I’ve found myself doing more and more Jiu Jitsu and athletic training lately. I’m loving it. Here’s the schedule I’ve been keeping:
Monday:
5:30-6:30 Renegade Athletic Training (mma)
6:30-7:30 Jiu Jitsu

Tuesday:
7:00-8:00 Weight lifting, PRESSES (chest, shoulders, and usually some biceps). Super high intensity. I’ve been doing timed training. 30 seconds bench press, 30 seconds shoulder press, 30 seconds bicep curls for a total of 1:30 of pure hell. Workout partner does the same, then it’s my turn. (do this for 3-5 rounds then go onto more fun stuff that hit the same primary muscles)

Wednesday:
5:30-6:30 Renegade Athletic Training (mma conditioning)
6:30-7:30 Jiu Jitsu

Thursday:
7:00-8:00 Weight lifting, PULLS (back, triceps). Super high intensity. I’ve been doing timed training. 30 seconds pull ups, 30 seconds bent over rows, 30 seconds skull crushers for a total of 1:30 of pure hell. Workout partner does the same, then it’s my turn again. (do this for 3-5 rounds then go onto more fun stuff that hit the same primary muscles)

Friday:
5:30-6:30 Renegade Athletic Training (mma conditioning)

Saturday:
Weight lifting, LEGS. Super high intensity.

Anyways, I LOVING this new schedule. My Jiu Jitsu skills are getting pretty solid, I’m more athletic than I’ve ever been (quick, agile, balance, everything) along with keeping a fair amount of bulk and strength.

Needless to say, I’ve been training like a madman and I’m loving everyday of it. One of the BIGGEST benefits I’ve noticed is my mental toughness is going off the charts. Mental toughness is something that very few people have. I was WEAK mentally when I first started training Jiu Jitsu and MMA. Like total pussy weak, yet I thought I was tough. This new found mental toughness has carried over into all aspects of my life and I’m reaping benefits from it. The bottom line: putting yourself through hell PaYS.

Here’s a progress pic showing off some bruises from grappling :)

Flu shot? Swine flu shot? NO THANKS. I’ll take care of the REAL issue: my immune system. The reality is the majority of people in this county are sickly from depleted immune function due to eating crap food continuously. Of course, they don’t want to face the REALITY of the situation and would much rather run to the doctor for the magic pill solution: the flu shot. I mean who wants to take control of what they’re eating? That’s way harder then standing in line for 30 minutes at Costco for the magic pill! However, as we all know by now, MAGIC DOESN’T EXIST. If you actually look at studies, the effectiveness of flu shots are widely overestimated.

If you’re serious about avoiding the flu this season, it’s time take control of what you’re putting down your pie hole. Some dopy flu bug doesn’t stand a chance against a well-groomed immune system. It’s time to turn your immune system into a fully armed soldier ready to take out the enemy. Here are 3 SIMPLE ways to make it happen.

1. stop consuming sugar and processed carbs

If you’re serious about your family’s health and your own for that matter, it’s time to take control of your sugar intake. Getting some ‘magic pill’ vaccine is NOT the answer.

Want to be certain you’ll get sick? EAT BUNCHES OF SUGAR ON A REGULAR BASIS. Feed your kids lots of sugar, processed carbs, breads, etc. that will guarantee they’ll get sick.

You see, when you drink a coke, or eat a candy bar, or eat a couple pieces of white bread, eat your pizza, or drink your cool-aide, you literally FLOOD your body with glucose. What happens? Your immune system gets knocked out for up to 5 hours. Literally shuts down and gets recruited to try to get rid of this sudden flood of glucose. It’s busy trying to get the load of glucose out of the blood stream, not patrolling for undesirables.

MOST American’s have chronically elevated glucose levels from eating crappy crap food. Think about your diet. How much of it consists of processed carbs and sugar? If you’re like I use to be, probably the MAJORITY. Then we wonder why we end up with the flu? haha. Isn’t it obvious? Our immune systems are always down. No wonder most people are overweight, obese, on their way towards diabetes, getting multiple colds every year along with the flu whenever it ‘comes around.’ They are continuously stuffing their faces with processed carbs, flooding their system with glucose.

