Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast. Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports.
~Greg Glassman

I was at the Rock Boxing Gym in Carson California shooting his Saturday morning training session. While others sleep in, Efrain is putting in work. We were also joined by George Faavae who also was putting in hard work. Check out the teaser we put together for his upcoming main event card.

So the reasons I’m really exited is: 1 because i broke my thruster personal record, 2 because i felt like i could go a little higher in weight! Yaaaaaay! Till next time! Here’s a 2 videos 135 & 140.

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The most un-valid argument i hear is that it’s too complicated. Really? It’s the same idea of an operating system but in a different style. It comes with pre installed apps, you may remove them all or ask the phone genius at the cellphone store to remove everything and you want it “plain, like an iPhone”.

Ok first tech rant/

I swear Seth Godin is my hero. Here is an excerpt I find to be very motivational!

There are some significant misunderstandings about failure. A common one, similar to one we seem to have about death, is that if you don’t plan for it, it won’t happen.

All of us fail. Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

Two habits that don’t help:

• Getting good at avoiding blame and casting doubt
• Not signing up for visible and important projects

While it may seem like these two choices increase your chances for survival or even promotion, in fact they merely insulate you from worthwhile failures.

I think it’s worth noting that my definition of failure does not include being unlucky enough to be involved in a project where random external events kept you from succeeding. That’s the cost of showing up, not the definition of failure.

Identifying these random events, of course, is part of the art of doing ever better. Many of the things we’d like to blame as being out of our control are in fact avoidable or can be planned around.

Here are six random ideas that will help you fail better, more often and with an inevitably positive upside:

1. Whenever possible, take on specific projects.
2. Make detailed promises about what success looks like and when it will occur.
3. Engage others in your projects. If you fail, they should be involved and know that they will fail with you.
4. Be really clear about what the true risks are. Ignore the vivid, unlikely and ultimately non-fatal risks that take so much of our focus away.
5. Concentrate your energy and will on the elements of the project that you have influence on, ignore external events that you can’t avoid or change.
6. When you fail (and you will) be clear about it, call it by name and outline specifically what you learned so you won’t make the same mistake twice. People who blame others for failure will never be good at failing, because they’ve never done it.

If that list frightened you, you might be getting to the nub of the matter. If that list feels like the sort of thing you’d like your freelancers, employees or even bosses to adopt, then perhaps it’s resonating as a plan going forward for you.

A few miles in the trail starts to bend around the mountain and surely start getting a glance of the peak. Ive got to say the peak looks amazing year round but this time of the year specifically, the view was astonishing. Snow patches/ice scattered throughout.

Breathing was hard with only 20 minutes of acclimation, but we started with a solid above average pace. An hour and a half later we approached Roger peak, time for some water and small snack break. At this point we have spotted the first large snow patch. Seeing the size of it we anticipated tons of snow at the peak. The next 45 min are long up and Downs, nothing to write home about but the scenery is always breath taking and peaceful.

After this section, its mostly rocks for a good mile, then some more snow as you bend around the mountain. This part is pretty easy because it’s not a lot of climbing more covering distance instead. One thing tho, was steep down hills from the trail. The snow basically smooths out the once trail shaped side of the mountain.

This below is the end of the easy part. about a mile in, the fun part begins!

This photo is looking back at to ^^^^

Once we approach the end of that section we start a major ascend up to the peak. As we get closer we realize the normal trail is barrier under snow! Following safe tracks from previous trekkers and making our own trails we manouver up the mountain.

Since I forgot my trekking poles Alvaro let me use one of his. Made trekking so much easier. At times if you step on fresh snow I would sink to mid tigh that approximately 3 feet of snow.

When trekking a mountain with so much beauty in every inch of view, you can’t help but to stop and admire nature. The little things how the snow is only on one side because The sun is on the other for a longer time through out the day…

The patterns in petrigied trees, plants etc.

We had some fun on the snow but then quickly picked up the pace. The peak is now closer within sight, trail is nowhere to be found barrier under tons of snow. We are now about a mile from the very tip top. Steep uphill in show approximately 25% grade. In this part he rocks were her interesting but no time to stop.

The last 200 feet are approaching, Alvaro has already reached the top. That gives me great motivation and I start the toughest part of this trek. Every step counts for everything. Miss a Step and you get really wet or stuck. Look back and you wont want to go up anymore. Over exited to reach the peak I muscle my way through the snow and bam! Out of breath heart speeding at an altitude of 114300 feet. I felt great!

Registered at the top. Relaxed for a few minutes and prepared for the even most fun part of the trip! The descent!

The jump off was tough. You don’t want to trust the blocks of snow but you want to get down ASAP. A tradition of ours is to run down the trail. Its very hard to do and can take a toll on your stamina and body. We didn’t bring gloves(not sure why) by my fingers were freezing. So the solution was don’t touch the snow and burn down to the safe parts that are runnable… not so easy, I saw les strout in man vs wild perform a maneuver where he slides on his back to ft down to the bottom of a mountain covered in slow… worked really well. Only that I couldn’t do it all the time because there was a cliff after every hill and I have no brakes! Oh and after one of those stunts out are covered in snow almost drenched. So that method was out we had to climb down…

We finally reach running areas and we hit a few bursts of running..through some snow rilocks small up hills really fun/challenging stuff. About 30 minutes till the end my knee starts to bug me so I stopped running alvaro let me use his 2nd trek pole to deprive some pressure from my right knee. He also wen back and grabbed some snow so I can ice my knee…Now that is what I call tram member! We met further down few more minutes and home free! Start a fire and the rest is history! Another awesome adventure in the books!

On that day, the day that everyone notices your work, approves and lets you know, then what will happen?

We spend an incredible amount of time and psychic energy planning and working for that day, but why? It will never arrive, and even if it does, it’s not clear that anything special happens.

Perhaps the approval of every person in the entire world doesn’t need to be the goal of your work.

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