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You Already Knew That

28. Dec, 2009 25 Comments Fat Loss, How to Build Muscle, Motivation, Strength & Conditioning

It just wouldn’t be Christmas if I didn’t get at least a dozen random fitness related questions per week from strangers, family members or long lost pals at holiday parties. Kinda like the exchange I had with my old friend Kevin last week…

“Hey Jay, good to see you, buddy. Glad you’re here, I have a couple questions for you.”

“I probably don’t have the answers, but fire away.”

“My shoulder’s been killing recently right here, when I bench press. Here, feel this clicking thing it’s doing,” he says as he places my [...]

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The Main Ingredient

16. Nov, 2009 83 Comments Fat Loss, How to Build Muscle, Motivation, Strength & Conditioning

“Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price.”
– Sun Tzu

Did you know that you can get down to single digit bodyfat and look like an elite level pro athlete in just three easy, twenty minute workouts per week? And you can do it while eating whatever you want? It’s true…cuz I heard it on the radio… and read it on the internet.

Eight minute abs. That’s right folks, in just eight minutes a day you can get the abs of Cheik Congo (pictured). All it [...]

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Life Wasted

27. Jul, 2009 77 Comments Motivation

“You’re always saying you’re too weak to be strong.”
– Life Wasted by Pearl Jam

Another summer weekend just came and went and now here we are yet again, on a Monday morning…

With yet another opportunity to change things for the better; to make the dramatic improvements that you have been planning to make for so long.

Maybe you thought about it over the weekend when you drank too many beers or ate too many hot dogs at your neighbors’ barbeque.

Or maybe you were ashamed to take your shirt off at the beach [...]

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How to Build Muscle & Lose Fat for the Summer

27. May, 2009 11 Comments Fat Loss, How to Build Muscle, Motivation

Since Memorial Day Weekend, which is the unofficial start of summer, just passed, I have a question for you…

Did you meet all of your goals that you had set? Did you live up to those New Year’s resolutions? Did you gain all the size and strength that you vowed you would? Were you as lean as you hoped?

If the answer is no then you need to ask yourself why. And you need to step it up a notch. Where I’m from the beach season doesn’t really get into full swing [...]

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Wednesday’s Workout & Playlist

29. Apr, 2009 4 Comments How to Build Muscle, Motivation, Training Music

Got a little too fired up to train way too long before tonight’s workout. Approximately two and half hours prior to training I was listening to some old Rollins Band stuff and working myself into a frenzy. I want my old size and strength back yesterday. Not three months from now, not a week from now, not tomorrow. But yesterday. And I want to triple my previous bests in the worst way possible.

Since I have gotten worked up like this a million times in the past [...]

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Last Night’s Training Mix

21. Apr, 2009 5 Comments Motivation, Training Music

- Rebel Without A Pause- Public Enemy

- We’re Back- Bobby Creekwater, Cashis, Eminem, Obie Trice & Stat Quo

- Renegade- Hed PE

- Bleed it Out- Linkin Park

- PscyhoSocial- Slipknot

- War Within a Breath- Rage Against The Machine

- Fish Out of Water- Mudvayne

- Davidian- Machinehead

- Zero- Smashing Pumpkins

- Survival of the Streets- Cro Mags

- 99 Problems/ One Step Closer- Jay Z & Linkin Park

- Freedom (live)- Rage Against The Machine

- Butcher Knife Bloodbath- Jedi Mind Tricks

- What a [...]

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You Either “Get It,” or You Don’t

17. Apr, 2009 10 Comments Motivation, Strength & Conditioning

After what seems like a hundred years of training a million people I can unequivocally state that your results in the gym are directly proportional to your IQ. You either “get it,” or you don’t. The first time someone walks in the gym I usually have a pretty good idea of what their long term progress will be within thirty seconds of meeting them. If not, I know for sure by the end of their first workout. Their attitude, work ethic, and usually most importantly, intelligence are the telltale [...]

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Renegade Gym- Watchung, New Jersey

31. Mar, 2009 17 Comments Motivation, Videos

Iron and the Soul

28. Feb, 2009 15 Comments Motivation

By Henry Rollins

I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like you parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. Completely.

When I was young I had no sense of myself. All I was, was a product of all the fear and humiliation I suffered. Fear of my parents. The humiliation of teachers calling me “garbage can” and telling me I’d be mowing lawns for a living. And the very real terror of my fellow students. I was threatened and beaten up for [...]

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The Muscle Building Mindset

31. Dec, 2008 3 Comments How to Build Muscle, Motivation

Let’s face it. Everyone wants to look better. I don’t know too many people that don’t want to gain more muscle or lose bodyfat. It’s human nature. You want to appeal to the opposite sex and command respect from you peers. I am obsessed with human performance and train for strength and function first and foremost, but even I would be lying if I said I didn’t want to look better. We all do.

But wanting and doing are two entirely different things. Everyone wants to dramatically transform [...]

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