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Quotes
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
— William Feather
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
— Conrad Hilton
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
— Charles Ketering
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
— James Whitcomb Riley
Coach's Corner
What do meditation and running have in common?
I've never been much of a distance runner. In high school, I found that I was too nervous to play basketball. In practice, I'd hit the shots, play the defense, and even run the patterns. Once I would step onto the court in an actual game, however, I'd get so high strung that I'd forget which basket was ours! Track and field was a different story. No matter how nervous I'd get, the plan was simple: one foot in front of the other, as fast as possible, in a circle around the track. Now that was something I could handle!
I was not much for acceleration, but once I got going, I could turn on the speed. For this reason, I was mainly a quarter mile runner. In the off-season, however, I needed something to keep me in shape (especially with my diet of 40oz sodas and vending machine snacks) so I opted for cross country. It wasn't long before my teammates gave me a nickname that I'll never forget: Grimace. That described my face as I would stumble across the finish line after running 12-minute miles. Nope, distance running was not what you would call my "cup of tea."
After I left home, I decided that fitness was for the birds and went to work on my gut instead. When reality caught up with me and it came time to lose the extra flab, a lot of old emotions kept me from really enjoying my cardio. I was miserable for the most part, until one day when I managed to conquer a hill in our neighborhood that had been mocking me for months. Forcing myself to make it to the top and continue running gave me a rush I had not expected possible, and I began to look forward to how hard I could push myself each session.
Because I've been a fan of resistance training and muscle mass, I've had a fear of running long distances. I enjoy jogging through the woods, however, and this pleasure led me to going on seven or eight mile jogs for a period of time. After we moved to South Dakota, however, the cold weather brought me indoors and on the treadmill. Since running hard but not going anywhere is boring enough, I'd stick to high intensity interval training and practice running 2 - 3 miles in a short time frame.
Things changed a few weekends ago when I was speaking with a fellow Mason at one of our events. He was speaking of his involvement in an upcoming marathon, and I jokingly mentioned how I wouldn't have time to train for it. He raised an eyebrow, suggested that I could train for it, and the rest was, as the saying goes, history.
I was speaking about meditation, wasn't I? Well, I decided a few things when I accepted the challenge for this event. First, I would not run an entire marathon. Nope, not ready for that yet. So I entered the half marathon event. Second, even though I only had seven weeks to train for it, I'd do fine. Third, I wouldn't sell myself short by just focusing on finishing, but instead, I am focused on finishing in under 2 hours. Fourth ... I refuse to feel overtrained or worn out just because I have to add so much mileage week after week. Instead, I'll use the power of my mind to overcome the distance and make it easy.
Sound crazy? Perhaps, but while about 7 miles is the longest distance I can recall running in the past, I've already worked my way to 6.5 miles — this past weekend I completed the distance on an incline in less than an hour. Part of my assistance was a technology called Holosynch. This technology uses sound to place the listener into a meditative state, based on the wave patterns generated by the brain. I received their free sample CD and it only took a few sessions before my wife and I jumped online to order the full package. Because this is almost like going into the trance, I had the theory that listening to these tracks would help me get through the longer runs without tripping over the greatest obstacle I will face: my own mind. I tried it a few weeks ago and am happy to say it is working out nicely.
By the next issue of this e-Zine, I will have already run the race and will be reporting my results. At 6.5 miles, I have quite a bit of distance to cover in order to reach the 13 mile mark. I am confident and excited. If you'd like to follow the race, I'll be wearing a chip that reports my status. The event is online at this link and there is more information with pictures here. (Remember, I am in the half marathon). I plan on taking an MP3 player with 2 full hours of the "meditation music" with me on my run. As I mentioned, I never was much of a distance runner. This month, however, I intend to prove that most of success comes from our heart and in our head ... after months of not doing much more than a few miles on my treadmill, I'll be finishing a half marathon in under two hours after just seven weeks of training. It won't happen because of how well I designed my training prorgam and we won't be able to blame my genetics. Instead, it will become my reality because I made a decision, one that I feel deep within, and that decision is going to manifest on the day of the event. I can't wait to share the news ... "see you" at the finish line!
