If you don’t know and you follow this site I keep a great deal of information on this site, but I keep my personal information and training on Facebook and Twitter. It’s the best way that I have to post the information that I want to share about my personal records and bests of training information in a public way that’s easy to handle for my life and schedule. I have a bunch of new PR’s and if you don’t follow on Facebook or Twitter you might not know that. Noah has also had a bunch of PR’s Bending the Red Nail, lifting a huge stone and dropping 45 pounds of bodyweight which is all great stuff for his personal bests.
If your training isn’t taking your personal bests in many directions, most of the time maybe you ought be looking at what’s wrong in your set up.
I’ve had a couple of personal bests recently and I’ve been doing some things differently. I spent most of the summer doing a variation of easy strength and will be telling you about that in later upcoming dvds and information on the super human training website in which I did frequent lifting and pushed to a different style. Now I’ve switched focus and doing more volume and working on the base of general movement of strength that I’m building. At the beginning of summer I curled a 200 pound barbell and more recently curled the 200 pound barbell for 35 repetitions in one workout. That’s not 35 repetitions straight but 35 total reps in one workout. That’s pretty good progress in a 12 to 14 week period.
I’ve also been doing a lot of one-arm Kettlebell push presses working with a much heavier Kettlebell and have recently had a personal best of 150 total repetitions in the workout with a 130 pound Kettlebell. These are moving towards explorations of a whole different kind of strength than I’ve experimented with before but that’s part of the point. That’s why I’m here. That’s what I love to do is build new roads into strength and endurance. Also if you didn’t see the Facebook and Twitter feed in early September, on my birthday I knocked out a serious challenge to myself just to see if I could do it. I haven’t been doing any super heavy Partials for a while, but I constantly stay in touch with a reasonably heavy partial, but hadn’t done any superheavy ones in several years and I decided to knock out a really heavy quarter squat and did 1500 pounds . Keep in mind that’s with a 120 pound body weight loss from the last time I performed that lift with that weight on the bar. Then I decided to take the swing further than I’ve ever done doing 4000 total swing repetitions in 2:50:00 as a challenge to myself for turning 38.
That’s what I want you to think about. Constantly challenging yourself, constantly improving your strength and endurance, striving for vitality in your personal goals, advancing in every area and every type of strength and getting better. It doesn’t take that much. I train less than 3 hours per week. Now obviously not on a super endurance challenge like that that’s 3 to 4 hours long that’s different, but normally it’s less than 3 hours per week. That is very efficient from a training perspective and you ought to have that same efficiency.
What kind of PRs have you achieved lately? Tell us about them in the comments section or send us a message and let us know! We want to hear from you and where your training is going.
And you should check out the new Super Vitality Course and my newest book I Will Be Iron for many more training and PR generating ideas.
Waiting
If you don’t remember reading on this blog before you should be paying attention to the following words, “Balance is the key to everything you do.” You’ll hear me repeat that over and over and over again be it balance of physical training, balance of physical, spiritual life, balance in the way you eat, balance in the way you rest, balance in your relationships or in your business. Every part of your life requires balance to work optimally. And there are many things that waiting can do for you that is positive. For instance waiting till you find the right person before you get married is a very smart move. Waiting till you’re recovered to go into a hard training session is also very good, but there are some things that are huge mistake on waiting on and this is what I want to talk about.
Waiting for other’s approval to do things you want to do is usually a mistake. Now if you’re under 18 and you’re waiting for your parents so you can do something that’s a whole different situation and if you’re waiting for some massive legal loop hole to be able to smoke something that’s illegal in most of America that’s also not what I’m talking about. What I’m talking about is the way you train, the way you live, the way you do anything. If you wait on other people’s approval to set the wheels in motion you’ll be waiting forever.
I have a very open mind and a very open way of training. If you break down what I do there are elements from almost every hardcore, physical sport, competition and strength style . For instance elements of power lifting, Olympic lifting , All-Around lifting, old style strongman, new style competition strongman, Kettlebell lifting, bodyweight exercises, Indian clubs and a dozen more . This is also inclusive of many martial arts and energy styles. However if I was waiting around for the approval from any one of those communities I wouldn’t actually be doing the job that belongs to me which is making myself better and making myself happy and getting the results that I want.
I found the combination that I like to train, that works for me, but doesn’t create damage and is the optimal one for me to make that progress whether makes any of the rest of them happy or not . That applies to every area of your life . There are obviously some things that are a stretch such as stealing $10,000,000 even if you find the legal loop hole to do it. This is never going to be morally defensible but again that’s not what I’m talking about. If you’re waiting on your success to be dictated by other people – your physical success, your mental success or spiritual success then you’re going to be waiting your whole life. Don’t wait! Most things are best done on your first reaction and by jumping into the fray. When you start to train give it all you got. Train. Be smart, have a well thought out plan, learn about all the factors you need and get our materials to help learn about that too. Don’t wait around. You don’t have to wait to live a life that you want. You don’t have to wait to have the physical spiritual and mental attributes that you want. Just choose to do what is necessary to get them.