Why I LOVE Failure!
It’s a sad state of affairs when parents, teachers and the
government work to help others avert failure.
Many loving parents weaken their children’s bodies and
ego by “helping” them walk at a young age instead of
letting them experience the failure of falling.
Many schools have come to adopt a “no child left behind”
attitude where children are never given a failing grade…
even though their performance is well below average.
The US “nanny” government has instituted, and continues
to create, so many “bail out” programs that failure in
business (especially BIG businesses) and life has become
almost impossible!
In fact I think Obama has just created a brand new “bail
out” plan for people who can’t pay the mortgage on homes
they couldn’t afford in the first place.
What all of these well meaning meddlers do not
understand is that FAILURE is the foundation for all worthy
success.
When you FAIL it actually means that you are trying… you
are making an honest effort to achieve something that is
important to you.
By averting or avoiding failure you will NEVER experience
the challenges that make you stronger, nor will you ever
truly appreciate any success that has been handed to you.
This is why I love FAILURE… and why I use the gym
as a metaphor for life.
Another man who understands, practices and teaches solid
methods for building real life strength in the strength training
environment, is professional strongman and combat trainer
Mike Gillette.
If you believe, as I do, that men do not grow mentally,
emotionally or physically unless tested to his limits… then a
program like Mike’s Savage Strength System may be
something you’d enjoy.
http://www.hulsestrength.com/recommends/savage-2
If you love life…FAIL as many times as you can!
Then teach your loved ones how to fail fast and grow stronger!
Growing Stronger (is only for the brave),
Elliott Hulse
PS – If you want to build a life and earn a living that is build
on a foundation of STRENGTH… then become certified in
my Strengthology Coaching System.
http://strengthology.net/strengthology-coach-level-1/
PPS – watch me FAIL in the video below 
Categories: Strong Body, Strong Character Tags:
Whiskey And Slip & Slide Ruined My Life!
Back in 2008 I began competing in amateur strongman shows
in Florida.
By my second show I had qualified to compete in the national
competition to pit my strength against the strongest athletes in
the country.
But just a few months before the show, I broke my ankle… so,
I didn’t make it to the competition.
It was at a friends Memorial Day barbeque, that I attended with
my wife and two daughters at the time, where I snapped my fibula
and tore a ligament in my right ankle.
After several rounds of Crown Whiskey, “Coach Elliott” had the
great idea of creating a competition for all of the drunk men at the
party to participate in.
Basically, we all lined up around the corner of the house and at the
sound of a whistle we’d sprint around the bend towards the Slip &
Slide (which was really for the children) and the winner of the race
would slide on the slippery wet mat and splash into the pool as a
victory celebration.
Well, I won the first race!
And as I was rounding the bend and heading towards the Slip & Slide
I decided it would be fun to slide feet first, instead of head first.
BAD MOVE! — Instead of bringing my feet totally around and sitting
on the slide, my right foot got trapped under my butt and I dropped
215 pounds of my own body weight right on my ankle and snapped the
bone!
(NOTE: this lesson taught me that arrogance, especially when drunk,
can be disastrous!)
Anyway, after several months the injury healed but I was left with
several “faulty recruitment patterns” due to compensatory movement
while injured.
Basically, I had gifted myself with several Muscle Viruses.
This meant that not only was my ankle still tight from the break, but
that my right hip began to have pain, which led to the left side of my
low back always cramping up!
One stupid move, and now I had 3 Muscle Viruses!
You might imagine that this caused me to drop out of strongman
competitions all together, but that didn’t happen.
In fact, I went on the compete in a Pro-Am show less than 15 months
later and won my Pro Card.
I became a Pro Strongman AFTER being attacked by these nasty
Muscle Viruses!
Tomorrow I will teach you what corrective stretches and exercises
I did to rid myself of the viruses and go on the compete as a
professional athlete.
In the meantime, the website below gives you a solution that you may
be looking for if you’ve got nagging injuries or feel “stuck” in your
strength gains.
http://hulsestrength.com/virus/solution/
Keep Growing Stronger (even when you’re injured),
Elliott “The Incredibly Arrogant” Hulse
PS – After almost 2 years of not competing in strongman, I am training
to compete in several shows this year in the 200 pound weight class.
I’ll keep you posted about the training I’m doing, any challenges and the
results of my shows
PPS – Thanks for reading my newsletter… I really appreciate it and it
means a lot to me that you care.
Categories: Strong Body Tags: muscle viruses
Muscle Virus Case Study
Yesterday I got a really great question concerning a woman who has been plagued muscle viruses in her hip.
She accurately described her muscle imbalances as “muscle viruses” since the imbalance had not only caused dysfunction in the affected area, but also in neighboring joints via the kinetic chain.
Here is a portion of our conversation from yesterday.
