4 Random Things: Mike T Nelson Interview, Travel Training, and More
Greetintgs from Dallas TX
I just have a few minutes before I am off to meet up with Craig Keaton at the Movement Dallas. A huge shout out to Craig and his wife for letting Jodie and I stay at their place, eat their food (raw organic whole milk with carob nibs is amazing), drink his cpoffee, and snag his wireless access. HUGE thanks.
1) Interview with me!
I was interviewed a while back by James. We chatted about metabolic flexibility, working through pain, biofeedback and personal records every day
One of my fav drummers of all time is Gene Hoglan who has done drums for many band including Testament, Dark Angel, Death, Dethklok, Strapping Young Lad, Pitch Black Forecast, and most recently Fear Factory.
Below is a video of him in action with Strapping Young Lad. If you have sensitive ears, you may want to skip this one. Gene does some insane drum work and makes it look easy.
3) Hotel Training
If you are in a hotel for a longer period of time, you can get by with just body weight exercises. Here is what I did today
1) Stairs up and down to 13th floor. I also saw a few black cats too, haha
2) TRX rows. Mounted the TRX to the door with their handy door anchor
3) Asymmetric push ups: I did some biofeedback testing (as always) and it was better to have my left hand further down towards my feet.
Just put those together in a circuit and you are set!
4) Dallas TX is hot
The temp yesterday was around 106 F I think. Yikes. I have not been in the sun much at all, which is ironic since it is sunny like every day.
Comments
Let me know! I will have a bit more time to reply to the ones people left also (and the webinar ones too).
Rock on
Mike T Nelson
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Are Pain and Suffering Needed to Reach Your Fitness Goals?
The post yesterday got about half great reviews and about half horrible reviews. I got some really good hate mail for that one. Here is a tip, if you are not happy, please tell me how to fix it or atleast WHY. Telling me I am a jackass is not helpful. I want to know WHY I am a jackass!
For some reason, a few people did not find the post motivational. I got notes saying that I was encouraging people to hurt themselves by showing that. Pleeeezzzee.
It should be noted that 99.9% of you that read this blog has been nothing but exceptional and I have learned a ton from all of your questions and interactions. Seriously, I really do appreciate it more than you will ever know.
The post yesterday had references to “pain and suffering” and implied that it was needed to reach you goals.
Is it?
This got me thinking.
For those who have read this blog, you know that I am not a fan of creating pain in the gym. I am not a fan of hopping on the spiky foam roller or trying to hump a baseball on the floor for “deep tissue work” before a lifting session.
If you want to create some pain before lifting, call me up and I will kick you in the nuts really hard. At least that is fun for ME! Hahaa.
This never gets old to watch “The Nutty Buddy”
The Science Behind The Nutty Buddy
Now I am not exempt from this type of behaviour in the past and I have paid large sums of money to trainers, guurs, coaches and massage therapists to create pain FOR me. I don’t fault them at all, I did if of my own free will with my own hard earned money.
Do I recommend you do that? No. Save your money for my upcoming serminar on Metabolic Flexibility
instead (shameless I know, but hey, I pay the bills to keep the lights on around here).
This bring us ot the questions “Are their times in your life where pain and suffering are neeeded?”
I think of them as side effects to certain goals.
Drugs
Let’s look at drugs for a second.
No, not those kinds of drugs you hippie!
Drugs, like pharmaceuticals.
In pharmacology, the term used is “therapeutic window.”
While I did a minor in Chemistry and took some high level pharmacokinetics classes a few years ago again, I am not an expert; but here are the basics (trust me, this will be short, so no drueling on your keyboard).
1 : the range of dosage of a drug or of its concentration in a bodily system that provides safe effective therapy <the narrow therapeutic window…the effect may go from therapeutic to toxic with an increase of just 10 micrograms per milliliter [in] blood concentration—Lisa Davis>
Many times this is also referred to as the Therapeutic Index.
“The therapeutic index (also known as therapeutic ratio), is a comparison of the amount of a therapeutic agent that causes the therapeutic effect to the amount that causes death.
Quantitatively, it is the ratio given by the lethal dose divided by the therapeutic dose. A therapeutic index is the lethal dose of a drug for 50% of the population (LD50) divided by the minimum effective dose for 50% of the population (ED50).
A high therapeutic index is preferable to a low one: this corresponds to a situation in which one would have to take a much higher dose of a drug to reach the lethal threshold than the dose taken to elicit the therapeutic effect.”
