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A quote from - Albert Einstein
"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:45:33 BST
A quote from ~ Maya Angelou
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:27:59 UTC
A quote from ~ Maya Angelou
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:27:39 UTC
A quote from - Unknown
"What you measure...you control. What you DON'T measure...you accept."
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:19:44 UTC
A quote from - Les Brown
"You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers."
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:24:50 UTC
A quote from - Chinese Proverb
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:53:11 UTC
A quote from - Neale Donald Walsch
"Passion is the love of turning BEING into ACTION. Passion is the fire to express who we really ARE, so never deny passion because it just denies who you ARE and who you want to BE."
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:49:35 UTC
A quote from an anonymous source
"What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort."
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:41:59 UTC
A quote from an anonymous source
What gets measured get done. This applies to every area of our lives. What are you measuring?
Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:42:28 UTC
A quote from - José Ortega y Gasset
“Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.”
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:10:27 UTC
A quote from ~Sherrin Ross Ingram
"Arrogance not only prevents you from seeing the big picture, it makes you think your view is the big picture."
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:07:30 UTC
A quote from ~Unknown
"If you enjoy the process, it's your dream. If you are are enduring it, desperate for the result, it's somebody else's."
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:01:22 UTC
A quote from ~Sherrin Ross Ingram
"Learn how to nourish your body. Without energy to pursue your passion and purpose, not much else matters."
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:59:47 UTC
A quote from ~Sherrin Ross Ingram
"It is not enough to be around people who WANT to help you. You also need to be around people who CAN help you."
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:58:06 UTC
A quote from ~ Eric Butterworth
"Things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you."
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:57:17 UTC
A quote from ~Jacques Barzun
"Finding Oneself" is a misconception. A self is not discovered but formed by deliberate contemplation and action."
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:38:36 UTC
A quote from - Carl Lewis
"If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win."
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:36:36 UTC
A quote from - John Quincy Adams
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:44:15 UTC
A quote from - Abraham Maslow
"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."
Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:41:32 UTC
A quote from - MIlton Berle
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:39:54 UTC
A quote from - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:02:03 UTC
A quote from - Brian Tracy
95% of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself."
Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:17:36 UTC
A quote from - Unknown
"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved. Heaven begins on the day we recognize that we can still achieve it."
Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:57:10 UTC
A quote from - Zig Ziglar
"It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life ;it is how you handle what happens to you."
Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:17:13 UTC
A quote from - Rick Warren
"You have to decide in life if you want to influence people or impress them".
Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:16:08 UTC
A quote from - David Viscott
"If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."
Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:15:10 UTC
A quote from - Thoreaux
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams…live the life you’ve imagined..”
Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:14:33 UTC
A quote from - Carl Jung
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:11:02 UTC
A quote from - Edward Gibbon
"We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win."
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:08:44 UTC
A quote from - Jim Rohn
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment”.
Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:57:23 UTC
A quote from - Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.”
Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:52:45 UTC
A quote from - Arnold Schwarzenegger
“We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There’s really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.”
Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:52:05 UTC
A quote from - Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.”
Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:51:31 UTC
A quote from - Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.”
Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:51:08 UTC
A quote from - Arnold Schwarzenegger
“It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.”
Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:50:27 UTC
A quote from - Unknown
"We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory."
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:27:26 UTC
A quote from - Unknown
"We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory."
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:27:23 UTC
A quote from - Gen. George Patton
"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:35:54 UTC
A quote from - Fulton J. Sheen
"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."
Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:24:25 UTC
A quote from - William Feather
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:39:21 UTC
A quote from - Federico Fellini
"Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations."
Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:29:48 UTC
A quote from - Abraham Lincoln
"You can't make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak".
Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:28:50 UTC
A quote from - Ralph Marston
"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude".
Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:29:09 UTC
A quote from - Deena Kastor
"When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring out how to excel"
Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:27:26 UTC
A quote from - David Viscott
"If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."
Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:26:08 UTC
A quote from - Arthur C. Clarke
"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:17:01 UTC
A quote from an anonymous source
"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate."
Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:17:28 UTC
A quote from - Denis Waitley
"The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply."
Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:15:45 UTC
A quote from - Goethe
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:02:46 UTC
A quote from - Will Durant
"Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day."
Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:39:42 UTC
A quote from Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:29:51 UTC
A quote from - Author unknown
"In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia."
Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:20:10 UTC
A quote from - John Rushkin
"What we think, what we know, or what we believe, is of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do."
Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:19:09 UTC
A quote from - Thomas Edison
"If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.”
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:00:05 UTC
A quote from - Les Brown
"You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers."
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:36:53 UTC
A quote from - Unknown
"The only thing that costs more than your dream is the cost of not having one."
Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:37:36 UTC
A quote from - Jim Rohn
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."
Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:28:19 UTC
A quote from - Lao Tzu
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:52:00 UTC
A quote from - Robert Schuller
"I had rather attempt something great and fail, than to attempt nothing at all and succeed."
Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:39:09 UTC
A quote from - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:36:47 UTC
A quote from - Albert Einstein
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:17:05 UTC
A quote from Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:10:54 UTC
A quote from Napoleon Hill
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:59:16 UTC
A quote from Terry Josephson
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.
Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:04:10 UTC
A quote from Kenichi Ohmae
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.
Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:46:41 UTC
A quote from an anonymous source
Go the extra mile, it's one stretch of highway where there are never any traffic jams.
Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:49:58 UTC
A quote from William James
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.
Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:36:54 UTC
A quote from William James
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:34:38 UTC
A quote from William James
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:31:59 UTC
A quote from William James
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.
Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:30:05 UTC
A quote from William Jems
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:29:03 UTC
A quote from A. Michelle Blakely
All roads lead to success when you know how and when to change direction.
Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:47:42 UTC
A quote from Jim Rohn
Sophistication is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.
Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:42:44 UTC
A quote from an anonymous source
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality!
Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:41:46 UTC
A quote from an anonymous source
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:26:22 UTC
A quote from -Unknown
A person that does not value your time will not value your advice.
Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:10:52 UTC
A quote from Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:02:37 UTC
A quote from George Eliot
It's never too late to become what you might have been.
Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:02:14 UTC
A quote from Zig Ziglar
Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:01:51 UTC
A quote from Douglas Pagel
Each day brings with it the miracle of a new beginning. Many of the moments ahead will be marvelously disguised as ordinary days, but each one of us has the chance to make something extraordinary out of them.
Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:01:20 UTC
A quote from Steven Covey
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:00:35 UTC
A quote from Jim Rohn
Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.
Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:59:51 UTC
What Maximum Security Prisoners Know About Building Muscle (That You Should Know, Too)
posted by Fitness Diet Insider - January 12th, 2010 BUILDING MUSCLE IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE Have you ever wondered why long-term prisoners incarcerated in correctional facilities all seem to be so BIG and POWERFUL? Do you think they know something about building muscle that you don’t? In fact, they don’t know any more than you do, but believe it or not, despite their obvious problem (being in PRISON) they have several ADVANTAGES over you. Prisoners who bulk up and build muscle in jail are using a few OVERLOOKED workout principles that most fitness gurus either think are too OBVIOUS to mention, or haven’t put any thought into. BUILDING MUSCLE TAKES TIME If there is one thing prisoners have a lot of, it’s time. They’re not going anyplace fast. Many skinny guys get excited about working out and bulking up, but after a month or two they give up and lose interest. Instead of COMMITTING to a long-term process, they jump from one thing to the next without putting in the time needed to see results. If you want to succeed, be like a prisoner: in it for the long haul. BUILDING MUSCLE REQUIRES CONSISTENCY There are very few surprises in prison. You wake up, eat your breakfast, rest a bit, eat lunch, rest some more, WORK OUT, eat dinner, try to avoid dropping the soap in the shower, and sleep for eight or ten hours. While this may not be the perfect schedule for a busy and