Simple!

Stick with Simple:
Please stop asking about rack pulls, speed sets, board presses, waves, etc... You need to be pressing, squatting, and deadlifting at the least (a power clean here and there wouldn't hurt either). Sorry to say, I know you want to hit a PR on everything but you are not an advanced lifter. I’m not an advanced lifter and I have been doing it since I was 15 years old. So you want a higher deadlift? Well here's a thought, try deadlifting more. You want a stronger upper body, then why aren’t you bench pressing? It’s not functional? What exactly about having a stronger upper body is not functional? Too many people want to get too fancy and complex with their training, when in reality its best to just keep it simple. Simple does not equal easy. In fact quite the opposite, simple is really hard. Then again, this is probably the biggest reason why people don’t keep it simple.

28 Days Later

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ~Harold Wilson

Change is coming...adapt or be the entree.

Heavy is the Head that Wears the Crown!

Basic Fitness/Health Advice

With the new year, people always want training advice. Its not hard and really everything out there is just a fancy spin on some basic guidelines that everyone should follow:

1. drink water
2. eat fiber/fruits/veggies
3. sleep
4. eat protein
5. take a basic vitamin
6. take fish oil
7. move on a daily basis

These are the low hanging fruit that anyone, I dont care how busy, can do. Now I would also say some barbell and conditioning work added to number 7, and you have yourself a pretty damn good base on which you can build yourself on top of.

Choose your Weapon!

Are You A Zombie or the Hero?

Happy New Year! A brand new decade is upon; now is the time we let go of past regrets and hopefully remember the message of

hard learned lessons. We talk about training for the Apocalypse but let's first be clear on what a zombie really is.

Zombie (n): A zombie is a creature that appears in books and popular culture typically as a reanimated dead or a mindless human being.

People can be zombies too. Most of us do what we are told or believe facts about health, nutrition, and politics without giving it a second thought. Sheepishly following what the self-appointed experts say, we waste years doing something because we simply weren't aware there was another, and often times, better way to do it. The Zombie Apocalypse is already here-some of them are co-workers, gym members, even family members who take what is said on TV or written in print as gospel.

The key to innovation is being willing to break the rules-whether it be this way one should eat or believing that light weights at high reps is the cure-all of getting ripped; thinking outside the box often leads to great and amazing achievements. However, the price for such a journey means more hard work, increased discipline, and a willingness to take learning into your own hands rather than allowing yourself to be spoon fed information.

Be willing to break some rules-your and everyone else's, and you may find yourself being that badass that tells people how to survive instead of being the subject of a horror story told as warning for future slayers.

The Dead Shall Rise!!

In these first few moments of 2010, lets reflect back a little over the past year and decade...... Done? Good. Now forget about all that shit because its in the past. The year of the Z has arrived. All over the dead are shedding their dirt and rising. The Earth is cracked, the seas are boiling, and what you knew, is not the truth anymore. What are you going to do about it? Will you sit back and wait for the dead to drag you down with them? Or will you stand up, grab your tools and get to work? Its time to forge a new destiny and march on to the light with fury. Don't sit back and wait. The dead are coming to get you, its up to you to decide your future now. Are you man or are you meat?