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Nutrition: The Myth of One Diet Fits All (by Jon Benson)
Okay... so you want to make a million bucks. Here's what you do: first, go to med school. It really doesn't matter if you're passionate about healing people, just as long as you're extremely committed to the process. You know, recall. Study, test, repeat. Most doctors are excellent when it comes to recall. Superior, in fact.
Next, set up a practice to where you spend about 3.2 minutes with each patient...just long enough to find out what probably isn't 'wrong' with them but enough to toss some handy-dandy drugs their way to treat the symptoms.
There. Don't you feel better? Of course you do.
Finally, when that gets old and you gain about 40 pounds, write a book about how to lose 40 pounds. The consonants behind your name is really all you require. That's what we've sold America on. In fact, the market-driven, consonant-loving Americans cannot get enough of diet books written by doctors they'd never want to look like.
Let's put this in perspective — that's like me writing a book about becoming a Vogue cover model.
Are all doctors like this? No, of course not...and those who have read my rants and raves about our learned physicians over the years will know that I place only about 85% of them in this category. Oh, okay...probably half or more. I'll have to think about it.
Still, this brings us up to the point of this diatribe — the fallacy of the diet, and in particular, the one diet fits all, write-a-book-about-it mentality.
The funny thing is that I've written a very successful book about...dieting. It even has the word I detest (diet) IN the title! For more, see my blog entry on why I opted for this route and get a good laugh. However, The Every Other Day Diet is 'not' your conventional diet book...no, no, no. Not in the least. It's a process book that takes someone from whatever stage they are ready for (beginners to advanced bodybuilders) and eases them in to a lifestyle eating system that simply works. It works because it works for them...and that's why there's multiple versions in the EODD plan.
I've been asked (nay, badgered) for years to write a diet book. After all, I had a heck of a transformation myself, became a working nutritionist (no consonants, thank YOU), and a lifecoach. Plus, I'm a writer. You'd think I'd be prime for it...but I am not. I rejected the notion for years. The EODD came to me by default, almost like a surprise package in the mail. Maybe it was someone else's letter I opened up...who knows? All I know is this: it works, and works well.
"I've gone from 24% body fat to 19% body fat in less than a month, with no loss in muscle mass!" – Danny Jenkins, South Beach, FL
I get those quite a bit...nice testimonials that make my day. However, like Danny, anyone's results will be based on their goals and personalization of the program...of any program, not just mine. While The Every Other Day Diet is very good, perhaps the best, at allowing you to consume foods you already enjoy (and yes, that means 'junk' foods, just within a particular system) and teaching you to love the foods you 'should' enjoy, it's still dependent upon you.
Using the Goal Workshop in The Every Other Day Diet, you'll be given valuable knowledge about how to apply personalization to this routine. You will learn to 'love' it, and we only keep that which we love.
The ideal diet? That's simple... no diet at all, unless you use the word "diet" in the literal sense (that being 'sustenance'). The key is to simply enjoy all the foods you consume. At that point, "willpower" becomes a thing of the past. How hard is it to eat a piece of cake? Well, guess what — it's no more difficult for me to eat a can of tuna after applying these principles.
To help people along, I have offered for this 72-hour period only (meaning it ends Monday, May 9th at midnight), 12 free weeks of my new M-Power Audio Series™ — Mind, Meals and Muscle. This will really drive home the point that a "diet" is not the answer. An eating plan that you create, with a bit of help from books like mine and even others, is the answer...along with a reframing of the mind. Once the mind changes, the subconscious mind becomes a friend rather than a foe.
Sound too good to be true? It's not...4 days prior to my last photoshoot, which you can see in my online gallery, I had a nice big burger. If I ate like that every day, I'd end up looking like my before pictures. However, eating that burger actually made me leaner. No kidding. I'll show you what I mean.
Check out The Every Other Day Diet and let me know what you think. Oh, and for the newbies to my site...you'll find that 99% of my articles are not 'sales pitches'...this one is, to a point. However, it's actually the best way I know to 'make' the point that one diet cannot work for everyone.
