Physiology reveals that the basics of strength and power development in the muscles are the adaptations of the nervous system and the hypertrophy of muscle. Hypertrophy simply means the growth of muscles. These two factors lead to the production of increased amounts of myosin and actin which function by increasing the tension of the muscles. Increased amounts of these tow substances leads to the development of individual strength.
The only way in which actin and myosin can be properly produced on grand scale is through the carrying out of effectual strength training techniques. In so doing the strengths of the tendons and ligaments are also increased. The role of the nervous system is quite complex but the explanation can be simplified if we can understand that the brain sends messages to the muscles. These messages are either excitatory or inhibitory. Excitatory messages allow the muscles to be readied for use while the inhibitory messages serve as warnings when the brain realizes that certain tasks are impossible. The muscles relax and in so doing one is able to avoid injury.
As one makes progress in weightlifting the brain reduces the number of inhibitory messages sent to the muscles. This is due to the fact that the muscles are adequately prepared to meet the expected requirements and that it is possible to lift a specified weight. (more…)
So many jocks I encounter these days condition their bodies feverishly with often bizarre and extreme methods in the desire to transcend into the domain that people might call “super human”.
It’s a fantasy of so many athletes and people as a whole to possess “super human” qualities – to find ways to access their ultimate human physical performance and excel far beyond what their competition can do.
Maybe it was bred by so many childhood comic books, animated cartoon, films, and computer games. Maybe it is just in many people’s genetic code to want to be more — to be special and to be heads above the herd.
Do You Want to Enter the Super Human Realm?
Regardless, if we’re genuinely to one day develop beyond our human capabilities into a “superhuman-realm”, then I ask why is it that the absolute majority of athletes still condition their bodies so unrelentingly and yet habitually omit to condition their minds as aggressively with comparable time and exuberance?
Call me strange, but even as a youngster I always believed that my favorite superhuman characters would for sure have to be in command of some sort of super brainpower in order to do all the herculean feats of strength they did.
How could all those superhumans possess so many astonishing skills and yet be barren of a superior brain of some kind to make it all possible?
Even though most of them purportedly developed their super strength from some kind of nuclear reaction, chemical reaction, or from having been born on another planet or solar system with completely different laws of physics, I always imagined that their mental capacity would sure enough function so differently from ours and that’s the precise reason their bodies would react so magnificently and far beyond our human capabilities.
Is Over Training Giving You Diminishing Returns?
It IS the brain that commands the body isn’t it?
In the interest of acquiring superhuman strength, so many an athlete drive themselves into a spiraling whirlpool of decreasing returns called overtraining and other irrational behaviors.
Living with the ideal that “more is better” frequently leads so many to be forgetful that the pain and stiffness they are seeking to work through are in reality their muscles, nerves, and body mechanisms attempting to communicate to the brain that they need a lot time to mend properly before they can be pushed further into accessing the powers of super strength.
Employing our will over utilizing some common sense does not seem to equate to superior intelligence.
Every human being with a desire to become super human had best not only train their brains systematically and regularly to think more expeditiously and creatively, but to train it to acknowledge the distress signals that the body is trying to communicate to the brain and to promptly take time off from their super strength training in order to rest adequately.
A super brain must have not only the ability to press the body harder but to heed what the body is also telling it more intelligently. These are things that will assist it in order to heal faster and to become stronger in the shortest amount of time.
Let Your Body Recover Sufficiently
I think it would be sensible for us to expend a good deal more time letting the body recover sufficiently so it can come back supercharged for the next workout.
What better time than on our recovery periods away from the gym to learn better ways to bridge the immense powers of the intellectual realm with the exact language your body intuitively translates to aggressively change the manners in which you move and explode with muscular strength and speed?
Perhaps it’s just me, but it appears logical that a human being who desires to become superhuman physically would as well prefer to be developing a super human brain at the same time to go along with the tights and superior attributes of their ideal superhuman.
Melding the Mind and Body
If acquiring super strength is your goal, then what a great idea would it be to expend your recovery time away from the gymnasium expeditiously to learn fresh ways of thinking and new ways of powerfully melding the mind to the body?
How extraordinary it would be if schools began seriously advocating super strength training for BOTH mind and body and teach pupils how the body and the mind functioning as one can really wake up our hidden capabilities to truly be more than we ever believed imaginable?
Hmmm, perhaps I have read too many comic books…what do you think?
To your strength and mastery,
Garin Bader
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Enjoy this video of music, art, engaging the powers of the imagination.
This is a video of one of my piano performances last night of one of my compositions, "Aurora", that I dedicated to my very dear and gifted artist friend, JD Buckwell. His paintings inspired the music and I think you'll hear as I try to match the richness of his color and brilliant light with splashes of sound and resonance.
