AGGRESSIVE STRENGTH MAGAZINE

ISSUE 78 - 10/03/2005

1. AGGRESSIVE STRENGTH QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"To fight a disease after it has occurred is like trying to dig a well when one is thirsty or forging a weapon once a war has begun."- The Yellow Emperor's Classic Of Internal Medicine

Many people make the mistake of taking action after a problem has occurred and even more people never take action to address the problem. A better line of thinking is to take precautionary measures to avoid having the problem in the first place. For example, instead of running out of gas in the middle of nowhere and then realizing that you need to fill up the tank, fill up the tank when your tank is half full. Never let your gas tank go below the half way point and you will never run out of gas. This seems obvious and most people avoid running out of gas. However, most people do not avoid becoming overweight or going into debt.

One of my favorite bad jokes is with regards to being over weight. When people ask me what the best way to lose fat is, I facetiously answer that never getting overweight works very well. Of course, when you have the problem hearing such advise can be very irritating as the truth often is. Regardless, the best way to avoid becoming overweight is to not wait until you are overweight to lead a healthy lifestyle. We do not have to look far so see the end result of eating garbage, watching five hours of TV per night, and avoiding exercise. Start eating nutritious meals and having a physically active lifestyle before you get overweight and guess what? You probably never will get overweight. Imagine that! To illustrate, if a healthy waist size for you is 34 inches, do not let it go to 35 inches. If it does go to 35, take action immediately instead of waiting until it goes to 50 to realize you have a problem. Keep tabs on your health and your life.

This past weekend I had a great time teaching a kettlebell seminar in Denver, CO. I had thirty people in attendance which is a very successful turn out. Over the years, I have developed an effective marketing system that ensures that just about every seminar I do is a winner. One thing that I require people to do is pre-register before attending a seminar. In other words, I do not allow people to simply show up at the seminar and pay there. Why? Because, I want to know exactly how many people are attending a seminar before I walk in the room to teach. I like to be prepared before doing a seminar so that I can ensure that each seminar is a great experience for the students and to ensure that I get paid well for each one. Also, I want to make sure that the room that I have booked is large enough and that I have enough kettlebells for everyone. The way I teach a seminar for thirty people is going to be different than for fifteen and I want to be prepared mentally for each seminar. If I just let people sign up whenever they felt like it, I would have no idea how many people are going to show up. At my first seminar in Santa Monica back in 2002 I had three people that pre-registered and ten people that said they were going to show up. Guess how many people showed up? You guessed it the three people that pre-registered showed up. After developing and applying my marketing system, my last five level 1 workshops in Santa Monica have had at least 25 people. Now imagine, If I flew to another state to do a seminar thinking that I have thirty people that are attending and only one person shows up? What if no one showed up? Well that would be a very lame situation. Fortunately, it is easy to avoid by planning ahead which is a necessity if you want to do a successful seminar.

Sure many things in life are out of our control. However, many things in life are also in our control and the earlier we act to avoid a problem the better. Regarding health, have some simple blood tests done when you are healthy and feeling good. Do not wait until you feel lousy to take action. The earlier you catch something the better. Do something about debt, when you owe $500.00 rather than $15,000. Regarding a business, the first month your income dips, find out why before you dip again for another month. Address problems when they are small as you may not be able to handle them when they get too big.

Live Life Aggressively!

Mike Mahler

Mike Mahler

2. HELP THE KATRINA VICTIMS

My friend and top body worker Dianna Linden recently sent me a list of non-profit organizations for helping out the Katrina Victims. Here is the list:

I encourage you to take a look at the above organizations and make a donation to the one that sits well with you. Also if you want to help out animals, make a donation to http://www.bestfriends.org.

3. AGGRESSIVE STRENGTH TRAINING ARTICLE

The Benefits of P.H.A Training (Peripheral Heart Training)

P.H.A is one of the best fat loss programs around. In addition to being excellent for burning fat and bringing out definition, P.H.A is very effective for building muscular endurance. While it is not the most effective strength training program around, you will at worst maintain strength on a solid P.H.A program and most likely increase strength while losing fat and building endurance. P.H.A is basically a form of circuit training in which you group several exercises together that work the entire body. Instead of pumping a lot of blood into one muscle, the goal according to John McCallum, author of "The Complete Keys To Progress", "is to increase your circulation enormously without congesting your muscles. You pump blood through your muscles rather than just into them." The keys with P.H.A training are to one focus on compound exercises and two move from one exercise to the next as quickly as possible. Feel free to take one-minute breaks in the beginning between each exercise and reduce the breaks gradually over time until you are not resting at all in between each set. Here are two sample P.H.A programs. One that you can do in the gym and one that you can do at home with kettlebells.

Gym P.H.A Program

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

P.H.A Kettlebell Program

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Here is how the program works. Go from one exercise to the next without and rest. Go through each exercise in each group five times. Then take a one-minute break and move onto group two. Go through that group five times. Then take a two-minute break and go onto group three and go through that circuit five times. As fatigue builds, take longer breaks in between each set. Do not sit down or lie down. Just jump in place to keep your heart rate up and jump back into action when you are ready. For the first few P.H.A workouts, focus on one group and go through the circuit five times. Once you adapt to that, add another group. Once you adapt to two groups, add a third group. If your diet and sleep is on track, do three P.H.A workouts per week (ej: M-W-F). If not, do two P.H.A workouts per week (ej: T-Th).

For more info on P.H.A, check out Dave Whitley's article.

Also pick up John McCallum's Keys To Progress.

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Until next time.

Live Life Aggressively!

Mike Mahler

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Mike Mahler