Masculine Skills- Sales- Post By 8Ball

 Have you ever seen people who can light up any room?  They can convince people do things almost effortlessly, this is because they have learned sales and influence.  Sales and influence are power skills that men need to learn.  To be a good sales person you have to understand people, both men and women.   Once you have an understanding of them, you need to figure out their pain points and jump on them.

People will call this dark and manipulative its effective and that's all that matters.  Sales just like real life starts with the intro the first impression.

How to Have a Strong Intro

 Speak with energy and look to help- people get this wrong, they think it means being overly excited or trying too hard to please people.  The correct way is to introduce yourself or answer the phone with confidence.  Think Hi I'm Dave! and offer your hand for a shake.  The importance of this is that the first impression makes an impact.  

Take the intro seriously.  Most sales are lost within the first two minutes.  Think in real life when you meet people, who do you remember the most?  Do you remember the upbeat guy who's upbeat and ready to get after it?  Or is it the dull boring guy who feels sorry for himself?

After you hook the consumer with the intro, the next step is to qualify or do a needs analysis.

Depending on your background, car sales calls this a needs analysis door to door sales calls this qualifying.  The purpose of this is to find out what the consumer wants.  The key to this is to remain indifferent to the consumers reaction.  If you're doing home improvement here are some great questions to ask.

So many windows do you have?  

When's the last time you had your roof replaced?

How do you and your wife like your kitchen?  

What's the attic insulation like in your home?

This is for needs analysis qualifying questions for home improvement products.

Common objections will be I don't have time for a free estimate tomorrow.

I need to ask my wife.

I don't need any windows, roof, attic, kitchen etc.

How to rebuttal those objections

Objection- I don't have time for a free estimate tomorrow.

Rebuttal-  I understand you don't have time tomorrow, Our consultants are out here 7 days per week providing free estimates to the community, So if they arrive at 4 pm they'll finish around 5:30 and the estimate is good for a whole year so you don't need to make a decision today if you don't want to.  With that being said when is the best day to get you a free quote?

Objection- I need to ask my wife/husband.  

Rebuttal- I understand that you need to ask your wife, I agree it's better that both of you are here for the free quote.  Tomorrow will have project coordinators providing free quotes, they'll be here from 10, 2, 6 pm what time works best for both of you guys?

Objection- I don't need any windows rn

Rebuttal- Sure, I understand you don't need any windows rn.  The quote is good for a whole year, it's great to capitalize on this so that way you can compare prices and see what the market is like.  You don't have to make a decision tomorrow if you don't want to.

Remember this needs analysis is specifically for appointment setting for home improvement products.  I did this door to door for 1 year.  The job had good and bad days but it taught me how to handle face to face interactions.  Most importantly it taught me how to handle rejection and move forward.

Rejection isn't personal on to the next consumer.  If this isn't your attitude you will fucking suck at sales.

If you can't handle cursing go read a women's self improvement site where someone gives a shit about your feelings.  

If your rebuttal game is good you'll make many sales.  If you're lazy and don't like to work on yourself the rebuttals will be hard.  You get out what you put in.  If you want to make sales you will have to learn how to handle objections.  Objections happen at every point in the call.  The key is to practice them so much that it becomes second nature.

Yes bros, you have to practice rebuttals.  Practice with yourself or get a buddy your gf ai robot idgaf someone who can practice giving you objections and you practice handling them.

The next part of the sale is the sales pitch.

The pitch is almost as important as the close.

I'll use insurance sales as an example, whether that be u65 insurance sales or Medicare.  With these types of jobs yes the insurance plan is most important and copays benefits will be the deciding factor.  With that being said the way to close deals in insurance is to read each copay or coinsurance with the same confidence level whether it's a $0 premium or a $1000 gold plan premium.  If you're counting someone else's dollar and trying to sell yourself it will be noticeable. 

Here's what I mean.  The plan is for the customer/consumer not you.  When you shop with your own pockets you miss out on sales.  Another point in a good sales pitch is to go back to the needs analysis to build credibility.

Use this statement.

Earlier, you told me.  Boom, builds credibility instantly if you took good notes, this is because you read back what they told you earlier in the call.  

This is how you build anticipation before asking for the deal.

