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Succeed Every Day: A Complete Guide to Habit-Forming

“We are what we repeatedly do.” Aristotle gave us this insight into habits over 2,000 years ago and it remains true. A habit is a response to a contextual cue that we have developed over time by giving the same response to the same contextual cue. In other words, a habit is something we repeatedly do. We carry out many habits every day without thinking about them. Do you take the same walk to work

Stress: Why Obsessing About The Stuff That Doesn’t Matter Can Mess You Up

The following is an excerpt from my new book “The Art of Lifting.” To see how “Science of Lifting” takes this topic in more depth, you can check out my article on rippedbody.jp which is essentially another except. This breakdown – general introduction to a topic in “Art,” and delving deeper in “Science” – is what this ebook bundle is all about.    Stress is a very huge, very important topic.  If you’re interested in it, I’d

Lord of the Rings

Level Up Your Mindset: Goal-Attainment as a Badass Quest

Remember Super Mario? How he would risk life and limb, through the treacherous realms of Mario world, battling an array of baddies to rescue Princess Peach, only to find a mushroom-headed bro tell him: “Sorry mate, but the princess is in another castle.’’ (I always imagined Toad with a British accent. Go figure.) Off he would go, once again, in search of his damsel in distress. You had to admire his persistence. Dude did not

Unleash Your Inner Superhero

What you’re getting yourself into: -3,200 words.  8-12 minute read time.  If you’re in a hurry, you can skip to the last section for the takeaways, but they may not make as much sense unless you actually read this one all the way through. Key points: Your beliefs influence your physiology directly, and the choices you make.  In these ways, they strongly influence your training success. These effects have been noted in almost every area

What it Takes to Break World Records

  This is something I feel like I need to say And I don’t mean that in a “this needs to be said, so I may as well say it,” way. I mean it in a, “It does not benefit me to say this, and I benefit from not saying it, so I feel like I’m the one who is supposed to say it because then people will actually listen,” way. This is what it

Stress: The Silent Killer (of gains)

One of the biggest problems we have when we talk about training is that we tend to only talk about physical stressors. We like complicated periodization models, manipulating training volume, intensity, and frequency. In short, we like having a sense of control. We like thinking, “If I plan out and control these training factors, I’ll get this outcome.” Sure, nutrition and sleep play a role too, but as long as those factors (often given the

Buy-In

I’d like to introduce you all to a friend of mine. This is Alex. I’ve known Alex online for a while now, but I didn’t meet him until this summer, when he was cool enough to let us stay at his place while we got set up in an apartment (it’s hard to apartment search in CA while living an Arkansas and North Carolina). Luckily, he was the cool kind of person you meet online

Poor Recovery and Increased Muscle Breakdown: Insufficient Sleep Part 2!

I’m really thrilled about how the first part of this series went over.  To date, it’s the most-read article on this site, and beat the old one-day record by more than 30%. Now, I’m not primarily happy because of the site traffic.  I’m primarily happy because of how near and dear to me this topic is, so I was stoked that it got a lot of attention.  There’s probably an encyclopedia’s worth of training and

Sleep, Pt 1: Wrecking Your Diet, One Night At a Time

“Insufficient sleep undermines dietary efforts to reduce adiposity“ The title of the study says it all. If there’s one subject I tend to get preachy about, it’s sleep.  It’s not exciting like a new exercise protocol or as sexy as some new diet trend, so it doesn’t get the coverage it deserves.  But it is absolutely crucial that you get a full night of sleep.  This is probably going to turn into a 3-4 post

7 Tips for Keeping New Years Resolutions

According to statistics I just made up, approximately a poop-ton of people will make New Year’s resolutions this year, and the percentage of them that will fail basically rounds up to 100%. So, now that we have that background information out of the way, it’s time for some easy tips that will help you be in the successful millionth of a percent that will keep their resolutions. Put it in writing!  I’m sure most of you

Key to confidence – Knowing your worst

If you want to set yourself up for success, you need to know your limits – both upper and lower limits.  You need to know how good you can be at your best, but you also need to know how bad you can be at your worst.  In my opinion, the latter is more important. People ask me all the time how I can be so relaxed all the time, especially when it comes to

How hydration affects performance AND muscle, the many benefits of garlic, and two popular supplements that may counteract each other

Sorry for the delay between posts.  I’m currently in the middle of a *huge* project.  I can’t give details about it right now, but I’m halfway through the first of two major phases.  It’s probably eating 4ish hours a day right now, so in addition to training, school (midterm week), time with Lyndsey, and admiring my beard every time I walk past a reflective surface, I haven’t had time to write as much as I’d

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