Strong- The Iron Will Way- The Official Podcast Of The Iron Legion Strength Co.

The optimal workout program will vary dramatically depending upon the individual. Today we’ll discuss those variables and how to manage them.

At some point in life we all had a dream. We dreamt of what our life would be like or who we would become. At this point, one of three things have happened. We’ve achieved that dream, we are actively working towards and progressing towards that dream or we have given up on that dream. Which one applies to you?

Anger is a powerful emotion if you can harness it to your advantage.

Today I had a great chat with Coach Jon Janson about how he got started, his personal transformation and the things that have made him successful in the gym and in life. This was a blast!

Some things we just don’t want to acknowledge.

In this episode, as usual I refer to it as the wrong episode number, but that’s to be expected by now. More importantly, we answer the commonly asked question “Why should I train or lift weights if I don’t have any specific goals that I want to accomplish?” Honestly most people don’t have aspirations to be competitive or to accomplish anything specific with their workouts. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t training for something. They aren’t just training to be a better worker- outer. This is about improving your quality of life and making every aspect of it better. That’s what this is about.

How we define success is a very important aspect of how we achieve it. How do we know when we are succeeding?

Every year I put up a meme that starts with this. The second line of the meme is “Unless it interferes with your goals then don’t have a s’more.” There is a lot of meaning behind this simple meme and although it’s meant to be humorous, there is a real message behind it too.

The number one mistake that almost everyone makes when it comes to managing their nutrition and how to correct it.

Every day lately it seems that more and more people are apologizing for having a hard time. We are apologizing for struggling with all that’s going on in the world right now. We are struggling with asking for help. We are struggling with admitting that we need help. Let’s discuss.

Less living in fear, more living in control.

So many times we say we are giving it 100% but are we really? I can look back and see many times in my life where I was not giving it my all. Where I was half-assing my way through because I could. Once I recognized that and made the decision to put 100% effort into the things that I wanted to be successful at, I saw huge changes. Let’s talk about how to ensure that you are truly giving 100% effort into what’s important to you.

We often see successful people and assume they’ve always been “winners”. We imagine that things have always been this way for them. We usually know very little about how they got where they are or about the struggles they have faced to get there. There is usually a lot to the story that you don’t see.

How many times have we looked at someone else and wished we had their gifts? Their genetics, their financial situation or other “advantages “ that they have. Happens all the time. But what if by looking at things differently we began to see our perceived weaknesses as strengths? I believe we can.

There is one thing that I see very often that keeps people from reaching their personal goals. In fact, it actually keeps them from even trying to reach their goals. Think about it. If you don’t even make the attempt, how can you ever hope to succeed? This seems obvious yet many people don’t even try and this is why.

This weekend I got to witness another awesome example of how lifting is so much like life. How you can take a failure and turn it into something glorious.

“Do you want to know or do you just want people to think you know?” Too often our ego gets in the way of us getting better. We are more concerned with what people think we know than we are with actually learning more. We’ll need to put the ego aside and be vulnerable if we want to get better.

Helplessness. I despise it. I hate when I feel that way and it seriously bothers me when I see others acting that way. Let’s not allow helplessness to be a thing anymore.

Focus is everything. Pursuing too many goals at once leads to a doing shitty job at all of them.