Below is a short list of strength and fitness hacks to help you not only increase your fitness levels, but also to help build fitness-related habits for this upcoming year. Measure and Record. This could be as simple as maintaining a notebook with your daily weight, or as complicated as a function-filled excel spreadsheet. Regardless, …
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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…
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 …
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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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Another trick that my friends and I have used to stay motivated to workout this past season, was to send Google calendar invites with the proposed workouts for the week. This tactic held us more accountable to working out with eachother, and allowed us to fit in mutually agreeable workout times at the beginning of …
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 …
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…
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 …
