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How To Enhance Your Fitness And Physical Work Capacity

July 2, 2019
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The original publishing date of today’s article was back on November 30, 2017.

If you want to improve your fitness then you’ve got to enhance your physical work capacity. There are several ways you can go about doing this. However to do it effectively you need to understand what is most effective.

This is one article you don’t want to miss out on. Make sure you read through this one carefully and share it out to your family and friends.

Do you currently look to enhance your fitness and conditioning for faster recovery?
Are you interested in learning how you can supercharge your conditioning for your life and sport activity?
So are you looking to increase your ability to perform greater work output?

I’ve been very fortunate in my career to have trained a variety of different athletes. When it comes to being able to compete and to get to the next level the only thing that separates the good from the great is one’s ability to do more work. Of course in terms of training, fitness, and physical competition this is a challenge when you think your heart is going to beat out of your chest. This is without question the proverbial kick to the balls and it is what us strength coaches refer to as Physical Work Capacity.

Why Use Undulating Periodization For Your Training?

July 1, 2019
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How do you organize your workouts to achieve optimal results?
What style of programming are you implementing to get the biggest return on your workouts?
What do you know about periodization?

So what is undulating periodization? Well I’ll come back to it in a minute. Before I do traditionally there have been many models to programming workouts over monthly training cycles to progress strength and muscle gains. When looking at organizing relative training cycles we tend to think of linear periodization as the common plan of approach.

Stoicism: A Mindset And Philosophy For A Strong Life

June 3, 2019
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Do you allow your emotions to get the best of you?
In high stress situations how do you react?
Do you find yourself getting caught up in worrying about things outside of your control?

Today I want to discuss the topic of stoicism which has been near and dear to me especially over the past 4 or 5 years. If you’re going through a trial in your life the test of what happens isn’t so much the negative outcome as much as it is concerning how you choose to react to the negative outcome.

Trust me, I’ve been in some deep dark places within my own mind where I allowed self-doubt to creep into my head and send me into a low depression. Today I want to tell you how I beat that Doubt Monster and how you can prevent it from ever paying you a visit.

5 MMA Conditioning Workouts To Put Gas In Your Tank

May 23, 2019
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Are you interested in optimizing your conditioning for martial arts and fighting?
Do you want to make sure you have plenty of gas in the tank after going the distance?
Do you want to condition yourself to speed up your recovery?

I’m sure there’s no argument coming from you when talking about optimizing your MMA conditioning workouts. After all, when it comes to physical fitness MMA and fight conditioning produces the fittest athletes on the planet. I know you don’t want to have an empty gas tank when going toe to toe with an opponent trying to remove your head from your shoulders. So today’s article is designed to help you to avoid such a scenario.

10 Powerful Steps To Build Mental Strength

May 21, 2019
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The original publishing date of this article was back on October 15, 2018.

When I was looking through my site stats I saw there was a peaked interest in the topic of mindset and mental toughness so naturally I dug into the archives to pull this bad boy out of the shadows and back into the light for you.

I know you’re going to appreciate this one as it has a powerful message and it’s one I felt was due to be back to the front of the line! Read, apply, and share it out with your friends.

Are you struggling with your mental toughness?
Do you have an interest in learning how to better deal with adversity?
Are you struggling to deal with life challenges?
Do you feel defeated?

I got an email the other day that asked…Coach how do you keep your mental toughness and mental strength on point? I thought this was one hell of a question so I thought I’d definitely take the time to share my tips right here. I really think you’ll find this to be helpful and if so please share it with family and friends that it could help as well. Ok here goes…