Support System Part 2

By on May 17, 2013 in Life Skills, Lifestyle

Here are some of my people that I consider friends, that I deal with and talk to on a regular basis, and some of the things we talk about to build each other up. So I mentioned Dennis Rogers in the last blog post and Dennis is one of my close friends. We’ve been each other’s friend [...]

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Support Systems

By on May 15, 2013 in Life Skills, Lifestyle

There are people who make a big deal out of being lone wolves. You know what? I believe you need to be completely self-reliant. In fact, one of the books that we’ve published is being re-titled right now is Eric Guttmann’s book. It will now be entitled The Self Reliance Manifesto. However, I also believe you ought to be [...]

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The Green-Eyed Monster

By on May 13, 2013 in Life Skills, Lifestyle

You know what amazes me in talking about personal growth and those things is the amount of people who are driven by motives that are self-destructive. I know some of the strongest people in the world, some of the most amazing people in the world, at many different disciplines not just strength. Some of them [...]

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That One Person in the Audience

By on May 10, 2013 in Life Skills, Strongman Tour

In doing shows, you develop a feel for people in the audience. I almost exclusively talk about muscle and things in relation to that but I want to broaden that sense as we go here and talk about the relationships, how you deal with people, and building a real person, not just a muscle head, [...]

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Play Around With the Angles

By on May 8, 2013 in Strongman Tour, Strongman Training, Super Strength, Training Ideas

I’m training the other day, doing a series of isometrics with a chain and a pair of handles that I’m doing as a combination isometric workout while I’m on the road. I set the handles at different lengths and do multiple exercises from those lengths and what I found was for some reason I hit [...]

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People are Hilarious

By on May 6, 2013 in Strongman Tour, Strongman Training, Super Strength, Training Ideas

Now I might be one of the wildest guys you ever meet, not because I’m  socially unacceptable but because I like to do things that most people don’t necessarily like to do, like stone-lifting. Sometimes, stone lifting in the middle of the night or even in the middle of the day in a hotel parking [...]

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Boredom – Create an Interesting Life

By on May 1, 2013 in Lifestyle, Strongman Tour

One of the other advantages about doing these tours and the things that I do is I get to go out and people-watch. I sat at a restaurant today eating lunch, listening to a couple of ladies discuss the current events and the Jodi Arias trial. I’ve seen men and women all over the country discussing this [...]

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Thor’s Hammer

By on April 29, 2013 in Conditioning Exercise, Energy, Explosiveness, Training Ideas

There’s a reason that Thor, the mythical Norse god for thunder, carried a hammer. A hammer is one of the oldest weapons and oldest training tools in mankind. Even if you look at the truncheons and the different heavy clubs around the world, many of them were used as a hammer style to swing. For [...]

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It’s a Hammer, Just Swing It

By on April 27, 2013 in Challenge Workouts, Conditioning Exercise, Energy, Explosiveness

So any time we put out something new or rebuild a product that you’ve already done, you’re going to get some flak from people, especially if it’s a tool-based physical training product. They’re going to say, “Don’t buy anything from anybody. Just use the tool and you’re smart enough to do it on your own.” Well, that’s [...]

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Slim the Hammerman on Super Strength

By on April 26, 2013 in Challenge Workouts, Conditioning Exercise, Energy, Explosiveness, Super Strength

If you don’t know, I’ve been out touring and I visited Slim, The Hammer Man, a couple of months or so ago. I got an amazing chance to tour his dungeon, the gym that he trained in, and talked to him about what he did. One of the things he talked about, and this is probably one [...]

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