Did you know the body perceives mental and physical stress in exactly the same way? It reacts with exactly the same hormone response. Do you know that the body perceives training and any other physical stress also in exactly the same way?
Don't let stress get to you
But here’s something I noticed. It had been a long time since I’d been angry in that way and don’t worry – I didn’t snap anybody in half. However I noticed an incredible dump of adrenalin and physiological response to that emotional movement. It wasn’t anything I did physically it was purely a mental stress and a mental reaction that created an extreme amount of physical stress.
While this is unavoidable occasionally at times except through extreme practice of self control every day little stresses add up. Build the ability over your life to use training as catharsis. Now I did this a lot when I was younger. I got angry and went out and trained until the energy felt better and you can do this occasionally, but at the same time you need to over a period of time mature and not take everything out through training. You do not need to absorb stress and then blow it away. You need to literally build the ability to be immune to stress to focus your mind and create an attitude that deals with life in a stress-free way, because no matter where you go things are tough. Mental pressures, family pressures, lots of those things create stress in life. Worrying about them literally will not help. That’s in every major religion of the world – the bible being one of the foremost of which that says, “Worry will not add a hair to your head.”
It literally cannot help anything only active action against a situation will help. Only an attitude that recognizes the important things of life and allows the other things to get away can help you even out your emotional responses and not succumb to the plague of stress. Be careful how you manage the stress in your life because it has huge effects on your physical as well as your mental well-being. Keep the mind right and the body follows. Keep the stress under control, muscle grows better, health is better, fat loss is better and your whole world is better all around. Everyone likes you better when you’re not ticked off all the time. Be sure you tell your loved ones that you love them and find a way to calm your mind.
God bless,
Bud Jeffries
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Listen, if you’re not paying attention to how you hydrate your body you’re literally not paying attention to your health. Intense physical exercise – the kind that we do and if you ever do it with me you’ll know the reason why – requires lots of water. Now I don’t think it all has to strictly be water, other liquids count into that area, but you have to be aware if it’s a liquid that pulls water away from your body or adds water to it. For instance – very diluted caffeinated tea or water with lemon is okay, but sugary drinks, caffeinated drinks, alcohol, etc. are not. Now can all these things be enjoyed in moderation at certain times? Absolutely, but rehydrating and hydrating during your workout needs to be done with these very basic liquids. 
Now why the push-press instead of the jerk? First of all I like the idea of being muscular with the kettlebell and not just being efficient. What does that mean? I want the bell to be used for explosive, powerful movements that creates fatigue not just escapes fatigue by efficiency. There’s nothing wrong with using the best technique and most efficient technique for what you’re doing especially if you’re in the sport idea of kettlebell lifting, but I’m lifting for pure maximum physical benefit. That means the most power I can get from my arms and shoulders as well as unification of my body to my lats, hips, thighs and abs and everything involved as well as the massive cardio components in an explosive drill. That’s the reason I use the push press. 
A Prison Swing Challenge
This is a workout that came to me a week or so ago and I decided to experiment with it. It’s also a part of one of the workouts featured in my upcoming kettlebell book. Here it is, quick hitting, but hard, hard, hardcore.
I did two rounds of this with 40 reps swings an average of 25 reps of push presses on the push press minute. It is brutal and a killer, but what did it do? It allows your body to keep working, to keep moving at an explosive endurance, building explosive strength, works your entire body with the pulling pushing motion of the swing and the pressing motion, explosive movement of the push press. It spreads the stress back and forth across the body as well as the blood flow creating a greater cardiovascular component, as well as a better breathing component and blood flow component and still getting solid fatigue in the posterior chain, shoulder and arms as well as the quads and calves from the push press movement. However you don’t drive any of them so that they would require massive recovery and you can really jack this workout up and keep going.
I tested it also on some of my MMA guys. They both loved and hated it from the standpoint that it is both horribly hard to do and at the same time incredibly productive. Another in the series of these workouts that you’ll be seeing soon.
Try it, let me know how you do, let us know how you progress with this – it really IS bad to the bone!
God bless,
Bud Jeffries
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