For those that scrolled past all that chemistry crap, here is the recap
LD50 (lethal dose 50) in addition to being the title of a CD by the band Mudvyane is the lethal dose to kill 50%. ED 50 (effective dose 50) is the effective dose for 50%
We want as much separation between these two as possible–a smaller ED and a high LD.
Some drugs that have a very narrow window (or index) and are not very “user friendly.”
TNT Time!
DNP (2,4-Dinitrophenol ) is one that comes to mind where some nutty bodybuilders have used it to cut body fat in a short period of time. It basically interrups (uncouples) the cell’s ability to produce ATP (energy).
While is does not do this completely, it does it enough so that extra energy is produced as heat, thus more calories are literally “burned off”. Many years ago it was used as a weight loss drug, but had some very bad side effects like cooking yoursel from the inside out.
While case studies are rare, there was one reported recently (Barlett et al, 2010) that stated
“A 46-year-old man took a lethal dose of an agent called dinitrophenol (DNP). He presented 11 h after ingestion with loin pain, diarrhoea and vomiting. He rapidly deteriorated with profound hyperthermia, acute renal failure, hyperkalaemia, metabolic acidosis and eventually haemodynamic instability. Despite aggressive supportive measures and rapid sequence induction, he deteriorated and died 21 h after ingestion.”
So, my point on this is that DNP has a very narrow therapeutic window. A little bit may help you drop some pounds (although long term effects are unknown), just a bit too much and you are dead. Your arre more than playing with fire as instead of getting burned you could end up dead. Did I emphasize that point enough yet?
Back To the Real World
Ok, so I think all decisions have a therepeutic window or a risk/reward to them.
I could lift this weight, but my low back is really hurting bad.
In my case last night, I could do some heavy band deaflifts, but the callous on my left hand near my pink was not happy. I ended up not doing it past a few sets as I felt like I was going to rip it open at any point. The risk of ripping it off was much higher than not doing the lift on that day.
Every decision have a risk/reward.
Lifting in pain has a high long term risk and in my opinion is not needed for gains.
What About Life?
It has been said that only when you know the rules can you break the rules.
I try to follow the same rules in life that I do in the gym. The goal is performance, not how you “feel” afterwards. I know Charles Staley has been saying this for years.
“It’s better to use your performance as a gauge of what you’ve accomplished than how much you hurt the next day. Numbers don’t lie; if your numbers are going up, so is your progress. The reverse is not true however. I trashed my back a few years ago doing something really stupid, and trust me, the fact that I couldn’t tie my shoes for a while wasn’t a sign of progress!”
As you know, I’ve been in college going on about 16 years now. No, that is not a typo where I inadverntently slipped in a 1 in front of the 6. I started in 1992 and did 7.5 years full time completing a BA, 2 years of post grad work and a MS in Mechanical Engineering (Biomechanics), took about 1.5 years off where I swore I was never going back and then was back in college again. Even the thought of it caused shivers up my spine and nauseau.
Fast forward to today where I am in the process of writing up 3 studies and a literature review for my final defense to finish off my PhD. Pretty much every day I have thought of quitting. Many days I did not want to look at another research study or revision number 31 (not joking on that) of my study that I am trying to submit, only to most likely get it rejected by the journal since they like to publish high rejection rate to make themselves look good.
I had others that told me it would be a long road. I figured that much. I planned on 5 years of full time work. Wow, I never thought it would be this long though. Ugh.
The point of this is not a “poor me” story and “look at how much I struggle.” or “hey, look at all this effort.” I made the decision to do it. Nobody put a gun to my head and said “do a PhD crazy man or die.” I made the decision and therefor I also made the decision to accept any and all “side effects” that come with it, just like the drug example above You decide to take statins, you accept both the benefit and the side effects.
All About Control
I can quit at any time. That will make it all go away. I have thought about it many times. I had times where I kept telling myself that I could “quit tomorrow, but not today.” I worked to find more efficient ways (read, less side effects) to get it done. I soon learned that there are no shortcuts, not even things that helped a bit. Such is the windy path I have chosen.
The key turning point came when I was talking to a colleague and I asked him “How did you make it out?”
His answer was, “I made the decision that I was going to finish it, no matter how long it took, and that they were not going to break me in the process.”
