Author: Eric Moss
The Mighty Atom Documentary
Last night I watched a documentary on the legendary Mighty Atom. If you don’t know who that is he is one of the greatest strongmen of all time despite the fact that he stood a towering 5ft 4in tall and weighed in at 148lbs of fury.
The Mighty Atom was a huge inspiration to me to become a strongman because it had set in my mind that if he at his size, and despite his circumstances could do such amazing things, maybe I could too. And he did it without the use of anabolic steroids…how I do I know? They weren’t invented yet…and he wouldn’t have used them anyways. So if he was able to do it without supplements, maybe I could too.
You see the fact that some people are able to achieve their goals, no matter how lofty they may be is proof that anyone can achieve their goals. Success leaves tracks.
In fact one of the things that I tell people is forget any marketing angle and simply look at the results. If you are in the Boonton Township or Mountain Lakes area of New Jersey, are looking for a personal trainer and are interested in training with me, check out my success stories page first. That should tell you all you need to know.
And if you are interested in watching the Mighty Atom Documentary go to http://www.MightyAtomDoc.com
train and recover so you can adapt effectively
Earlier today I performed back to back strongman acts. Right before the 2nd show someone had remarked, “It’s got to be really tiring doing that twice in a row.”
Yes it can be, but so can so many other things all which take effect on your recovery. I used to have a short questionnaire before every session where I would ask my personal training clients how their sleep had been, how their nutrition had been, what their work week was like. I did this to gauge how hard they should train.
Someone who is going through a divorce, barely slept the night before, has a huge project that is running behind schedule and ate crappy food isn’t likely going to be able to train as hard as someone of similar genes who naps twice a day, eats like a monk and has a therapeutic massage as their regular day to day affair. And because this sort of thing can change day to day, often times training needs to be calibrated on the daily.
It’s a 3 part process. Train (give your body a stimulus to adapt to) + recover (give your body a chance to adapt before it breaks down) = adaptation (by becoming stronger, increasing endurance etc.)
The amounts and the speed of adaptation depend on the person, but are sped up when given in the right doses.
If you need help with this, and are looking for a personal trainer in the Boonton Township or Mountain Lakes area of New Jersey, try test driving my program. It doesn’t cost anything to try it out.
The Greatest Workout Song
Clever and funny yes…but I’m an old school metal head and prefer the likes of Judas Priest for training 🙂
In actuality I normally don’t have any music playing while training. You see there is an internal monolog that happens while you’re training that music can help tune out, however I want myself and my personal training clients to be able to tune that out without the aid of music.
Besides that I don’t like to have to yell out instructions and cues. I want people to hear me at conversational volume and I like the small groups to be able to socialize and keep a light and enjoyable atmosphere.
If you are in the Boonton Township area of New Jersey and are looking for a personal trainer, I have a one week test drive so you can try it out and see if it’s right for you.