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Mega Muscle Post-Workout Shake: A Secret Recipe for Crazy Results

I cannot emphasize this enough. In sports, lifting, and conditioning, recovery is king. The entire purpose of sports nutrition is to fuel you for the next competition or workout and that is accomplished through proper recovery. What is the best way to recover then?

Number 1: Sleep

This is almost never talked about but the only time your body is growing or adapting from a workout is during rest and sleep. That is when the growth occurs! If you’re getting less than 7 hours of sleep and feeling frustrated because you’re pushing your body and not getting results, increase the time spent in bed.

Between about 8 and 9 hours is optimal. My prescription is sleep for 8 hours a night but spend 9 hours in bed. Lay down in bed 9 hours before you have to be awake the next morning.

It is also important that we stay on a schedule. Constantly changing the time our body rests, throws of our circadian rhythm, our body’s clock, which is why on some days you feel off when you go to work out.

This also goes for those of you trying to cut fat. Over the course of the night our body adjusts its metabolism based on what we demanded of it that day. For example, if we push ourselves to do a fast-paced long-distance run during the day, our body adjusts to handle that better next time during sleep! Not while your awake. It also increases the efficiency of your metabolism, causing us to burn more calories and hack off the fat.

Don’t forget, all of this is only possible with SLEEP!

Number 2: Post-Workout Shake

This is number 2 on the post below and what this post is all about. It is a recipe for a protein/carbohydrate recovery drink. When it comes to recovery, this shake dominates all of the rest. By taking this within 30 minutes of a workout, your body starts the muscle building process, raises your metabolism, and teaches your body to burn more fat. This recipe is a pretty big shake, and it is designed for building muscle quickly. With just this you can pack 5, 10, or even 15lbs of muscle on your frame pretty quickly, not to mention the strength you’d gain with that.

If you’re not looking to put on muscle this is still the best recovery shake, just cut the ingredients in half.

This shake also tastes phenomenal. To give you an idea it tastes a lot like an orange crème sickle.

Recipe:

1 cup frozen strawberries
1 cup nonfat strawberry yogurt
1 scoop of protein
1 tablespoon honey
1 cup nonfat milk
1 cup orange juice

Blend until smooth.

Nutrients:
600 Calories
110 grams Carbs
35 grams protein
1 gram fat
4 grams dietary fiber

My compliments to Dr. Susan Kleiner for coming up with this awesome formula.

Enjoy the feeling of more strength, power, and endurance with this recovery formula.

Make Today your Masterpiece,

NB

Supplements Unlocked: A Guide to Training Without Limits

What supplements should I take? What do you take? What works, what doesn’t? How can I supplement without spending a lot of money? I’m constantly asked these questions, and here are the answers.

Originally, these were going to be sorted by goal, but since most of the athletes I talk to are trying to get bigger, stronger, and faster; I am writing this for them. At the bottom, I will list two supplements that are important for cutting fat.

The list is assembled in order of importance and effectiveness. All of the supplements on this list have results proven in peer-reviewed scientific journals, the highest standard. Simply put, if a supplement hasn’t made this list than it’s not worth your time or money. After I describe the supplement, I then make a recommendation and tell you the place you can find it locally at the lowest price.

1. Multi-vitamin

Boring…not at all. You were looking for some exciting cutting edge supplement that would give you steroid like results and #1 is a multi-vitamin? Yep! If you’re not getting the right doses of essential vitamins, you’re not going to get the powerful results of the other supplements.

70% of sedentary America is deficient in vitamins, that means they can’t heal as fast, they can’t recover from a long day, they are more stressed, their hormones are out of balance and a long list of more major problems. Well guess what? Athletes demand more from their bodies because of their workouts, so they need more of the same vitamins, almost all athletes are deficient. Supplement with a good multi-vitamin and your training results are going to JUMP!

I recommend Beverly International’s SuperPak. It is the best out there, and far better than the beloved Animal Pak. You can pick this up locally at Fitness Mania for $25. If you’re training without an MV now, then be prepared for big gains!



