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iTunes Recognizes Max-Out Radio

Max-Out Radio has truely taken off! After only three episodes the iTunes Music Store has recognized Max-Out Radio in their “New & Notable” section for the Fitness & Nutrition category.

You can check this out at the iTunes music store under the following directory Podcasts > Health > Nutrition & Fitness.

If you are a regular listener to the show subscribe through iTunes to help boost the shows popularity.

Train Hard & Stay Focused,
MR

Stress – Quote of the Day

“Stress is caused by your ego’s inability to control the situations, people, and events around you.” – Barbara Mahaffey

This quote is awesome! Stress negatively effects just about everyone’s lives. For men stress is the anti-testosterone. Learning to control and limit stress is extremely important.

Set apart some time each day to reflect, relax, and diffuse any stressful feeling that you have built up. You will be healthier for it.

-MR

Metabolism Boosting Workout at Home

I’ve been stuck at my desk at home since Friday working on a take home exam for my Nutrition and Atherosclerosis class. Up until about 15 minutes ago I thought I had had enough. I went to save my work when I came across a copy of Zach Even-Esh’s ebook Real Man Fit Tips. If you haven’t gotten this free ebook you are missing out on some great stuff. Just go to www.RealManFitTips.com and get a copy free, no strings attached.

…I digress…seeing Zach’s ebook got me thinking about Zach’s core message about how you only need 10 minutes and your body to get a great workout. That’s what I needed… a quick workout to break a sweat, get my heart rate up, and clear my mind. So I turned on the Sunday night football game and did the following circuit:

BW Squats x 10
Offset Push Ups 10 switch hands 10 more
Lunges 10 each leg
Close Grip Push Ups x 10
Windshield Wipers 10 each side
Rest 1-2 minutes and repeat 2 more times

I feel great, my metabolism is up and I’m ready to write. What are you doing right now? Can you spare 10 minutes? I’m sure you could. Go ahead bang out 3 rounds of the circuit I just did and bump up your metabolism.

-MR

Workouts for a Change of Pace

Tomorrow I’m starting a new training cycle. That means that yesterday was the last day of my current workout plans. When I got to the gym I decided to ditch what I was going to do and do what ever I felt like. The workout turned out to be great. As I type this I am extremely sore. Here’s how it went down:

Push Press 5 x 3 (to failure)
Push Press 1 x 15

Chin Ups (twice through the circuit)
Palms Away x 5
Palms Towards x 5
Neutral Grip x 5
Plate Row x 5 (Bent over row gripping 45lbs plate in each hand)

Incline DB Bench x 8
Flat DB Bench x 8
Decline DB Bench x 8
Twice Through the whole circuit

Starting tomorrow I’m off to some more serious stuff – 12 weeks of fat loss….I know who diets during the holidays?? Nobody…that’s the whole point.

"Because you needed to do it."

If you don’t occationally head over to the Elite FTS website to check in on what Dave Tate is doing then you are really missing out! Dave keeps a killer training/life log. I’ve pasted below an excerpt from an entry Dave made a couple days ago. Basically Dave did two training sessions in one session and went ALL OUT – the session lasted over 3 HOURS. The part I pasted below is Dave remember another time he did something similar to this.

Dave admitted that in his brain “the guy who knows about training” thought it was a bad idea but “the guy does training” thought it was a great idea. For Dave it was all about going beyond the normal. Pushing himself to a point where he thought his training session was going to kill him – but knowing it would only make him stronger. It might sound corny but as Dave puts it at the end of his entry “Only a hand full will understand” Do you? When was the last time you threw out your periodization plan, set/rep scheme, and went all out? What do you do to make yourself feel alive?
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This began as a workout…: “Yep I guess so but I remember years ago after another one of these dumb ass sessions. I asked Louie why he let me do that (I think that session was 40 sets of box squat with 45 seconds rest) when there is no way it would do anything good or help me get stronger.

His replay was…

‘Because you needed to do it.’

We spoke more about this and there were other factors involved such as this was way out from a meet, I was healthy and did not have a big session planed for a couple weeks. If these factors were different he would have stopped the session (as he had to do many, many other times with not just me but almost all the lifters he works with).

What I have grown to understand is these sessions do not KILL us and make us stronger. They make us more ALIVE. These are the ones where you test who you really are and what you are really made of. These tests the essence of who you are. When this is what is being challenged then it does not freaking matter what you are doing and what the physical outcome will be. What matters the most is like I said at the beginning…

Only a hand full will understand. “

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