Showing up. Granted, Woody Allen is a bit of a weirdo, but he’s funny as hell and I like his movies. The guy is also a Machine: he has released a movie every single year for over 20 years. Even now that’s he’s past 75y he continues to. I say respect. Now I don’t know [...]

Yesterday, today, and the rest of his week, Jon North is training about 4h/day, lifting to his limit every session, even if he’s sore or not in the mood. No drugs or steroids are involved, but 9 hours of sleep every single night, 2 naps each day and lots of recovery methods like stretching, foam [...]

Note by Mehdi. This is a guestpost by Coach Glenn Pendlay MS USAW, whose Olympic Lifter Jon North relies on the 5×5 method to develop his leg strength. Today Jon North snatched 160kg in the 94kg class. This is only 5kg under the American Record and is the best snatch of any American lifter in [...]

Warning: I expect most guys will never take the time to do the exercise I’m about to reveal. They’ll just read through this post, think “yeah yeah” and then keep searching for the next silver bullet. Don’t be one of those guys - it’s not about what you know but about what you do. Thus, do [...]

When I was still employed in “Corporate Belgium”, one of my tasks as a tech support was to answer emails. My boss always gave me half a day to reply to several dozens of support mails. Since I was able to finish that task faster than a Cheetah can run, I usually spent the first 3h30 browsing the [...]

then start with just one goal. The worst thing you could do is trying to achieve too many, conflicting goals at the same time. Like wanting to increase your Squat and lean muscle mass WHILE boosting your cardiovascular fitness and losing fat. You try to increase your Squat and muscle mass when doing tons of [...]