Category: Mental Training
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Saturday letter: I’ve never met a kettlebeller I didn’t like
One of my closest friends, Brian, was my first kettlebell client. Great guy. A dentist. Somehow classified as not essential. But that’s besides the point I suppose. Some other time I’ll drill into why we have gotten so unhealthy. Why we’ve let a measly virus knock us on our ass. It wouldn’t have anything to…
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Routine disruption is good, routine deadens awareness
We’re always being called to be higher versions of ourselves, but this is an extreme example. Here we are. Holed up in our house. I hate it. I love it. It’s exposing my worst. And could bring out my best. One lesson is that I have to slow down. I sense my energy is too…
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The 33 minute productivity hack to crush the day in less time
Look fellow WMF’ers… Everything has changed. And I’m not sure it’ll come back the same way, either. Example: The office I work in was remodeled. People worked remotely for 8 months. When the office re-opened, about 50% returned to the office, the rest continued to work remotely. Look, it’s been a long time since I’ve…
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How to restore yourself after health setbacks and challenges
After I had that kombucha, something just didn’t feel right. Then it started. Gut pain. And lots of it. So bad that I could barely stand up straight. I’d had this before, but not this bad. It wiped me out completely. I was going to bed as early as I could and sleeping as long…
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Using isometrics to burn out mental impurities while getting super strong
Isometrics have an air of mystery to them. Maybe, like me, you think of Bruce Lee, shredded and super strong, doing isometrics. Or maybe you’re read Steve Justa’s Rock Iron Steel where he talks about feeling strongest when doing isometrics. He mentions how bailing hay became super easy when he started a program of “isos”.…
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Red Loon had the right attitude – three lessons from Coming Out of the Ice
I’m reading Coming Out of the Ice: An Unexpected Life by Victor Herman. It’s a story about boy who followed his dad to Russia in the 1930s to help build cars for Ford for Russia. With his talent, he made a big splash as a runner, a shooter, and a flyer—until Stalin started rounding up…
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Mental training Darren Hardy style—the effect of compounding choices
Lately, I’ve been learning from Darren Hardy. I knew him previously as the publisher of Success but not the public speaking side. He’s quite engaging. He talks about how small choices add up, like compound interest. He’s absolutely right, and yet it’s such a struggle to consistently do what we know is best. Things like…
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Night time workouts?
I’m not really accustomed to working out at 8pm at night, but things change. After the third time going into my daughter’s room (the last time to assure her that if she doesn’t want to go to ballet it’s ok, she doesn’t have to be concerned about it), I decided it was time to work…
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Your biggest impediment to progress
It’s reflection time. Let’s think about 2017 and decide what we want to change in 2018. Or let’s take the long look back—5 or 10 years—and decide what needs to be different in the future. As I was doing Paramahansa Yogananda’s energization exercises this morning a thought drifted into my head. What is my biggest…
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Good naturedly using Pavel Tsatsouline’s words against him
There is a passage in Pavel’s Relax into Stretch book saying that American’s don’t think you can be too flexible. Pavel then says that you really only need a small reserve of flexibility above the demands of your sport. Yet on the strength side, Pavel himself seems to think that you should try to be…