I wanted to find a short cut or some better advice, but I soon realized this was great advice and one that I adopted. I took pride that in TIME, I would graudate. I had tried all other avenues and the only one left was to go straight ahead and survive the process.
If that meant I had to scrap 11 months of work and start over, if that was the only option, then so be it. If I have to rewrite a paper 41 times and that is the only way, then I will do it.
I can quit at any time, but I must accept the side effects too. If I have to accept them, I will do what I can to minimize their effects. So if you are taking statins, talk to your doc about taking ubiquinol which is the reduced and active form of Coenzyme Q10 (statins mess up this pathway and deplete your body of it) to minmize the side effects or work to get of them entirely (Mabuchi H,et al.).
What have I become?
Thoughts like shadows swelling through my mind
What have I become?
Something else inside
-Demon Hunter
As I Lay Dying “Through Struggle” Video
only through struggle have i found rest
with a piece of me taken away
i begin to understand
hollow out this machine like chest
with its gears that turn to make me feel
and assembled thoughts that fade away
only through struggle have i found rest
-As I Lay Dying
Summary
Some times pain and suffer are the side effects we must endure to achieve our goals.
If we want a certain goal, we must be prepared to endure everythign that comes along with it. We can stil work to reduce these side effects to as low as possible however.
Comments
What do you think? What times in your life have you accepted the risks/side effects? Let me know in the comments
Tainter ML, Stockton AB, Cutting WC (1933). “Use of dinitrophenol in obesity and related conditions: a progress report”. J Am Med Assoc 101: 1472–1475.
Bartlett J, Brunner M, Gough K (February 2010). “Deliberate poisoning with dinitrophenol (DNP): an unlicensed weight loss pill”. Emerg Med J 27 (2): 159–60
Mabuchi H, Higashikata T, Kawashiri M, Katsuda S, Mizuno M, Nohara A, Inazu A, Koizumi J, Kobayashi J. “Reduction of serum ubiquinol-10 and ubiquinone-10 levels by atorvastatin in hypercholesterolemic patients”. J Atheroscler Thromb. 2005;12(2):111-9.
Charles Staley, Pain and Performance, Tmuscle, PUBLISHED 05-24-07 10:09 Accessed July 19,2010 source Pain and Performance
I filmed the above video quite some time ago, but thought I would put it up here again in light of some more data.
While ancedotal and a small number, here are a few comments from Adam’s blog.
Adam said
Mike, I am able to do more consecutive days of lifting than I have ever have before. At first I wondered if lots of reps at speed would wear me down…but I snatch, Jerk, and do LC everyday of training- 5 days a week. It is no joke. I am so rarely sore, and feel like I heal faster from bumps and bruises. Maybe, maybe not? Either way the first piece of info you gave me about this seems to be holding up under pressure.
David said
I’ve been wondering the same thing re: bumps and bruises.
I smashed my foot in a way that would take most people down for a week on Sunday. You saw me, I couldn’t walk on Sunday. Still trained on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and just ran 5k on it today.
Dave’s Foot
Logan’s Training
From my training log this week:
Monday Trap Bar Deadlifts 405 x 5,7,6 in 8 minutes
The principles can be applied to any event or just those who want to set persona records (PRs) in the fastest time possible.
Approximate reading time is 5-10 minutes.
This is NOT your typical program design featuring lots of complicated terms and a best guess at what works for you. I will share with you some tips and tricks that I wish I knew years ago. I also need to thank Frankie Fairesand Adam T Glass for all their input on this too.
Eustress vs Distress
I like to define things so that we are on the same page. So allow me just 2 new definitions that are important.
I can’t believe I am going to do this, but from Wikipedia (insert groan)…..
“Eustress is a term coined by endocrinologist Hans Selye which is defined in the model of Richard Lazarus (1974) as stress that is healthy, or gives one a feeling of fulfillment or other positive feelings. Eustress is a process of exploring potential gains.”
The prefix derives from the Greek eu meaning either “well” or “good”. When attached to the word “stress”, it literally means “good stress”.
Eustress is simply “resolved stress”
Distress
“Distress is an aversive state in which an animal is unable to adapt completely to stressors and their resulting stress and shows maladaptive behaviors.’
Thanks to Frankie Faires for the simplfied definitions. Keep these in mind as they will come again soon and then again later on.
Quiz Time!
