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Friday, April 4, 2008

Adopting Bruce Lee's Louse Time Strategy

Remember I talked about Bruce Lee and the movie Enter the Dragon in past newsletters.

That part where the student disturbs Bruce Lee's tea ceremony with the government official.

Bruce Lee says: "It's Louse Time" and proceeds to teach life and martial art lessons to the student.

I mentioned before, how every friday is MY louse time with my dad.

I might make every Friday, Louse time. Where I communicate to you what I learn on a weekly basis from my Sifu.

Let me know by e-mail if that would be of any value to you.

Today was: Concentrated Action

You might be struggling and overwhelmed by the amount of things you have to do in one day.

Chances are your attention is scattered all over the place. Trying to do to many things at once.

By having concentrated action, you break down your work day into a mini work day.

That means for example: if you are to make phone calls you focus exclusively on that. No e-mail, no cell phone, no internet. Just total focus on that task at hand.

One hour of checking e-mails, one hour of training and stretching, one hour of...

You'll be surprised at what you can accomplish in one day using this principle.

This is why our strength training philosophy is so effective. There's no time to think and there's no distractions.

If you work your abs you're working your abs non-stop.

If it's your legs, it's your legs.

You're doing so with full commitment and intensity.

It's something to be felt, that's for sure.

Pick up our strength training system here and you'll understand what I mean.

Master Yourself,

Sifu Martin

P.S. Bruce Lee said something else during his "Louse Time" with that student. He said: "Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory". Be careful what you focus on.

You might be putting the most mundane tasks first when you start your day. Start your day by focusing on your most important goals, goals that will improve your life. Everything else comes second.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Begin with a major adrenaline rush

I seem to be stuck on the subject of deep breathing recently. It's just so important. It's the foundation to anything you'll ever do in the martial arts or fitness training in general.

I've covered many different ways to use breathing to your advantage in past e-mails.

This one way is especially important. It's Isometric Breathing.

Breathing this way will forge your character, build true strength, emotional intensity, and mental toughness.

I've done lots of it since the age of 6 and I like to believe it had everything to do with my physical development.

A quick example would be to stand feet shoulder width apart, and clench your fists.

Inhale through the nose twice (short and sharp), then proceed to exhale through the mouth, with your tongue behind your teeth, making a hissing sound as you punch out slowly while resisting your own movement.

Imagine someone trying to stop you from punching or kinda like punching against a spring.
Time the full extension of your punch with the end of your exhale and aim the height and center of your nose.

Inhale twice again, relax, start punching with the other hand. Do this 20 times to start. Remember apply maximum resistance, everything depends on how emotionally involved you get.

Also when exhaling, contract every muscle in your body especially your abdomen.
I'm telling you, you're gonna feel major alertness, intensity, and an adrenaline rush after doing this.

This is one more strategy you can use when you feel a bit sluggish and lazy before starting your strength training. It will definitely set the mood for a great workout. Want to know which workout you can do to yield the best results?

Get them here.

Master Yourself,

Sifu Martin

P.S If you never do what I ask you to do then reading this is worthless. Once you incorporate this simple isometric exercise before your training routine you'll be all set and ready to roll.

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Sunday, January 6, 2008

Body says: you're fired!

Are you overwhelmed by today's hectic living?

Would your body fire you if it could, based on the times you missed work - outs.

When it comes to physical fitness you might think it would be easier to live in a monastery like monks and train all day every day to get results. Very few of us would have that privilege.

We all seem to have less and less time to enjoy the things that make us happy.

We need results fast and that's where we come in.

Station Training was created to keep you in peak physical and emotional shape in the least time possible.

If in one hand, I guaranteed you results with a 2 hour workout, a trip to the gym and a personal trainer while in the other offered you our Strength Training Program with the same results at a fraction of the time with no commute, while in the comfort of your own home or office.

What would you choose?

The answer is obvious.

It doesn't take complex workouts or routines to get results. Shuffle your cards, pick 15 of them, lay them down, put the music on (or download to your i-pod) and go!

You have the luxury of choosing within 50 different exercises in your stack.

As you progress your workout will get easier and so will your desire to do more.

Next, you'll need to set a number of reps for each exercise.

Still too easy?

Work your way up to 2 minute stations instead.

Still not enough, take your intermediate stack (85 exercises) and choose from those.

I can go on like this all day. The versatility of the kits are incredible. But the best part has to be it's SIMPLICITY.

We all have too many things to juggle: Kids, businesses, employees, relationships, AND our physical fitness? Might as well make fitness the easy, fun part.

15 stations equals 15 minutes. You can take only 5 stations and make those the hardest ones you've ever done and still have a sense of accomplishment at the end and it only took you 5 minutes.

The secret is in the Intensity.

The emotion you bring to your workout. Don't leave your problems at the door bring them with you and burn them right out of your mind and body. Use them as fuel to take your physical fitness levels to all time highs.

Your body will feel refreshed and pleasantly satisfied.

Avoid getting a Pink Slip, get your strength training kit now.

Master Yourself,

Sifu Martin

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