Motivational YouTube Rants

I’ve been banging out these short “in your face” motivational rants on my YouTube Channel (by the way, I invite you to subscribe to my YouTube if you’d like to stay up to date with all of the new strength training, personal development and motivation videos I’ll be making over the next few months — CLICK HERE to join) and just wanted to make sure that you got a chance to see them, so I’m posting a few here.

WARNING! — some of my language in these videos is harsh, so if you have children in the room or are easily offended you might want to skip these.  Also, I share some “not so PC” ideas and experiences with you… I don’t expect everyone to agree with me and my position on some things, but I do expect everyone to be respectful when commenting.  Thanks and enjoy

Power vs. Force (how to attract others)

***HULSE STRENGTH & WISDOM TRIBE MEMBERS ONLY*** One of my athletes asked me, “Elliott, how do I shine?”  In this video I describe how to walk with power in order to attract others, instead of forcing yourself on them!  This is a secret that all fascinating and attractive people understand, and they habitually practice the techniques in this video.

Inspire Others To Be Stronger!

***HULSE STRENGTH & WISDOM TRIBE MEMBERS ONLY*** To become the strongest version of you, is good. The inspire OTHERS to become the strongest version of themselves… is GREAT. Watch this video and enjoy the transcribed interview with Dirk Gorman below… Be sure to check out Dirks awesome videos and inspirational messages at http://www.becomecapabletoday.com/

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD this amazing interview with motivational madman Dirk Gorman!

You can get Dirk’s book here => http://www.becomecapabletoday.com/

What Charity Will The Manifesto Proceeds Go To?

First, Colleen and I are expecting our 4th child sometime this week.  I’ll keep you posted about our “home birth” and if Colleen is cool with it, I may interview her and share her story about giving birth to our children from the comfort of our own home.

Next, yesterday I shared the first part of The Manifesto Of Strength with you.  You can still download it by clicking here. This is document contains the first 55 of over 250 pages and includes my personal “re-birth” stories as well as in invitation for you to share yours with us by submitting it for inclusion in the next edition of The Manifesto.

Finally, I have a big favor to ask… I’ve decided to donate 100% of the proceeds from the release of The Manifesto to a charity. I need YOU to tell me what charity you would like to see benefit from our contribution.

This and a bunch more are covered in the following video:

Please leave your suggestions for charity organizations to donate the proceeds from sales of The Manifesto below, thanks:

Real Inspiration

There is no doubt that man is multidimensional.  We are made up of, and are in constant interaction with, many seen (skin, bone, hair, nails, flesh and teeth) and unseen parts (thoughts, spirit and breath).

I found this video online this morning and thought that you would really enjoy it.  The author of the video is a Christan pastor, so if you are offended by his language, references to the Bible or use of the word ‘God’… then I invite you to listen anyway, even if you have to ignore his spiritual references.

You need to see how he shows “the breath” or “inspiration” as more than a simple human function, but as a means for connecting with our inner essence, our creator and all that is calm and peaceful in nature. This places us in a very healthy and resourceful state of mind and physical health (remember what I taught you about Balancing The Autonomic Nervous System? — well, this is intrinsically linked to that ideal and conversations)

Watch and see how…

Does the perspective that author introduces provide you with a new idea about how vitally important our breath is to our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health?

How do you exercise and honor the “unseen” part of your reality?  or How do you honor “The Breath” via physical exercise, meditation, prayer, Yoga, Chi Gung, etc?

If this is a new concept to you… what are your thoughts?

**ALSO, I am thinking about sharing a method of Anabolic Energizing (breathing) exercises that I learned several years ago that I have begun to use again recently, with you.

It may be some videos or a live webinar… if this sounds like something that you may be interested in, please let me know in the comments section below (just say that it sounds like a cool idea… or not)

I’m very interested in your comments

ANS Balance For Increased Anabolic Energy

**TRIBE MEMBERS ONLY** In this video Elliott talks about a big mistake he had been making with his training and how you can avoid the same fate by working on “internal” strength first. Here he discusses the Autonomic Nervous System and how to train and live in order to keep it balanced and you in a more anabolic disposition for increased sex drive, muscle mass and leanness.