My students hate those 2 words. This one is easy though,. If you had to pick what type of stress most people training (not anyone here though, you know what is going on) does; Eustress or Disstress?
Have the answer?
Are you sure?
Did you pick one even?
Yep, distress training
Major Distress Training
Jillian Michaels is the King of Distress Training
Distress Training and the Stupid!
Distress and Epic FAIL
A for Effort, F for Execution (Effort Does Not Count)
You don’t get bonus points for how hard you make it look.
You do get points for executiion.
If you were to train this way, how much better would you get?
Let’s see
More weight on the bar – check
Form any better –nope
Hmmm, looks the same
Can you improve with distress training?
Yes. Adaptation can NOT be stopped, but as Adam said recently “we can really slow it way the F down”
The question is “Do you want to get better at that horrible looking form?”
My bet is no (plus it would never qualify in a meet, which is my goal)
7 Simple Steps To More Weight on the Bar!
1) Pick a Goal
Notice I said “a” goal, not 15. This does not mean you cannot get better at other things, but trying to simultaneously improve 12 goals at once is a recipe for dissaster.
I recommend 1-2 MAIN goals, tops for a set period of time. I find 4-12 weeks works well.
My main goal was to do the USPAL Raw Meet on May 15. At the meet I want to set PRs in all 3 events (bench, squat, deadlift). This was my stretch goal. It would be a stretch, but can be done.
Primary Goal
Bring up my bench press and destroy my old PR.
HOW much did I want to improve?
I wanted to bench 237 lbs with a goal to bench 240 by the end of the year.
Stretch goal was 242.5 at the meet.
Will be done at a meet, under meet condiitions, so audible commands and a full pause at the chest
Deadlift
Deadlift 437 lbs in competition
3) Where Are You at Currently?
I don’t care about what you did 3 years ago or even last year. What can you CURRENTLY do. You need to define your starting point.
When I set my goals for the Spring meet, I based them off my last meet the previous Fall. If possible, you want your goal to be done in the same manner.
Since my goal was to get PRs in competition, the best starting point would be my current records in competition (Meet PR)
Fall 2009 at USPAL Meet: My starting point
Weight 206.5
Squat 243
Bench 220 lbs (missed 231)
Deadlift 413 (first double BW deadlift)
As coach Dan John says “The goal is to keep the goal, the goal”
4) Be Realistic
We can never reach our goals fast enough. Find me one person who got to their goals fast enough.
You also need to account for outside stress. I knew during this time I would be working part time at a med tech company and on call full time with them, running my own companyExtreme Human Performance, training myself, getting married and planning a wedding (or making more money to help pay for the wedding), spending time with my fiancee (now wonderful wife Jodie), finishing up work on my PhD, and I was also teaching a class for some time on Strength Training at a near by University.
Other than that I sat around all day drinking beer scratching myself—ha!
I am no exception and everyone is busy, so take this into account. We don’t live at the Olympic training center and get to train, sleep, eat, get a nice massage, train again etc every day.
5) Hit Your Openers Under ALL Conditions
This is huge and rarely rarely done.
I did not do this one even close to right until recently and I still can get better.
Remember Eustress and Distress from above? We want most of our training under eustress conditions. For a detailed version of what this involves, pick up a copy of the Grip n Rip DVD for the testing information.
In short, do only lifts that test well (via range of motion/biofeedback testing).
If a lift does not test well, do something to get it to test well.
What If My Lift Does Not Test Well on Competition Day?
Well, you have a judgement call to make. You can decide to not do the lift or do it. Nobody is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to do it.
Most will of course, go with do it.
Since that is the case, you can work on things to get it to test well.
If that still does not work, you will be doing a distress (less than optimal) lift and that is fine. If you are going to do this, you would need to practice for it.
While a whole post on distress training can be done, in short, perform your lift under many different distress circumstances
In training, I did my opening lift under the following conditions
Pauses of various lengths (to learn to listen for the audible commands)
With and without pain (no, I don’t recommend creating pain to mimic that conidition, but it happens)
With huge pauses inbetween, just sitting around (like a real meet with long flights)
Every time I nailed my opener.
I knew, no matter what, I was going to destroy my opener in the meet. In the future I will be amping up the distress training even more in terms of intensity.
Most do the oppsite, all of their training is distress and they move poorly. To start, focus on eustress trainig (stopping at first signs of tension and altered breathing) for many weeks. Once you are about 6 weeks or so out (depends), start working on more distress training, but make sure you have a reason WHY you are doing it!