2. Protein/Carbohydrate Sports Drink

If you’re serious about building muscle then this better be in your arsenal. Here are the facts. When taken immediately after exercise (within 30 minutes) you recover 60% faster than if you just took protein after your workout and about 110% better when compared to water. This means your muscles heal with new growth 60-110% faster just by taking this supplement.

Why does this happen? It sparks a chain reaction of hormones and recovery mechanisms. Most importantly it refuels your glycogen levels and increases your insulin levels, which directly leads to muscle growth. Even though the process is complicated, you just need to know, it works! The best ratio is 4:1, carbs to protein, but 2:1 is sufficient.

Even though it looks disgusting, the taste isn’t bad, when you combine instant oatmeal with whey protein. Instant oatmeal has the right combination of simple carbs and complex carbs. Take 1 scoop of protein and 2 packets of instant oatmeal and mix well.

Or if you prefer to just buy it, the best one is Endurox R4, though it can get pricey. You can pick this up at Vitamin World in Vanity Fair for $31. I really recommend the whey protein/oatmeal combo because it is much cheaper.

3. Creatine Monohydrate

The most talked about supplement in the world. It is by far one of the best supplements for athletes because it extends endurance and increases lean body mass. Many people think that creatine is a steroid, but that’s a myth. Creatine is an amino acid, a building block of protein, found in the red meats of our diets. However, those doses are too small to get the effects we want, so supplementing is necessary.

It is safe. Creatine, as the most researched supplement on the market, has been more closely examined than even caffeine.

The key to its effectiveness is taking it the correct way. Getting results from creatine requires that you take it in the following way:

1. Loading Phase: When first starting on creatine your muscles have an insufficient supply so it’s necessary load them up to the right level. Do this by taking 20gms a day for 5 days. Take 4, 5gm doses throughout the day.

2. Continued Use: After the first 5 days, take 5gms per day to maintain that effective level.

3. Take your creatine with carbs. By mixing it into orange juice or Gatorade, your body absorbs the creatine more quickly and it gets into your muscles faster.


What about all the other types of creatine? They are a waste of time and money, none of them have been found more effective, but the marketing of supplement manufactures allows them to raise the price. Stick with the monohydrate version, it’s still the best.

Wal-mart carries a brand of supplements called BodyFortress. They sell a powder version of CM for around $8. Follow the rules and unlock some impressive results.


4. Whey Protein

Whey protein is the best form of protein because of its combination of amino acids and its ease of digestion. Any athlete looking to put on muscle needs to be consuming approximately 1gm of protein for every pound of body weight, which for many of us can become a challenge.

If you were to consume that much protein from food, you’d be eating a lot of meat and with that a lot of fat. It’s much easier on your entire body to supplement with a protein.

Optimum Whey is the best out there and it’s not expensive either. You can pick up a 5lb tub for $40 at Vitamin Shoppe. And remember that this also goes toward the carbohydrate/protein sports drink if you follow the oatmeal recipe.



There are other supplements out there that have been proven to be effective but for the goals of getting bigger and stronger while staying lean, these are all the supplements you need. If you can’t afford all of them, don’t worry about it but purchase them from the top down. If you can only afford one, pick number one. If you can afford two, pick number one and number two, and so on.

Cutting Fat

There are two important supplements for cutting fat:

1. Chromium

This mineral aids your body in the use of fat molecules. In the presence of additional chromium your body burns fat more quickly. Around 120mcg per day does the trick and it is contained in most multi-vitamins.

2. L-Carnitine

This substance is used to transport fat molecules into your cells to be burned for energy. Studies have found that by taking around 2g per day your body uses a higher percentage of fat for energy.

The cheapest way to use L-Carnitine is to buy it online from PureBulk.com. If you walk into VitaminShoppe and see how much it would cost you to supplement with this, you’d think I was crazy.



If cutting fat is your focus, these two supplements are a must.