Last step close the sale.

If you've everything right up until this point, this will be cake.

When you go with the earlier you told me, etc...

Then you reiterate what you went over on the needs analysis.

Finally, close the deal with confidence.  

Based on the information we've gone over today, the plan that makes the most sense

will be xyz, with a _ premium.  starting Feb 1st 2025, lets go ahead and get you enrolled.  Pull out your medicare card, or if it's u65 say please spell your first and last name for me to get this application started.

This right here is called an assumptive close.   Or assuming the sale.  Why is this important you may be wondering?  It's important because the consumer can sense your confidence or lack their of through your language and tonality. 

If you ask for permission or are too nice you will get an objection- guaranteed.

How to handle an objection- on the close.

Common objections on the close

I need to think about it.

I'm not ready today.

I need to talk to my spouse.

I already have a plan.

Objection- I need to think about it

Rebutall- I understand you need to think about it, was there any particular question you may have that I didn't go over?  Answer question, then tie back to sale.

Yes this copay for a specialist is $45.  Do you have any other questions for me before we get this plan started today?

Go right back to the close after answering the question.  The key to this is to do it smoothly don't rush.  Answer the question, search for additional questions and go back to the sale.

Objection- I'm not ready today.  

Rebuttal- I understand you're not ready today, the plan starts on the first of Feb, so if you decide you want to cancel you can call back before the end of the month and you'll go back to the plan you were on.  With that being said lets go ahead and get you enrolled for x,y,z plan.  

Yes some will complain about using free look to sell, but it's all about how you word it.  In Medicare it is stricter than u65 insurance.  

Objection- I need to talk to my spouse

Rebuttal- I understand you need to talk to your spouse, do you think your spouse would be happy with you if you passed up on a $0 plan like this with all these great benefits?  The cards take 10-14 days to arrive in the mail.  You'll get all this info, that way you guys can see it together after enrolling.  With that being said lets go ahead and get you enrolled.

Again a lot of these principles will keep tying together.  Notice how I still use assumptive language.  Assumptive language is key.  If you lose your tonality or assumptive posture at any point you will lose the customer and have to schedule a callback.  The reason you word the rebuttals this way is because it puts the heat right back on the husband.  

Objection- I have a plan already

Rebuttal- This rebuttal will be different, only pitch a switch if the plan is genuinely better and literally say I understand you have a plan already, this plan I went over with you though, has more benefits and is going to help saving money.  With that being said lets get you enrolled for this plan starting 02/01/2025.

Post sale process

A good sales person follows up with his clients post sale.

A rookie ignores his customers.

The reason for this is because it will build trust, and it will help you get referrals.

Treating the customer well post sale is how you get a customer or client for life.  

Thanks for reading.  8ball here til next time.

Apply Pressure to Your Life- Guest Post by Bullseye

It's Bullseye here, and I know Pura Sangre through pro wrestling.  I can't give any more information right now, but I will in the future.  Expectations for article, you will learn, will probably be offended and will start to question your life choices.  You may hate me but allow the article to resonate and really think about the words you're about to read.  Save this article share with friends, comment do whatever you want.  

 Apply pressure, it's a phrase I have heard a lot growing up and still hear it.  But what does it actually mean and how can we apply it.  Applying pressure to me is giving max effort.  You want to squeeze the life out of every moment and not play small.  People that play small never win.  Literally I have a forearm tattoo that says live big.  The meaning behind it is to not keep myself small.  To let my light shine bright.

To be as powerful as I can be no matter how insecure it may make others.  Usually the term apply pressure is used by women who want men to step up and communicate with them.  I'm telling you to apply more pressure to your real life.  The more you chase women and vice versa the more women chase men the more your goals get neglected.  

For me being a pro wrestler and former fitness model, I've applied that pressure to pro wrestling and the gym.  I've never wanted anything more in my life.  The thing is to actually do it and not be a fucking chode.  Wrestling just like anything you want to improve takes time and effort.  Both take time, patience and consistency.  

Consistency will beat intensity every time.  Who ever is most consistent in the gym with their workouts and meals will look the best.  Sure you'll have haters who will cry gear every time you build new mass.  But fuck them let them hate.  Just like people reading this, if you don't like my writing style get the fuck out.  I'm here to reach real people not robots who want to be perfect. 

