to move up and down
Spartan shaped Body
Who are you ?
I am a champion !
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The Spartan Warrior: Ten Foods You Should Be Eating
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Here’s a list of things that should be in your kitchen - especially if you’re attempting to lose some body fat and/or be as healthy as humanly possible. I have absolutely no qualifications - just an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Of course, everyone should be eating…
‘I Want A Body Like That Guy’ trailer
What does it really take to become ripped like a bodybuilder? I Want To Look Like That Guy answers the question by following filmmaker Stuart MacDonald through 2 years of training. The last 6 months tests the limits of his mind, body, family and friends as they watch him trim down from 30% body fat to under 6% body fat. You won’t believe what it really takes to look like that guy!
I still haven’t been able to find the documentary locally to watch, but I plan to be purchasing it online. This looks incredible. Not just his transformation, but I love that it portrays a lot of the mental challenges that changing your lifestyle has on you.
I Want To Look Like That Guy
What does it really take to become ripped like a bodybuilder? I Want To Look Like That Guy answers the question by following filmmaker Stuart MacDonald through 2 years of training. The last 6 months tests the limits of his mind, body, family and friends as they watch him trim down from 30% body fat to under 6% body fat. You won’t believe what it really takes to look like that guy!
Watch this. (click the header to watch the full documentary)
I Want To Look Like That Guy is a realist view of what extreme body re-composition does to a normal person. Phase 1, get strong. Phase 2, get shredded. They called his weight lifting MaxOT training, well, in reality that’s a standard heavy lifting style to build strength and muscle. Even Arnold broke that process down in HIS documentary “Pumping Iron” for us.
There is no magic pill. There is no super move. You will not get muscles through gimmicks. There is no “crunch” that is going to give you abs. You will NEVER look exactly like fitness cover models. Understand that these are not REAL, ACHIEVABLE results for everyone. Towards the end of the documentary they show a photo of Stuart only a week after competition, he had put on 10lbs and his abs were no longer visible. Our bodies are not meant to be at the lean extremes of bodybuilders and fitness models. This would be in the range of 4% to 7% body fat. Do you want a temporary look or a lifestyle of functional fitness? If you spend all your time in the single digit body fat percentages (4%-9%) you would walk around as weak and frail. Focus on building strength, good cardio and functional fitness. Don’t spend your time wanting to look like somebody else. Become the best version of you.
Fitness is a lifestyle. Being healthy is a long term goal. There are no shortcuts or easy ways to this end goal.
Hard work, perseverance, dedication and application.
Thanks to Russel (russaldostrong) for the link to the full documentary.
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This is not me, but this is how I train.
Beastmode.
I don’t train in one aspect of fitness, I try to do it all & try to push myself to be the best possible in all areas. I settle for nothing less than greatness.
The end.
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Brock Lesnar is a machine.
He’s not my favorite fighter. I don’t really like his attitude much. What I will say for Brock Lesnar is that he has an insane work ethic. Love him or hate him, he puts in the effort when other fighters wouldn’t. Start at 1:57 for the part with him working out.
I want to fight him.
Mike Tyson Highlights
The music is Propane Nightmares by Pendulum and this is one of my favorite motivational & inspirational videos.
Let me explain a little something about Iron Mike Tyson. This guy won his first 19 professional fights via knockout. He still holds the record as the youngest fighter (20 years old) to ever win the WBA, WBC and IBF world heavyweight titles. Oh, he held them all simultaneously also, which happens to be another one of his records. Now, he isn’t regarded as the best of people outside the ring, but I want to regard just him as to his boxing pedigree. This guy was feared. I’m talking straight up people ducked fighting him because of his style. He never retreated. Mike Tyson would bob and weave while moving forward and throwing some of the most ferocious hooks and uppercuts you’ve ever seen.
One fighter had this to say about Tyson, “Nothing is going to stop Mike Tyson that doesn’t have a motor attached.”
Jim Murray was quoted, “When Mike Tyson gets mad, you don’t need a referee, you need a priest.”
Again, I can’t say much for who he was outside of the ring, but if you watch the way he trained and the way he fought it’s unbelievable. This guy had one speed and it was set to overdrive. That kind of force, that kind of focus, that is what drives me to push myself to be the best version of myself.
Interesting side note: Every time I work out, I workout as if I’m training for a fight. It’s on my bucket list, so I might as well treat every workout as such.
Motivation Monday
Heather Dorniden of the University of Minnesota races the 600m at the Big 10 Indoor Track Championships. She reminds what a race really is about. What life is really about. We will fall. We can rise.
“Never, never, never give up!” -Winston Churchhill
The critics say I’m arrogant, a doper, washed up, a fraud.
That I couldn’t let it go.
They can say whatever they want…
I’m not back on my bike for them.
The Spartan Warrior: Become A Spartan Warrior
It was not long ago that men were born to be warriors and had no other obligations than to uphold the warrior code and to pass it on to their offspring. It was only during the past 500 years that man forgot this way of life and replaced it with a complacency seemingly suited for a new world of…
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I am motivated by accomplishment.