He is a magnificent painter whose shards of brilliant color dance on the each canvas he creates. Each painting is named appropriately with titles that not only engage the imagination but seem to have the same life as what they depict.
Read these titles and see how each titles inspires a picture without even hearing my music or seeing his art. That is the magic you innately possess – the ability to see vivid pictures in your mind.
"The Beginning", "The Inferno", "Emerald", "Resurrection", "Solar Flare", "Jade Mist", "New World", "Neptune's Realm", "North Star", "Apocalypse", "Deep Waters", "Ocean's Garden", "Morning Light", "Fury", "Four Seasons", "Fire & Ice", and "Aurora".
Whether it is art, music, or achieving super strength, the imagination is where all great and powerful things originate. Learning to see color, light, and sound together and with clarity engage the creative juices as well as the emotions that unlock the genius attributes and unfathomable strengths that are buried within all of us.
When you can learn how your imagination can engage every muscle fiber to contract with perfect and fluid timing, the synchronicity of all parts of your being can create super strength to things you formerly thought impossible to achieve.
We are all powerful vibrational beings
We are all powerful vibrational beings and yet we use nowhere near a fraction of our real capabilities. The secrets to unlocking your strengths lie in engaging your imagination, understanding how sound waves, light, and color affect how powerful those vibrational waves are transmitted into the body and musculature as I teach in CoreForce Energy.
Of course the other important ingredient necessary is, of course – persistent and relentless action that only You can supply.
We spend too much time justifying to ourselves and others why we can't do things when, in reality, we would do much better if we were spend a little of that time to just engage all our senses with complete abandonment and with a childlike bravery to just try to do things we think are impossible each day.
We are all born with magnificent minds that can create and bring incredible things into reality. We all have in our possession super computers that would love to bring forth brilliant things if it weren't for our own voices telling our brains that fantasy has nothing to do with reality.
All impossible things like the computer you're reading this on and the light-bulbs that light your room were once fantasies. Are you willing to engage your imagination to achieve the "Impossible Dream" while facing thousands of failures before your eventual success?
Like Thomas Edison, are you willing to fail thousands of times before you "see the light"?
I hope you enjoy the video but more-so, that you let the color light and sound engage your creative juices to begin your own adventures and works of art in your New Year. Each day and every moment, we all have a choice to spend our vibrational energy creating something of greatness or use it to tear down and minimize our infinite and innate strengths.
To Your Strength and Mastery,
Garin Bader
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time."
~Thomas Edison
1847-1931, Inventor and Entrepreneur
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
I have never suffered from the debilitating syndrome called carpal tunnel precisely because of the techniques I share with you in my Finger Gymnastics course. These principles that make my hands extremely powerful and dextrous come from my years experience I’ve gained throughout my lifetime as a concert pianist, magician, martial artist, powerlifter, and all-round exercise aficionado.
Carpal tunnel occurs when the median nerve which runs from the forearm into the hand becomes pressed or squeezed at the wrist. It can be very painful to say the least. Unfortunately, I see so many people these days wearing these unsightly wrist braces that will supposedly help cure the pain. So far, there is not one person that I’ve asked that has told me that the wrist brace enabled them to go without it and has cured the pain.
I meet thousands of people each week who come up to me all the time after my concerts and ask me how I protect my hands and also why I have such ferociously strong fingers to play like I do while also being able to do two finger pushups without injuring myself. The answers lie precisely in the principles and techniques I teach in bothCoreForce EnergyandFinger Gymnastics.
Trying to mask the symptoms of carpal tunnel is not the answer – because if you’re gong to go right back to doing the very things that caused it in the first place, you’ll go right back to the pain zone out of pure ignorance. Through my years of practicing 8 to 13 hours a day to win 13 international piano and magic competitions, I have acquired and developed some some powerful exercises and techniques that can help you not only strengthen your hands far beyond any other devices or techniques but to make them dexterous and safe from the pain of carpal tunnel.
These techniques came not only from those two disciplines but from knowledge gained throughout all those very years from training in martial arts, powerlifting, and sculpting all at the same time. That’s a lot of wear and tear on the hands and wrists to have never been injured. I tell you these things not to boast but to show you I walk my talk and that you too can have the same knowledge to protect your hands and to make them insanely powerful and fast.
In drilling my hands relentlessly that many hours and for years on end, I know what I’m talking about from pure experience. Since I make my living doing all of the above, I can’t afford to be injured and can’t afford to be performing wearing one of those ridiculous wrist braces. So you if you want to really know the scoop from someone who not only walks their own talk but who knows from years of testing and experimenting – listen up.
I know exactly what works through years and years and hours a day of throwing out the bad and keeping the good. Not only do I know precisely how to get maximum muscular strength and dexterity from the hands – free from tension, but I know that seating position in height and distance away from a computer, keyboard, or whatever is critical to your success.
