Muscles of Resilient Steel

November 7th, 2008

I feel developing resilient steel in your muscles and tendons is a very worthy goal so that you have strength and flexibility at any angle - at any age. Sadly too many people treat stretching and muscle strength training as two separate subjects.

But, in fact, if you begin training with the goal in mind of achieving muscles of resilient steel, you’ll find yourself immediately and dramatically increasing your strength gains, flexibility, and while preventing many injuries that come from traditional stretching techniques.

People often ask me if CoreForce Energy can dramatically improve their stretching ability as well as their strength. The answer is a resounding “Yes” and it works extremely fast. You can hear for yourself below from a testimonial from an exceptional strength coach who has worked for the Danish National Elite Sports and has worked with nationally and internationally ranked athletes from various sports.

Like many others, he had asked me how CoreForce Energy could help him with his stretching. Within a few minutes and late at night with no warm-up, he achieved a “life goal” using the principles of CoreForce Energy.

He went into a deep deep stretch and seemed to be savoring it as if he never wanted to come out of it. When he finally came up, his eyes were wide as saucers and he had a huge childlike grin on his face.

Here’s what he accomplished within minutes of me explaining the CoreForce Energy stretching concepts - and this is within minutes after having made slow gains for years doing it the old traditional ways :

CoreForce Energy stretching

He and his wife are both exceptional athletes. We became friends after Karsten himself purchased the CoreForce Energy course he took advantage of the personal coaching that is all free when you buy the course where we not only did phone and video conference calls, but where I even created private instructional webpages for him - just like I do for the many clients who contact me.

Stretching the way most people do with static stretching can actually decrease your strength and power and also can increase the risk of injury. This isn’t just what I say - it’s what scientists have discovered.

When Karsten and his wife were recently in Las Vegas here’s what he had to say about what he learned about stretching - doing it the CoreForce Energy way.


“As I watched the CoreForce Energy DVD’s and subsequently implemented the principles in my training, I experienced the tremendous effects CoreForce Energy has on your strength. Very often I get 3-5 reps more with the same weight – with less effort!

 

I remembered thinking: I wonder if CoreForce Energy can improve your flexibility as well? I got the answer, when my wife and I were visiting Garin and Vanessa a couple of months ago. The answer is a big YES! CoreForce Energy can dramatically improve flexibility as well. Garin coached me to a 20 % improvement in side splits - which I have practiced a lot through the years - all in 15 minutes. This was 10 0’clock in the evening and with no warm up.

Also in the case of stretching, the principles of CoreForce Energy unlocked the potential of my body effortlessly. The key were the very special mental pictures that I haven’t heard of before – these mental images may seem odd at first, but you quickly find out that this way of stretching delivers results quickly and with no pain what so ever.”

~Karsten Jensen,

The Special Forces of
Strength and Conditioning


 

To Your Strength and Mastery,

 

Garin Bader

P.S. If you want  muscles of resilient steel, CoreForce Energy super trength will show you how. Take advantage also of all the bonus personal training I give you f*ree. Don’t wast more time doing things the slow way and get your copy now.

PPS. Check out Karsten Jensen’s website for some great tips and training courses on kettlebell training and body weight exercises. www.yestostrength.com

How Many Pushup Variations Do You Know?

November 2nd, 2008

Pushups

Q: You have mentioned the benefits of outdoor training many times and I really like the idea, but the options for exercises seem rather limited compared to the gym?

A: I understand your concern, however, even with no equipment at all there are many options available to you for a great bodyweight workout. Just consider the number of variatons available for a regular push up:

*Hand position:

  • narrow,
  • medium,
  • wide,
  • staggered,
  • arms extended.

* Position of leg/feet:

  • resting on knees,
  • resting on toes,
  • resting on forefoot (strengthens the tibialis anterior muscle),
  • resting on one leg,
  • resting on two legs

* Speeds of contraction:

  • 2 second eccentric and a 2 second concentric phase),
  • slow eccentric (5-10 sec) followed by explosive
    concentric,
  • 2 second eccentric - 10 second concentric.

* Modes of contraction:

  • the different tempo variations gives you an eccentric and a concentric dominant variations,
  • but you also can include an isometric contraction using a 2-3 second hold in the bottom position of the push up
  • or a 15 second hold at the top of the push up.

Still, without equipment you have:

  • handstand push ups,
  • one arm push ups,
  • tiger bend push ups,
  • hindu push ups,
  • dive bomber push ups,
  • T Push Ups,
  • finger tip push ups just to mention the most important variations.

Please, if any of you are mathematically inclined, calculate the total number of possible options - my guess is that we are talking at least a few hundred.

The real difference between the gym (lots of equipment) and outdoor training (less equipment) is that in the gym, you need next to zero knowledge to start doing “something” on the machines. Whereas if you train outdoors, it requires more knowledge on how to vary a fewer number of exercises.

If you are a trainer it’s your job to know stuff like that, and if you are training on your own you will learn by following these training tips.

Committed to your uninterrupted success,
Karsten Jensen

 

This post was kindly contributed by:
Karsten Jensen, Strength Coach, Msc Excercise Physiology, Chek Practitioner Level 2 and Chek Holistic Lifestyle Coach Level 3

Karsten Jensen worked for the Danish National Elite Sports Institution from 2000-2007 rendering his service to nationally and internationally ranked athletes from various sports. From his new base in Mississauga, On he still specializes in taking the physique levels of his clients to the highest levels. He is the author of 3 ebooks, multiple articles and also an international presenter.

www.yestostrength.com and he can be contacted at yestostrength@sympatico.ca

Why You Want Gymnastic Rock Hard Abs

August 3rd, 2008

Most ab training exercise videos fail miserably in their content and are a big waste of time and I’d like to tell you about one that’s quite extraordinary. Of course, a lot of ab training videos on the market have great eye candy with models who usually have never worked out with the very program they promote and have first-rate production values and all kinds of hype.

