Thursday, March 27, 2014

Training - "You can, and should, be better..."

3/27 - bench, dips, P90X3M D74 Eccentric Upper


"These are the finalists 
Michael Burke (US) 
Terry Hollands (UK)
 Hafthor Bjoernson (IS) 
Jean-Francois Caron (CA) 
Jerry Pritchett (US) 
Eddie Hall (UK) 
Zydrunas Savickas(LIT) 
Laurence Shahalei (UK) 
Brian Shaw ( US) 
Martin Wildauer (AUS) 
Warrick Brant (aus) best 3rd 
Dave Ostlund ( US) 2 best 3rd 
The qualifier events are being held from 22-25.03 and the finals are next weekend (28-29.03)."

Hafthor Bjorernson got the most total points in the Semis, with Burke, Savickis, Collins, and Shaw rounding out the top 5.




"You can and should be better, stronger, faster, leaner, and more learned than you are, and the only one who can make you so is you...

...the human animal is far more capable than we allow it to be at everything that animal wishes to do.  The only thing preventing people from achieving the amazing is their brain, which due to a variety of factors tells us that we're weaker, slower, dumber, and more pathetic than should have ever become acceptable.  This is reinforced by a couple of individual issues, namely your brain's reliance on automaticity to conserve energy and the fact that groupthink is overwhelmingly negative and influences your thinking in a similarly negative way.  When unencumbered by those things, however, humans are capable of incredible shit...

It's also essential that you... isolate yourself from people from time to time (or as I do with my headphones), because society will tell you that you're incapable, that you're weak, that you're unable to handle the workload, or the weight, or the exercise.  In interdependent communities, people will turn against you if you're perceived as different..."














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