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I used to think, how can I get ripped?
You would imagine that is so complicated since you gotta stop eating carbs and track your results on your iPad like you see people doing on TV.
I said to myself: Do you think that prisoners track their calories on their ipad?
No they just do pushups, pull ups, sit ups and squats in their tiny cell. Regularly. Probably as many as they possibly can. And yet they are ripped even though they eat prison food and are under constant stress.
How do you get in shape? You pick up a weight, you do the motion you need to do, you put it back down. It's not rocket science.
Miyamoto Musashi said something that stuck with me ever since I read his Book of 5 Rings and that is to never do anything useless.
At one point one day I remember I was in my apartment and I said to myself, today I will do 100 push ups no matter what.
But from experience (I know myself) I somehow knew that it wouldn't work. I needed to master ONE PUSH UP, I wanted to do ONE perfectly in order to get a better return on my efforts. The investment would thus become in "Learning how to master the push-up" rather then "Quickly doing 100 push ups to replenish my ego and be done for the day"
Real slow controlled rep fully flexed with focused breathing. I could barely do 5 of those in the beginning.
After doing barely decent push ups for a while, every day, regularly... I eventually got better! I could finally do a decent push-up. About 20 perfect push ups.
Once that I knew how to make one single push up right. It was starting to get enjoyable. Now it was time to do as many as I could. Hey where the F*ck is my iPad? I actually WANT to track how many push ups I can do before the sun sets.
This the process known as grinding. It works with everything in life.
It is possible for a violinist that masters the vibrato (one single technique) so perfectly that he or she can make you cry while playing Mary had a little lamb. Perfect vibrato can only be mastered through millions of slowly focused bow strokes.
In boxing, if you learn to master the jab (one single punch) perfectly. You actually CAN beat anybody using that jab. It's possible.
Just saying.
You would imagine that is so complicated since you gotta stop eating carbs and track your results on your iPad like you see people doing on TV.
I said to myself: Do you think that prisoners track their calories on their ipad?
No they just do pushups, pull ups, sit ups and squats in their tiny cell. Regularly. Probably as many as they possibly can. And yet they are ripped even though they eat prison food and are under constant stress.
How do you get in shape? You pick up a weight, you do the motion you need to do, you put it back down. It's not rocket science.
Miyamoto Musashi said something that stuck with me ever since I read his Book of 5 Rings and that is to never do anything useless.
At one point one day I remember I was in my apartment and I said to myself, today I will do 100 push ups no matter what.
But from experience (I know myself) I somehow knew that it wouldn't work. I needed to master ONE PUSH UP, I wanted to do ONE perfectly in order to get a better return on my efforts. The investment would thus become in "Learning how to master the push-up" rather then "Quickly doing 100 push ups to replenish my ego and be done for the day"
Real slow controlled rep fully flexed with focused breathing. I could barely do 5 of those in the beginning.
After doing barely decent push ups for a while, every day, regularly... I eventually got better! I could finally do a decent push-up. About 20 perfect push ups.
Once that I knew how to make one single push up right. It was starting to get enjoyable. Now it was time to do as many as I could. Hey where the F*ck is my iPad? I actually WANT to track how many push ups I can do before the sun sets.
This the process known as grinding. It works with everything in life.
It is possible for a violinist that masters the vibrato (one single technique) so perfectly that he or she can make you cry while playing Mary had a little lamb. Perfect vibrato can only be mastered through millions of slowly focused bow strokes.
In boxing, if you learn to master the jab (one single punch) perfectly. You actually CAN beat anybody using that jab. It's possible.
Just saying.
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