Like with all muscle viruses Jacqueline’s problems began with her deep abdominal wall. In the statement labeled #3 in our short conversation above, Jacqueline mentions that her doctor assessed are abs as being “too weak” to stabilize her hip.
Although Jacqueline’s questions begin with the instability of her left hip; which causes it to tilt forward; then alerts me that he left ankle was severely injured, followed by the fact that her abs are weak… the sequence of events, beginning with the root of her problems and concluded with the fruits, is actually as follows.
1. Weak Deep Abdominal Wall - Jacqueline mentions having more than one child in our conversation. This is very significant as pregnancy and childbirth put a tremendous, prolonged, stretch on the muscles that stabilize the hip. Namely the pelvic floor and deep abdominal wall muscles such as the transversus abdominus.
2. Anterior Pelvic Tilt (Left Side) - Jacqueline is now suffering from an anterior pelvic tilt. This is where the ab muscles are too weak to “tuck” the hips under or hold the pelvis in a neutral position.
Also, Jacqueline mentions that the tilt is more pronounced on the left side. My guess is that as a mother of several children she probably carried them on her left hip, while leaving the right hand free to work, for extended periods of time over several years.
**EVERYTHING that we do repetitively becomes who we are and what we look like!**
3. Sprained Ankle (Left Side) - If Jacqueline went to an surgeon or the average pphysical therapist they might have looked ONLY at her ankle and treated it as if it were a single dysfunction… but since she’s come to me for advice, she now knows that the ankle injury is just the manifestation of a Muscle Virus that has gotten out of control!
The anterior pelvic tilt is also coupled with medial rotation of the femur. As the femur rotates medially (inside), the arches of the feet have a tendency to collapse.
(I talk more about this in the following video) — This video is ALL about Muscle Viruses.
Unlike my description of the root issue being something in the face, head or breathing in the video above… we know that the root of Jacqueline’s problems is in the core.
So here is a game plan for Jacqueline:
1. Strengthen The Deep Abdominal Wall with “Tummy Vacuum” exercises (search my YouTube channel for more videos about that)
2. Learn to integrate abdominal bracing with hip flexion and extension exercises, like leg lifts.
3. Also, stretch the left hip flexor (psoas) and the QLO with side bend stretches on the left as well. (search my YouTube channel for more videos about that)
So, in order to KILL “Muscle Viruses” we must…
First, identify the root virus.
Second, strengthen the muscles which have become dormant due to misuse or lack of use.
Third, stretch the muscles which have become tight due to over use.
To Jacqueline:
Post a comment below and I’ll e mail you a copy of my new Muscle Virus Solution later this week when it comes out. The videos in this course will be VERY helpful to you.
Also, here is an invitation of a lifetime for you Jacqueline… if you make the effort to travel down to Florida will will personally show you exactly how to most effectively use these stretches and exercises to kill all of your Muscle Viruses!
Grow Stronger!
Elliott “The Incredible” Hulse
Categories: Strong Body Tags: core strength, deep ab muscles, muscle viruses
How STRENGTH Became My Business
Yesterday I broke the sad news about my being forced to close
my gym Strength Camp. (but don’t worry, good news is on the way!)
I had been training athletes, fitness clients and strength geeks in
my warehouse gym on the bad side of town for almost 5 years
with nothing but good fortune and success.
If you recall, it all started back in 2007 when I decided to quit a
corporate job and begin training athletes in the park out of my
van.
From there I decided to rent out a small garage in South St. Pete.
With no more than $1000 and a mission to help people become
stronger… I had my first gym and was officially open for business
The gym would often be packed with high school athletes, mainly
football players, who loved the fact that they were getting stronger
and bigger using my training system that combines power lifting,
strongman and bodybuilding.
With hard core rap music or heavy metal blasting, me and these
kids attacked the weights like no one in this city has ever seen!
When several parents and local high school and college football
coaches began asking me “exactly what are you doing to get these
kids so strong, so fast?” –
I decided to create a series of DVDs and training manuals for them
to use. I called it Gridiron Strongman, and it is still one of my best
selling systems!
You can see it here: http://www.FootballStrengthProgram.com/
Last month, one of my ex-college football students and now coach
at Strength Camp, and I re-filmed the entire program and are having it
professionally edited.
That edition should be ready by spring, so anyone who has the current
edition of Gridiron Strongman will get a free copy of the 2012 edition.
Plus the price may go up since we’re adding so many new components.
After putting my system for building super strong, massive and
explosive football players online for athletes, coaches and strength geeks
around the world to use…. something funny began to happen.
People started to call and e mail about how I was able to quit my job
and open such a hard core gym with almost no money and no business
experience.
Tomorrow I will tell you all about how I took my dusty, dirty little
warehouse gym and used it as a way to break dozens of other aspiring
coaches free from their day jobs so they could pursue the same dream
that I did.