The immune system was meant to handle bugs like the flu JUST FINE. You don’t need some stupid shot and neither does your child. You need to eat foods that allow your immune system to be on patrol. You need to feed your body the nutrients it needs to have a powerful immune system equipped with fully automatic assault rifles.

When you’re continuously ingesting processed carbs, your immune system is the equivalent of a 3 year old with a stick trying to fight off an army of terrorist.

2. get your vitamin d

The vitamin D data is very clear that a lack of vitamin D compromises innate immunity, making it easier for someone to get H1N1 swine flu, as well as traditional flu.

It makes sense when you consider that fact that 70% of children are deficient in vitamin D.

Ways to get Vitamin D:
SUNLIGHT
Pure Cod liver oil, 1 Tablespoon (Note: most refined cod liver oils today have the vitamin D removed! Check your label to be certain.)
Salmon
Mackerel
Tuna fish
Sardines

3. EAT NUTRIENT DENSE, LIVE, NATURAL FOODS

Eating alot of nutrient dense, live foods will allow their immune systems to be on full alert armed with fully automatic assault rifles. Flu bugs won’t stand a chance in that fight. They will be destroyed with ease. Eat vegetables. Eat natural foods that come from the earth, NOT a box.

I highly reccomend checking out THIS article on immunity boosting foods.

Sam

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I walked into the book store today and couldn’t help but overhear an overweight man giving advice to an overweight woman. The new magic pill was “an alkalizing green drink” that would cure all her overweight and health issues. She was diligently taking notes on what he had to say…

Recently, I noticed Oprah was giving out some more healthy living advise. Millions of people take her words as gospel doctrine. Isn’t it a bit ironic that she hasn’t been able to even stabilize her weight? Here’s a lady who has millions of dollars, any personal trainer she could ever want, an entire chef crew, an awesome home gym, catered everything, and she can’t keep her weight under control. THEN, she has the nerve to give out advise to other people? haha. The funny thing is people listen.

The other day my roommate told me that eggs are bad for you because they have fat and cholesterol in them (don’t worry I quickly enlightened him on the truth).

One of my favorite quotes is:

if you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.

Nothing could be more true when it comes to health. There is so much conflicting information out there it’s a joke. SO without further ado, here’s a NO BS, 2 filter guide, for filtering all the conflicting health advice out there.

1. who’s giving it?

Would you take advise on attracting women from this guy?

Would you take financial advise from this guy?

Would you take yoga lessons from this lady?

hmmmm….

So why on earth would you take fitness advise from someone who isn’t fit? Why would you take health advise from someone who isn’t healthy? Why would you take advice from a doctor who isn’t vibrant and healthy herself? It makes no sense.

I always find it funny that someone would give much, if any, merit to some bodybuilder workout routine who is injecting steroids, hgh, among other things. Why would you look to these guys for advise? You’re NOT PLAYING THE SAME GAME on the same field.

2. does it fit into the evolutionary picture

This is really simple folks. Evolution has been confirmed time and time again through many scientific disciplines. Adaptation is observed. Mutation is observed. The human body evolved over a LONG period of time. What did early humans eat? What did early humans do? I wrote about this extensively here.

The next time you hear someone tell you that “eggs are bad for you.” You can ask yourself “would a hunter gatherer have eaten eggs?” If the answer is yes, you know that they’re full of it.

If humans ate it 10,000 years ago, then you should too. Why? The human genome is not much different today then it was then. Our bodies thrive off the same foods. Natural meats, fruits, vegetables, seeds, and nuts. If some study comes out that determines almonds are bad for you, I’ll call BS. Why? Because the human body evolved eating nuts.

Sam

“Strategic management is about two things, gaining competitive advantage, and maximizing profitability.” Said my teacher in the capstone business school class. I raised my hand, “why?” Familiar question that I often ask. “Why can’t a corporation be satisfied with providing real value for real people without the need to maximize profitability or gain an edge? Why can’t they just self sustain?” In other words, why supersize it? The teacher had no answer. That night he posted a response on the classes interactive website. Something to the tune of “Sam’s question was perplexing, and honestly, there is no answer for why maximizing profitability and competitive advantage is the nature of corporations.” He went on to expound and summed it up with an “it is what it is” statement.