Unless the diet book you purchase realizes that, you may end up looking like the bloated physician who wrote it.
Jon Benson is a nutrition and transformational lifecoach. Once obese and close to death, Jon chose a faith in God, bodybuilding, nutrition and role modeling as the methods to heal himself and transform from the inside out. Jon Benson is the co-author of one of the top-selling fitness eBooks of all time, Fit Over 40, and the recently released "The Every Other Day Diet". You can learn more about Jon at his website, www.AllYourStrength.com. You can reach Jon by email at jon@allyourstrength.com.
Training: Form for Fitness (by Jeremy Likness)
This is the correct way to perform a bench press. Wait! No, this is the correct way. You are doing your leg lifts incorrectly. Your crunches are all wrong. Does this sound familiar? What is the correct way to train, and how do you sort through so much information, some of it apparently conflicting? While it would be impossible to discuss all aspects of proper form for every possible exercise, this article will try to address some common elements of "proper form."
Proper form is essential for success when training for anything from general fitness to sports events and/or competitions. It is the quality of training that influences your progress, more than the quantity. Time under tension, angle of movement, range of motion, and many other factors all contribute to a particular resistance training session. It is important to understand the proper mechanics of training to get the most benefit from your time.
Kinesiology is the scientific term used to describe the study of human movement. Dr. Yessis wrote a book called The Kinesiology of Exercise that is highly recommended to understand proper form. The book not only addresses general concepts and techniques, but also explains specific exercises by body part and the proper way to perform them.
When thinking about proper form, you should be aware of alignment, range of motion, tension, and other factors. One of the first and most important elements to consider is your back. The spinal column is very prone to injury and proper back alignment is crucial for injury prevention and proper execution of exercises. Unless you are specifically targeting the lower back with exercises like good mornings or hyper extensions, the lower back should generally remain flat or slightly concave (this is known as lordosis). To achieve this, you push your chest up and out and pull your shoulder blades together. This action of the shoulder blades is known as scapular retraction and is very important for almost all exercises. Natural Physiques programs provide a "control drill" that specifically targets your ability to perform scapular retraction.
When your chest is up and out and your shoulder blades pulled together (scapular retraction), you have the appropriate back alignment. For some exercises such as a stiff-legged dead-lift where you desire to work your hamstrings rather than your lower back, you should keep the back arched or slightly concave (lordosis) again by maintaining the chest up and out and shoulder blades retracted. For other exercises such as squats where torso alignment is critical, you can tilt the pelvis forward slightly to straighten the lower back. This minimizes stress on the spinal column, but will place tension on your spinal erectae (lower back muscles) - this is tension we want because this will strengthen those muscles and help to protect your back. This is not thrusting your hips forward - this can round your back - the goal is simply to tilt the pelvis slightly so that the lower back becomes straight.
I mentioned alignment and this is also critical. Resistance training is effective because it forces your muscles to perform work. With free weights, this is done by gravity, so proper form is almost always with respect to the ground. You typically want to align all of your major joints in the horizontal or vertical plane, so that gravity is applying the most tension to your muscles.
As a few examples, consider the bench press. For a regular bench press grip, proper joint alignment is key. Grasp the bar and lower it towards your chest without touching. Either using a mirror or with a partner, lower the bar until your elbows are at the same level as your shoulders (elbow joint to shoulder joint alignment). At this point, your upper arms should be parallel to the floor. To invoke the standard grip, simply make sure that your wrists are over your elbows (elbow to wrist alignment). When this is the case, your arms will form a right angle with your forearms perpendicular to the floor. You'll find that this grip is slightly wider than shoulder width and that the bar is slightly above your chest.
This is a great starting point to explore the exercise. When you pull your hands closer together, your forearms are now angled. This places extra stress on your wrist joint, as you no longer have wrist/elbow alignment. This also forces your elbow joint to perform more work, so the triceps become more involved (close grip bench press). If you pull your hands farther apart (than our starting position), you again lose wrist/elbow alignment. This time, the elbow joint is open. In this weak position, much of the tension is transferred to your shoulder joint. This can cause a slight rotation of your shoulder and promote rotator cuff injury!