Enjoy your new body!

ASK QUESTIONS:

With this post, I am sure there will be questions. Always feel free to ask and if parents have any concerns, again ask the question, I'll be happy to answer.

Make today your masterpiece,

NB

Generalizations: How Forgetting Them Can Lead to Wild Success

The human brain is designed to focus on one thing at a time and to ignore the details it doesn’t need. We call this process generalizing. If the human brain didn’t automatically generalize thoughts, it would take forever for anyone to accomplish anything.

Say we stop in at a local restaurant and eat a great meal. Once we finish, we then ask the below average waitress for the check, which she kindly returns with 9 minutes later. As she comes back asking for your signature to authorize the use of your credit card, you realize you don’t have a pen to sign the check with, so you ask her for one.

Now, there hundreds of pen types, each mixing and matching different features. Ball point, gel, blue, black, red, thick, thin, but you don’t have to describe each feature of the pen you want for even the slow waitress to understand because the brain automatically generalizes those features into what we call a pen. She simply reaches in her apron pocket and pulls out whatever pen she can grab.

What does this have to do with you?

Everything.

We generalize much more impactful things then pens. We generalize experiences and then we generalize ourselves.

The mind makes a generalization after just one experience. For example, say you went bowling once and you performed terribly. You not only threw gutterballs, but one time it went in the next lane. Your friends laughed at you and the people in the lane next to you got very agitated.

Your mind doesn’t wait for the next time you go bowling to make a decision on your ability, it instantly generalizes that you are not a good bowler. This isn’t a fair or accurate generalization but it is how our mind processes information.

Realize that many things we believe we aren’t good at are based on an unavoidable natural reflex called a generalization, which are often based on insufficient and incorrect information. Then forget them and realize that with one new piece of information, such as a good game in bowling, any generalization can be changed instantly.

Athletes often stop trying because it didn’t go right the first time and they think they are bad at it. Whatever “it” is. Change that generalization, do it again, and again, until you’ve literally changed your mind.

NB

Challenge Talk: Why Negative Thoughts are Good and the Secret to Eliminating Doubt and Smashing Personal Records

A man very close to Henry Ford once said, “If you don’t want Henry to do something, you better not tell him he can’t.”

In the movie based on a true story “Men of Honor,” Carl Brashear is asked by his future wife why he wants to be the first African American Navy Diver so badly? Without hesitation, he looks her dead in the eyes with his head raised and jaw-clenched, a look of absolute certainty, and says, “Because they told me I couldn’t have it!”
( If you haven’t seen the movie, go rent it.)

When told we can’t have something many of us react same the way. Something extra inside of us kicks in to prove them wrong and a fire starts burning inside of us until we do. Sometimes that person telling us “You can’t do that,” is exactly what we need. A football coach of mine used this tactic on me if I ever began to slack at practice, because he knew I wouldn’t back down from the challenge. He was a great motivator and even though I would be mad when he challenged me, I’m glad he did because I was better for it.

But sometimes we won’t be challenged or insulted or dared, but we throw fuel on our fire daily, we just mistake it for water. Thinking positively is extremely useful but that’s not what this is about, this isn’t even about avoiding negative thoughts. Instead, this is about using them.

Very often when we’re trying something new or attempting something we’ve failed at before we tell ourselves something along the lines of, “Man, I can’t do this.” Instead of fighting it, use it! Take the approach of Henry Ford, everytime you tell yourself you can’t do something, take it as a personal challenge and then prove yourself wrong. If it’s a big, long-term challenge, write it down in a place you’ll see everyday. The bigger it is the better. If it’s just a shot you’re doubting in the moment, remind yourself it’s just another challenge, and go after it.

Don’t dodge the next challenge that pops into your mind, go after it and crush it!

4 Steps to Becoming the Best at Anything

“If you chase two rabbits at the same time, both will escape.” - Anonymous

First, know what you want. Second, figure out what you need to do it great. Next, focus all of your resources on it. Finally, don’t get distracted.