Think about it who would you rather be.  Would you rather be person a shows up some times trains as hard as possible but doesn't train every week.  Or would you rather be the guy that is consistent and shows up 4-5 days whether they feel like it or not.  Showing up when you don't feel like it is how you build discipline.  Disciplined people go further in life than motivated people.  Read that again.

Same goes for powerlifting.  People have asked me if I still care about powerlifting.  Yes power lifting, is still important and power lifting will always get a lot of love from me.  Oly lifting, and bodybuilding all work but they all require you to be consistent and have progressive overload.  Power lifters usually struggle with their diet.  Yes it's fun to push heavy weight.  But not at the expense of looks.  Power lifters besides Dan Green and Larry Wheels, are usually quite out of shape.

When training for a complete physique you need to train all the rep ranges.  Don't listen to these puny trainers who aren't even 200 lbs.  Your rep range should be from 3-30 reps.  Yes you read that right sets of 30.  My all time best squat of 315 was for 27 reps a few years ago.  High rep squats aren't easy and will have you gasping for air.

This past year 2024 I did great and accomplished my squat goals.  My strength went up and I lost body fat.  Before I could squat 500 lbs x 5 but I had a lot more fat on my body.  Not a lot more but more.  This year all I focused on was training as hard as possible on the 8 best barbell exercises.

1: Barbell or safety bar squats: Squats add mass to your whole body, as someone who has participated in daily squatting I can tell you that it is damn effective, these include, front squat, low bar and high bar squats.  All 3 squats work well and have used all 3 effectively.  

2: Barbell power clean:  A few years ago I'd have listed dead-lift ahead of cleans, but cleans have added mass to my upper back like no other exercise.

3: Barbell conventional dead-lift: If you don't know what a conventional dead lift is get the fuck off my blog.

4: Barbell Overhead Press: Best shoulder builder, stand up and press over your head.  Seated military is also good if you have back issues, but don't be a pussy about it.

5: Barbell Incline Press: This exercise adds mass to your chest like no other, focus on a slow controlled lifting speed and lower the barbell slightly below your chin towards your neck.  Punk ass science guys will say it's dangerous, it's only dangerous if you're going for 1 rep or 3 rep maxes stick to weight you can control.  

6: Barbell curl straight bar: Biceps are targeted well here.

7: Barbell reverse lunge/ split squat: These build the glutes and quads effectively and don't require a lot of weight.

8: Close grip flat bench press: These add thickness to the tricep like no other. 

If you focus the majority of your workouts on these 8 exercises or as many as possible and base your workouts off that.

Here's an example:

Push day: Barbell Overhead press- 4 x 6-8 reps, Incline barbell press: 4 x 10-15 reps, Close grip bench press: 4 x 15-20 reps

The reason you want to structure your workout that way is because by attack every type of rep range.  You lift heavy to activate your nervous system and then you finish the workout with bodybuilding technique and pump training.  Now don't go overboard with pump training.  Progressive overload still needs to be applied here.  As in say you're on close grip bench press, you still need to try to make gains on your 15-20 rep sets.  Make gains as in, do more than last time for the idiots that don't understand.  

For a pull day you could structure the workout this way.

Pull day: Barbell Power clean: 5 x 5 reps, barbell deadlift: 3 x 8 reps, chin ups 5 x til failure each set, barbell curl 5 x 12-15 reps

Same format start heavy and work up to lighter pump work later in the workout.

Legs are different since you need to stimulate slow twitch muscle fibers for quads, 15-20 reps or even 25-30 work effectively for quads.  Now that doesn't give you an excuse to not go heavy.  Here's what I mean.  If you're a low bar squatter, as in bar on rear delts going for strength and pushing weight, the structure needs to be like this.

Legs- Low bar squats barbell: 5 sets 15, 10, 8, 6, 4, Single leg split squat with barbell: 5 x 15-20 reps, Barbell reverse lunge- 3 x 15 reps, body weight walking lunges 5 x 20 steps per leg

If you focus on this leg workout you will become a lot more athletic.  It is hard to do because when you do single leg barbell training, your core has to be stabilized more than with two legs.  