As another example, consider a barbell curl. We can analyze the start position of the curl from the perspective of proper joint alignment. If your elbows are in front of your shoulders, then you are forcing the anterior deltoids to perform the work and shifting tension from the biceps to the shoulder. By keeping the elbows pulled back (elbow to shoulder alignment - elbows remain beneath the shoulders) you ensure that your biceps performs the majority of work. Keep your elbows close to your sides and grasp the barbell at this same width (wrist to elbow alignment). Now, if you move your hands closer together, you will place tension on your wrists and shift tension to the inside of your biceps. Your upper arm is actually several muscles working together, and this shifts the workload to different upper arm muscles. By taking a wider grip, you again lose elbow to wrist alignment and shift tension away from the primary (major) biceps muscle to other muscles. Obviously, working a variety of grips can help work the entire upper arm without favoring any particular muscle.
Joint alignment is also critical when considering range of motion. In the example with the chest press, if your primary goal is to work your chest muscles, you can stop at the shoulder-elbow alignment - in other words, your upper arms do not need to go below parallel. Does this mean that going below parallel is wrong? No! Not only is it necessary in bench-pressing competitions (and if you don't work that range of motion, you won't get stronger) but when you move below parallel, tension shifts to your triceps, so this a great way to work them as well. This knowledge can be useful when designing your program. If you are doing a lot of triceps work (maybe you are specifically working on your upper arms) then you might consider limiting the range of motion for your chest press to allow more triceps recovery. On the other hand, if you are performing a balanced routine or even targeting the chest, performing a full range of motion will work more muscles and burn more calories.
Keep in mind, too, that once you go below parallel with your upper arms, your shoulders begin to rotate. This can impinge the rotator cuff and cause serious injury. The way to avoid this is to perform rotator cuff "control drills" and plenty of shoulder stretches, and to make sure your shoulders are strong enough to support the torque generated by a bench press. You should be able to military (shoulder) press 2/3 of your bench press weight. If not, prioritize your shoulders and avoid near-max lifts with the chest press until your shoulders are back on track!
Sometimes joint alignment isn't completely obvious. Consider your shoulder joint. Your body is designed for your arms to hang naturally by your sides (elbow to shoulder alignment) with the elbows slightly outside of the shoulder joint. When you are performing a shoulder press, the mid-point is when your elbows are at the same height as your shoulders. Having your wrists directly over your elbows (so that the arms form a right angle) is a great reference grip for this and also pull-ups - anything outside of that should be considered "wide grip" and anything inside of that should be considered "narrow grip". A common mistake is to think that working from upper arms parallel to fully extend keeps tension on the shoulder joint (similar to working the chest only to parallel). This is not true. In reality, once your upper arms move beyond parallel, the majority of angle change takes place about the elbow joint, making this mostly a triceps movement. It is the range of motion from the bottom (when your elbows are almost directly beneath your shoulders) to parallel (when your elbows are at the same height as your shoulders) that the most tension is applied to the shoulder joint. Again, there is no "proper" range of motion to follow, but if you are working shoulders only and do not wish to involve the triceps, you can work the limited range of motion from the bar completely lowered (elbows below shoulder) to the bar at about the top of your head (elbows same height as shoulder; upper arms parallel to the ground).
As another element to consider, don't forget tension. We have seen how joint alignment can help explain tension. An incline bench press complicates the angle of the movement and shifts tension to the shoulders. A side raise for shoulders is a great example of how form can dictate the function of the exercise. If you perform a side raise with a rigid wrist (grasping the dumbbells firmly and keeping the wrist straight) your forearms actually assist your shoulders, and less tension is placed upon the shoulder joint. There is nothing wrong with this and it allows for heavier weight to be handled. If you perform a side raise with a "limp wrist" where you allow the hand to "hang down" while grasping the weight, so that the wrist is bent at the top of the movement, the wrist no longer performs work, and tension is shifted to the shoulder joint. Try this with a weight you typically perform side raises at, and you'll notice the difference - you should get a pretty impressive burn! There is no reason why we wouldn't want to work the wrists, but if you are targeting the wrists with forearm flexions and extensions, letting them go limp during exercises like curls and side raises can help shift tension to the muscle that you are targeting so that the wrists are not the "weak link."
