Early morning weight training is an excellent way to start the day. Whenever I put off training until afternoon or evening it is always on my mind as something I need to get done. It’s a nagging feeling. When I train early morning I can forget about it for the rest of the day - it’s one less thing I have to think about. When you train early morning you start the day accomplishing something. While the rest of the city is sleeping in like a bunch of lazy bums you’re in the gym making yourself stronger. By the time you get home, shower, eat something, most people are still in bed or just waking up and you’re ready to kick the days ass.
How to Start Training Early Morning
1) Get a workout partner. Unless you’re already an early riser it is critical to get a workout partner who will be waiting for you at the gym. It’s easy enough to sleep in if no one is waiting for you, but if you’ve got someone waiting for you then you have to get up and go to the gym.
2) Get enough sleep the night before. It’s no fun waking up at 5am if you didn’t get enough sleep the night before. Everybody is different in their sleep needs, but if you aim for 6-8 hours you should be fine. If you were unable to get enough sleep, still wake up and go train, come back and take a quick nap if you can.
3) Don’t hit the snooze button. Remember, you’ve got someone waiting for you. There is no time to sleep in. Set your alarm for 15 minutes before you need to walk out the door. You should be able to walk out the door within 15 minutes of waking up.
4) Don’t eat anything. You will likely still have food in your belly from the night before. There is no reason to eat a meal and be sluggish in the gym. You will be much more alert training in a somewhat fasted state. If you must have some calories take a protein shake.
5) Never miss a training day. No matter how much you don’t feel like training do it anyway. You will feel much better about going than you will feel about missing. Especially if you have a training partner who is waiting for you. Even though it may be hard to wake up that early it will become a habit within a week or two. When you make it a habit it’s no big deal to wake up that early.
6) Train as hard as you normally would. No point in going to the gym if you’re going to half-ass your training. Lift heavy and lift hard.
7) Enjoy the rest of your day.
My training days start like this.
- Alarm goes off at 5:05am
- Get up, let the dogs outside
- Turn on coffee pot and brew coffee (I get the coffee ready the night before)
- Brush teeth and other bathroom needs
- Get dressed and walk out the door by 5:15am with thermos full of coffee
- At gym by 5:30am, start hitting the weights. I start every Monday morning with heavy deadlifts
- Get home by 6:45-7ish and start my day
Boyer Coe is a lifelong early morning trainer and always trains fasted.
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It is an easily observable fact that today’s Men have less testosterone than their fathers and even less testosterone than their Grandfathers. We live in a highly emasculated society. For proof just walk out your door and go to the local grocery store and take a look at the Men. I was at a grocery store the other day and I heard a “man” literally beg his wife to get 2% milk instead of skim milk. He literally begged inside of the store, like a little girl.
Testosterone is what keeps you from being a giant sissy.
Signs of low Testosterone:
- Excess bodyfat
- Low libido
- Gynecomastia
- Lack of motivation
- Depression
- Low self esteem
- Irritability
- Moodiness
- Memory loss
- Loss of morning erections
- Erectile dysfunction
- Fatigue
- Decreased energy
- Decreased muscle mass
- Testicle shrinkage
- Low sperm count
There are several reasons why Men have such low testosterone, and we will go over those, but the most important one is diet. You need to eat fat to produce testosterone. Aim for 30% of your total calories form fat. The standard American Low-fat diet is producing heaps of effeminate males. Every guy I know that is super low in T (you can tell because they are frail, timid, sexless, weak) has a poor diet. They eat low fat, low protein, high carbohydrate diets. They eat things like Macaroni and cheese as a meal. That’s what little boys eat (they shouldn’t). Eat like a man for high Testosterone. Some excellent testosterone building meals include..
Steak and eggs – the strong mans favorite meal. High saturated fat in the eggs and zinc in the red meat help produce testosterone.