I will test bench and vary the finger position. For most of my training up to the meet, having my middle finger on the ring marker on the bar tested the best. If not, I would vary it about a finger width, so palce my index on the marker.
If bench would not test well (or once it stopped testing well), we would try some common/accessory work with favorites being neutral bar press, reverse band press or 2b board pressing. The goal is to get them to positively transfer to the full bench press.
How To Use Bofeedback for a Big Bench Press
If no go or once we were done, contra specific work (opposite) such as inverted rows with either a bar or rings/TRX trainer was up next.
4/28/10 Bench night w Dave
Time in 6:37
Predicated time out 9:01
Actual time out 9:25pm
1 cup coffee at 4:45pm, 2 cups green tea and 3 HGH Up at 6pm
Only water during training, last meal at 5pm
I) Bench (flat)
95 x 10, 95 x8 (different finger position), 135 x 5, 165 x 3, 185 x 4, 205 x 2 warm ups
225 x 1 good speed, tested great
220 x 1 paused rep w audible commands, smoked it
230 x 1, still good speed
235 x 1, good speed
240 x 1, good speed, but felt it would slow down if I went any heavier. This will be my working weight.
All touch and go singles
240 x 1 for 6 singles, all good speed, but the last one was slow at the top
Total time for 6 singles was 35:00
PR for vol work at that intensity (% 1 RM)
II) 4 board touch and go
250 x 1
265 x 1, slow but looked fine, tested ok
III) Reverse Bench (bands around the top of the rack to deload it a bit at the bottom; works lock out)
185 x 6, easy, tested great
225 x 11, beat old PR by 1 rep, tested ok (a bit too far on that one)
Forgot to record time, oops
IV) Neutral Grip Ring Rows (w Feet up on a bench, arms at sides)
BW x 9
BW + 20lb Xvest X 5
BW x 8
BW + 20 lb Xvest x 5
BW x 6 (done)
Total time 17:34
PR for BW + X vest reps
Done
7) It’s Go Time!
Once the meet rolls around, you will be set!
Keep in mind that this template works for anyone that wants to get stronger or meet any of their goals.
The goal is better. I did not give a hairy rat’s butt where I placed overall in the meet. I was not under any delusions that I was going to walk in and mop the floor. Heck, their were women their squatting more than I was!
I did want to get my PRs though. Oddly enough the main one I trained for I did the best on. I knew with the crazy schedule I was doing I needed an end point to focus my energy. Plus, paying money and performing in front of a whole bunch of people is one way to get better. I also wanted more experience of competition to figure this out. Do first, then get better.
Summary
Get a goal with a set time line
Focus on eustress training for 90-90% of your training with proper testing (shown in the Grip n Rip DVDs
Add distress training as needed
Rince and repeat
Comments
Let me know what you think of this. If your training is currently stuck, steal this model and use it and let me know how it goes for you. I can gaurantee you will be pleased with the results.
Thoughts?
Rock on
Mike T Nelson
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USPAL Meet Twin Ports Open for Mike T Nelson: Part 1-Results
Mike T Nelson, USAPL Raw Meet Deadlift 413 lbs
As you know I am a firm believer in testing yourself on occasion. If you want to get stronger in the bench, squat and deadlift, testing yourself in a local meet is a great way to do it.
Confession
I have a confession to make. I currently don’t get super excited to do meets. If I was left to myself, I would skip the whole process all together and save myself some time and money.
Why do I do it?
I work with athletes of all types and many of them compete. There is a whole mindset to competing. How am I ever going to understand that if I don’t compete myself?
If you want to learn how to run, at some point you must run.
You don’t have to be a World Record holder, but you have to TRY.
Advanced Notice
This time I planned out my meet more than the last time I did one where I signed up on a Tues night and did the meet that Sat.
I did learn something very interesting though at that meet. I was not nervous hardly at all where as the 2 previous ones (USAPL meets, not the Tactical Strength Challenge) I was about ready to crap my pants about 2 weeks out on a moment’s notice.
My last meet in Fall, was by far my best meet too. I did not taper much at all and basically broke about every “rule” you can break. Hmmm.
So I took the same approach to this meet. I will have all the full details in part 2 coming soon, but my mental outlook was completely different.