We have discussed alignment for free weights, but as a final note, I would like to discuss machines. Every joint helps define a lever on your body. There is a concept known as "open lever" and "closed lever". As an example, when you work your chest through the full range of motion, you open the lever. Once your upper arms go beneath parallel, tension is REDUCED in your chest and taken up by your triceps and other supporting muscles. If you stop at parallel, you actually keep more tension on the chest and the lever is "closed". This concept applies to machine workouts as well.
With machines, joints again play an important role. When you are getting into a leg extension machine, your knee joint should align with the "joint" on the machine - the pivot point. The knee should not be forward nor backwards of this. When the knee is properly aligned, your back should be flush against the chair - this is how you adjust the chair forward or backward. If it is too far back, you will "slide" backwards during the movement and possibly shift tension to your lower back. If it is too far forward, your knees will be ahead of the pivot and forced into a sharp angle that can traumatize the knee joint.
When positioning your feet for any exercise, including the leg extension, consider your body. Many people suggest, "point your toes forward" or "slightly angled" - this can actually result in injury! I had complete reconstructive surgery of my right anterior cruciat ligament (a ligament in the knee). When I stand "naturally" my right foot is angled sharply out. When I perform squats or get into a leg extension machine, this is also how I position myself - with my right foot angled out! The reason is that this is the proper form for my body. If I were to force my right foot to point straight ahead, I would actually be twisting my knee joint and set myself up for another injury! Stand comfortably and note your foot position, then use this position when training. Let your body be the guide.
Most people allow their ankles to hang directly beneath their knees at the start and end of each rep on the leg extension. While this is knee-ankle alignment, this also opens the lever - at the bottom of the movement, gravity lets your legs hang. Tension is completely off of your quadriceps! In fact, if your ankles go behind your knees, then when you extend your leg, there is tremendous force on your knee joint - another possible cause of injury!
If you close the lever, you will not only keep more tension on the quadriceps, but your will minimize your risk of knee injury. To close the lever, start with your ankles slightly forward of your knees. You'll notice that you have to maintain a slight contraction of the quadriceps to do this. Use that as your start and end position for each rep. You'll find that you must use much less weight than you are used to, because the quadriceps never "rests" during the set with a closed lever - however, even with the lighter weight, you will keep the muscle under more tension, and tension is what causes growth!
Since we are looking at the leg extension, allow me to mention joint alignment once again. Your hips should be at the same level as your knees (knee to hip alignment) as a reference point - some machines are tilted so knees will be higher, which simply imposes a different range of motion and is fine. More importantly, your shoulders should be directly above your hips - this is shoulder-hip alignment. If your shoulders are in front of or behind your hips, this can shift tension to your lower back. Don't forget the rule we mentioned earlier - chest up and out, and scapular retraction!
There are obviously many elements to consider when trying to practice "proper form." Consider the goal of the workout, where you wish to apply the tension and what muscles should be targeted. Use joint alignment as a reference, and then vary your grips and ranges of motion based on your goals. The quality, range of motion, and tension will dictate the success of your workout, so focus on that form for fitness!
Jeremy Likness is the CEO of Natural Physiques™ and author of the internationally-selling e-Book, Lose Fat, Not Faith. Download this e-Book today to receive a free copy of the Training Encyclopedia, an illustrated guide to exercises, stretches, and control drills that includes dozens of workout routines and a sample three month training schedule.
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Motivation: Parenting/Relationships (by Jim Rohn)
One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, "If you will take care of me, I will take care of you." Now I say, "I will take care of me for you if you will take care of you for me"
The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.
You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.
There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.
If you talk to your children, you can help them to keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.
