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Get Some Nuts!

December 4th, 2009

Tomasz

Yes, you!

If you think this post is a Snickers sponsored review then you are wrong. If you think it is Mr T biography than you wrong again… It’s just a reflection about male’s attitude towards training. Many of us guys are fascinated with professional sportsmen. We enjoy watching Rocky hard training, but when we go to the gym we perform like pensioners…

Couple years ago I was working out on the gym run by my father’s old friend. Me and my friends where performing some exercise, while making long breaks between each set. During these breaks we were chatting about some irrelevant staff. We though we are working hard, using weights we consider as big at that moment. Suddenly my father’s friend come and started watching us. “Is that what you call training?” he asked. He asked me to start performing chin ups. He attached some dumbbell to my gym-belt to increase my weight. I managed to do only 4 or 5, so did my brother. Rest of my friends didn’t even try. My father’s friend started laughing and told as how he and my father used to work out hard. They (and they friends) used giant weights, have been working up to 3 hours a day. Every training was a challenge. It was all about the competition and records breaking. Boxing - that was how they’ve been warming up. There were no steroids or supplements. But the results were fantastic! Their power lifting records are still unbreakable for average gym users. And those of them who couldn’t keep with the pace just resigned.

Nowadays I see guys buying supplements, proper trainers, gloves and other staff before they even hit the gym for the first time. Then they use small weight even after 2 years of training. They complain a lot, about lockers, showers, vending machines and other gym facilities. Just get some nuts!!! Yes, gym is about big weights, records, competition, forcing your limits and sweat. It’s about a power not a model look. It’s not as much about shaping your body like about shaping your will! It’s about being a man…

After you finish reading this post, think about your training attitude. And then you can hit your treadmill again tomorrow during your lunch break…

This post was inspired by A Moment of Silence for the Gracies… posted by Tourq on Lose 30 Pounds Guide.

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7 Ways of Breaking with Couch Potato Lifestyle

October 30th, 2009

Tomasz

Do you consider yourself as a couch potato? Obviously no! You spend few hours a day on demanding activities like watching TV dramas while eating crisps. You seat on the couch surrounded by your work out equipment (like remote controller) only because it is a requirement of exercise called “watching TV”. You are in a good shape, obviously! You can still bend for food placed on the lowest shelf inside your mega fridge! Congratulations! For rest of you, couch potatoes minority, I have prepared few tips on how to break up with your current life style:

Start changing your life same day you have decided to do it! Do not neglect, tomorrow your mood can be different and destroy your will of change.
Set your goals, one general (example: I want to lose 5 kg) and few less important (ex. I want to lose 1 kg in first month of exercising) and figure out the way you will achieve them.
Identify all reasons for your laziness. It can be everything: from lack of motivation to wrong nutrition which makes you feel sleepy all the time.
Swap your habits. If for example your habit is to eat crisps while reading scrap it and replace by new one: eating apples while reading.
Force yourself to do some physical activity. After few weeks you will see the difference as you will be more positive about exercising. Start with simple set of exercises: squats, push-ups etc.
Separate yourself from people who take all your efforts down. If you do not want to separate al least stop to listen to them, otherwise you will back to your old lifestyle.
Create some kind of reminder which will remind you about your resolutions. It can be a note on the fridge or software on your computer.

Breaking up with your current lifestyle it’s not easy but possible. Once you break with it all you need to do is to maintain your focus on set goals.

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Tags: couch potato, lifestyle, Motivation

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3 Not So Obvious Tips On Selecting Music For Work Out

October 25th, 2009

Tomasz

There are the songs that can stimulate your body more efficiently that all power drinks. Some of them can make you run an extra mile or lift more. But surprisingly music can let down your training session! Read few tips on how to select music for gym:

Select the music with a beat similar to your exercise pace.
Avoid listing to hits from your youth. It will bring back memories and very often your session will be finished as you will lose your focus.
Avoid selecting music that switches you to “fighting mode”. It will boost you energy level for first 20 minutes of training then you will get annoyed with it. Instead you can listen to that music on your way to the gym or during one, demanding exercise.

I wrote 3 tips, well here you have another two:

Choose music that is a nice background for exercising. You don’t go to the gym to appreciate good music but to work out hard!
Bring music that you associate with films which motivates you to hard work.

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Tags: Exercises, Motivation, music, music selection

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