Duluth in May and Rollins
When I planned to do the meet in early Jan I figured it would be great for Jodie and I to spend a nice long wekeend in Duluth. Then it got moved to the College of St. Scholastica and since I did my undergrad there, I had to sign up.
The downside was that Henry Rollins was doing a spoken word tour and as luck would have it, he was playing in the Twin Cites the night before the meet!
Crap. Screw it. I am going to do both. So Jodie and I met up with my sister who was in town and some friends for the Rollins show on May 14 and it was awesome!
“Knowledge without mileage equals BS.”
— Henry Rollins
“I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate”
-Henry Rollins taken from Iron and the Soul
So at almost midnight, Jodie and I headed up 2+hours to Duluth, MN
I got all checked in and they inspected my shoes, socks, wrestling singlet, shirt and even my underwear to make sure I was all in spec. I left my Vibram Five Fingers at home since they are illegal by USAPL standards. Crazy I know!
I predicted I would weigh in at 212.0 and I weighed in at 211.2 so very close. I did not cut any weight per say, just a small meal late Friday evening, and then nothing to eat or drink until I weighed in on Sat AM. Before the weigh in at home I was around 215 lbs in the AM before breakfast. This is up 6 lbs from the last meet I did in Sept under the same conditions.
I was overall relatively happy with my squats considering I did not really train them much since this past Fall to be honest. I found that if I pick more than 1-2 goals at a time, I shoot myself in the foot. I can focus on deadlifts or squats, but trying to bring up both at the same time does not work.
I picked up a few pounds on my squat, but I literally did not squat for about 6 weeks before the meet; more on that in part 2.
My new goal is to bring my squat up and hit 275 x 1 by July 20 and 315 x 1 by the end of the year. Onward and upward.
Time for Bench Press!
For those new to meet standards, you have 3 commands
start
press
rack
Once you get the hand off, you have to hold the bar at lock out until you hear “start.”
You lower the bar to your chest where you pause until you hear the “press” command.
Then at lock out, you hold it there until you hear “rack.”
Violation of any one of these commands is a bad lift.
Been there, done that in the past.
Deadlift was my second highest priority.
At the Fall meet I did
365 x 1 opener
390 x 1
413 x 1 –double body weight deadlift (weighed in at 206.5 lbs)
This last meet I did
385 x 1 opener
413 x 1 good speed
437 x miss
I was pissed that I missed 437. I mis-gripped on my right hand as the bar was on my fingers instead of in my hand. I had recently changed my set up, so I did not practice the top start as much as I should have in hindsight.
I also noticed that my knees came in a bit too, and I think I was standing wider there than in practice; so I will need to keep a close eye on that. No pain or any knee issues at all with it though (although I do train my knees in a wide variety of angles–more on that in part 2).
A HUGE thanks to my wonderful wife Jodie for going with and being so supportive the entire time and during training. I try very hard not to have training rule my life, but there are no short cuts you have to put the time in lifting.
A HUGE shout out to everyone that I met there! All the competitors were awesome and extremely helpful and very very supportive.
Big thanks to Joe Warpeha, the College of St Scholastica, the spotters (Brett and others) and everyone that helped out with the meet. It went great. The facility was top notch and there was even enough room to warm up, which can be cramped and rushed at times. Everyone was very friendly and went out of there way to help. Heck, Joe even personalty got me some hot water for my oatmeal! Excellent work all!
You can find a great write up on the whole meet complete with results HERE.
Many think that their currents lifts are not good enough for a meet. I say BS to that!
How are you going to get better and learn more? Sign up and do one!
Everyone at every meet I have been to has been nothing more than extremely supportive. No matter what you are lifting, it takes some cajones to commit to lifting 9 lifts on a set day, at a set time, by someones rules on their schedule in front of a crowd. You will learn a ton.
Comments
Let me hear what you think.
I hope I inspired you a bit to do more than you thought you could before.
I personally don’t give two rat’s behinds where I place, as long as I got my personal records (PRs).
When are you going to compete? How are you going to be better? I want to hear about it in the comments!
Rock on
Mike T Nelson
PS
Here is the full report of what I learned at the meet this past Fall
A Unique Way to Assess Athletes and Clients: An Interview with Mike T Nelson
Just a quick heads up that Rick posted an interview I did with him about a unique way to assess athletes and clients. A huge thanks to Rick for taking the time to do the interview and I am more than happy to help out.
