MOvember is here...

MOvember is here and I'm on a mission to raise over $2000 for Prostate Cancer Foundation!

In order for me to achieve this, I need you to make a donation by clicking on the pictures then once you have kindly donated your moolah please forward this page on to everyone else in your address book!

Spam them I don't care, like I said I'm on a mish to raise OVER $2000 and to make this happen I need your help! I can only "reach" so many people and that's what friends are for right to help?!! :-)

Remember all proceeds go to Prostate Cancer Foundation and MO's are back in fashion, well for a month anyway?!

Like my MO? Can't say I do but hey what the hell, don't judge me before you know me :-)
Here's a couple of facts about Prostate Cancer in NZ!!

• Every year in New Zealand 2,656 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer and about 600 die of the disease, making prostate cancer the second largest cause of male cancer deaths, after lung cancer.
  
• The average life expectancy of a man in New Zealand is 4 years less than a woman.

All donations are made directly to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of New Zealand who will use the funds to create awareness, increase support networks for those men who suffer from prostate cancer, fund research and scholarship programs.

Me and most people reading this post (before you share it with your list) will be to young to "think" about prostate cancer so think of it as Paying it forward!

Speech of a Life time....

7 Rules of FAT loss!

Here's the 7 Rules of FAT loss, nothing but TRUTH behind losing fat without any "extras" added on.

1. Do Compound Exercises in a Interval fashion that doesn't allow full recovery for your resistance training 3x per week! Time invested 60mins x 3 = 3hrs
   
2. Do 20min Interval cardio training 2x per week that doesn't allow full recovery followed by 20mins power walk/jog/run. Time invested =40mins x 2 = 1hr 20mins
3. Eat every 2.5hrs from time you wake
4. Eat Protein with every meal
5. Eat veggies with every meal (learn to love the green veggies)
   
6. Consume starchy carbs ONLY after training i.e. potatoes, bread, pasta, rice
7. Do this 90% of the time every day for 4wks
   

You have the foundations of what to do, how will you complicate to make it unattainable?
Knowing and doing are NOT the same so make a choice and make it happen!

Another 4yrs.....

To be honest I'm not surprised we lost or I should say HOW we lost, I just never thought it would be against France in a 1/4 final!!

I thought we "may" lose in the semi or final but France proved me right (the buggers) in the earliest exit of a All Black team!

The All Blacks are the BEST team in the world PRE and POST world cup but when the tournament to name the best team in the world arrives we don't have what it takes.

Unfortunately in my opinion we don't have the mindset to "close" out a game when it matters, we have some of the best individual players in the world, however we don't have the maturity to play at a level above anybody else when it matters as we have had in the past!

If we compare the 1987 world cup winning team to 2007 team, individually our 07 team you could argue that they would dominate the 87 team, however as a team of "collective heads" the 87 world cup team had a "mindset/maturity" to play above all other factors on the field!

When it mattered most the 1987-1989 team would "shut" out any team to not allow them to play their game and regardless of the ref that particular All Black era would rise above any "ref "or "circumstance" to not allow those factors to play a major role in the game!!

Some "food for thought"

• NZ supporters stop bloody blaming "things/circumstances/ref/coaches. What happen to taking responsibility?
  
• The nation wants coaches blood! Why are we not questioning a new captain, like we have demanded every other world cup loss?

• When the All Blacks Lose, did you know the domestic violence goes UP in this country?

I don't have the answers to HOW to change the mindset/maturity thing, all I know the 1987 world cup team had a maturity/mindset that set them apart from any team in the world.

• Maybe our All Blacks are to young in the skills of life to have the mindset/maturity to close out any team that enters their path?
• Maybe the rest of the world is just catching up?
• Maybe we need to NOT live our dreams of the nation on the boyz that where the All Black jersey?
• Maybe we cotton them up to much because of the nations "expectations"?
• Maybe we as a nation should be the role models of our children and not the All Black jersey?
  

Maybe, maybe, maybe....

All I know is, unfortunately I was bloody right (in my opinion)! Anyway Go South Africa or France and take a chill pill NZ it is just a game after all and the All Blacks are human!

The Attractor Factor

I brought the Attractor Factor in August of 07 by the end of September I had read it 2x and I can see my self reading it again!

Joe Vitale is a contributor to The Secret DVD, in this book he has written as his 5 steps for Creating Wealth (or anything else) from the Inside Out.

Anything that works on the inside out model is something that I'm "interested" in, so if you are of the mindset everything you have is a reflection of what is inside of you in thoughts, emotions, beliefs etc.. then this book is for you!!

Remember it does not matter if your goal is bodyfat, it works from the inside out!! What would be 1 tip from this book be worth to you if you put it into action?

Grip Experts E Book

My good friend Zach Even-Esh has put together a monster of a E-Book on Grip training!! He's manged to put together some true professionals for this project!!

I'm very fortunate to be one of the professionals that's featured in the E-Book which I'll give you a taste of my article right now

Old School Grip for the Modern Day Warrior!

Developing an iron clad grip that our ancestors had.

When you shake the hand of someone who has done physical labour all their life you get to “feel” their raw grip strength, as a result of feeling their strength a little voice comes from the inside about how they could rip your head off with their thump and index finger!!

So the question remains how can I develop an old school grip that scares the sh#t out of the new age man!

Well, besides telling you to go work in the farm or the steal factory to develop your grip strength we can never underestimate the power of living off the land!

The modern day grip is weak due to many factors like having things made easier for us to ensure we can lift things properly without it being ‘awkward’!

Awkward my friend is the essence of true Functional Grip Strength! Let me show you how I do Grip Strength!

Firstly I believe in simplicity, from simplicity or foundations as I call them we can build what ever you dream. Without it we have something that may look good but would break if taken to the limits or put under stress!

When I’m thinking about grip strength I put it into 2 categories;

1) Functional Grip Strength

2) Functional Lactate Grip Strength

I put them into these 2 categories because that’s what is used 90% of the time in real life and when dealing with combat fighters!

Functional Grip Strength:
This is where we will take an exercise like a chin up using a bar and throw a towel over it, now it’s become functional to life or combat sports. You may be able to do 10 chin-ups with the bar but find you can only do 6 because of your grip! Therefore your grip is the limiting factor in your ability to do chin-ups.

If you are able to match your chin up strength with your grip strength then you have created relative strength that you know won’t fail you in times when it’s needed!

Functional Lactate Grip Strength:
This is the ability to work at long periods of time before your forearms feel like pop eye’s forearms due to your inability to process lactate in the muscles that you are putting under stress (forearms)

Now all of this may sound pretty simple to you which is great. Let me enlighten you to some of the secrets we use to train our grip strength and lactate tolerance with athletes of life and athletes of the fighting arena!

To read the rest of the article purchase the E-Book and all it's cool bonuses here

p.s. I have to be honest with you, I just listen to JC Santana's interview yesterday and that in itself is worth getting the E-Book, JC again is breaking grounds with his work on Grip training!! I learn't more in that interview about grip training then I ever have!!

The Power of Now

It took me about 8months to read this book, it's DEEP!! If you read from a intellectual mind only you will only get about 30% of what the book is about!! If you read while being in the conscious presence of "NOW", what you will reap is far greater then just intellectual knowledge!!

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle is an excellent deep book that I'm wrapped I "toughed" it out and became more conscious throughout the book! Thanks Jason Suttie for lending it to me!

Maybe the book wasn't "tough" at all, maybe I just wasn't ready/conscious enough when I started reading it in early January? Yeah I agree with that! :-)