Physical fitness, health and goals matter especially when are able to use them to inspire, help and encourage the people around us.

If saving the life another doesn’t motivate you, then you have no real motivation at all.

Smolov squat program has taught me something very valuable! After doing 2-a-day training for quite a long time I have learned the body can take even more. It is a balance of metabolic conditioning and strength training that makes this level of training possible. I have tested on myself after reviewing the results from other athletes, some known personally and others unknown, that heavy squats  a few times and even several times a week is doable and maintainable. Personally, I felt better than ever doing this. Natural HGH kicked in and I felt a very youthful energy kick into overdrive while squatting daily. This was in addition to my previous program of  strength and metabolic condition with some minor tweaks here and there to make sure I wasn’t overdoing myself. This was an increase in volume and intensity, not a decrease.

Success: I gained 10% on my back squat is 12 workouts!

I finished the Base phase of Smolov and am currently finishing the Switching phase before starting the Intense phase next week. All the while all my strength movements have gone up and I have doubled the Switching Phase with Smolove Jr for  the Press, hoping for a 10% gain there as well.

Stay tuned on more about perception. It rules everything from how you create your life to how successful every athlete can be.

New challenges are always good! We have been told certain things about exercise science but how much of it really applies to you? You won’t know until you push the “boundaries” and ignore the “limits”.

We’ve been told that lifting heavy day after day can be detrimental. I am learning a new science that proves the body wants to be strong and can be conditioned to do certain lifts daily at maximal weight.

Why do we do what we do? Why do we expose our selves to intense physical activities? Because we want to feel great and know that we are great!

We are human “being”s not human “doing”s. What does that mean? We are mind (intellect), body (physical/muscle&bone), soul (energy). Being fit has to do with the understanding and proper use of all of them!

Discouragement can really weigh us down and bring a halt to good things that are happening or could be happening in our lives. I have had my fair share of discouragement and have experienced how it affects my whole life. It’s not a good feeling and it can turn into a cycle of shame if we aren’t careful. Perspective is the key to finding your way out. “This too shall pass.”

As discussed earlier, the limbic system is the mechanism of the brain that controls our survival instincts in response to three general areas basic to human existence: food, sex and safety. The limbic system is the seat of addiction. When we feel unsafe, survival mode kicks in using these three modes of existence. Food addictions, sex addictions and safety addictions have their birth here.

Safety addictions are the most subtle and simultaneously the most medicated. Negative emotions aren’t the only way to cope for safety. Over-active or hyper-ego would also apply. Safety addictions are easy to get away with as athletes who have human growth hormones flowing through their system on a regular and consistent basis. We can get by feeling better our selves through our physical prowess.

Food addiction is sabotaging the health of America with a reckless ferocity.

Sexual addiction is hardly discussed and is just as significant to our current society as the others.

If we are going to be better athletes, we must also become better people- masters at living the art of life in every way; not just the physical way. Coping is weakness. Vulnerability is courageous. Pony up!

Why do you do what you do? Why do you feel the way you feel in certain situations? What threatens you, stresses you, angers you, makes you feel loved, makes you feel rejected? How does this affect your potential and your performance? Know yourself and see the difference!