1. What do you want? – At some level, all people know the answer to this question but we like to make up excuses for ourselves or save our self-esteems but not pursuing it and risk failing. I won’t tell you that it’s easy but I will say that it’s exhilarating once you decide on what you want, and choose to go after it.

2. Figure out what you need to do it great. – Many people go to the extent of figuring out number one and then lead ourselves to the second great excuse. “I don’t know how.” We live in the information age. We are drowning in it. So stop kidding yourself. Go after it! Here’s what you can do after you’ve decided what you want to do.

3. Focus all of your resources on it. - Go to Google. Search whatever it is and narrow it down to the best individuals in the world at your chosen endeavor. Read about them, but only enough to learn what it is they do that makes them great. Go back to Google and read about that. Once you have some background knowledge on the topic, take your trip over to Amazon.com. Search for a book on the topic. Everything on their has already been reviewed, so you will know right away whether or not the book is worth your time and their reviews will let you know if the book is really covering what you want. That will serve as your strongest resource but you can also check out the many free how-to videos on Youtube.com but make sure the people posting them really know what they are talking about before you take their advice.

Once you have learned the proper technique or whatever you need to succeed, perfect it. Constantly, work on improving that one area. Don’t just simply practice. Make it deliberate. You can become drastically better if you give yourself exact criteria to measure yourself against in your quest for perfection. For instance, in golf, you don’t want to just practice chipping for 100 swings, you want to maintain 80% of your shots within 15 feet of the pin for 100 swings. That is deliberate practice and what it takes to become great.

4. Don’t get Distracted – I recently learned that a lion trainer will take a stool into the den with him and point the legs at the lion. It will back away from the trainer because it tries to focus on all four legs at once and can’t. Don’t be a lion. This is one of my greatest flaws and could be what’s stopping you from achieving what you want. We have so much going on in our lives and many of us want to be great at all of it, or we see something that looks like fun and drop what we’re doing right now to chase after that goal. Stay focused. Strive to improve that area you have just learned will make you a master. Become a star in this first area and then once you reach that point, chase something else. Finish what you start and the momentum from this will carry you through to that next goal.

Make Today Your Masterpiece.

NB

Roll the Dice

This isn’t about failure, this isn’t about pressure, it’s about taking risks. Think about your life for a second. Do you think anyone close to you would tell you to take fewer risks? An extremely rare few can say yes to that question. Now, I am talking about good risks here. Don’t go out and risk a speeding ticket by driving 30 mph over the limit and don’t risk getting in trouble with your parents or the law by doing something against the rules.

No, from today on take a risk on something that you’re afraid to do. That fear of failure is the one thing that can hold us back from everything we want, don't let it stop you. Because if we can eliminate that fear, we are able to become one of the elite in this world. Michael Jordan has a long list of failures, yet, no matter where you travel to on this planet, the people there will know his name. His logo is one of the most widely recognized symbols in the world. You can’t call that failure. However, none of it would have happened if he didn’t take the risks he did.

Only for a brief moment in time will people remember the shots we missed and the mistakes we made. It is us who tend to remember our mistakes forever. Everyone else will remember when we succeed.

It can almost be called a rule that the size of the risks we take are in direct proportion to the size of our success. In other words, the bigger the risk, the more rewards we’ll receive.

I promise you that you will continuously become happier the more risks you take, because at the end of the day, people don’t regret the things they did, they regret the things they didn’t do.

The New Athlete Workout

Spud Webb

Up until now we trained like powerlifters, Olympic lifters, and bodybuilders and we saw mediocre results. We trained for hours a week to get only slightly better on the field, and that was good enough because there wasn’t a way of training to make us more athletic. We didn’t know that we could actually turn ourselves into a Reggie Bush or a Randy Moss by the way we lifted and we couldn’t until now. The old athlete trains using those generic techniques and settles for the average, but the New Athlete trains for power and will only take the best. The method below has been proven to make us faster, stronger, and much more athletic by focusing completely on our fast-twitch muscle fibers and our anaerobic energy system, which is the system we use in any explosive sport. Without any more delay, here it is:

Step 1) Select one exercise to work on proprioception and ballistic absorption. These exercises teach our muscles how to absorb shock and increase our balance. A balanced muscle is an efficient muscle, which means all of our strength can be quickly converted into power and speed.

