Action Offends The Inactive
A funny thing happens when you try to better yourself: other people try to stop you. Here’s why and how to deal with them.
Lessons from Football
Grinders win, greatness is planned, and your attitude determines everything. Works in the NFL and it'll work for you.
Fear is Good
Fear is the single best predictor of weightlifting success - not the absence of fear, but actually experiencing it.
Vision Quest
The more challenging the situation we overcome, the greater our stature. The demon you swallow gives you its power. Eat up.
Don't Be the Strongest Weakling
Being the strongest guy at Planet Fitness is like being the leanest kid at fat camp. If you want to push your limits, surround yourself with people who are ahead of you in the game.
Embrace the Suck
If you never find yourself in the suck, then you aren't trying hard enough to accomplish anything. Every worthwhile goal is found on the other side of the suck. And there's only one way to reach it: get mad, dig deep, and fight.
Pick It Up and Bleed
The barbell has things to teach you. Painful, but very rewarding things.
Are You Tough?
The first step to achieving your goal is to stop acting like a self-entitled sissy and get tough. This will put things into perspective for you.
The Confidence Switch
How to develop hardcore confidence, in the gym and out.
The Step Construct
Building your body ain't just physical - you gotta' use some gray matter, and we're not talking about your underwear. Here's a simple mental technique to help you achieve your goals while simultaneously showing up those loser bastards who dared to piss on your ambitions.
Blood on the Barbell: A Newbie's Story
The biker put him through a workout that was decidedly unscientific, but it taught Darren a lesson about lifting. Hope you've got some equipment in the room because you're going to want to hit the weights right after you read this.
The Everlasting Bond
Here's one of the most important benefits of training that many people overlook.
Goals and Toilet Seats
On our way to Montana for the National Weight Pentathlon, my wife Tiffini and I pulled over for a break. It's a beautiful drive, but I drink a lot of coffee and I'm 49, so we have to pull over for a lot of "breaks."
The Journey To Excellence
This week, one of the great mentors in my life died. He was Coach Ralph Maughan of Utah State, and he taught me one great lesson.
Psych Job – The Mental Side of Things
Usually, when you're talking weight training, you're talking about the five acute training variables; exercise selection, order of exercise, load, volume, and rest. There are literally thousands of training articles out there, discussing the many thousands of possible combinations of these variables.
Hunters And Scavengers
The other day while standing in the checkout line at the local supermarket, I noticed a woman feverishly scratching one of those scratch-off lottery ticket thingies. I don't know what they're actually called, but I'm sure you've seen them.
15 Tips for Success
The older and wiser you get, the more you start to realize there are certain "universalities" common to successful outcomes in all of life's endeavors. These realizations are as certain as the law of gravity, albeit less obvious. You should know and understand these common threads because they make success less random and more predictable.
Things We've Learned
Sit down with a bunch of bodybuilders and ask them to sum up all the important stuff they've learned and you'll probably hear some interesting info. But sit down with a bunch of experts in the field, guys with years of experience training themselves and working with others, and what you hear may change how you eat and train forever.