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Top 5 Pre-Workout Supplements for Increased Energy, Strength and Stamina

I’m no fan of most supplements, I get most of my nutrients from healthy all-natural food. However, there are a few things I take that I feel work wonders for pre-workout energy, stamina and strength.

1) Black Coffee - My #1 favorite pre-workout supplement and just about the only thing that I almost always take before a workout. Black coffee is excellent for some quick energy, especially if you work out first thing in the morning. Black coffee on an empty stomach speeds up the metabolism helping to burn more bodyfat too.


2) Universal Uni-Liver Tablets - My favorite “real” supplement is Liver tabs. Liver tabs are exactly what they sound like, dried Liver in pill or tab form. Absolutely nothing (that is legal) works better than Liver tabs for strength and endurance. Liver is one of the best testosterone building meals you could ever eat, but it’s rough eating it everyday. Swallowing a few Liver tabs is way easier. I take 10-15 Liver tabs before a workout and I feel like the Incredible Hulk. I also take it throughout the day, aiming for about 50-75 tabs per day. I don’t always take it but when I do I notice huge strength differences.

If you have access to Raw Unpasteurized Milk I like to drink a tall glass of it and wash down 15 Liver Tabs. This, I feel, is the single best pre-workout supplement I have ever tried.

3) Yohimbine/Yohimbe
- Yohimbe is a natural bark extract that gives incredible energy. It is also used as an aphrodisiac which, if you read this blog, you will know that increased sex drive leads to increased testosterone. I like to have 1 or 2 cups of coffee and wash down 1 or 2 Yohimbe pills and hit the weights.

4) BCAA’s - BCAA stands for Branched Chain Amino Acids. BCAA’s are known as the building blocks of muscle. Instead of going on a scientific rant I will just say that the body needs Amino Acids for continued anabolic growth. I don’t notice a huge difference in energy, strength, or stamina while working out on BCAA’s but I do notice quicker recovery. Quicker recovery leads to a better workout next time and the time after that and continued muscle growth.

5) A big meal the night before or several hours before a workout - I don’t like eating within 3 or 4 hours of a workout. It is incredibly uncomfortable and I feel like throwing up with a belly full of food. However, when I have had a big meal the night before or a big meal several hours before my workout I always notice a big difference in energy, strength and stamina. Eating within an hour or two doesn’t do much for you, it takes much longer to digest food. However, food from the previous night should be available to use as energy Try a big meal before bed if you workout in the mornings. If you workout in the afternoons or evenings have a big meal about 4 hours before your scheduled workout. I actually prefer to train completely fasted but I can’t deny how well a big meal works for energy.

7 Things That Make You Lazy (and How to Avoid Them!)

1) Having a job - Having a job means you are complacent. You know that you will not go hungry next month if you don’t work your ass off right now. You do just enough to not get fired to “earn” that paycheck and live. There is no reason to go the extra mile and start building a business on your own. You’ll “do it later”. No need to do it now, you have a job. You’re tired from working. You just want to relax in your off time. When you don’t have a job there is no off time. You are always “hustling” to make more money, get more deals going, meet more contacts, come up with more ideas. When you have a job you’re just waiting for Friday at 5:00.

Solution: QUIT!

After you quit your job (with at least one months supply of money) it is sink or swim. Time to put your feet to the fire and see what you’re made of. It’s a virtual guarantee that you cannot be lazy if A) You don’t know how you will feed yourself next month and B) You refuse the cowardly approach of taking money from the Government which (if you have eyes) you can clearly see makes you amongst the laziest on Earth.

2) Television and/or Streaming Movies - We already know television rots your brain, fills your head full of silly fantasies with no base in reality, and molds your way of thinking into that of a mindless cow. We already know that television makes you extremely lazy. It’s easy to sit down on the couch, turn on the latest episode of who cares and “relax”. You have two choices in this regard: keep watching the TV and never get anything accomplished or turn that motherfucking soul sucker off forever! The same goes for streaming movies. If you have thousands of movies at your fingertips it’s just the same (even worse) than television. Now you have unlimited access to everything you want to watch. Get rid of that bullshit! It’s for dummies and suckers anyway.

3) Fast Food, Junk Food, Other Highly Processed Food - I’m still amazed at the sheer number of people who cannot put together the subpar “food” consumed with almost every ailment be it physical or mental. Garbage in is garbage out but no one can put 2 and 2 together. All that nasty food is loaded with added chemicals, fillers, and addictive compounds that work to make you stupid, lazy, docile, fat, weak, and sick. Next time you’re in line at KFC or McDonalds I want you to take a look around at everyone else in line. Do these people look like they’re in great health with abundant energy to take on the world? No? Do they look like they’re going to go home and eat their slop in front of the TV and go to work tomorrow to be able to buy more cow feed? Yes. If that’s the life you want then go for it. Perhaps there is a “fat acceptance community” you can join and bitch about how your genes won’t let you do anything.

