of what training should be is how lifters and strength athletes progress to the higher levels.
Since I am a strength and conditioning coach, I placed Hard Work first on the list, but in reality, they should all be given equal ranking.
I was just recently asked this again by one of my former athletes and colleague, who is now a collegiate strength coach as well as an aspiring raw powerlifter. Here’s my answer.
These training samples, along with hard work, allowed me to get a 20” neck, sizeable traps, and a sizeable upper back—all done with minimal equipment, mostly at home, and with extremely high rep counts.
I love the ideals of hard work, being hardcore, and oozing intensity, but over the years I have learned there are many ways to perceive these things.
There is often hope that the future is the timeframe where many problems and questions of humanity will be solved. But sometimes the questions have already been asked, pondered, explored, researched and answered.
People who succeed in this world have an iron will and a never-say-die mentality. Do you?
We need to get our mojo back. It starts with our children. We can’t go through life simply coasting through the motions, never pushing ourselves, and setting a poor example.
If you do not follow these principles in your programming, you are building a house out of sand.
Here is the next installment on the intriguing Russian behemoth, Vasili Alexeyev.
It occurs to me that the large majority of whining is coming from physique competitors. Apparently no one has been honest with you up to this point.
This article is not about atlas stones. It’s about work and the ingenuity to use all your resources to get the job done.
You will find no forward momentum by doing nothing. Without work, passion and purpose won’t take you anywhere.
It’s not going to be easy to accomplish your goals. When your will to achieve starts to fade, what will you do?
The clothing we wear makes a statement of our fashion, but what does it say about our character?
Examples from the playground lead to achievement as an adult.
This one component in your life will affect your success than any other factor.
The Freakshow lays down his game plan for powerlifting. Can you handle it?
At the core of our sport lies the power to overcome adversity.
Which are you: raging bull or exercise scientist?
Hard work and commitment should be respected, no matter how you choose to train or compete.
It takes more than one person to teach a child the ways of life.
Throw people into the shit and pick them up when they can not hold their chin above the surface anymore.
Pure hard work does pay off, and most of the time, it can trump talent.
I have seen many interns who don’t understand that each internship is a test and you need to bust your butt to make that internship into a job.
How you use your “down time” in 2012 will determine if you stay a wannabe or if you become the success you want to be.
Remember, there is more to eliminating the clueless trainer paradox then simply doing what they cannot.
This article is a bit of a ‘shout out’ to my dad for making me do hard manual labor when I was a kid.
Now that the summer is winding down and the fall season is upon us, it is time for strength and conditioning coaches to see if all of their hard work paid off.
The most important factor for success isn’t strength, motivation, or hard work—it’s discipline.
I know that when I bust my ass during training I will get stronger.
Weight loss is easy; fat loss—without losing too much muscle—isn’t so easy.
Most of us have felt at least at some point in life the joy of hard work.
Steroids will be a thing of the past if one tiny gene is able to be shut off like a light switch.
When people make excuses about exercise, we should try to see just what it is they’re complaining about.
When it comes to building muscle and strength, there aren’t any shortcuts and there certainly aren’t any miracle drugs that will do this.
This six-round series will detail the differences in which genetics and hard work team up to build a machine out of man or woman.
Strength and conditioning has a historical, hard nosed attitude toward training and change.