Overhead Wall Throws – Using a medium weight medicine ball (6lbs to 8lbs), position yourself in front of a stable wall and perfrom an overhead throw. Keeping your hands only about 6 inches away from the wall, just let the ball bounce into your hands and throw it again. The motion should feel effortless as you just use the momentum of the ball to throw it back into the wall. Even though it may not seem like you’re doing much, this strengthens your shoulder girdle and greatly reduces injuries.

Leg Bounces – Standing with your feet shoulder width apart bounce up and down on your toes, being careful not to let your heels touch the ground. That’s it. It’s simple enough, yet it warms up your muscles, strengthens your Achilles’ tendon and drastically reduces injuries.

Step 2) Select an Initial Burst Exercise

These exercises train us to rapidly accelerate from a stop. Perform 8 sets of 2 reps at 45% of your 1RM. Take 45 seconds between sets and decrease your rest time by 2 seconds every two weeks, getting all the way down to 20 seconds. Select any 2 of these exercises and perform them by lowering at a normal pace, pausing at the bottom for a count of 2 and then explode up as quickly as possible.

Choose 2: Bench Press, Military Press, Box Squats, Stiff-Legged Deadlifts, Bent-over Rows, or High Pulls.

This method, like this entire program, strictly trains our fast twitch muscles, and dramatically improves our power and athleticism.

Step 3) Select a High Speed Exercise

These exercises train our muscles to accelerate rapidly after that initial burst. That means in a jump, we are increasing our speed and power all the way up until our feet leave the ground. What does that mean to us? We jump a lot higher , increase our top speed, and reduce the amount of time it taks to get to our top speed.

First, we break every lift into three parts. By using the safety pins in a squat rack we can divide every lift into the bottom, the middle and the top. Do 2 sets of 2 reps at each position. Use 100% of your 2RM for every set. In other words, use the most weight you can lift at each position for 2 reps. Take 2 minutes between each set. At the top position do an extra 4 sets.

Choose any one of these lifts: Deadlift, Bench Press, or Military Press.

I.e. Deadlift: For the first position, place do a regular deadlift off of the ground. For the middle position, move the safety pins to a position in the middle of your shins and lift from all the way up to lock out from there. For the top position, move the safety pins to just below your knee so you only have to lift the bar about 4 inches. Follow this same procedure with all the other exercises, using the power rack’s safety pins to break each exercise into three parts.


Step 4) Personalized Plyo’s

Plyometrics are a key to speed and power, and especially athleticism. However, we can get so much more from them if we personalize them. Before you start the program, you need to find your personalized plyo number. Do this by peforming as many perfect repitions as you can of the exercises below. A perfect repition is at max height and max speed, as soon as you slow down stop and record that number. That is your PPN.

The Plyo’s: Squat Jump, Split Squat Jumps, Single Leg Tuck Jumps, Plyo Push-Ups

Make sure you stay on your toes for all of the jumps. The jumps can be found on http://www.sport-fitness-advisor.com/plyometricexercises.html and the Plyo Push-Ups can be found here http://www.sport-fitness-advisor.com/plyometric-drills.html

Once you have found your PPN, it’s used to determine your sets and reps for that exercise. Starting off at week one, do 2 sets of your PPN. So, if you maxed out at 10 squat jumps, for week one you will do 2x10 with 120 seconds rest between sets. Every 2 weeks you want to increase your reps by a total of 1 and increase your sets by 1. You also want to decrease your total rest by 8 seconds. So, using this example, at week 3 you will do 3x7 (a total of 21 jumps) with 2 rest periods of 56 seconds (112 seconds total). At week 5, you will complete 3x7, 1x8, (a total of 22 jumps) and take 3 rest periods of 35 seconds (107 seconds total). After week 8, remeasure your PPN and start over. Training this way increases your power, but it also increases your anaerobic endurance. That is the energy system that every athlete uses, except for long distance runners.