productive business-oriented go-getter, it’s great for people who want to build muscle. CONSISTENCY is the key to reaching your fitness goals. Make the time to exercise and don’t let anything or anyone derail your plans. EAT LIKE A PRISONER On the first day of their prison sentence, many convicts are led into the lock-up skinny, undernourished, and scrawny. It’s no wonder they get picked on. But on the day of release (for those lucky enough to get out), they’re barely recognizable because they are bigger, stronger, and more powerful. What is the SECRET to this almost magical transformation? It is the prison diet. For maybe the first time in their miserable lives, these convicts are getting three square meals per day; meals prepared by dietitians who provide well-balanced, nutritionally-sound menus that provide the prisoners with everything their bodies need to be healthy and strong. You want muscles, but they don’t grow on trees. And even if they did, there are no trees in prison. You have to eat like a prisoner and consistently get good-quality food in the quantity that will make you gain weight. WORK OUT SMART, NOT STUPIDLY Prisoners are not concerned with aesthetics or GOOD LOOKS. For obvious reasons, most of them probably want to look tough and mean rather than pretty and attractive. Consequently, they use the exercises that make them strong, powerful, and big instead of exercises that build showy but nearly useless muscles. Prisoners use compound exercises like squats, pushups, and pull-ups to bulk up their bodies and develop a base of strength that translates into real-world RESULTS. If it doesn’t work, prisoners don’t waste time with it. Nobody said they were not lazy; they do what they have to to survive. WANT TO KNOW MORE THAN ANY PRISONER? Prisoners are good at following directions. If someone tells them to work out in a certain way, that’s what they do. But they probably don’t understand WHY IT WORKS. When you are ready to understand the WHY behind the WAY to bulk up skinny guys just think about the things that maximum-security prisoners do… No need to go to prison to learn this stuff either!
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 2:41:19 CST
A quote from Will Durant
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:38:11 UTC
A quote from Les Brown
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:34:08 UTC
A quote from an anonymous source
Champions aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:26:00 UTC
A quote from Jim Ryun
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:04:00 UTC
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Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:22:00 UTC
Smith Machine Shoulder Press
The Smith machine shoulder press is one of the mainstays of my shoulder workouts. Important here is range of motion which should be full but don't lock out at the top or rest at the bottom of the motion. 4 sets, working up until you reach a weight where you struggle on reps 6 - 8.
Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:22:00 UTC
Pre/During Workout Drink
Without this, I couldn't get through 24 - 28 taxing sets in a workout. In this drink I use an NO supplement. (I like White Flood but there are others.) I also put in Glutamine, an essential amino acid of which there needs to be enough so you don't start eating your own muscle, and Creatine, one of the only supplements that is proven to work when it comes to building muscle. These three ingredients and water and I'm ready.
Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:22:00 UTC
Smith Machine Flat Bench Press
Smith machine flat bench is the answer to the dangers associated with free bench. Yeah, I know it may not work the "core" as much but for building chest I've found it just as effective. This, along with flat bench dumbbell presses are essentials to chest development.
Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:22:00 UTC
Syntha-6 and 5-Grain Hot Cereal
This is Meal 1 everyday, every single day and I never get tired of it. Syntha-6 is BSN's high-tech time-released protein. Good stuff and tastes great, too. Bob's Red Mill 5 Grain cereal tastes great and the combo is unbeatable. Add a little unsweetened cocoa powder to the chocolate flavored Syntha-6 and you have a real treat and you'll be ready to hit the gym.
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:22:00 UTC
Triceps - Rope Push Down
The triceps rope push down is great in working the outside head of the tricep, but only if you push down hard enough that the handles go out and away from each other at the bottom of the motion. As with all exercises on our current split, it's 4 sets of these, heavier each set until I struggle to get 8-10 reps on the 4th set.
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:22:00 UTC
Met-Rx Pancakes
This is sometimes Meal 2. You need carbohydrate within 45 minutes of completing your workout, so when you get home from the gym in the morning, fire up a batch of these (2 scoops of Met-Rx Pancake Mix) and you have both a great source of carb and some protein to boot.
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:22:00 UTC
Leg Presses
Leg presses are always a part of our leg workout. Don't be like most guys and load it up with a lot of plates and then only be able to handle a 6"" move. The goal here is all the way up and all the way down where your knees hit your chest or come very close. Note: This and hack squats are fundamental, along with Smith machine or free squats. Warning: I've only had two significant injuries this year and one was on the leg press machine. Have a spotter -- always have a spotter on this machine. If you're doing it heavy enough, then it means you're doing it heavy enough to get caught down on the last set. Without a spotter to help you up, you're in deep trouble.