Yesterday I wrote that the athlete who can endure the most pain will become the strongest. This can be a tough pill to swallow for two reasons.
1. You have to look deep inside yourself and find out how tough you really are, and how bad you really want to be the best. Unfortunately you may not like the answer and either "discover" a different training philosophy or start stamp collecting.
2. You will have to endure pain to achieve greatness. There is no secret trick, or short cut. You want to get strong? The get ready to start hurting.
To give you an example, Saturday was a very brutal training session for
our crew and I spent the rest of the day sleeping, eating and nursing sore spots. My left hamstring was still pulled, but I kept training, my left wrist hurt, my entire right ached, and my right shoulder was experiencing some shooting pains. Not fun.
Of course all night I talked myself into believing that Sunday should be a rest day, that my body was spent, and I deserved a break for all my hard work.
Unfortunately, come Sunday morning my training partner and former Mongolian National Wrestling Team member had other plans. He was excited to try and back squat a new max, and was going to take poor old Nathan along for the ride. Lucky me.
So here I am, still in pain from yesterday and feeling like the homeless people that pass out on my front lawn (I live in downtown Calgary), and about to start yet another max effort squat workout. Possibly the 60th since the beggining of August as I train 7 days a week and squat each workout.
Once again I was proved that how the body feels is a lie as I broke my raw back squat and my farmers walk personal records in the same training session. Like I said, I was in pain going into this session. I was tired, beat up and wanted to go home, and I broke another personal record. Pain and Strength go hand in hand, the question is are you willing to pay the price?
Here is the workout
we did today
- Mobility Work
- Kettlebell Swings
- Empty Barbell Complex
- A1 Back Squat, ass to grass, belt only
- 95 x 5, 135 x 5, 185 x 5, 225 x 3, 275 x 3, 315 x 2, 365 x 1, 405 x 1, 460 x 1 (PR)
- A2 Jerks
- 155 x 5 x 5, real light just practicing my terrible jerk technique
- Farmers Walks
- 250lbs per hand x 3 x 150 feet with two turns per carry
- I have carried a lot more weight, but never for such a long distance
- Reverse Hyper
http://www.kettlebellplanet.com/ 
1. You have to look deep inside yourself and find out how tough you really are, and how bad you really want to be the best. Unfortunately you may not like the answer and either "discover" a different training philosophy or start stamp collecting.
2. You will have to endure pain to achieve greatness. There is no secret trick, or short cut. You want to get strong? The get ready to start hurting.
To give you an example, Saturday was a very brutal training session for our crew and I spent the rest of the day sleeping, eating and nursing sore spots. My left hamstring was still pulled, but I kept training, my left wrist hurt, my entire right ached, and my right shoulder was experiencing some shooting pains. Not fun.
Of course all night I talked myself into believing that Sunday should be a rest day, that my body was spent, and I deserved a break for all my hard work.
Unfortunately, come Sunday morning my training partner and former Mongolian National Wrestling Team member had other plans. He was excited to try and back squat a new max, and was going to take poor old Nathan along for the ride. Lucky me.
So here I am, still in pain from yesterday and feeling like the homeless people that pass out on my front lawn (I live in downtown Calgary), and about to start yet another max effort squat workout. Possibly the 60th since the beggining of August as I train 7 days a week and squat each workout.
Once again I was proved that how the body feels is a lie as I broke my raw back squat and my farmers walk personal records in the same training session. Like I said, I was in pain going into this session. I was tired, beat up and wanted to go home, and I broke another personal record. Pain and Strength go hand in hand, the question is are you willing to pay the price?
Here is the workout we did today
http://www.kettlebellplanet.com/