Step 5) Here we perform classic strength work so that we never hit a plateau. Do 1 of your favorite calf lifts on leg days, do 2 of your favorite presses on day 2, and do 2 of your favorite pull exercises on day 4. Perform each of these for 3 sets of 6 with 60 seconds rest between sets.

The steps are laid out in the order you should follow your workout. So Step 1 is your warm-up, Step 2 is next, and so on. After following these guidelines for only a week, you’re going to be amazed at how much faster and more explosive you’ve become.

Before you begin, test yourself to see where you’re at now and retest everything after week 8.

Example Program

Day 1, 3, 5

Leg Bounces 4x30 seconds with 30 seconds rest

Box Squat 8x2 @ 45% with 45 seconds rest
Stiff-Legged Deadlift 8x2 @ 45% with 45 seconds rest

Bottom Portion Deadlift 2x2 @ 100% with 2 min. rest
Middle Portion Deadlift 2x2 @ 100% with 2 min. rest
Top Portion Deadlift 6x2 @ 100% with 2 min. rest

Squat Jump 2xPPN with 120s rest
Split Jump 2xPPN with 120s rest
Single Leg Tuck Jump 2xPPN with 120s rest

Calf Raises 3x6 with 60 seconds rest

Day 2

Overhead Wall Throws 4x30 seconds with 30 seconds rest

Bench Press 8x2 @ 45% with 45 seconds rest
Military Press 8x2 @ 45% with 45 seconds rest

Bottom Portion Bench Press 2x2 @ 100% with 2 min. rest
Middle Portion Bench Press 2x2 @ 100% with 2 min. rest
Top Portion Bench Press 6x2 @ 100% with 2 min. rest

Plyo Push-Ups 2xPPN with 120 seconds rest

Dumbbell Bench Press 3x6 with 60 seconds rest
Dumbbell Incline Press 3x6 with 60 seconds rest

Sprint Circuit

Day 4

Overhead Wall Throws 4x30 seconds with 30 seconds rest

Military Press 8x2 @ 45% with 45 seconds rest
Bent-over Rows 8x2 @ 45% with 45 seconds rest

Bottom Portion Military Press 2x2 @ 100% with 2 min. rest
Middle Portion Military Press 2x2 @ 100% with 2 min. rest
Top Portion Military Press 6x2 @ 100% with 2 min. rest

Plyo Push-Ups 2xPPN with 120 seconds rest

45° Rows 3x6 with 60 seconds rest
Bent-over Rows 3x6 with 60 seconds rest

Sprint Circuit

This is just an example program, you can create many different programs by following the rules above. Although I’ve found the ones above to be the best, you can even use different exercises and plyos. Post to tell me what you’ve come up with, variety is always good and you may have come across something new.

Good Luck! And always feel free to ask any questions,

Nick Bosch
Human Performance Coach


Disclaimer: This program is not intended to prevent, treat or cure any disease. You should consult a physician before beginning this or any other exercise program.I am not responsible for any injuries or personal damages that may occur during this program.

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Chandler, Jeff T. and Brown, Lee E. Conditioning for Strength and Human Performance. Wulters Kulwer Health. Philadelphia, 2008.
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Bull's-eye Targeting

“What if you knew you couldn’t fail? What would you attempt to do then?”

