Thursday, December 18, 2008

Personal Bests all round at EHP!!

Lets share with you some awesome Personal Bests that’s been happening from clients at the moment!

Most people don’t understand that when you increase someone’s functional strength you by default effect their;

ü Relative-strength

ü Speed-strength

ü Strength-endurance

ü Speed

ü Speed-endurance.

ü Self Confidence

ü Self belief

And to lesser degrees;

ü Higher levels of aerobic fitness

ü Agility

ü Dynamic mobility

ü Max strength development is a precursor to lean-mass gains i.e. more muscle less fat! Due to fast-twitch motor units have much greater capacity for hypertrophy (muscle growth) than do Type I Motor Units.

What does this mean to you the joe blog? Well, looking at the above benefits of training strength doesn’t it make sense to train for a “form” of maximal strength? After all, look how much “bang for your buck” you get when you train to lift heavy!

Any ways, that how I see things and that’s how I can get quicker results then 95% of trainers in my home town, because they pussy foot around with 3kg pink dumbbells and 20reps at a time and say things like, “you won’t get BIG when using this weight because it’s light and we are doing lots of reps, we are “toning”!!

Okay, get back on track Spida! :-)

Some Clients PB's:


Name


Weight

Comments


Duane


Went from 80kg Deadlift to 160kg for 4reps in 6wks!!! That’s a 100% return on investment thank you very much, he the man!

Oh and we measure him tomorrow to see how much more weight/fat he has lost. After only 3 wks he had lost 4kg and 3% bodyfat!


Scott


New PB on Incline from 60 to 65kg!

NO INCLINE BENCH training at all, he trained with John for last fight doing “fighting protocols” and as a result increased his squat, incline. He’s also doing a 2 shoulder exercises 2x per week before every session.Which I think at this point has also helped him in breaking down the 60kg mark!!


Spida


Deadlift 190kg for 2reps from a recorded 170kg.

I’ve done 180kg on trap bar about 3yrs ago in Melbourne, so once I hit 180kg I got a new PB, felt good then hit 190kg. I let me ‘ego’ out of the bag at the right time!


For the ladies out there!!





Kate


Deadlift 2reps at 105kg from100kg

Back Squat from 75kg to 85kg at 1rep

Don’t let your ego tell you she’s built like a brick sh%# house guys/girls cause she’s not at a dress size of 12!!!


Miki


Dead lift from 75kg at 5reps to 90kg at 1!!

I trained Miki online while she was studying this year and when she come back and i saw here improvements I “new” she could get up there and she did! Dress size 10 here as well ladies!!!


Chris


60kg Deadlift for 5reps

Not bad for 49yrs young is it and a bodyweight of ^@kg (like I was going to give you that she’ll kill me :-).Oh another size 10 her, so there goes the lifting big makes you into a man!

So what’s the secret to breaking down personal PB’s!?

Obviously technique is important, however if it’s the main concern then you shouldn’t be lifting to your max! Honestly though, the secret is the “talk” between you and the bar or the "talk" that's happening between your ears!! Sometimes you can out beat your thinking and other times you don’t, but when lifting heavy it’s all in the mind!

Case in point: Lifting to your max is part about numbers i.e. 100kg is 100kg today, tomorrow 10yrs time it’s 100kg. So in simple terms it’s math! If you add another 10kg it becomes 110kg, it’s still math!!

NOW, the secret is HOW and WHAT does that number do to your thoughts, feelings and what impact does that have on YOU!!!

Do you get my drift, the weight on the bar is JUST A NUMBER but what and how it makes you “feel” is where the secret lies! You conquer that and you conquer the weight!

Now, you may have the right “feelings/thoughts” in your head but sometimes you just don’t lift it, that’s means your not strong enough, yet! Easy solution to that, KEEP TRAINING! But my experience dealing with “normal” people who don’t lift tin for a living is, the number they see scares the shyt out of them and sometimes me too!!

So always "talk" to yourself in a postive manner and if that doesn't work then let it out, you know the part of you that's not accptable to show in public?

All the anger, hate, ego, alpha, up yours, type thinking WE ALL have in us! I'm still learning to let it out and be okay with it, it's a part of me that scares me a little so I don't like showing it.

Last week when I hit 190kg, that was from the "hate/anger/ego" place and if I'm being real honest. I enjoyed it in fact I loved it!!!

What did I say between my ears that got me to lift it?
The first attempt and only moving it 1inch off the floor, Holy shit that's heavy!

Then directly after that, between my ears was "f$#@ you, you don't own me, I own you, now show it (the bar) who the F---- boss is around here, mutha F-----ka"!!

The rest they say is history......


Wednesday, December 17, 2008

#1 Secret of All time!

I read some where that Warren Buffet the billionaire was asked what best investment someone could make in this economic time we have?

His answer?
"The most important investment you can make is in yourself"

How simple sweet and to me true! I've been investing in myself in particular with meditation for the last 14months or so and I will say it has been one of the best things that I've incorporated in my life!

The benefits of it are well documented, however I will give you some of my own experiences;
  • More relaxation
  • Increased recovery from training
  • Decreased stress
  • Increased depth of sleep
  • Increased awareness of "good" vs "bad"
  • Increased ability to detach from drama my own and other people.
  • Groundedness
Now meditation has been around for thousands of years and there are many forms of it, however I've been using Holosync Solution from Bill Harris. He promotes that you get INSTANT deep meditation and being on his programme I can assure you, you do!!!

Now it's not for everyone, because it maybe too truthful for you to handle as it does "force" you to be more truthful (if you listen to the programme)!

If you do take the leap of faith, I wish you all the best I'm sure you will gain instant access to a more "aware" world in a time that instant gratification is at an all time high with little to show for it except debt, hate, war, win vs lose, black vs white!

Please remember, meditation is like anything in life, you have to invest in the time to DO IT which takes approx an hour per day. If time is a concern for you then hopefully after you receive some "grounding" you will see the benefits of it and stick it out through "good" and "bad"!

p.s. Thanks to Jason Ferruggia who posted on his blog about him doing it. I've been to chicken shyt to discuss it with the masses for my own B.S reasons! Interesting isn't it when you look from the outside in.....

p.p.s Holosync for me has been the best and hardest personal development tool I've ever used, wouldn't change it for the world! :-) Click here to read about it all you can.