Just got back from a solo hunting trip in Wyoming to celebrate the completion of the upcoming “Man-Maker” program release (more on that coming), and am feeling charged up for the bigs thing to come! While I was there hunting, going through the constant ups and downs that chasing antelope with a bow presents, I was thinking a lot about you guys. Mainly of the need to fortify ourselves with both mental and physical strength, and constantly maintaining sight of our goals through solid decision making…It would have been a LOT easier to pack my bags and leave without filling a tag, but instead I kept my focus on just making that one GOOD DECISION in front of me. Eventually after pushing and pushing and pushing, after countless failures that are just a part of the cat and mouse game that hunting with primitive tools like a bow is, the job got done and I now have a freezer filled with quality hormone free meat, and a memory that will last a lifetime… Life is all about managing our emotions through the natural ebbs and flows we go through and NOT giving up or giving into our desire for comfort and complacency. If you can forge yourself through the fire that these daily challenges present, you’ll fortify your resolve through the creation of self-discipline and get every last thing you want out of life! Out of respect for some of you who may be sensitive to the harvesting of wild animals, I’ll spare you of any photos on that front, but here’s some other cool things I did after tagging out. If you DO wanna see though, just message me and I’ll send it to you. Anyway, big things to come later this month with creation of new Man-Maker program. Keep you posted!!! Hands Up…KEEP FIGHTING!!! By the way, that peak I summited is “Medicine Bow” peak in Centennial, Wyoming. Absolutely GORGEOUS spot created by eons of glaciers carving rock and melt creating adjacent lakes. Truly a sight to see! Highly suggest checking it out…

Nothing is as unsexy however NECESSARY conversation to have regarding your workouts as your warmup is. Don’t pay enough respect to it, and it’s not a matter of IF, but WHEN you’re gonna get injured. And this only gets MORE TRUE as we age. But I really don’t think you need to spend an insane amount of time on it the way a lot of “movement” guys suggest. In my experience, a simple one that covers activation of main muscle groups, joint mobility drills, and SOMETHING to excite your nervous system (think a set of plyometrics, med ball throws, or even swings) is all you need to avoid injury and prime yourself for solid gains. Here’s a solid one I did that also addresses a lot of our causes and concerns for low back pain. Check it out, deploy it, and let me know ow how it works for you!!!

Hey guys, I’m on the tail end of creating that “Man-Maker” program I told y’all about a month or so back, and now that I’m gonna have way more time to be more consistently present here, I wanted to organize a LIVE Q&A. Before I do though, I wanted to know (1) what time slot works best for you guys (morning, midday, or evening), and (2) what suggestions you’d like to focus primarily on? Leave your responses in the comments section below!! P.S. Check out the SWEET kiddie tattoo my wife made for my daughter! And yes, I did used to have a mullet!

Everyone that comes to this community does so with some type of goal…a vision for what they wanna take from it and what they wanna accomplish. Expectations if you will. Here’s the thing about expectations though. Expectations can PUSH YOU or it can POISON YOU… Set them too low and you could be selling yourself short. Set them too high and you risk chasing ghosts. Straddling the line between ambition and realism is never easy. Learning to balance those two can be very mentally taxing, but here’s the trick I’ve found best to manage that…. Because we all possess the tendency to have some sense of control in life, yet actually control so little, place your focus squarely on the two variables that you DO have dominion over. Your EFFORT and your ATTITUDE….All you should learn to expect is to put in 100% effort and have faith that doing so puts you in position to achieve your ideal outcome. Trust me, it’s a liberating mindset shift that will allow you to create a healthier expectation that tends to lean towards heightened ones given the self belief it WILL create for you. Hands Up…KEEP FIGHTING!!!

My 6 yr. old son who has been in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for close to a year now has been starting to show a little bit more of a competitive spirit of late when it comes to sparring (and other avenues of life as well). And given the fact that he’s always been one that has sought out validation from his loved ones (in particular my wife and I), and constantly worrying about what his performance in comparison to who he sees as his “competition”, I recently had to have the talk with him regarding who his TRUE competition is… “It’s YOU versus YOU, buddy…Always has and always will be!”…. The truth is, and I explained this to him, that from this point forward in life, the only competition he will ever face is himself. It’s a daily fight between the part of him that has a high standard of excellence, is disciplined, and yearns for self improvement, against the part of him that wants to just mail it in and be lazy… It’s a choice that he has to make, a choice that I have to make, and a choice that YOU have to make every moment of every day between now and the moment we all breath our last breath. When you adopt this mindset, which can be tough, because by definition it requires you to take complete ownership of your outcomes and ditch any excuses you may be making, it has a way of clearing your path for success. So moving forward, know who you’re up against, dig in, and be disciplined enough to make the tough choices that result in you notching more and more wins…YOU GOT THIS! Hands Up…KEEP FIGHTING!!!