Motivation Tricks

Functional Strength Examples

I found some awesome videos online of unassuming looking people performing awesome acts of functional strength. I’ve embedded the YouTube clips below. Enjoy! I feel a functional strength rabbit hole sneaking up on me…

How do people have the energy to go to the gym almost every day before/after work?

Answer by Brian Dick: Ironically going to the gym can actually increase your wakefulness. And as others have said it becomes a routine, and just talking yourself into going is the hardest part. Once your there and do almost anything it’s usually easy going. From personal experience when I have had extended breaks from the …

How do people have the energy to go to the gym almost every day before/after work?

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What are some mental toughness training regimens used by elite athletes?

Answer to: What are some of mental toughness training regimens used by elite althetes? by Brian Dick: I just found an awesome book on the Russian and East German psychological training methods for their athletes. It was written in the mid 80s and was called Red Gold. Haven’t looked to see if it’s on amazon… …

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Motivation Trick

One trick that I’ve found that helps me stay motivated to go lifting early in the mornings is to have a shaker bottle pre-made by my bedside of a pre-workout supplement. Examples of pre-workout supplements that I’ve used are: Beta-crete and Jacked3d Because these products have a moderate amount of caffeine (about a fourth of …

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Video Game Fitness (cont.)

We created a new game now…instead of push ups we do pull-ups cause pull-ups are way worse: Loss = 10 pull ups (any form) negative kill/death ratio = 5 pull-ups (proper overhand wide-grip form) Ex: a loss with a negative kill/death ratio leads to 15 total pull-ups. We use this pull up bar…

Video Game Fitness

We’ve been able to justify our new video game addiction (Call of Duty), by creating a workout punishment for losing…It’s a very simple game. But it sucks. Cause we (aka: Brian) are not good at Call of Duty. Every Loss = 25 push-ups Every negative ratio of Kills/Deaths = 25 pushups. Ex: If you lose …

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