Just a note that since the interview, I have changed my thoughts a bit too as I have learned more. My current views are summed up in these two posts
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The Solution
If you are on my email newsletter, you know that I have decided to open up 4 spots in my online training program.
How This is Different
This is NOT your standard online training where I hand you a piece of paper and tell you to go nuts after you fork over $500 every month and hope you make good gains in the gym and find your abs. You are hiring me to guide YOU through the process of reading feedback from YOUR body for amazing results. At the end of 3-6 months, you are off on your own, headed towards your goals at the fastest pace ever AND you will never need another expert again to tell you what to do! You will using YOUR body’s own feedback for the best results of your life. Sort of like training wheels on a bike to get started, but once you get the training wheels off, you will never need them again. Sounds insane I know.
Evidence
Just go on to Twitter.com and search for #Preveryday and you will find tons of people setting PRs like never before. I won’t list all of them here, but it is crazy! Some adding 10, 20, 30 lbs of lean body mass over several months, adding almost 80 lbs to his bench press (and he was not new to training) and more.
I know others that charge $400 for the first month for a piece of paper and a standard program design that ignores your body’s feedback. If you want additional nutrition work, that is $150 to $200 more. Your first month is $600! I am sure they do a fair job, but how custom is it to you really?
Better is Better
The current price for 6 months is $200 per month and for 3 months is $250 per month. You pay at the start of each month, so you don’t need to pay for all of it up front.
What Do I Get?
You will get direct access to me via my email and my own personal cell phone number to call. I will guide you and make sure you are hitting a PR every day! I have been working with Frankie Faires (where I first heard of this type of training) for well over 2 years now. I have worked with other athletes of all types from SWAT athletes, weekend warriors and others in person and distanced based.
I can say without a doubt that this works better than anything I have ever used.
I can’t think of training any more like I used to do it. The results speak for themselves. I can guarantee that these prices will NEVER be this low again. As this catches on, the demand will keep increasing and I will keep getting better and better, therefor you will get better even faster. Once I finish my PhD, the price will go up yet again.
More muscle, less fat, no more sweatshirts at the beach
Bonus
I will give you the nutrition work (using the Precision Nutrition system) for FREE also. Dr. Berardi has a great system that he has used with thousands of people to get results. Everyone from weekend warriors to professional athletes.
Summary: What You Will Get IF You Are Selected
Access to me to answer all your questions
A template approach to get you started in the right direction
Full nutrition work
Supplement recommendations
Mobility work (if needed)
RESULTS
100% guaranteed. If you are not happy for any reason, you will pay nothing.
Where Do I Sign Up?
I only have 4 spots (note, 2 of them or all of them depending on when you read this may already be taken).
To get more information, email me by clicking EMAIL MIKE with the answers to these 2 questions 1) Why do you feel you need this program? 2) Are you an action taker and are ready to test your body for the best results ever? I have the right to pick the top 4 who I feel are the best qualified. My decisions are final. Not everyone will be accepted. I want action orientated people only. If you are not ready to small, consistent steps, I do not want your money.
If you are interested, get your email to me ASAP or hit me up via the contact page at the top.
In the event of a tie, the nod will go to the person who sent in the answers first. So, if you are ready to set a personal record every time you enter the gym and have an expert guide YOU with feedback from YOUR body, email me your answers to the two questions above right now.
Incentive Free Conference Call with Frank (a biofeedback tester)
I was on phone live recently with Frank for a free conference call. Frank is just like you and works as a barber. He has been doing the Gym Movement biofeedback training for a few months now and has made some incredible gains. I first met him at the Grip n Rip 2.0 Workshop and then a couple weekends ago.
Within a few months I seriously almost did not recognize him.
I know that sounds too good to be true, so listen in to the conference call and hear his story first hand.
Frank is NOT being paid in any way for this. I asked him to share his experience and he was more than willing to do so. You can get this FREE conference call download instantly by signing up to my newsletter below and I will instantly send you the call.
Rock on!
Mike N
PS
Outside of a handful of people in the Movement, you wil NOT find this offer anywhere else.
I can guarantee you this is the lowest price you will ever see from me on this offer. If you are not setting PRs in the gym after 30 days of working with me directly, I will refund all of your money, no questions asked. Your progress is guaranteed!! Email me now by hitting EMAIL MIKE with these questions
1) Why do you feel you need this program?
2) Are you and action taker and are ready to test your body for the best results ever?
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