Also, later this week I will tell you more about what the future of Strength
Camp will look like… it’s so exciting that I’m dying to tell you now
Grow Stronger… The Tell The World How,
Elliott “The Incredible”Hulse
PS – How STRENGTH Became My Business:
Step 1 – This e book inspired me to begin, it also gave me a blueprint to start:
http://www.hulsestrength.com/recommends/Underground_Strength
Step 2 – I made football players bigger and stronger, here is how I did it:
http://www.FootballStrengthProgram.com/
See ya tomorrow!
Categories: Announcements, Strong Body, Strong Character Tags:
STRENGTH CAMP is dead :(
A few weeks ago I told you the story about how I was
attacked by a pit bull while training at my gym.
That same night I had a dream where a tremendous whirlwind
came passing though. It was so strong that it picked up cars,
trucks & trees and threw them around in the streets.
During the whirlwind I remanded safe by huddling under a
grand piano and holding onto it’s legs for dear life!
I believe that my dream was a message to warn me of the
impending “whirlwind” of events that I was about to experience.
Also, the strength and stability of the piano that I huddled under
for security represented how the firm commitment to my “art of
strength” would prove to be my savior.
Over the next few days I will recount the whirlwind of events that
has forced my to close Strength Camp, my gym for almost 5 years,
last week.
This sounds like it may be bad news… but the truth is that it has
become the best decision I could have ever made. (I’ll tell you why
later this week.)
For those of you who have been following my story from training
people in the park out of my 1988 Ford Van – to – opening Strength
Camp gym – to – today… you may remember some of the following
things.
MEMORY LANE:
This is where the idea for Strength Camp all began:
Zach Even-Esh’s Underground Strength Manual
It’s been almost 5 years since I broke away from the corporate
world and followed my dream of “building stronger boys and men”.
My first step was to get my hands on as many free or home made
training tools and design a system for training my clients with in
this minimalist structure. Zach’s program was my blueprint.
I used this blue print to build a business of training athletes in the
city parks out of the back of my van. We all got VERY strong, built
serious muscle mass and developed a new hardcore outlook on
training, business and life. (Thank you Zach!)
Only a few short years later my minimalist training boot camps
became Strength Camp, my warehouse gym that you’ve all come to
love so much.
Tomorrow I will show you how I used this small garage in the
middle of the WORST part of my city to build a small strength
training empire.
Growing Stronger ONLY Happens Through Pain,
Elliott “The Incredible” Hulse
PS – If you are one of my fellow Strength Geeks, you have strong
love for this type of training…. it not only builds lean, functional
muscle, it also shatters the shell of inhibition and releases the real man
in you!
Categories: Fitness Business, Strong Body, Strong Character, Zach Even-Esh Tags:
Killer Death Punch To The Chest!
When I was a kid my uncle, who was a master of a Kung Fu
style named “Northern Shaolin Long Fist”, use to play old
Bruce Lee movies for my bothers and I to watch.
In one episode Bruce Lee gathers a ton of energy using this crazy
growling sound and a killer look in his eyes right before he
strikes the bad guy in the chest with a massive death blow!
His opponent lifelessly dropped to the floor… he was dead!
I asked my uncle how Bruce Lee killed this dude, who was about
3 x his size, with a single punch?
His answer was… POWER!
“Bruce Lee understood how to pack a lot of power into his little
body… that is why he can dominate such larger opponents.”
What most people don’t know is that explosive power is a skill.
Mechanically, it is the function of physical strength and speed… but
there is so much more to it than that.
In fact, there are about 4 other “strength skills” that lead to greater
explosive power… I’ll tell you more about those later.
It was clear that Bruce Lee and my ass kicking uncle both understood
these Power Principles… unfortunately most athletes and coaches today
have no clue about them.
But you’ll get all the goods from your buddy Elliott 
Grow Stronger (and more powerful),
Elliott “The Incredible” Hulse
Important Resources For Strength Geeks:
The Strength Camp Inner Circle:
http://hulsestrength.com/pub/strength-camp-workouts
Build “Hybrid Muscle” (like Bruce Lee had):
http://tinyurl.com/hybrid-muscle-3
Burn Fat With Hybrid Finishers!:
http://www.hulsestrength.com/recommends/finishers
Strength Geeks ROCK These:
http://tinyurl.com/strength-geeks-unite
Categories: Strong Body Tags: explosive power, power training, power workouts
Where Does Your Power Come From?
Hey! I just shot a new video for you about the rules for
building power, strength, muscle size and endurance.
It’s a free 8 min video I created for my YouTube viewers,
you’ll see the link below.
I also shot a far more empowering video all about how I
manage my time in order to get so many things done.