-Dr. Robert Schuller

Why must we know the answer to this great question? For 2 reasons, first, because “you can’t hit, what you can’t see.” The expression is true in darts, in baseball, and definitely in a street fight, but it is also true for us. It’s unfortunate but we have all said, “Things just aren’t going my way.” Without a target, we will spend a lot of time saying that because we won’t know which way is ours. The instant we have a bull’s-eye to hit, our subconscious mind does whatever it takes to get us there. This is because our mind is built like a missile system, if we don’t give it a target, it will hit anything that moves. But if we give it a bull’s-eye to hit, it will avoid anything in its path to get us there. Most of us end up with many things we don’t want because our minds are still stuck hitting anything that moves.

The other reason we need to know the answer to Dr. Schuller’s question is because nothing else on this earth will drive us more to succeed than our own personal dream. Once we know what it is and we establish the steps to get there, we start feeling like every day is our day. We wake up on fire. Which is why when a study was done on the 47 wealthiest people in the world each one of them had a goal that they said to themselves night and day. And, not surprisingly, all of them hit their target. There are a number of steps to greatness, but the first is having a bull’s-eye.

This is step one of Bull’s-eye Targeting. If you want to be great, you must do this step. I cannot emphasize that enough.

Grab a pen and paper, and start writing down what you want to be remembered for doing. What is your long-term dream? If someone offered you $1,000 to do a job, but offered you $1,000,000 to do a little extra, which would you want to do more? The difference between good and great is small. Do that little bit extra and suddenly all the rewards start pouring in. That is the difference between a Michael Jordan and the high school basketball star that never makes it. So, as you are writing your dream make it something remarkable. The bigger it is, the more motivated you’ll be to achieve it.

The second step is to write with vivid detail. To do that, ask yourself these questions. How would you look when you accomplished it? How would you feel? What would people be saying about you on SportsCenter? Where would you be living? Where would you be training? Who would you know? How would you act?

Once you have all of this down, do the final and most important step. Place it next to your bed. Then read it, once as you wake up and once right before you go to sleep. While you’re reading it, picture yourself already living your dream. This is crucial because this is the step that trains your subconscious mind to find the path to your dream and to avoid those obstacles that will keep you from it. Every great person in history has taken this step, take it, and you’ll never look back.

Intro

This blog launched today to teach high school athletes everything they need to know about dominating their sport. How to become a freak athlete, get recruited, and achieve any other goal you may have. The competition in sports gets tougher and tougher every year, and I seek to level that competition for my readers. In one of my first posts, I will give an overview of how to train to become an explosive athlete, and it's not something you've heard before. This training will separate you from your peers almost immediately, but just training your body will only take you so far. This blog is about pure superiority. Here you will learn how to master your mind and body. So that you can play every game in the zone, break records, and go on to do it again at the next level. Simply, how to play and live like a man among boys.

These are not just techniques and methods I have developed, they come from years of research of the world's most successful people and athletes. Techniques that are cutting edge and systems that have been used for the past hundred years to get what you want that aren't known to many. While I am not anywhere close to 60 years old, the combined research of everything I place on here comes close to it.

The best part? Everyone can use these tools. To summarize what this blog is about take this story for example.

In 1940, a little girl was born the 20th of 22 children, premature at 4.5 pounds. Her premature birth made her susceptible to many different diseases. For the next several years, her mother took her back and forth to the only black doctor in the area to treat her for: measles, mumps, scarlet fever, chicken pox, and double pneumonia. At the age of 5, a doctor at the closest hospital 50 miles away diagnosed her with polio. The disease crippled her. Just to be able to walk she had to wear braces on both of her legs. Yet, at the age of 16, she raced in her first Olympic games. There she took home a bronze medal in the women’s 4x100m relay. Then in 1960, she took home three gold medals, in the 100m, the 200m, and the 4x100m relay. Despite everything against her, the diseases, the prejudice, the limited food and attention in a large household, Wilma Rudolph was able to become one of the greatest athletes of all time. Why is it that someone with the deck stacked against her can become something legendary? While someone with all the nourishment, help and good health in the world, will find their way into mediocrity or worse? This blog has the answers to these mysteries and the ways to become a Wilma Rudolph. I hope you become a faithful reader, I promise you, it will be worth it.