Liver and onions – Onions contains allicin which helps produce testosterone. Liver contains all kinds of good shit. Warriors of old would often eat the raw liver right out of a fresh kill because it gave them strength. If you don’t like eating liver take some Liver Tabs
, one of the only supplements that I spend money on. I love liver tabs, they make me feel strong as an ox in the gym. Jack Lalanne would take up to a hundred a day when he was preparing for his incredible feats of strength and stamina such as towing 70 boats with 70 people on his 70th birthday while handcuffed.
Garlic – Garlic also contains allicin.
Peanuts, Salmon, Coconut oil, olive oil are all rich in good fats.
Cook everything in butter, not margarine.
Eat as naturally as possible. Organic for your fruits and veggies and grass-fed for your red meat if you can afford it.
Which one are you?
If you are a vegetarian try to stop being a sissy and eat meat, the diet that Man was designed to eat. How many manly vegetarians have you met? If you’re like me the answer is zero. That’s because they eat low fat, high soy content meals. For God’s sake never eat soy! Soy is estrogen enhancing poison. Don’t believe the government hype that soy is great, soy is cheap and easy to produce and is a government subsidized crop (the other 2, corn and wheat, also should be avoided).
Some other tips to help increase Testosterone naturally
Get a good night’s sleep in a cool, dark room. Sleep at night or else you will mess up your circadian rhythm which leads to decreased T.
Lift weights. Heavy compound exercises produces testosterone naturally. Between 4-8 reps per set is a good goal.
Don’t smoke. Inhibits sexual appetite, probably because you’re constantly sucking on a thin, white phallus.
Don’t drink (or limit alcohol consumption) - Alcohol has been proven to lower testosterone.
Have sex. Frequent sex, especially first thing in the morning, increase T levels. I experimented with celibacy for 8 long months and I could just about feel the testosterone leaving my body.
Live stress free. Easier said than done but stress and worry is a huge testosterone killer. A good rule of thumb is if you can’t change it there is no point in worrying about it.
If you’re fat, lose weight. Increased weight leads to higher estrogen levels.
Don’t keep your cell phone in your pocket next to your boys. According to Tim Ferris’ The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
cell phone radiation leads to decreased sperm count and T levels.
Listen to music that pumps you up - Songs that pump you up, pump you up full of testosterone.
Eat your vegetables - Vegetables have been repeatedly demonstrated to raise testosterone and decrease estrogen.
Other Reasons Men Have Low Testosterone
We live in a highly feminized culture where so called femininity is rewarded and masculinity is punished. A generation of Men raised by women doesn’t know how to be masculine. The irony is that women are becoming much more masculine and men are becoming more feminine. Don’t believe your masculinity is wrong and don’t believe the feminist misandrous propaganda. You are a Man and it’s ok to act like one. Never let Women boss you around, and they will if you let them, it has a feminizing effect on you. Studies show that married men lose Testosterone as well, probably from all the nagging and order-giving. If you must get married, find a feminine (not feminist) woman, she will be the yin to your yang.
Turn off the Television. TV is nothing more than a brainwashing machine and it’s telling you that women are always right and Men are always wrong and always to blame. Ignore the media.
Become a better man in 30 days.
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Even the smallest habits make the biggest difference.
It’s January, that time of year is upon us when the gyms are flooded with New Years Resolutioners (NYR). NYR’s are notorious for not knowing what they’re doing and then quitting after a couple weeks for lack of results. Aside from obvious cases where NYR’s have no idea what they’re doing, here are the most common weight-room follies and a few pieces of advice you can use to distinguish yourself as a man of supreme understanding in the weight training arts.
1) Not touch your chest when you barbell bench press. If you don’t touch your chest you are not bench pressing, you are partial pressing. Keep it up for partial gains. On a side note, bench partials are an excellent way to supplement your bench routine and build up some strength to handle the big weights. It can be used in addition to your normal benching (touching the chest) routine.
This is how you bench press.
2) Roll your shoulders when you perform shrugs. Shrugs are performed to build up your traps, when you roll your shoulders you take all the pressure off of the traps. Roll your shoulders for a guaranteed way to waste the maximum amount of time and effort!
