Most of your friends and family are not ectomorphs. Meaning? They don’t know squat about what it is like to be an ectomorph. They can imagine, but they don’t really KNOW. They don’t know what it feels like to always be the skinniest kids around. They don’t know what it feels like to always be [...]
November 11, 2009
For the three months that I focused solely on just training, my one and only desire was to become much bigger and stronger at the end of the 12 weeks. Now, besides my yearning for an awesome body, I have only two other burning desires: to be successful in my career (now that I am [...]
November 10, 2009
You don’t want to spend time reading any book on training. You just want someone to show you EVERYTHING instead of doing research yourself. You don’t want to spend at least 2-3 sessions to learn the right techniques (for Squat, Deadlift, etc.) You don’t bother to discover why you fail to complete the last rep [...]
November 2, 2009
Think about this before deciding whether to take up training and also when considering quitting training: A quitter never wins. A winner never quits. Think about it. Are you going to be a quitter (aka loser)? Or are you going to be a winner? Once the goal is set, there is no excuse. So make [...]
October 28, 2009
When you hurt yourself squatting with a rounded back, you learn never to squat like that again. After getting sick (and losing 5 to 10 pounds) for getting drunk as hell and running around in the snow with just a T-shirt on (sounds crazy, but I live in Maine, and I’m a student, trust me [...]
October 19, 2009
A person X whose dream is to make 10 million dollars before turning 30 makes fun of another person Y whose dream is to get a job that pays a hundred thousand dollars a year before turning 30. Yet another person Z find these dreams too little because he is dreaming of making a 100 [...]
October 19, 2009
People tend to do whatever gives them the least difficulty/tension/stress or whatever makes them the happiest first. When you have to figure out the solution to a tough math/econ/physics question, suddenly popped into your head is the thought of this weekend’s crazy party, of playing some rock band with your friends later tonight, or of [...]
October 16, 2009
When I started to train seriously, training was my only goal for three months. But it is more complicated than that: How many times have you set a big goal and actually achieved it? People set goals after goals because they think one goal is too easy, but they never really reach any of these [...]
September 22, 2009
Do you like to do most of the things you have to do everyday? I am sure you already know that you have to love doing something in order to do it well. But how can you get yourself to love doing something? Consider this: you’ve been lying in bed for nearly an hour, and [...]
November 17, 2009