Increase your testosterone bio-availability–naturally

Below is a guest post from my good friend Mike Westerdal. Mike is the owner of one of the world’s largest fitness sites as well as the author of the Critical Bench training system for increasing bench pressing strength and muscle mass. CLICK HERE to learn more about getting a BIG bench and massive muscles with Mike. Enjoy! – Elliott

Increase your testosterone bio-availability–naturally

Testosterone drives muscle growth. It’s no secret that a lot of guys take what they think is a “short-cut” to boosting their testosterone levels by injecting themselves with dangerous–and illegal–steroids. Years ago, I started hearing about natural ways to boost testosterone levels so I embarked on a quest to find out everything I could. The problem, is that there is a lot of misinformation and outright lies out there on the Internet. How’s a guy supposed to separate fact from fiction? How do you know that you’re not wasting time and money on yet another scam? In the beginning I struggled with these questions too until one day I began uncovering information that led me to truth. And today, I’m here to tell you that there is a better way and you can boost your testosterone levels naturally. Let’s find out more.

Testosterone is the principal male sex hormone and an anabolic steroid. It has both anabolic and androgenic properties. In men, it is primarily secreted by the testes, but also in small amounts by the adrenal glands. Testosterone is responsible for the development of lean muscle tissue, maintaining libido, energy, bone formation, and immune function. Basically, testosterone is what makes a man a man. A typical man produces five to 10 milligrams of testosterone a day–about ten times more than women. Normal testosterone concentration in men is between 300 and 1000 nanograms per deciliter. Once a guy hits about 40, his testosterone levels start to drop by about one percent per year.

Interestingly, not all of the testosterone floating around in your body are available to do what most guys want it to do–build bigger, leaner and stronger muscles. There are a number of proteins that can get in the way by binding with the testosterone before it has a chance to work its magic on our muscles. The testosterone that hasn’t bound with a protein is available to reach the muscle cell receptors. Therefore, bioavailability refers to the levels of unbound testosterone available in the bloodstream. There are several different proteins that testosterone is fond of binding with, and unfortunately, once it binds with one of these proteins, it’s game over. The testosterone is no longer available for our muscles. Of the binding proteins, the one we’re most concerned with is Sex Hormone Binding Globulin or SHBG.

We focus on SHBG for a couple of reasons. First, the levels of SHBG in our body rise and fall in our bodies, depending on certain conditions which we’ll discuss in just a minute. Second, of the various binding proteins to be found in the bloodstream, SHBG has about the highest affinity for binding with testosterone–significantly more than the others. Think of SHBG as a hooker who has her eye on a drunk guy with a fat wallet stumbling out of a bar (the testosterone). Once SHBG spots testosterone it’s going to do its very best to hook up with the testosterone.

Therefore, the higher the levels of SHBG in your bloodstream, the less testosterone you’re going to have available to reach the muscle cell receptors. Knowing this, it makes sense that by lowering the level SHBG in your body, you can increase the bioavailability of testosterone in your bloodstream. What you actually want to achieve is “normal’ levels of SHBG. Like all of our body’s systems, we want to strive for balance. When anything is either too low or too high, it’s going to lead to problems.

There are a number of things that we can manipulate or control that raise or lower the levels of SHBG in the bloodstream. Chief among these are drug or alcohol abuse, anorexia, excessive stress, obesity and anything else that causes your testosterone levels to drop. First off, lower testosterone levels means lower bioavailability of testosterone--regardless of your SHBG level, when these levels drop, there is less testosterone available to reach the muscle cell receptors. The second part of this is that these things impact the aromatase factor in the body. The aromatase process not only increases estrogen levels, which signals the brain to decrease testosterone levels, but it also increase SHBG levels in the body. Essentially, what you get is a “one-two” punch that starts a vicious cycle of decreasing bioavailable testosterone, coupled with increasing estrogen levels–ouch!

Now let’s see what a guy has to do to increase the bioavailability of testosterone in his body. First, maintain a healthy weight. Get rid of excess body fat, especially the fat around the middle. This type of fat has particularly high levels of the enzyme aromatase, which leads to higher estrogen and SHBG levels. Second, don’t abuse drugs or alcohol. Third, learn to manage your stress levels.