There's a reason every college football strength and conditioning incorporates some form of single leg training or lunging.   It's effective and builds leg size and athleticism well.  

For all the guys whining and complaining about the lack of machines and cables.  If you're not 200 lbs already with muscle dripping every where, you don't need to worry about cables.  I assure you if stick to that 3 day workout program you will build size and strength.  If you're worried about calves do calf raises every workout, problem solved.  I have no patience for excuse makers and guys who are obsessed with machine exercises.  If the barbell didn't work, strength and conditioning programs wouldn't use them in every program.  The barbell is the best tool in the gym and if you don't understand that by now you're lost and need to look at the physiques of 600 and 700 lbs squatters.  

12/30 Workout

Today's workout was different I experimented with high volume dumbbell Bulgarian split squats- I used a 80 lbs dumbbell for 10 sets of 10-15 reps, I super setted with 5 sets of hanging leg raises, my forearms were giving out but I still got a minimum of 5 reps with my best set being 12 reps.  Do the exercise even if your forearms give out.  That's how you make them stronger.  Then I did band rotational twists for 3 sets.  I then went to a local park to run sprints and I did 11 sprints ranging from 35-50 yards.  

This workout was a challenge, I wanted to quit after the 5th set.  The beauty of free will though is that you have a choice.  I chose not to quit.  I pushed through it and had a great workout.  During my workout a taller guy started doing dips when he got there, he didn't know that I had been using it.  I could have been nice and said nothing.  I chose to tell him, hey man I was on here first actually but you can work in with me no problem.

After talking to the guy, I could tell he was socially awkward, he was slightly intimidated by me and didn't want to look me in the eye.  He also was with his gf a very attractive younger black woman with dreads.  They both looked over in my direction and I waved and nodded my head.

Guys if you're a weeny man who is socially awkward don't bring your gf to the gym where she can meet better men than you.  I see this stupidity every day.  I'll quit beating a dead horse though.  The problem isn't me being aggressive it's just be a man, I was inviting him to workout with me and have a conversation and he was too shy or scared too.  It's disappointing because the guy seemed cool nevertheless maybe one day he'll have the courage to tell me about himself.  

Being socially awkward is something that needs to be fixed asap.  No matter where you are in life, prison, the valley.  Gated community, or the hood or barrio.  No matter what your circumstances are you need social skills and a presence about you to survive.  

I learned this through all of my years working all different types of sales job.  Even if you're a bad ass mofo who can whoop everyone's ass and knows how to shoot a gun.  You still need to know how to talk to people.  Being able to influence people and make connections is an important skill.  

I've seen it first hand.  I have an old friend and we'll call him Conda, and Conda stands for anaconda because the guy is a snake in real life that's another story though.  Conda single handedly would create opportunities for himself with his mouthpiece.  He knew what to say and when to say it.  I've never met anyone with more influence in my life.  

The thing about influential people is they are never the bullies or the open narcissists, they are usually covert narcissists, they hide their narcissism well.  They may even buy you drinks let you spend the night.

But all of it is a facade.  It's based on a lie.  They are doing this to disarm you and gain your trust.

I'm glad this person came into my life no matter what happens.  I'll always be grateful for the opportunities he helped me get.  It's disappointing that this guy exited my life.  But manhood involves pain, both physical and emotional.  It's about bouncing back from that pain with resilience and strength.  Going after the next opportunity with full confidence and expectation to get what you want.

When you focus with this energy you can become boundless.  The thing is people misunderstand what I am saying.  Expecting to get what you want doesn't mean you can't strategize.  It takes strategy and brute strength to get what you want.  You have to be the lion and fox like Machiavelli said.  

You have to be able to put the fear of God in someone and terrify them, at the same time you also have to be able to beat them at a debate and be able to make them your friend.

This is what I mean by being a man and socializing with people.  Believe me I used to think it was stupid but after living I have learned that you need to do it from time to time.  This doesn't mean you'll become a social butterfly over night but you can build up to it.  I used to suck socially and now through trial, error and making smart adjustments I know how to connect with people.  

I've learned that the key to influencing people to your side and getting them to like you is to get them to be their true selves around you.  This doesn't mean tell your whole life story right away.  When you genuinely don't seek their approval and act like yourself your real self not the person you hide, when you say your real opinion no matter how vulgar or offensive.