Or…

You can eat nothing but real, healthy, natural whole food and see how fucking great you feel! Perhaps for the first time you will notice all this extra energy that you can put towards so many uses. Real whole foods include eggs, steaks, pork chops, fruits, vegetables, rice, potatoes, etc. It does not include wheat thins or other slop posing as health food. Eat healthy to be healthy. Healthy people have tons of energies. Fat cows have no energy.

4) Video Games/Computer Games - Games take away hours of your life and for what? I honestly don’t understand video games after you grow up. It makes no sense to me but so many young men are addicted, literally addicted, to them it is disheartening. Think about all the stuff you could do if you weren’t cooped up in the dark pretending to be a war hero or whatever stupid shit you’re playing this week. Give the games up for REAL LIFE! Get rid of them, throw them away, sell them, uninstall them, just leave them behind. There’s so much you could be doing instead!

5) Porn - Porn is probably the worst thing for a young man becomes it makes him extremely lazy. Instead of going out to find a girl to have sex with he can just sit at home in the dark and live out his fantasies on the computer. You never have to develop a personality or “game” because you can have everything you think you want night after night. Only problem is you are at home, alone, pretending. Think about how sad that actually is. Instead of going out and trying to meet girls you’re sitting at home in the dark playing with yourself. I have to tell you it’s much better having a girl to play with than it is to play by yourself.

Solutions are quitting cold turkey, installing some parental controls that don’t let you access porn. You can tell yourself you’ll cut down, or do it in moderation but moderation is bullshit. You’ll either do it a lot or not at all.

What you can do instead:

Go out and start talking to girls. If you’ve been a dork or bad with women you’re whole life you will have to learn some game. This will likely become your new addiction, but that’s ok because it is a healthy natural pursuit. Every man wants women (besides the obvious), women only want alpha males who can lead. Go make something happen with a beautiful woman.

6) Having a Lazy Wife or Girlfriend - Being in a relationship is notorious for making a man lazy. You get complacent, you order pizza every night, you rent a movie, you go shopping. Pretty soon it’s 2 years later, you’re fat, you’re working a shitty job, you look back and you’ve accomplished nothing. If you’ve got a lazy girlfriend (watches tv all the time, doesn’t get you fired up to become successful) it’s time for some dumpage. She can be lazy all she wants but don’t let her drag you down too. There are plenty of other fish in the ocean, find one that fires you up and inspires you (don’t confuse that with a nagging shrew) and watch all the shit you get accomplished with her support. If you’re married to a lazy good-for-nothing I don’t know what to tell you except you were stupid to get married in the first place. After she takes half your stuff, pay her alimony or child support out the wazoo, takes your kids maybe you will wise up and find a good woman the next time around.

7) Facebook and Other Social Media - No reason to live life when you can pretend to be whatever you want. How many times have you been to some gathering where people should be chatting with each other but instead are on their phones commenting on facebook? All the time. You could be one of those people who live their lives through a computer and a phone. Why don’t you live your life the way it should be. Commit online suicide, get rid of all the facebook nonsense and concentrate on tangible life experiences that actually make a difference. Instead of commenting on facebook about some triviality you can accomplish something. Go to the gym and pick up some weights, go for a hike, anything but living like a social media zombie. The world is waiting for you. Go get it. Leave all the lazy zombies to their smartphones and laptops.

The Importance of Never Following all the Rules

If you want to live a rewarding life beyond the ordinary, average, everyday humdrum that most people cling to you must make your own set of rules. Following the pre-determined rules will only get you one thing: nothing that you actually want.

There is one absolute rule of the universe: People who follow all the rules never get what they want. People that break all the rules get everything they want and more.

You’ve heard people cry about it a million times “but I did every thing I was supposed to! How come I things don’t go my way?! He doesn’t do anything he’s supposed to and everything goes his way!”

Many think that following the rules is the best way to gain acceptance and respect. That could not be further from the truth. The only people who gain respect and admiration are those who go their own way and forge their own path. Think about all the hero’s you’ve ever had, all the famous people you have admired and envied, how many of those men followed societies rules? Zero. No famous man took the course of action prescribed by society. None of them went to college, got a safe degree, got a safe job and then lived life as the international playboy every man dreams of being. They chose the boring path and get to live a boring life as their reward for not daring to be bold.

If you want fame and riches you have to break the rules. No one ever got rich with their human resources job.

If you want a beautiful woman or many beautiful women you have to break the rules. No one ever had the love of a beautiful women by taking her to dinner and a movie and bringing her plenty of flowers.

If you want a life of adventure you have to break the rules. Taking a cruise every five years is hardly a life of adventure.

If you want happiness you must break the rules. Who could ever be happy following anothers set of rules with all the limitations that come along with that.

Break the rules. Make your own rules. Be your own man. Forget everything you have ever read, heard or seen. Everything you have ever been told is a lie. Forget about it. It doesn’t mean anything because you don’t need any of that bullshit to forge your own path.

Next time someone tells you what the rule is in any particular situation do the opposite and watch the admiration flow your way.

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