Fourth, get plenty of exercise and make sure you include strength training work. Strength training in particular helps to naturally elevate your testosterone levels. Fifth, get plenty of rest and don’t overtrain. Most of the great things our bodies do happen while we’re at rest or sleeping. Guys who overtrain or don’t get enough sleep have significantly lower levels of testosterone than guys who recognize the value of rest and give it the attention it deserves. And lastly, eat a healthy diet that includes the proper balance of lean proteins, healthy fats and complex carbohydrates. Ignore the fad diets and any diet that goes to any sort of extreme.

There are also some things you can to help block the testosterone-binding effects of SHBG. There is some evidence to suggest that supplements such as Nettle, Pygeum and Avena Sativa can be effective. Supplements that may help inhibit aromatase in the body include Zinc and Chrysin.

About Mike Westerdal

Mike Westerdal is a personal trainer and amatuer powerlifter residing in sunny Clearwater, FL. Mike is a contributer to REPS! Magazine and Powerlifting USA. Hi is also the founder of CriticalBench.com and author of the Critical Bench 2.0 program one of the Internet’s fist muscle building sites.

Anabolic Energizing

Johnny slams his sister in the back of her head with a balled up pillow, sunk down to the far end of his pillow case, and knocks her off of her bed — flat on her face!  When Johnny’s dad scolds him and asked, “Johnny, you know better… why the heck did you do that?”.

Johnny admits that he knows better, but has absolutly no good reason why he would “go off on the deep end” like that, he just “forgot”.

I think what really happened was that Johnny allowed his most primal (and unevolved self) to get a moment in the sun.  This “primal urge”, to do what we know we shouldn’t do, comes to all of us at some time or another.  We “know better”, but yet we get carried away in the moment and allow instinct to rule our better judgment.

One area where I’ve made this, “Elliott, you know better!” mistake has been with the way I train and how I failed to follow up my excruciating, catabolic tirades with Anabolic Energizing exercises and  lifestyle habits.

This imbalance digs deep into our physiology and disrupts the natural balance of the nervous and endocrine system.  Leaving us over stimulated and under nourished.

Here is how it works…

So, there is a branch of your central nervous system called your Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). Your ANS is responsible for all of the nervous functions that you don’t have to think about.  This includes hart rate, digestion, the release of hormones, breathing and sweating… among many other things.

Within your ANS you have two opposing branches… your Sympathetic (SNS) and Parasympathetic (PSN) Nervous Branches. Each branch acts as two ends of a see-saw.  As one side is stimulated the other side is suppressed.

Both sides have their benefits…

The SNS stimulates the Catabolic Hormones Adrenaline and Cortisol. Both of these hormones are essential for getting you up and going in the morning, getting you fired up to train heavy and giving you energy in a stressful situation (think about being chased by an angry baboon!)

The PNS stimulates the release of Anabolic and Sex Hormones such as testosterone and growth hormone… your body’s own natural source of natural anabolic steroids!

The problem is that most people have a severe imbalance between theses two branches.  It is this imbalance that makes us ill, tired, fat and old!

So if you haven’t figured it out yet… many of us are Sympathetically Overloaded – this means that our SNS is over stimulated and in turn we are in a constant state of fight or flight.  When in this type of predicament, you can rest assured that all of the anabolic hormones that are associated with the PNS are suppressed…

This leads to:

Decreased Strength & Vitality
Poor Concentration
Chronic Fatigue
Foggy Headedness
Decreased Sex Drive
Night Sweats
Orgasm / Genital Inhibition
Waking Un-Rest
Anxiety
Jittery
Fungal Infection
Constipation
Digestive Disorders
Rashes & Skin Problems
Decreased Immunity
Increased Risk For Injury
Poor Sleeping Patterns – Wake Up With Cold Sweats
An Overall Loss In You Capacity To Realize Your True Potential & Become The Strongest Version Of You!

Does any of this sound familiar to you? If you are experiencing 2 or more of the symptoms described above… you suffer from an imbalance and need to read the following VERY carefully!

You can take all of the supplements, eat healthy organic diet, exercise regularly and still be getting nowhere.  This is due to a fundamental issue that has not been addressed… balancing your nervous system. If your nervous system is dysfunctional – so is everything else!

So, How Did I Get Like This?

The simple answer is poor lifestyle and nutrition choices… you eat shitty food, don’t drink enough water, your wife pisses you off, your boss is a jerk, you don’t get to sleep on time and don’t get enough sleep, you abuse alcohol and caffeine , OVER TRAINING shall I continue?