P.s. for the soft ass social justice warriors out there this doesn't mean racism or prejudice.  I have truly met great and awful people of every race and same with dating I have dated great and sorry women of every race.  Everyone deserves a fair chance but if they cross you and screw up, you have to have the guts to let them know that's not okay, whether you're white, Hispanic, black, Asian, or indian IDC stop making it about race and look at real primal people.  

They are free, both men and women can be primal and being primal is who we really are.  Society has taught us to hide ourselves and play small.  You need giant energy to be great, whether it makes other people uncomfortable or not.  In Tim Grover's book Relentless there's a line that says a cleaner maintains his standards and plays to his best no matter what others are doing, the follow up line then says, get on my level or get the fuck out.  

And for women out there especially female athletes go for it.  For real, I see a lot of women not living up to their potential too.  This site is primarily for men but I have a daughter and am aware that some women will read this.  I see women every day in the gym who could easily be pro wrestlers.  Not that I'm forcing the industry on anyone but people and women whine about how bored their jobs are or life is and want excitement.  I can tell you that pro wrestling is one of the most exciting things I've ever been a part of in my life.  

Enough though, no more.

That's enough for now.

Till next time.

Bullseye.

A weekend to remember

It happened last friday.  The event replays in my head over and over.  The look of fear and terror in his wife and kids eyes were enough for me.   It was satisfying.  This is not an admission of guilt.  I did the right thing, and I have no remorse for my actions.  Seeing him cower in fear as I point it right at his face.  

People don't understand that in todays world you have to make people respect you.  Sometimes you have to do dark uncomfortable things to make them understand.  The beauty is that once you're no longer afraid to do that, the respect comes.  I go after respect not love, I date women who respect me, respect is everything and when he came at my girl that way I had to send him a message.  He had to know I wasn't going to take it lightly.  

Fear and respect last longer than love does.  Obviously, it's possible to be both feared and loved, but it is rare.   Pride is another value that is lost these days.  What I see in the us now is a bunch of lost effeminate punks that have never had real adversity.  I had a gun pointed at me for the first time at 16.  I have no patience for your soft femininity.  I stick with my masculine values and allow women to be the emotional ones the way nature intended.

Every day at the gym or almost every day, I see men in dying relationships.  I see women with a wandering eye, and pathetic men that will go back to their gf if they cheat just out of fear of losing her.  I'll tell you something right now bro, if she cheated on you it's over and you've lost.  If you go back to her after she cheated, watch your pride and self-esteem drop.

Can't be me you got me fucked up.  I'll never, I take pride in having pride, being strong, and sticking to my boundaries and principles.  Young men today are lost and don't want to do that.  They are so desperate for approval and validation that they start to become weak and feminine.

Despite what women say, they don't want a weak effeminate man.  Yet, I see it every day in gyms.  Foolish young men with broccoli haircuts, taking their girlfriend to a gym with guys, who are bigger than you, stronger than you, and can kick your ass.  

I'll use an example from the gym to illustrate my point.  A few months ago a young college couple came to the gym around the same time I was there.  I was wearing a tank top showing off my jacked tatted up physique.  The couple was a young suburban white couple.  The guy was a handsome pretty boy who resembled former Jets QB Zack Wilson.  He had short blonde hair and his gf also had blonde hair.

Here's the problem the guy had though.  He had no edge and he cared too much about the girl.  I could sense it a mile away.  She glanced at me more than once despite me paying them no attention.  The damage was done already.  This idiot, introduced his woman to a room full of better superior men.

Guys if you're not over 200 lbs and you're just dating a girl, its a huge risk taking her to the gym with you and a stupid one.  Unless your game is on point, and I doubt it is, it will backfire.  

In 2025 less men will be in shape.  More men will be effeminate and soft.

And more men will be cheated on by their wives and girlfriends.  Men have to take their balls back, and get in touch with their masculine side more.  I'm not telling you to become a deranged psychopath, but I'm telling you, you need balls more than brains and emotions.  The uncomfortable truth is that without balls or guts you'll get nowhere in any industry and in dating. 