Stuff like creating new videos, writing this newsletter,
making products, studying, coming up with new ideas,
meditating, running a gym, training myself, being a
father to 4 kids AND keeping my wife well satisfied
In fact, I have a very simple yet POWERFUL method for
making all of this happen in a very easy an efficient way.
Its a 15 minute video that created as a response to one of
my Private Strength Camp Website members questions.
Strength Camp members get a brand new video lesson and
Q & A session with me every week.
These videos are very personal and candid… it’s where you
learn the deep realities and practical truths about becoming
the strongest version of yourself.
You can join our private club here:
http://hulsestrength.com/pub/strength-camp-workouts
Here is the link to the new YouTube video I promised earlier:
Happy Christmas Eve!
Grow Stronger,
Elliott “The Incredible” Hulse
Categories: Strong Body Tags:
Elliott’s Life Threatening Virus
Yesterday I quickly mentioned that I’d be meeting with a
“mad scientist of strength” that works on patients out of
his lab in Gainsville Florida…
I’ll tell you a little about that in a moment. But first I just
want to remind you that the Hybrid Finishers workouts that
I put together with coach Chandler Marchman is on sale
until midnight tonight only.
http://www.hulsestrength.com/recommends/finishers
Now, I have been using the term “muscle virus” to describe
muscular imbalances for a while now.
The reason why I say “muscle virus” as opposed to just
calling them muscle imbalances is because they are really
much, much more than mechanical dysfunctions in single
muscles or joint… they really ARE viruses!
A virus is something that can be passed from one organism
to another… or even passed around INSIDE an organism.
Well, muscular imbalances or muscle viruses act in the very
same way.
First they are never isolated. If you have an imbalance in
one muscle it is guaranteed to refer it’s dysfunction towards
other muscles in the kinetic chain.
In this way, the virus is passes around.
What is MUCH, MUCH more interesting is that these viruses
can be passed from one person to another!
They travel via words, ideas, emotions, commands and
conditioning from the external environment.
Basically they travel just like electricity from one antenna
(or brain) to another. And the energy that it contains can
change the way the receiving “machine” works.
For example… if someone grows up in an environment where
sex is something the be ashamed about, they will unconsciously
reduce life-force energy towards to genitals in order to shut
down natural yet “inappropriate” sensation.
In other words, his full sexual capacity will be diminished.
(in fact, 99.9% of us are actually in this situation!)
So as I have been working on my and my clients muscle
imbalances for several years, I have decided to learn more about
how these “mind viruses” are actually shaping or destroying
the muscle, organs and life potential in each of us.
It turns out that I’ve got some pretty deep viruses… mostly located
in my stomach and chest.
According to my teacher, there are tons of implications surrounding
my particular viruses.
But I’ll only be sharing that with my Strengthology Students and
Strength Camp Members later today.
Enough about me
If you are looking to change your body and improve your life, the
very first place to begin is with exercise (which you already know).
Hybrid Finishers are a great addition to your current exercise routine
and may also reduce your risk of contracting a muscle virus.
The thing about viruses is that they can not infect an organism with
STRONG DEFENSES!
Grow Stronger,
Elliott “The Incredible” Hulse
PS – if the things I am talking about in this e mail are interesting to
you, please let me know by posting a comment on my blog or replying
to this e mail. Thanks
Also if you think these topics may be interesting to a friend, please
forward this to them.
Categories: Announcements, Guest Authors, Strong Body Tags: chandler marchman, hybrid finishers, metabolic resistence cardio, mind virus, muscle virus
Are you premature (this is embarassing)
How many times have you puffed up your chest and walked
into the gym with your confident swagger that says, “I’m about
to CRUSH this workout!”
Only to “shoot your load” waaay too early?
First, the real problem is that you haven’t learned how to
manage your bio-energy, and this problem is probably also
showing up in other areas in your life as well… right?
Anyway, that is for another e mail.
Today I want to tell you exactly what to do when you hit the
gym too hard in the beginning and wet your pants before the
action really starts
No matter how HARD you start, you’ve got to FINISH strong!
Even if you do end up limp half-way through your workout,
you can still save it by adding a “finisher” to the end.
Finishers are high intensity interval workouts which last 5-10
minutes that you can add to the end of your session to make it a
winner!
They are great for building work capacity and burning fat…
without sacrificing muscle tissue.
Here is a short video all about how to use finishers:
http://www.hulsestrength.com/recommends/finishers
Being “premature” in the release of your energy is not a crime,
but not making up for it by finishing STRONG is!
Grow Stronger FOREVER,
Elliott “The Incredible” Hulse
PS – This may be your ticket to becoming the most conditioned
and athletic you have ever been… especially if you have been
focusing ONLY on strength and muscle for some time.
Try it out today -> http://www.hulsestrength.com/recommends/finishers
Categories: Strong Body Tags: chandler marchman, hybrid finishers, metabolic resistence cardio
