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I’ve been going to the gym for about 2 and a half years now and didn’t really start taking it seriously until 7th of February 2007. Since then my motivation in everything I do has increased greatly. So have my happiness, health, strength and muscles. I feel like I’m constantly progressing in life. In reality I have no good reason to become strong and muscular but I do this mostly for my mind rather than for my body.

My overall strength has increased ~15% since that day (in 2 months) which is clearly the best progress I’ve had since being a total beginner. I’ve been able to increase weights every week while I’d normally be stuck for some weeks.

Now let me tell you what I define as hardcore training: To make the training your lifestyle. You’d go to the gym at least 3 times per week and eat bodybuilding style at least five times a day. It will basically be on your mind 24/7 and to me it feels like the most important thing to me while my logic clearly states that it isn’t but that’s ok. To my conscious mind work is much more important but now work feels less like work, while training and eating feels a bit like work. Currently I’m perhaps a bit too hardcore and I’m calculating my energy intake every meal and separating fat from carbohydrates because that makes fat cell generation harder.

I’ll talk more about bodybuilding food later but I’m sure you can find out more about it elsewhere for now.

Now I also need to tell you what little benefits loose gym training has over hardcore gym training: Gym training won’t stress you at all unless you’re really lazy and have to force yourself to go there just to maintain your body. Personally I didn’t have that problem even when I was training loose. Hardcore training will stress you usually, more or less. You’ll be able to eat more loosely; undefined amounts of food and better tasting foods.

I find that taking gym exercising seriously greatly improves my motivation in just about everything I do. It boosts my physical and mental health so it has become a big part of my life.

Have at least one rest day (without any muscle exercising) in between gym days.

I’m currently on a bulk(ish) diet and my gym training programme is a slightly modified version of a popular gym training 5×5 single factor program. I’ll write a post about my diet later. When I say 3×8 for example, it means 3 sets of 8 repeats. This program is great for building muscle and strength. You should probably have been in the gym for at least a year before trying out this program. This programme is meant for intermediate trainees. Take 1 - 5 minute breaks after every set. (5 mins only if your target muscles are very tired and 1 min only after the lightest sets).

The gym days’ moves are ordered in a way which I find optimal, but if some spot is taken in the gym, you may alter the order to avoid waiting.

Week’s first time in a gym

• Bench Press 5×5 ramp up weight after every set, until top set of 5.
• Barbell Squat 5×5 ramp up weight after every set, until top set of 5.
• Barbell Row 5×5 ramp up weight after every set, until top set of 5.
• 4 sets of weighted sit-ups.
• 2 sets of weighted hypers.
• Sitting Calf Raise 3×8 constant weight. (You may leave this one out if you don’t care about those muscles much).

Week’s second time in a gym

• Barbell Incline Bench Press 4×5 ramp up weight after every set, until top set of 5.
• Barbell Squat 4×5 ramp up weight after the first two sets, then repeat the third set. This is light because it is in the middle of the week and you’ll also be doing Deadlifts.
• Deadlift 4×5 ramp up weight after every set, until top set of 5.
• 3 sets of Chin-ups. (Optional, you can replace this with 3 sets of normal sit-ups too)

Week’s third time in a gym

This day takes me 90 - 130 minutes in the gym. Longer than the other days.

• Bench Press 4×5 same weights as in the first time of the week, but leave the last set out. 1×3x102.5% of your last top set of five, 1 x 8 x third set.
• Barbell Squat - The same set schedule as above.
• Barbell Row - The same set schedule as above.
• 3×8 Triceps Extensions
• 3×8 Barbell Curls or something else that targets Biceps.

You need to check out this page too after reading this post before you can start with this program. Then come back here to know better what I’m talking about.

Forget about having multiple streams of income and trying to hustle your way to success by spending little time here and there to make a little money.

Your mind will feel a lot clearer and I and many others think that you’ll be much more successful if you only focus on building one big business. Of course you may want to first experiment what kind of business that is.

I tried to go the multiple streams of income way but when I switched to focusing on one business, I’ve been getting a lot more work done and the path ahead of me is clearer.

Note that this isn’t originally my advice. I’m not qualified to give this advice alone. This is a multi-millionaire’s advice which was agreed to by many other entrepreneurs.

When you focus on only one business you will be able to create much more value to it because your mind is constantly thinking about ways to improve it and it will show in your income.

When you have many concurrent projects or businesses, you’ll be spending a lot of time thinking about which one to work on, you’ll be less organized or spend a lot more time organizing, you’ll feel more stressed, you aren’t as capable of coming up with ideas to improve one of the businesses because you’re spending much less time per business and one business’ ideas will interfere with the ideas of another and your mind will feel cluttered.

If you’re having nightmares about some people you don’t like and you want to get rid of them, here’s what to do:

This is going to sound weird: Love them.

I had this problem with a-holes bullying me when I was a kid years ago and after that they were haunting me in my nightmares for years and someone at a personal development forum just mentioned that advice and it worked!

I consciously totally ignored the advice because it sounded so weird but my subconscious mind picked it up and made it so that one of them was becoming my friend in the very next dream and after that it took many days to have the next dream where another bully was my friend. Other than that I haven’t had any dreams involving them anymore but make sure to try to stop hating them consciously too.

That brain reboot I mentioned earlier needs a little more time for some enhancing tests to be posted.

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