Sack up and get on to the next challenge, next workout, next wrestling match.  For any women reading this, you may get upset and bitter, but you know damn fucking well that you don't fantasize about a soft effeminate pussy.  2024 has taught me some brutal life lessons, and I'm grateful for it, with out these experiences or adversities, you become soft and weak.

Go through the fire and gates of hell and come out the winner.  Hell on earth is not real, on to the next one.  Grab your sack and get to work.  

How to Lose Body Fat in a Faster Way

If you're anything like me, then that means you want to lose body fat now.  The issue with that is that fat loss takes time.  If you rush the process without proper planning then it's very likely that you will stumble.  This is because no matter what the fat loss process takes time.  With that being said, there are ways to lose body fat faster, and that's what this article will cover.

1:  Eat until your slightly satisfied:  what this means is that when you're eating and dieting, you never want to be too full.  Being too full almost assures that you won't lose fat.  When you want to lose body fat you need to be in a caloric deficit.  If you're never too full it will make fat loss much easier.  

2: Consume more nutrient dense whole foods:  When you eat whole foods that have great nutrients, you will stay full longer, feel better, and perform better.  This is because our bodies weren't designed to eat massive quantities of candy, cookies, cakes.  If you replace those foods with, Steak, Chicken, Beef, Fish, white rice, sweet potato, and avocado.  If you only ate those foods you'd never get fat and fat loss would be much easier.  Since you're satiated you will be less likely to overeat.  

3: Allow yourself to feel hunger consistently:  If you're not hungry, you're not losing fat, period end of story.  The key to getting lean and ripped is to become comfortable with hunger and feeling the hunger pangs, it's a sign that you're on the right track.  Learning to deal with this and embracing will help a lot.  This is because everyone is scared of failure and most people are also afraid of pain.  Hunger means you're losing fat, just keep that in mind.  

4: Intermittent Fasting: This one is controversial.  Intermittent fasting is great for burning fat, and it's average at best at building muscle.  This article is about fat loss though, so we'll leave that topic for another day.  The way you can do IF is to fast for 16 hours and eat within an 8 hour window.  An example would be.  If you start eating at 12 pm, you have to stop eating by 8 pm.  This diet/lifestyle works, you just have to follow it to the T.  You just need to stick to it an be consistent.  During the fast, you're allowed to drink water, diet coke, coffee, and anything that's zero calories.  Whoever wants to lose fat fast, I recommend them do this.

5: The Keto Diet:  This last one is the most effective for losing fat.  For those who are unaware, the keto diet is a zero carb, high protein, medium fat diet.  I follow Dave Palumbo's keto diet, and that's the one I recommend.  On the keto diet you can't consume carbs, this is what puts your body into ketosis which is what makes the body burn fat for fuel instead of sugar.  You will get a headache on the 3-4th day if you're doing the diet correctly.  

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Building your body is About You

When a lot of people first start working out, they focus on the people in the gym who have the best bodies.  While this is a great example of what to aspire to, that doesn't make it a good strategy for your own physique development.  When it comes to building your own body, the most effective strategy is to put all of your thoughts and attention on building your body, not what someone else is doing at the gym.

Building a great physique will require you to focus.  The better you can focus the better you will be at making gains and accomplishing your physique goals.  Focus also helps you with your lifting in the gym.  In general, it's better to be focused than distracted.  Pick a program and reasonable diet that you can stick to and do it for at least 3 months if you really want to see results.

90 days is enough time to make a solid transformation.  Again, this is assuming that you can stay focused and stick to a program/gameplan.  The key is to see the program and diet all the way through with minimal mistakes/cheating.  Keep your mind on what you're looking to accomplish and stay on track.  Getting distracted is what hurts people the most with their physique development.

Another common issue people have is jealousy people have over someone else having a better metabolism, and not having to eat a strict diet.  The more strict you keep your diet, the better you will look though.  Just because Jacked Daddy over there eats pop tarts doesn't mean you should.  Stay focused and stick to your diet.

The same thing goes for gym training.  If your best squat is 385 stick with 385 for your training max, don't raise it to 405 just because you see me or someone else easily squatting that weight.  Lavar Ball said it best "Stay in Your Lane" staying in your lane will make you great at building your body.  Focus on you and you only, bodybuilding, physique development, is a selfish pursuit.  If you're not focused on yourself you won't be any good at endeavors like these.

