AGGRESSIVE STRENGTH MAGAZINE

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ISSUE 23 - 5/28/2004

1. AGGRESSIVE STRENGTH QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Is not life a hundred times to short for us to bore ourselves?"
- Frederick Nietzsche

I was reading a recent marketing newsletter by Jonathan Edwards in which he discusses that successful people are lazy. At first I wondered what the hell he was talking about. Here is what he meant. Successful people work smart and find ways to do tasks more efficiently so that they can have more free time.

One of the reasons why I always hated working for other people is due to the fact that you had to show up at set hours and stick around for eight hours whether you had actual work to do or not. At my last job, I was usually able to get whatever I needed to get done in 2-3 hours. The rest of the time was spent pretending to work until it was time to go home. I would have preferred to been able to simply go home after I got the days activities completed.

Unfortunately, many people believe that the more time you spend working the more you are getting done. This is only true if you are doing actual work. When you work for yourself you cannot lie to yourself. Either you are making money or you are not. If you are not, it does not matter how many hours you are putting in. Whatever you are doing is not working. Moreover, you cannot pretend to work anymore. I do not get paid for talking to my friends during the day or surfing the Internet. I only get paid for the services that I provide and the products that I sell. The upside is that I can pick my own hours and when I complete my daily tasks I am done for the day. Some days, I have to work eight hours or more and other days, I only need to put in two to three hours.

Life is too short to pretend to be doing things. Take a lesson from successful people and learn how to be lazy. Get more done in less time and enjoy the free time.

Live Life Aggressively!

Mike Mahler

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2. AGGRESSIVE STRENGTH TRAINING ARTICLE

Incorporate The Floor Press Into Your Routine

One way to get the benefits of the bench press without any of the negatives is to utilize the floor press. With the floor press you avoid the extreme range of motion of the bench press and the injuries that come with it. Your shoulders are not stressed as much and rotator cuff problems will most likely not occur. I enjoy doing floor presses with kettlebells or dumbbells. Here is how you get two kettlebells into place to complete the floor press. Lie on the floor between two kettlebells. Use two arms to get the kettlebell into place on your weaker side. Then use the weaker side as an anchor to pull the kettlebell on the opposite side into place. Keep your triceps close to your body when doing the floor press for more sports specific strength. Football players and boxers for example keep their arms in rather than way out like a wide grip bench press. To make the exercise even more effective apply a technique from legendary strength coach Louie Simmons. Louie has his trainees start the floor press really loose and then tighten up and explode the weight up. This technique will help you with increasing your regular bench press numbers if that is one of your goals. Try several sets of three to five two times a week.

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Until next time.

Live Life Aggressively!

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Mike Mahler

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