While at Jason Ferruggia's bachelor party last week we spoke about his training on Muscle Beach, using bodyweight exercises only.
Jason mentioned some dude who he sees training on the beach all the time, 2 hours every time, lean and mean, jacked and ripped....
We spoke about how no one ever told him he was over training and he likely never got sucked into the world of experts who have only confused the population even further....
Today, people are weaker more so than ever before... physically, mentally..... all around WEAK. Ironically, Today, we have MORE information available to us on health, fitness, strength, etc. than EVER before.
So Why, with all this info, are we weaker today than yesterday!?!?
Let me explain.....
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Strength or Weakness.
The choice is yours.
I'm stronger than yesterday, are you?
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BIG thanks for spreading The Underground Strength Nation word.
Peace!
--Z--
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Great video Zach. “Rest for a warrior is to go to work!” – Warrior
SOO True, my brutha!
Great video! I completely agree that as a whole society is just getting weaker. Not only weaker just less fit overall. When you’re in your vehicle at an intersection, and people are running across the street, next time notice how “uncomfortable” most people are with a light jog. It’s incredible! I’m not talking about elderly people or people with disabilities. I’m talking seemingly healthy people in their 30s and 40s (which is young) who just run like they haven’t moved in years!
That is scary, it’s NOT even funny anymore…. we gotta help these people BUT they have to want to help themselves, FIRST!
It is sad but true. Most people aren’t willing to do the work..not even their own job. Thanks for the inspiration Z! Going to crush it today! No excuses
-Gags
Gags. push it my brutha, be a BadAss, keep getting better every day, my brutha!
Im with you Big Z!
Thank You, Sir!!!
Inspiration, motivation – thx Zach! You just make it click.
The main essence is just so simple (not easy) – get down & make it happen.
There are just two restrictions:
A) always train with form. If you stop losing it – stop!
B) always leave something in the tank. Don’t go for failure. Always leave another run, another sparring match or fight, another small circuit in the tank.
Just imagine getting in a fight after a session – you got enough energy to run away or to settle things or are you to spent?
Now this involves a little knowing yourself, feeling out the needs of your body. Something that most people in our society don’t have anymore. Actually same thing goes down with nutrition – the body just knows what it needs, you just’ve to learn again to listen to it.
Yesterdays workout:
Went for a cozy run, than hit my new homemade sandbag for a small circuit of squats, snatches, presses, etc. In the afternoon went to a friends house to help him dig a 1qm hole in his yard. Killer!
Fighting with the shovel in my hand for hours made me realize how weak we all are.
After that cold water tasted so sweet & life was good.
Sven, Italy
Sven, I love your approach to real life, so true.
Leave a little in the tank and technique is # 1
Much respect to YOU, my brutha!
Dude,
I worked flooring for nearly ten years during high school (except for wrestling season), and when I was home on break during college. We NEVER asked customers to help us when we delivered tile, hard wood, whatever. It didn’t matter if it was three floors up a narrow apartment building, it was our job. I remember delivering 60 boxes of hardwood by myself. Loaded it up, delivered it, and walked it up into the customers home. This is sad, man.
I have thought long and hard about overtraining. If you train your body consistently with a high level of stimulus it will adapt. It is when you loose consistency that you fall subject to the stresses of overtraining.
Make it your life, and you will be able to train everyday with a high level of intensity.
The biggest problem is life style. People consume things that disrupt the nervous system and stress it more than lifting. Artificial sweeteners and flavorings. I see people so focused on the training being the problem, but forget to evaluate how they live. Alcohol, wheat, artificial sweeteners/flavorings and a score of other things are the real problem.
If you want to consume all those things then don’t complain when you don’t get the results you expect. Train the machine! Feed the machine! Be a machine!
Zach first off you INSPIRE me EVERYDAY, so thank you for that.
Secondly, That tile story pisses me off. Im a UPS driver and theres no way i could get away with NOT being able to deliver something because i couldnt get help with it. Thats such BS.
So now that im fired up its time to crank a workout in the Garage!! (with my new rogue gear) 🙂 which is awesome by the way.
PS: I’ve got a crossfit cert in morristown NJ this weekend and i cant fuckin wait.
Thanks again Brutha! PEACE
Why take a job you can’t do? Sad, surprised they didn’t use a fork lift… Zach you always inspre me to do more. Today I grabbed to odd shaped heavy rocks and headed to a local park. Threw them forward and backward, did pullups in atree then finished with some running. I was goin to only do two laps but pushed myself for 5… Berst of all, today I became an USC member. You earned my money along time ago. Thanks for everything…
Great video! As a teacher at an elementary school it’s amazing to see how many excuses people make for their kids even. They aren’t learning any responsibility for later in life!
Shocking, and even more so coming from the NJ (un-)employment situation.
All you should have heard along those lines was that they would give you a specific discount if you wanted to help. If not, they should have kept smiling and kept that money.
I live among the eight of ten, twelve of fifteen richest counties in the US. I’ve never heard of such a satiated, docile attitude even in this market, as far as “movers” and deliverers of anything. I heard from a guy coming here from south Jersey that unemployment there might run as high as 30-40%, admittedly 20%. The only way I can imagine that lack of hunger is like you to guess that some part of the population is enervated and flaccid that way. We see people too big to fail, too fat to fight back against their estrogenized, enervated slug bodies. All I can say is, invest whatever smidgeon of will or energy they have today, and keep rolling that way, and build up motivation. Instead of looking at the bathroom scale every day, look at the fight or motivation like a little ball and keep that rolling, I guess. Look in, not out. That’s “no rules…attack”, let me see what you(they) got, lol.
This is motivating stuff Zach. I subscribe and read every email you send out and every video. Great for all types of business!
If that was a freight truck, their office person always gets stuck on the wrong words to communicate about residential deliveries.
A freight driver can unload pallets with boxes of tile on them, by himself, as long as he can park on level ground. If the floor inside his truck is level, he can move pallets by himself using a manual fork. He drags a pallet to the hydraulic lift gate, lowers the fork and pallet to the ground. rolls the pallet off on the ground, pulls the fork out. You couldn’t help.
Office people seem to get stuck on talking about a loading dock, help, take boxes off the pallet. Crap and bs. “Level ground”, either your driveway or street, that’s all the driver needs to unload pallets by himself.
Obesity and diabetes stats bear you out, and related facts of estrogenized doughboys over 35, cancer, all the same problem, same solution. There are hundreds of people over 400 pounds in my county, a whole new business, with some over 500 and 600 lb. 250-300 lb is a good zone to wake up and then not re-invent the wheel but seek someone knowledgeable and perhaps for accountability and motivation. There’s money for special stretchers, and stair climbers, duh, but fewer people can move pianos UP those stairs these days.