Being self-centered, or selfish, is actually a great thing in bodybuilding.  The more selfish you are the better bodybuilder you will be.
All this means is to be preoccupied with yourself and to not worry about what anyone is saying or doing.  I can write workouts for anyone, what I can't do is teach you how to only focus on you.  You have to develop that ability.

Bodybuilding is about reaching your physical genetic potential.  All the bodybuilding greats, Kevin Levrone, Yates, Shawn Ray, they never cared about what other bodybuilders were doing.  It was all about progress and being the best bodybuilder they could possibly be.  None of these guys cared about what the other guy was doing, it was all about bringing the best body to the stage.  Now, if you go to gyms everyone gets discouraged if they don't look like Arnold after 3 weeks.

Remember that when you're building your body, you are the only one that matters.  If you hire me as your trainer, it's your program that counts.  If you're serious about building your body your thoughts and attention need to be on yourself.


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Declutter Your Life

Today this post has more to do with myself, however these tips can be applied to your own life and I do find these principles to be useful for other people as well.  When you're trying to advance and make gains in your life you have to be aware of the type of people who are around you.  Now, these are people you might get along with or have nothing against.  However, you need to have the ability to detach from your emotions and coldly analyze whether this person is advancing and making progress in their life.  If they are not you need to be cold and ruthless and drop these people from your life.

You need to see it from the perspective of decluttering, or taking out the trash.  Just because you get a long with someone doesn't mean that you need to be hanging out with them.  A lot of people will tell you what you want to hear just to fit in and so you will like them.  You need to pay attention to the people who are moving forward and doing something with their lives.  These people aren't as available as the unsuccessful crowd.  You need to be aware of what's going on.

If you're trying to make positive changes and forward progress you need to be around people who are doing the same thing.  Now, you will need to be aware of the pretenders out there.  These are the people who will promise everything and never deliver.  Stay away from these people.  This is why you need to hold others accountable.  This way you will know whether or not a person is worth investing in or not.

Most people aren't quite frankly.  And while that may sound harsh, if you have this mindset it will be hard to get taken advantage of.  This is what people fail to realize.  If you're unable to see people this way, don't be surprised when you don't accomplish your goals and you get caught up in their bullshit.

If the person isn't at your level or higher, don't work out with them.  For me that means hardly anyone has the right to train or workout with me.  I'm simply at a higher level than the majority.  If you can't at least do what I can do in the gym, I have no interest in working out with you.  This means the heavy lifting and the physique.

I'm not responsible for any training partners gains, I'm only responsible for my own gains.  If someone is way behind me, I'll never train with them again.  I made this mistake recently.  Now, the other guy was cool and nice, he's just nowhere near my level.  And while that may sound arrogant and egotistical.  I do have plenty of proof and evidence to prove my point.

You need to take out the trash and de clutter your life.  A lot of you guys think it's your responsibility to pick your guys up and leave no man behind.  I'm here to tell you that's wrong.  Move yourself forward, if your buddy wants to stay behind leave him behind.  I want to say this without sounding redundant, but someone else's progress is not your responsibility.  You can hold them accountable but that is all you can do.  If they choose not to make gains or move forward that's their problem.

I know this post was about me and what's going on with my life, but if I can help 1 person with this article then I did my job.

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10 Reasons You Can't Lose Fat

As summer approaches you may be wondering why you don't have the body you want.  Or if you had a good bulk you want to lose the body fat to reveal the gains you made in the winter.  For you guys you will need to pay close attention to the content of this article.  Most people just don't have the drive or focus necessary to make long term gains, or short term gains for that matter.

A lot of people have a fat loss problem.  This article will provide the solution for you.  Too many people are given bad fat loss advice, that leaves them smaller and weaker, and then they end up gaining most of the weight back at some point.