Leadership is the great challenge of the 21st century in science, politics, education, and industry. But the greatest challenge in leadership is parenting. We need to do more than just get our enterprises ready for the challenges of the twenty-first century. We also need to get our children ready for the challenges of the 21st century.
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In 1989, near the end of an 11-year tour with the US Navy Underwater Bomb Squad Team, Tim answered an ad in the Washington Post newspaper that led him to his first and only network marketing company. Five years later his network marketing income rose to over $150,000 per month with over 56,000 people within his organization and over 2,400 new distributors per month entering from 20 countries.
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Closing Thoughts
The quotes this month were about persistence and success.
These quotes relate to many areas in life. Imagine if I decided I would only try living healthy and exercising for a few months, and if I didn't reach my goal, I'd simply give up. If I quit. You see, even after the first nine months of trying everything under the sun, working hard, and staying focused, I was still not even halfway to where I wanted to be. I could have easily given up and thrown in the towel. But I didn't.
Imagine if I decided I would try to share my message of health and wellness with others, but I gave it a deadline and told myself if it didn't work out within a few months, I'd give up. Where would this e-Zine be today? You see, the first few months in this business, I had a few dozen people on my mailing list. I am grateful for those few dozen because they were an opportunity to connect and reach people with a message I feel is very important. But it was nowhere near the thousands of people I dreamed of reaching! What if I just gave up?
I did not give up, and that's why, today, I am lead the healthy, happy lifestyle I only dreamed of before. More importantly, I am able to share this message with you. Now that my message reaches thousands of people, it's time to change my vision once again. I met my goal and achieved my dream of impacting thousands of lives. So now it is time to set the goal to millions!
Make no mistake. It is not me who is important in this equation. I am a vehicle, a means, a way for the message to reach you. It is the message that is important. It is not my dream for "Jeremy Likness" to reach your home and heart, but for the message of health and wellness to penetrate your life.
So what IS this message?
Friend, it is simple — my message is that you have a choice. You have a choice to live a healthy life. You have a choice to release the unwanted fat you've been dragging around with you. You have a choice to put healthy foods into your body that nourish and help it recover, rather than toxic foods that your body must recover from. You have a choice to get up and move each day so that you can benefit from exercise and remove yourself from the list of hundreds of thousands who die from degenerative diseases each year that are connected with poor diet and lack of exercise.
What's more exciting to me, however, is the power you possess to share this message. Some of you do it without even realizing it — your example and the changes you create in your life are like a book that is read by those around you. How many people have been inspired by your actions, that you don't even know of?
You have a choice to take an active role in this process as well. You can take the message, use it for yourself, crumble it into a ball and toss it into the trash can. Or, you can make copies, and pass it along. You can buy a favorite fitness book, CD program, video, or other resource and give it as a gift to a friend. You can share web sites like Natural Physiques™ that offer advice and inspiration for those seeking a healthy lifestyle. You can take your own knowledge and experience and share it. You might decide to speak to children at a local school about health or run a race that benefits your favorite charity.
There are so many millions of people who are trapped in a desperate condition of being overweight or obese. I will do my best to reach these people one by one, but those of us in the fitness industry who have a passion for changing lives could really use your help. So, in conclusion for this month, I end with two thoughts:
First, a thought of gratitude. Thank you for taking the time to join us, to share your stories and insights with us, and to receive what we have to offer. Giving is a failed enterprise if there are no receivers! Thank you for having faith in our message and for considering our products and services to make a difference in your life.
Second, an offer of assistance. I would love to see you share this message with others. So I offer my assistance. If there is any way I can help, let me know. If you are struggling with how to share some ideas with a friend, I can help. If you are looking to pursue a career in fitness for yourself, I'll be happy to share my own experiences and connect you with people who may be able to help. If you simply have a powerful story you wish to share, I would be honored to have the opprotunity to write it or interview you and place it out there to inspire others. How may we assist you?
Now you know our mission and our vision. Our company is only as successful as the quality we can create in your life, so don't hesitate to share your comments, feedback, and suggestions with us so that we can do a better job of sharing the message of health and wellness with you!
Blessed be,
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