42 things

i assume some of you have read this already, but in case you haven't,
42 things john welbourn has learned coming into 2013:

http://talktomejohnnie.com/aggressive/42-things-i-learned-leading-up-to-2013

some of my favs:

1. Know what you are training for.
We often sat at the seminars and my gym, "What are you training?" This
translate into, you need a goal, a destination for your journey.
Without you are left to wander, and this site is not called Kung Fu
and you are not Caine. Pick a goal, chart a course, keep your head
down and don't come up for air until you meet it.

5. Don't fall prey to the Secret Squirrel Program.
This is what happens when late at night while scanning the internet
you decided to hybrid CrossFit Football's strength WOD with CFE's
running 2 days a week with CrossFit's hero WODs and Outlaw's Olympic
programming just for good measure. All the while doing 23 hours a day
of ketogenic interment fasting. If you think this secret squirrel
program will help you become the fittest man on the planet you are
delusional. All that will happen is you become a massive ball of
injury, end up doing nothing but Mobility WOD for 2 years with the
testosterone levels of a 14-year-old eunuch.

40. Move the bar as fast as possible.
When lifting weights, you should move the bar as fast as you can at
all times. Think compensatory acceleration. If you have never head the
term "compensatory acceleration", go google it now. I will wait. Slow
reps are akin to the splinters in your ass from sitting on the bench
watching the explosive guys play. The only thing moving slow did, was
make me slow. Fuck slow.