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This post took me longer than usual to write. At the beginning, it was titled “Lessons…” (with an ‘s’), but then I realized there is only one lesson, on thing I should have known and applied 10 years ago.

Of course there’s a huge body of knowledge related to training and maintaining a good health. All aspects, how to train, how often, how long, cardio, resting, eating… are important. But for me, everything is moot if I don’t make sure the following one is firmly in place:

P e r s i s t e n c e .

(Or perseverance or anything you want to call it, but don’t give up.)

With a sound training program and good eating habits, persistence brings results. Other finer aspects will almost take care of themselves over time.

The thing is, with persistence, after a while at doing it, other issues will come in the way naturally. And because of the accumulated experience, fixing these issues will be easier.

Let’s take the aspect of recovery, for example. After a period of training with progressive poundage, overtraining (or plateau) symptoms will appear. The body needs some rest. But because of persistency, some solution will be put in place. A solution that excludes an interruption in training. After many cycle of hitting plateaus, the various ways to cope with them will be assimilated and they won’t be an issue anymore. Problem solved.

Until next post, Lift Consciously

This post was originally published on fxbros.com.

When my brother and I decided to start fxbros.com, we also wanted to find our own visual signature. One of the things I really wanted was to have a logo that would represents our mission/goal. After The Origin of “BKI”, here’s how we came up with the logo.

Our vision is about getting results, e.g. strength training in order to improve body composition (mostly lean mass/body weight ratio). A very good way to represent the information we are interested in is with graphs.

At that time, I bought Pumping Iron, 25th Anniversary DVD (you can see the original cover on IMDB). On the cover, there is Arnold showing is biceps (a side view of his arm). I saw it immediately: the contour of Arnold’s arm is the line of a graph! This is what the graph shows: a shoulder, biceps and forearm.

But the graph is more than a (famous) arm. The way to “read” the graph is by looking at the y-axis as results and the x-axis as time. The line shows 2 period of ups and downs (the gray or dark zone) and finally, the “hockey stick” (the white or light zone), where results skyrocket.

Of course, the transition from the dark zone into the light is happening when one discovers fxbros.com!

Until next post, Lift Consciously

My purpose in life is to [muscle] grow and help others [muscle] grow*.

This may sound simple and it is! Let me explain…

The way I see it, is if I’m out of shape, tired/no energy, depressed… Then, I cannot do anything worthwhile.

This is my belief that strength training help prevents all of the above. This works for me and for everybody on this planet.

Not only strength training help me having enough energy for today chore, but it is my best investment in making sure I will also have energy to whatever I feel like for… The rest of my life!

*Inspired by Steve Pavlina.

Until next post, Lift Consciously