The class was somewhat of an annoyance for me. It turned me off from business. I had spent 4 years getting a degree teaching me to work for some selfish entity? When looking at whether a company should be environmentally responsible, the issue was approached from a “what will it cost to care vs. what will it cost to not care.” When looking at hiring, firing, laying off, human resources in general, it was looked from a “will it lead to maximizing profit and gaining a competitive advantage.” This was the almighty filter for strategic management: selfishness.

What mattered wasn’t helping people, what mattered was the need for MORE. MORE MORE MORE. It wasn’t until I read the book “A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle that my ill feeling toward this way of thinking made sense.

Eckhart Tolle talking about Egoic Entities

…Some egos know what they want and pursue their aim with grim and ruthless determination–Genghis Khan, Stalin, Hitler, to give just a few larger-than-life examples. The energy behind their wanting, however, creates an opposing energy of equal intensity that in the end leads to their downfall. In the meantime, they make themselves and many others unhappy, or, in the larger-than-life examples, create hell on earth.
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The physical needs for food, water, shelter, clothing, and basic comforts could be easily met for all humans on the planet, were it not for the imbalance of resources created by the insane and rapacious need for more, the greed for the ego. It finds collective expression in the economic structures of this world, such as the HUGE CORPORATIONS, which are egoic entities that compete with each other for more. Their only blind aim is profit. They pursue that aim with absolute ruthlessness. Nature, animals, people, even their own employees, are no more than digits on a balance sheet, lifeless objects to be used, then discarded.

Huge corporations are EGOIC ENTITIES. Their only blind aim is PROFIT, and competitive advantage. How can you guess this relates to our health and fitness? Well we’re bombarded with corporate food manufactures. Do these corporations care about your health? Does McDonalds care about your well being? Does Pepsi care about your vitality? Do they care about you in any way, shape or form? NOPE. They care about your money. That’s it. THAT’S IT.

How could a corporation that manufactures food maximize profit? How about this: make it taste really really really really good. Hire scientists to study the tastes buds and expose them. Infuse the food with addictive agents (corn syrup, msg). Manufacture artificial flavorings and put them in everything. Then advertise NON STOP to condition in their product, their slogan, and their brand into our minds. Hungry? Why wait! I’m Loving it. Have it your way. What are they really saying? Supersize it. Supersize our company.

Corporation’s one aim? SUPERSIZE IT. They want to be the biggest, the ‘best,’ the most profitable and they want to wipe out the competition and rule all. Why? Who knows. It’s egoic longing. It doesn’t make conscious sense.

Some of you might be thinking I’m a whining socialist. Actually the opposite is true. I recognize the reality behind corporations and realize we as consumers have a HUGE responsibility to FORCE THEM to care. Corporations have given consumers really good things. However, when the product is literally killing people and draining their entire well-being and lives, it’s TIME TO FIGHT BACK.

Every dollar we spend or don’t spend with them is voting. Personally, I’m not going to give McDonald’s my vote. Why? Well watch the video below and you’ll probably feel the same way. Then follow it up with some research on how they are literally engineering their foods to send your taste buds on a roller coaster ride and get you addicted. Then research where they get their animals from and the conditions they are raised in.

Supersize it? NO THANKS.

The energy behind their wanting, however, creates an opposing energy of equal intensity that in the end leads to their downfall.

I hope to be a force for this opposing energy. I’m tired of the relentless advertising of corporate food manufactures. I’m tired of the “I’m loving it” mass societal conditioning attempt. I’m pissed to be honest. I’m really pissed when I look around and see all the victims that these egoic entities have created.

If you haven’t seen “supersize me” I suggest you watch it (full video).

Rage Against the Machine puts it perfectly. “**** you I won’t do what you tell me.” I won’t eat your high fructose corn syrup infused crap. I won’t eat your disturbingly raised, sickly, animals. “**** you I won’t do what you tell me.”