1: You're not in a calorie deficit

The whole purpose of a diet is to lose body fat.  People don't seem to understand that you need to be slightly hungry most of the day in order to be in a deficit or lose weight.  Now throughout my fat loss journey I have consistently been hungry.  If I am not hungry, I know that I am not losing body fat.  Here's my current body Recent pics
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(ps, the only reason I post pics of myself is because I have done the work and have evidence, I am an authority on this topic and I can back up what I write)

2: You're training the wrong way

A lot of people don't understand that when you're on a diet it's very unlikely that you will add new muscle.  What this means is that you need to train in a way that will help you keep as much muscle as possible.  Meaning that all of those high volume routines will need to go.  When you're in a calorie deficit the primary goal is to maintain the muscle you have.  You won't do that by lifting light weight and high reps.  Throughout my whole diet I have been lifting heavy.  Heavy training clips
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This heavy training is what will keep the size and dense muscle.  I'm not telling you to squat 500 lbs, just push yourself to keep training heavy.

When you train heavy you're forcing your body to keep the gains you make during your bulk.  Training correctly during a diet or fat loss phase is crucial.

3: You're full of excuses

This one is tough to here for most people.  If you complain about how hard a diet is all of the time you will begin to weaken yourself and start to create excuses, which we all know does nothing.  Excuses do nothing, don't forget that.  Once you start making excuses it becomes a painfully difficult habit to break.  This is why you need to be certain that you're ready to start your diet.  Once you start your diet, see it through to the end.  Keep yourself focused on the current workout and next meal, that's all your mind needs to worry about.  Fat loss is mental and if you can't win the mental battle with yourself you will cheat and mess up your diet.

4: You're trying to lose too much too fast

This is similar to the 2nd reason.  Most people think they can start doing cardio and high reps and they're going to get shredded quick.  This is a delusional belief.  Realistically you can expect to lose 1-2 lbs of body fat per week.  Any more weight loss and you will risk tapping into that valuable muscle tissue you worked so hard to build.  Keep yourself focused on losing fat slowly in order to preserve as much muscle mass as possible.  This is what people don't like to do.  If you're trying to lose too much weight too fast, you will be disappointed, burned out, and you will throw in the towel like the quitter you are.

5: You're too stressed out

A lot of reasons why people struggle with fat loss is due to their hormone profile.  Especially the 9-5ers that are working 40 hours or more per week and dealing with traffic every day.  These people are chronically stressed.  This is not good, as cortisol the primary stress hormone, is terrible for your fat loss and muscle gains.  The more stress you have the harder it will be to lose body fat and take reveal that beautiful six pack you worked so hard to build.  Calm down. smoke a j, meditate, do what you need to do to relax.

6: You have no discipline

If I had to pick one quality that is most important for losing fat it's discipline.  Jocko Willink likes to say that discipline = freedom, which I do agree with.  You can also add, that discipline equals a great physique if you apply that discipline to your diet.  Once you've mastered yourself and staying disciplined you will be able to see the changes in your physique.  This is something that people need to develop asap.  Pay the price today pay any price tomorrow.

7: You're too worried about your feelings

Almost everyone that struggles with dieting is because they are emotional eaters.  This is a bad habit that needs to be corrected.

The only way to conquer emotional eating is to only eat when you're hungry or when there is a scheduled meal.  If you're not hungry don't eat.

8: You snack too much

Another common issue a lot of people have is when they snack.  Snacking is okay, in moderation.  Although in this situation snacking is a terrible choice.  Most people snack to avoid feeling hunger, this is a stupid idea, seeing as though you will need to feel hunger throughout the entire diet in order to lose the most body fat.  Just keep that in mind.  To lose body fat you need to be in a caloric deficit.  Snacking takes you away from a caloric deficit.  When you're eating correctly, you won't feel the need to snack.  Now, if you're one of those people who has to snack, stick with protein shakes and protein bars.  

9: You think just eating clean is enough

Again this is going to get redundant.  If you're not in a caloric deficit you will not lose body fat.  A great example of this is when people claim to be eating clean and they're still not losing fat.  If you're eating clean and can't lose fat it's because you're consuming too many calories, it's as simple as that.  

10: You're not tracking your calories

If you could only remember to do one thing, remember to track your calories.  This will help you find the exact amount of calories you're eating every day.  When you track your calories into MyFitnessPal or CalorieKing, you will actually have it written down and there will be no guesswork.   Tracking your calories can also help you stay focused and more aware of the foods you're eating.  The best reason to track your calories is so that you will know whether or not you're in a caloric deficit.  

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