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Mongol General: Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?
Mongol: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.

Mongol General: Wrong! Conan! What is best in life?

Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women.

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As I get older and wiser (much wiser than I was when I was younger) I often go back to this scene from one of my favorite movies, Conan the Barbarian.

As I guy I have a passion to be the best, “to crush my enemies”.  Now if you are a women reading this post, I am about to do the unthinkable in the man’s world.

Let something out of the vault.

I remember at speaker at an NSCA event many years ago talking about how you have to treat AND motivate male athletes different than female athletes.

In athletics and team sports here is a truth.

When a team loses, a guy is still happy if they themselves played well.  Women are only happy if the team, as a whole, played well.

Why?

We got the testosterone.

It makes us do crazy stuff sometimes, like drive like a madman toward a goal or a task.  This can be great if your passion is helping others.

For me, this means being a good Dad, being a good friend and always try to help others reach their goals.

But sometimes it isn’t easy.  The kids drive you crazy, your friends have their ups and downs and sometimes people don’t want to be helped.  You have to be certain and relentless in the wake of all adversity.

Think about Conan pushing the Wheel of Life around for years.  Think that was easy?  I don’t know if you know this but the story of Conan was real, that sh*t actually happened.

So what is my point?  Life isn’t fair, life isn’t easy, life isn’t certain.

The ONLY thing you can be certain of is you only get to do it once.  So you dominate, go for your dreams and kick ass.

Never quit, never surrender, just kill it.

Try to let actions speak louder than words, I’ve got two videos I want to show you.

First one is Gary Sansiveri coming back for his second installment of his never give up, train your ass off video series.  In a previous post I talked about how Gary has had a ton of medical problems, yet continues to defy the doctors and everyone else because his spirit is too strong.

The second is a personal one for me.  It is tackling a big hill after a recent training day.  The hill was pretty intimidating and I knew it wouldn’t be easy.  But sometimes, you’ve got to man up and HAVE NO REGRETS!

After watching the video, I have something important for you to do.

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Where and when can I train.

Many people would say, “You’re on vacation, take a day off!”  The fact is I am always busy and when I get a chance to train, that is “my time”.  That is my serenity!  (SERENITY NOW!)

I love training and I love hanging out with my training crew.  Is that how you feel?

Do you look forward to the workout all day?  What weight am I going to hit, or I am going to hit a PR on this lift today!

Well, to make a long story short, after this trip to DC, I will NEVER LOOK AT TRAINING THE SAME WAY AGAIN!

As you remember, I did get to train at Gold’s gym while I was there.  But, I really wanted to get some training in the day we went to the zoo.

Before going any further…

PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS, I AM A TRAINED ZOOLOGIST.

That means I can train with animals.  In fact Bear Grylls calls me for advice when he has to conquer a new spot.  I actually showed him how to eat raw fish and road kill.

When I was at the zoo, I saw a few opportunities to not only workout, but get to know a few of the main attractions, up close and personal.

Here is me hitting some pull-ups in the orangutan enclosure.  After they debugged my hair, I was able to get 3 more reps.

Then, I wanted to find out if I could intimidate the so-called “King of the Jungle”.  He seemed like a wimp to me but after I got into his cage, I think I shat my pants a little.

I was so tired from the day, that I had to take a nap on bumpy.  That is the name I gave to my new best friend.  Bumpy the turtle wasn’t the best company because he didn’t say too much, but I was able to catch a few zzzz’s.

All joking aside, the whole point of this post was that, even though I traveled, sat in the same position in the car for 6 hours one way, had a splitting headache – I still got a workout in.  Because I knew, once I did, all of the junk from the day would just wash away.

That is one of the great benefits of training.

I also wanted to share a very personal video with all of you.  The day we came home, I was beat.  It was raining and it was generally just a miserable day.  But I couldn’t just come into the house and sit down.

Something made me call up one of my athletes that I train and challenge him.  I told him I wanted to feel alive today.  I told him I wanted to run hills in the rain.  Not only that, I wanted to do the Lunge of Death in this torrential downpour.

Why?

Because no one else would.

You have to be relentless and take action against all adversity if you want to change your life.

Check out this video.  If you watch really close you can see us get down on the field and get to work after the hills sprints were done.

I hope I’ve inspired you to challenge yourself everyday.  Because if you do that, you will never regret a day gone by.

This post is dedicated to my friend Jason Ferruggia who lost someone special in his life this week.  Someone who helped shape and guide him.

Have you guided and inspired someone this week?

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