Guerrilla health and fitness. Militant 4 life.

Sam

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-Conversion of body fat to muscle mass
-Growth of all tissues
-Energy level
-Tissue repair
-Whole body healing
-Cell replacement
-Bone strength
-Brain function
-Sexual function
-Organ health and integrity
-Enzyme production
-Integrity of hair, nails, skin and vital organs

The bottom line? When your body produces less of it (which it will unless you do proactive things to avoid this) you will wither away. When your body produces more of it, you will thrive.

So what happens when your body starts producing more of it? Here’s some results from a study where researches injected it into subjects:
-8.8% increase in muscle mass on average after six months, without exercise
-14.4% loss of fat on average after six months, without dieting
-Higher energy levels
-Enhanced sexual performance
-Regrowth of heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and other organs that shrink with age
-Greater cardiac output
-Superior immune function
-Increased exercise performance
-Better kidney function
-Lowered blood pressure
-Improved cholesterol profile, with higher HDL and lower LDL
-Stronger bones
-Faster wound healing
-Younger, tighter, thicker skin
-Hair regrowth
-Wrinkle removal
-Elimination of cellulite
-Sharper vision
-Mood elevation
-Increased memory retention
-Improved sleep

Obviously, transformetics promotes NATURAL living. Transformetics is also about merging health and fitness. Someone can be very fit and VERY unhealthy at the same time. The opposite is also true. No need for the expensive artificial stuff. Also, flip off the supplement companies and save your money when it comes to HGH promoting supplements. There are specific things you can do to naturally increase these hormones that will far surpass any ‘magic pill.’

WHAT CAN BE DONE TO STIMULATE HGH PRODUCTION?

We don’t need injections to get these benefits however. There are specific ways of training and eating that will NATURALLY, effectively, and cheaply stimulate your body to produce more of it.

Training

Exercise is well established by medical science as one the main ways to stimulate HGH release. That’s what we all have been taught. But not only do you need to exercise, but you need to do it the right way as well. Not just any form of exercise will do.
If you want to get your HGH levels pumping higher (which you do), you need to get the weights out and be going til failure. Weight training and high intensity exercise seem to be the only effective ways to get the pituitary to respond.

So more specifically, to stimulate your body to release more HGH you should be doing the following:
a. going to failure when you lift weights or do any sort of resistance training
b. exercising in ways to promote full ‘body failure.’ Here’s a quick list of ways you can do this:
HIIT (high intensity interval training)
Caveman Training
Sprints
Martial Arts (I personally do Jiu Jitsu)
Circuit Type Training
Crossfit
P90x

As a side note: sorry cardio enthusiast, steady movement doesn’t promote HGH production.

So WHY does BODY FAILURE successfully stimulate HGH production? Well if we look at it from an evolutionary perspective it has to do with: dun dun dunnnnnn SURVIVAL. In a world where danger lurked around every corner, your ability to escape danger was a strong indicator of whether you would live long enough to pass your genes down to the next generation. Avoiding a charging beast to save your life, or surging forward to catch a different beast for dinner hinged on your athletic ability. Your body just wants to LIVE! To survive. Every time an ancient human had to run really really fast, or climb really really high, or lift something really really heavy, the body did it’s job to ensure survival. To ensure survival, it releases HGH as a means to make you a little faster, a little stronger, a little more fit, and little more agile for the next time around.

When you follow the Transformetics training principles, this process will happen.

Whether you’re trying to get big or get small, whether you’re trying to just be healthy and stay young, HGH is the TICKET.

Nutrition

Turn to protein. Protein is one of the most simple alternatives to human growth hormone injections. Studies have confirmed that eating protein, especially as a calorie substitute for refined carbohydrates, elevates the level of growth hormone in the blood by more than almost any other substance. So eat high quality protein foods or use a quality protein powder.

Raising your testosterone levels can happen if you eat the right kinds of foods. Studies have shown that the proteins in eggs and whey allow the adrenal glands to keep the levels of testosterone in the body steady.

Eating fruits and vegetables can also have a positive effect on the levels of hgh in your body. Looks like transformetics nutrition principles win again!