Excessive Stress Hormones Are Secreted Because Of:

Financial Stress
Poor Food Quality
Overeating
Eating Wrong For Your Metabolic Type
Relationship Problems
Sex Problems
A Toxic Environment
Dirty Air
Chlorinated Water
Poor Sleeping Patterns
Negative Thoughts, Words and Deeds
Improper Exercise Application, or OVER Exercising (like me)

“So, What Can I Do About It?”

What Is Stressing Your Out? – If you figure this out you half way there.  Most of your primary stresses will probably come from Security (survival, financial) Sustenance, or Sex issues.

Do Something About It – I can hear you “Elliott, don’t you think I would have already done something about this crazy wife and credit card bills?”  — NO, you haven’t done anything because you have not set it as a goal and you have not made a plan for its accomplishment…. Otherwise it would no longer be a stressor.

Remember, “Same Old = Same Old” – it is not until YOU decide to take decisive action to rid yourself of the primary stressors in your life that they will go away.  It is no one else’s responsibility!

And you MUST do this!  I really don’t want to hear any of the tired old excuses that people use in order to continue living their sick, sad, dysfunctional lives.  Drastic results call for drastic measures… just do it!

Eat Right – Make sure that you are adequately prepared to deal with stress by filling your body with nutritious foods.  Drink plenty of water. Eat more fats and proteins during stressful times.  Take a Cod Liver Oil Supplement.  Avoid toxic foods and processed foods.  Eat right for your metabolic type.  .

It is when you are most stressed out that you need the most nutritious foods… it is also the time when junk food seems most appealing, be mindful!

Exercise, Properly! – Over exercising, particularly aerobic exercises can cause more damage than good.  In fact, “over-aerobicizing “ can lead to an increase in catabolic hormones (remember the SNS) such as Cortisol and Glucocordicoids.

Make sure that you include sufficient anaerobic exercises into your program.  This would include weight training (less than 60 minutes at a time) and “Anabolic Energizer” exercise that I’ll teach you later.  In fact, if you are feeling really stressed out – these Anabolic Energizer exercises will reduce your stress levels and rebalance your nervous system getting you to release more Testosterone, etc.!

Sleep - Get to bed as many hours before midnight  that you can.  I once learned that every hour of sleep had before 12am is worth 3 hours of post midnight sleep!

Think Right – The power of your thoughts shape your life.  You literally are what you think.  Regular mind exercises like meditation help you to “see through the clouds” of your life.  Also there are many mind power techniques that you can use to keep your mind focused on the things that you want, and off of the things that you don’t want.

Using daily affirmations is a powerful tool… its like purposely planting flowers in the garden of your mind.  And remember, if you don’t plant flowers your garden will fill up with weeds by default!

To ignore lifestyle and balance in order to excel in Superficial Strength & Muscle Building often leads to a diminishing return on our investment.  Leaving us sick, sad, tired, and unfulfilled.  Leading a balanced life is much more then allocating a certain amount of time to scratch all of the important things off of your to-do list… it also means letting go of our external lives (including the building of outer-strength) for a few moments to allow our internal strength (nervous and hormonal systems) to catch up and support our efforts instead of working against us.

Train hard, but remember.

QUESTION! – Some of your responses to my post last week about my Sick, Sad Addiction were incredible and I was SUPER impressed.  One of the things I noticed is that many of you partake of ancient forms of exercise that are meant to revitalize and energize the nerves and hormones.  They included Yoga, Tai Chi, Chi Gung and Meditation.

Please, I would like to learn more about how you are using these types of exercise modalities to Build “Stronger Hearts” (a term used to described “internal strength” as one of the 6 Principles)? — Thanks!

Elliott’s Sick, Sad Addiction

Is there a method of training that ADDS energy and life force as opposed to detracting in the fashion that I’ve experienced?

Are there exercises that induces an ANABOLIC response while you are performing it?

Is anyone familiar with the “Autonomic Nervous System” and balancing it’s Sympathetic and Para-Sympathetic responses with exercise?

Any feedback you have is greatly appreciated?

How To Become The Strongest Version of YOU!

Elliott describes his evolving position on personal development, health and fitness. The 6 principles provide a holistic perspective for becoming “The Strongest Version of Yourself”.

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