3) Do any weight training on a bosu ball. I see all the silly personal trainers at the globo-gyms doing this nonsense all the time. It’s no wonder the people they train never change their physique. Lift some real weights with a stable core, squeeze your abs, and you will “activate your core” much better than this stability ball nonsense. I can’t even bring myself to pollute my website with a picture of a stability ball exercise.
4) Doing deadlifts for reps with 95 lbs. Deadlifts are a strength training exercise, unless you have been confined to bed for the past year you should be lifting heavier. I see people doing this all the time at the gym, people who train regularly but they are clearly scared they are going to hurt their back if they use anything above 95 lbs. Well, they probably will hurt their back at some point because it’s so weak from lack of training. Load up the bar with as much weight as you can handle and lift that mother-trucker off the ground.
This is a deadlift.
5) Using the lightest weight possible. Next time you are in the gym take a look around. Look at the people doing lightweight work on a bosu ball, doing light weight in general, and then take a look at the people using heavy weight (heavy is relative to each person, when I say heavy I mean heavy to that person). You will see a noticeable difference in physique between the people who are lifting close to their max and the people who are farting around with light weight stability exercises. If you’re goal is to look like the people doing the light weight work then go ahead and do it, but if your goal is to look like a man and not a little boy then lift like a man.
Become a better man in 30 days.
30 Days of Discipline.
Even the smallest habits make the biggest difference.
Well….you can sit at home wondering what’s out there or you can go pack some clothes, pack a cooler, get in your car and start driving. It doesn’t matter where you go, it’s the experience, not the destination that counts. Pick some place you’ve never been that you want to to go to and head that way. Be sure and stop anywhere along the way that grabs your attention. You could plan the trip but that would take all the energy and spontaneity out of the trip. Have only some brief guidelines to follow and you will have an adventure of a lifetime.
Several months ago I was leaving the gym, I had that euphoric feeling I always have after a brutal workout. I called up a buddy and said “Let’s take a road trip”. He said “When”. I said “Tomorrow early afternoon”. He said “Let’s do it”. He invited his brother along and we all left Dallas around 2 the next afternoon. We decided to go to Florida by way of Savannah, GA (to see the trees). The first night we ended up at a motel outside of New Orleans, LA. The next day we spent a bit of time in N’awleans and headed for Georgia. We hit Savannah late that night and rented a room. We spent the next morning checking out Savannah.
Later that day we headed down the Atlantic coast of Florida and ended up on Miami Beach. After endlessly searching for a hotel room on the beach we finally got one (and the bathroom door had a giant, and I mean GIANT, peephole into it!). We headed out to get some dinner and drinks (costing us around $250) and we went to some club right on the beach with a whole bunch of other travellers, many from abroad. After a couple drinks we went back to the hotel and jumped in the pool, realized the ocean was a mere few hundred feet away, and went in jumped in the ocean in the middle of the night.
We left the next day for Key West, our goal destination. We drove down through all the keys and I have to say it really is a breathtaking view. We get to Key West, the southernmost point of the continental US, found a nice place to rent, rented a golf cart for the rest of the stay and we had a fucking blast down there. We ended up doing all kinds of fun shit that never would have happened if we had stayed home.
We came home by way of the gulf coast of Florida, stopping to see some Alligators along the way. We spent a couple more nights on the Florida beach, spent a night in New Orleans, and finally hit home.
All in all it was a 9 day trip and it was a blast. It cost a bit of money but we all had a bit to spare. If money is an object I would suggest camping out. That sounds even better to me than staying in some posh resort.
For you, I have two questions…
1) Where have you always wanted to go?
2) When are you leaving?
When you make up your mind to do it, do it soon! You don’t want the excitement to die down. If it dies you may not go.
Decide to go and then go! Have an unplanned adventure of a lifetime!
Become a better man in 30 days.
30 Days of Discipline.
Even the smallest habits make the biggest difference.
Become a better man in 30 days.
30 Days of Discipline.
Even the smallest habits make the biggest difference.
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