In spite of all this, most these are quite often an ineffectual waste of time and you’re left with only hope by some chance they will sculpt six-pack abs. Instead you’re left with flab and frustration - and the only thing that’s flat is your wallet.

You’ve heard that doing crunches or some other small motion ab exercises will trim and tone your tummy. But the fact is, watch real gymnasts with the best abs in the world train, and you’ll rarely ever see them doing such exercises.

It’s a well-known fact that gymnasts have the strongest, most muscular abs on the planet.

So, why would you want to spend hours doing ab exercises from videos by quite often diet fatigued skinny models with air-brushed abs doing exercises that barely move your heartbeat up one notch - and think you’re going to get gymnast strong abs?CoreForce Energy Gymnastic Abs

Most of us don’t have a lot of time these days but we still want awesome results. You know I haven’t recommended many products and I will tell you the program I’m going to tell you about gives you an incredible workout in no matter how little or much time you have. It gives you ab exercises that hit your entire body to give you full functional strength - something most courses don’t do.

These exercises run the gamut of very easy to very difficult, and this course shows you exactly how to progress and really get into the muscles and motions to get the most effective results for sculpting and strengthening.

To really get a lean set of abs and to truly carve your core, you need to do the exercises that are done by
those athletes with the best abs and who demonstrate powerful muscular strength and strength in all angles: the gymnasts.

A good friend of mine, Eddie Baran, is a first class gymnast and he walks his talk in every dimension and that’s always a good indicator of someone to learn from. I recommend this one highly for good reason. The exercises will rip your abs and give you tremendous core strength. You will learn how to use your abdominal muscles for full functional strength and exercise all parts of the abs including those obnoxious “love handles”.

In his Gymnastic Abs program, Eddie Baran shows you the gymnast’s secret to powerful ripped abs and full body strength. The program works and gets results if you do it.

If you do exactly what he instructs, in no time your midsection will be chiseled and flat. With this program, you’re guaranteed to get a great workout, increase strength, and get rid of back pain in a very short time by doing his ab exercises.

If you use this special link to buy Gymnastic Ab Strength , I will send you a bonus link to additional ab exercises that I personally use in my CoreForce Energy workouts and my wife Vanessa, creator of HotBurning Body, will give you some of the tips for ab training that has given her a first-class physique as well.

To Your Strength and Mastery,
Garin Bader

P.S. These bonus ab exercises I’ll include are completely different than what you’ll see in Eddie’s program, not only complimenting them but also showing you how to apply CoreForce Energy strength and HotBurning Body body sculpting to Eddie’s program with tips that’ll help your ab workouts generate even more power in all that you do. Remember though it’s only through this special link that you get these bonuses:
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Creating a Blitzkrieg of Elastic Strength

May 20th, 2008

If you want to achieve your ultimate body strength for more power and speed, you need to work on developing what I call elastic strength.

Elastic strength is really functional strength in a sense and something that will help you with your weight training to combat conditioning exercises to martial arts.

Elastic strength is both flexible and strong at the same time. In many ways, I think it better describes functional strength because strength in real life should flex, recoil, and be super stable and strong whenever you choose within an instant.

Elastic strength can snap either way almost instantly and is closer to an electrical lightning strike than the muscle recruitment connotation that the phrase “functional strength” denotes.

How I like to think of strength being created is that it’s a constant blitzkrieg of lightning strikes that  engage the muscles. At the same time, that extreme electrical charge doesn’t freeze up the muscles but makes them flexible and where one movement blends into the next with renewed vigor.

If you were to spend your time in the gym with your eyes closed, you’d hear constipated breathing all around you. Really listen the next time you’re there and almost nothing you hear sounds like fluid powerful breathing when you think about it.

It certainly doesn’t sound like the breath of elastic strength. Unfortunately, it sounds very much like constipated angular breathing where one breath doesn’t flow into the next.

A “grunt” usually starts the lift and then a strong exhale. The breath in to recover is either a gasp or hardly heard.

Then, when you really look and open your eyes, you’ll see most lifting with movements that don’t really flow from one movement to the next as one does in body weight exercises. No wonder why many weight lifters don’t have real functional strength or elastic strength.

In fact, you’ll see a lot of what I call constipated movement which happens when the “Grunt”(muscle head) flexes many muscles in short heaving motions that are static and short. Shorter than they should be because too many muscles are recruited for the actual movement they’re doing.

Tension creates shortness of movement  and quick constipated breathing that doesn’t move. In turn, this creates constipated cramped movements - hence little elastic functional strength.

You are what you practice. So, if you’re going to lift weights with grunts, constipated breathing, and static movements, you’re fighting against yourself to achieve your fluid optimal strength.

Instead of thinking how your muscles are going to lift a weight, think about how much elastic energy it’ll take to complete your reps. When you REALLY know how to create a firestorm of electrical synapses to your muscles, those muscles with respond with powerful contractions.

When your brain comprehends that your strength should contain elastic strength, then a flight plan for fluid movement has already automatically been predetermined and you’ll have energy to burn, breath to spare, while achieving fluid and powerful functional strength - Elastic Strength.

To Your Strength and Mastery,
Garin Bader
P.S. CoreForce Energy will show you exactly how to create a blitzkrieg of lightning strikes that will engage your muscles to create super strength that moves and flows with supple energy - Elastic Strength.

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