Overall, getting your body to optimize production of HGH is the ticket toward a healthy, fit, vibrant body.

Thanks for reading.

Sam

1. IT ASSOCIATES PAIN TO TAKING RIGHT ACTION ON A CONSISTENT BASIS

RIGHT ACTION=following through, doing what you know around nutrition and training.

On a subconscious level, our minds are wired to avoid pain, and also wired to seek out ways to gain pleasure. Both physical pain and pleasure, and emotional pain and pleasure. It is the basis behind our survival. If the burner is hot and gives us physical pain, we avoid it in the future. What’s called a NEURO ASSOCIATION is made between a hot burner and pain. To your mind, hot burner = pain. This is a fantastic system! Now we don’t have to think about whether to put our hands on a hot burner! However, like a virus infested computer, sometimes it can go ‘mad’ and screw up.

You see, your subconscious mind doesn’t care about your goals. It doesn’t care that you want to become fit and physically vibrant. It doesn’t care about anything other than survival. As long as you’re surviving, all is well to your subconscious. So you can imagine what happens when you go do some sprints right? Your subconscious does its job and starts making evaluations and associations. It starts evaluating, without you knowing by the way, “does this mean pain or does this mean pleasure?” When you let your subconscious win, every human being on planet earth will associate pain to sprints. Their subconscious mind would go something like this: “sprints are painful! must we do them to survive? is there anything chasing us? NO????!!!! screw this, sprints equal pain, therefore don’t do them.” Now you have a new association that doing sprints is painful and as this association strengthens, it gets harder and harder to consciously ‘drag yourself out there’ to do them. It takes more and more willpower, and eventually you just quit. You don’t know why consciously, you just ‘don’t like them.’ Well the reality is you subconscious functioning took over and is now controlling your life in this particular area.

2. IT DOESN’T ASSOCIATE PLEASURE TO TAKING RIGHT ACTION ON A CONSISTENT BASIS

We will do much more to avoid pain then we ever will to gain pleasure. However, when your subconscious mind associates pleasure to something, you better believe you will have no trouble taking action. It won’t take will power. You’ll love it. When you love something does it take motivating yourself to do it? If you absolutely love chocolate cake, do you need to pump yourself up to eat it? ha….yeah right. This is called DESIRE. Screw temporary motivation, Transformetics is about gaining new DESIRES. What this really means is getting your subconscious mind to associate pleasure to taking right action. Remember, RIGHT ACTION=following through, doing what you know around nutrition and training.

When you take charge of your subconscious mind and get it to make new pain/pleasure associations, all of a sudden you take right actions on a consistent basis, and in a relatively short period of time, you have a new life. It no longer takes motivation, you can ‘just do it.’ This is what gets me excited. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this. I take great pride in seeing this process happen within people. People come to me and exercise and proper nutrition takes will power, and by the end, they LOVE exercise and proper nutrition. It no longer takes will power. Why? They have updated their subconscious mind to associate pleasure with right action.

3. IT HAS LIMITING BELIEF SYSTEMS AROUND TAKING RIGHT ACTION

Belief systems have much much much more to do then what religion you subscribe to. In fact, there are 2 types of beliefs: 1. global generalizations and 2. conditional generalizations

1. Global generalizations are statements like “life is fun.” Is there someone you can think of that has this global generalization stored up in their mind? Personally I know someone. He probably isn’t even aware of this global generalization, but it’s there. How about this: “exercise is hell.” If you have that global generalization stored up in your subconscious belief systems are you going to exercise on a regular basis? You know the answer is NO. Especially since your subconscious mind is wired to avoid pain. “Hell=pain, therefore don’t do it.”

2. Conditional generalizations are statements like “if I buy a new shirt, then I will be happy.” Do you know someone who is a compulsive shopper? This conditional generalization is probably stored up in their subconscious belief system. Are they aware of it? Probably not. It’s just there and they ‘just like to shop.’ There’s a rhyme and reason behind what people do. Usually in the form of belief systems. What if you have this stored up in your subconscious mind “if I exercise, then I’ll feel tired.” Are you going to exercise on a regular basis? You know the answer is no. Nothing could be further from the truth, yet “if you tell yourself a lie over and over, you’ll begin to believe it.”