Seating position is one of the most important things you should know about to protect the hands from carpal tunnel and to keep it away forever. You need to get it right so your energy flows from the top of your head down to your shoulders. Any break in that energy and pressure on meridians or pressure points themselves constantly throughout the day with your wrists in seemingly harmless positions can bring you severe pain that will reoccur until you know how to stop the endless cycle.
Most people are not even aware that the very way they sit most of the time is draining their energy, their creativity, and frighteningly lessening their strength and dexterity. They live with tension and pain and almost begin accepting that “normal”.
For years, I would experiment sitting at the piano low, high, faraway, close – in every imaginable way. I would move the bench fractions of an inch to find that every new position would have a dramatic consequence that would either strengthen or weaken my abilities. I was in search of how I could sit an play with effortless energy, strength, speed, dexterity, and keep my hands free from tension and injury. These very techniques are what I use to demonstrate raw power in martial arts and strength exercises.
This is why in my course Finger Gymnastics, I teach you precisely how to sit and give you exercises that not only strengthen but give you freedom from movement to move from the entire body – so your power doesn’t come from just the fingers and wrists – but from the entire body and spirit moving as one. That is the way you not only exude the best sound as a musician and artist, but what enables you to produce the maximum power in all that you do.
In my next installment I will tell you how, just with fingertip strength, I effortlessly tossed a 235 pound black belt in jujitsu off his fighting stance 7 feet backwards. I used only my fingertips and no wind up or telegraphing in any way.
Learn how to flow your energy like a chi master, sit properly, while exhibiting extreme fingertip power, by checking outFinger GymnasticsandCoreForce Energy. Both these courses teach you how to move effortlessly with super strength, power, and speed – while helping to keep you injury free like myself.
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? That was the brilliant question the African American baseball star Leroy “Satchel” Paige once ask.
How old do you feel right now? Is it the brain or the body that feels age? Many will tell you it’s their body that feels old. They’ll happily tell you every reason why age is making them forget and lose muscle tone. They’ll tell you how age automatically brings pain in the joints and muscles.
Then again, others will light up the room with enthusiasm, vigor, and almost unstoppable strength like a world-champion Olympian swimmer that I recently met who came to one of my live performances. He’s now 77 and about a month prior added yet another 1st place to his long list of swimming medals.
You can read about his awe-inspiring career on the internet as his name is Graham M Johnston, a United States Masters Swimmer http://www.usms.org/hist/sto/index.php?ID=86&srt= . At 75 he set 8 world records at the 11th Fina World Masters Championships in California.
He’s set dozens and dozens of world records in his long career after having won two Gold and two Silver medals in each the 1950 and 1954 Commonwealth Games held in New Zealand and Canada as a young man that prompted him being selected to represent South Africa in the Olympics. He’s even swam across the Strait of Gibraltor.
After introducing himself after one of my concerts, we sat down with him, his lovely wife and several of his traveling companions for quite some time. His enthusiasm, charm, and immense energy was inspiring to everyone around him. It was obvious he radiates personal magnetism and powerful self-confidence that radiates into his extraordinary strength throughout his daily life. It’s something you can actually easily acquire with very little practice like my wife teaches in her extraordinary course called the “Pizzazz Factor”. The sparkle in his eye radiated into his movement, energy, and words of wisdom.
I asked him many questions about training and what made him a world champion Olympic swimmer. He told me that races are always won by hundredths of a second. He told me that it’s the small things that you do every day that count and that will catapult you above your competition in the heat of the race.
He said since the beginning of his career, he was always the first one in the pool and the last one to leave. Of course immediately, I wanted to know what motivated him to work like this day after day, year after year, to present. Not surprisingly, he believes just as I do that it’s the mind in most things that must be conquered first before the body.
He said that many train hard and long but that you need to your brain to think differently, to see differently all the time with new enthusiasm. It’s these things that make the body move differently and rejuvenate it. He said that cultivating enthusiasm in loving what you do and seeing your success in your mind’s eye will create a winner inside and out.
It’s a fact that thinking creatively induces more electrochemical energy, and forms new connections to throughout the brain, nervous system, and musculature. Inspired thought patterns remodel nerve endings and improve receptor networks that can directly translate into more physical strength.
By challenging your brain, body, and senses, to expand with new creative thought patterns along with diligent training, you can slow the aging process and revitalize your body with new found resources of strength and stamina.
You can replace years of decline with years of growth and purpose by your thoughts and visions of being a champion just in your every day life. You can revitalize your life by creative thinking and enthusiasm one day at a time, second by second. Make each second count with inspired thought. It’s each “tick” that make or break champions.
Make ‘em count! There’s Gold in each second.
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