So look, your subconscious mind is a belief creating machine. Literally. It is continuously storing up beliefs about life, exercise, cake, couches, people, coffee cups, you name it your subconscious mind has probably got an evaluation about it. It is programmed to EVALUATE and store those evaluations as beliefs. You’ve gotta start to understand this, and begin the process of peeling back the layers and making NEW CONSCIOUS EVALUATIONS. This is the process of forming new beliefs that will propel you to take RIGHT ACTION.

4. IT HAS A VALUE SYSTEM THAT ISN’T IN ALIGNMENT WITH TAKING RIGHT ACTION

Values are states of being that you have linked up as pleasurable. We consistently meet our own values. Let’s say you were a little kid and you drew the most amazing stick figure of all time. It wasn’t that you were more skilled, but by total luck and chance it just happened to be a bit better then the other kid’s stick figures. What happened? You got some praise for it, you got props, your subconscious brain said “wow! being creative equals acceptance, props, and praise, therefore being creative equals pleasure.” Well guess what, you now have a new value system. You VALUE being creative. When you value something, you follow through. It’s as simple as that. If someone’s number 1 value was creativity, you better believe you’d find them in a park drawing, or on a computer with photoshop.

The issue is this, your values were probably created arbitrarily through your personal surroundings and environment growing up. If your parents gave you props for being creative, you probably value creativity. If you parents gave you attention for being the ‘black sheep,’ you probably value being the black sheep. Are you aware of it? NOPE. You just react. When an opportunity arises to meet your values, you’ll take them without hesitation.

Here’s an idea: how about we consciously create OUR OWN FREAKING VALUES. Stop living the scripts of your arbitrary past. Start creating yourself however you want.

If you HIGHLY value health, fitness, and the feeling of vitality, are you going to take RIGHT ACTION on a regular basis? There’s no doubt about it.

5. IT HAS PERSONAL SUCCESS BARRIERS THAT ARE THWARTING YOUR PROGRESS

This is a concept that is so hidden from your awareness it’s scary. It took me long time of self contemplation to gain awareness of this within myself. This quote (which was falsely attributed to Nelson Mandela but actually came from Maryann Williamson who wrote this book that I happen to currently be reading) probably encompasses your subconscious success barriers better then anything I know of:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

WHY ON EARTH WOULD WE ALL BE ASKING THIS QUESTION? We ALL do. I don’t care who you are. The reality is your subconscious mind doesn’t want you to ‘rise the ranks’ of societal status. Becoming a leader takes energy, effort, and it’s dangerous. Humans are social creatures. Our survival is literally based around our ability to relate with one another. Stick a single person in the middle of the dessert and he’ll surely die. Stick a group of people in the middle of the dessert, and they’ll build Las Vegas. Humans evolved in tribes. We’re not like a snake that totally does its own thing. We depend on the tribe for survival.

All tribes have an unspoken leadership system and an unspoken status hierarchy. Wolfs have the alpha male and female. Gorillas have the silver back. They are the ‘top dogs.’ The leaders. The highest status. And there is a ranking system below them. What happens when a beta wolf thinks to himself “I’m sick of being a beta, I want to be the alpha.” He has to FIGHT and RISK his very survival. What happens if he wins the alpha and replaces him? Now he’s RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ENTIRE PACK. This takes a lot more energy then fending for himself. Being a leader, being quote unquote ‘high status’ takes ENERGY. Our subconscious mind is wired to avoid expending excess energy. Humans are NO DIFFERENT in our tribal behaviors. We evolved as tribal creatures complete with unspoken hierarchies of status and leadership much like a pack of wolves, or a group of gorillas.

So what’s the point of all this evolutionary and animal comparison talk? Whenever you’re self improving your subconscious mind is probably going to try to stop you. After all, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? We are biologically wired to have success barriers. Know this, and start to overcome them with your conscious awareness.

Hope this helps you on your journey towards health, fitness, and self-actualization.

Sam