When people see our live performances, they always comment on how much passion and intensity we perform with. It’s one of the most important ingredients I believe why we get standing ovations night after night in our live shows.

But, it’s funny how people comment as if it’s one of the rarest things. I always take it as a great compliment. But, actually, it’s quite simple how it’s done.

In our world travels as we meet people from many countries and many walks of life, it’s sometime alarming how so many seem to lack passion and intensity in their daily work  – the very ingredients that would put a glowing smile on their faces and to all those around them.

Passion and intensity sometimes seem like rare commodities. But, like a lot of things, once you know how to activate them, they’re really simple for anyone to duplicate.

But, still, I often wondered why people wouldn’t do everything possible to discover the triggers – the very ingredients that would bring them unending happiness and pleasure not only to themselves throughout their daily life’s but to all the people who come in contact with them.

It seems that we put so much emphasis on hard work and yet very little on finding new ways of activating our passion for what we do. Of course, persistence is an important ingredient to success. But, infusing your work or workouts with passion and intensity is equally important – if not more.

So many let monotony dull their senses leaving them not thoroughly engaged and inspired throughout their days. They go through the motions and yet when their brains aren’t inspired, the muscles receive lackluster commands. Day after day of lackluster commands coming from a brain unconnected to passion and purpose leads to low intensities in the way we express ourselves, move through life, and perform athletically.

The mathematics seem so elementary once you are aware that Passion IN creates Passion OUT – just like computer jargon that says, “garbage in = garbage out”.

When I was practicing the piano for major competitions that are like the Olympics for the piano held every two to four years, I used to practice 8-13 hours every day. People who know the intensity that is needed for such efforts sometimes gasp in disbelief.

Most people’s backs start hurting, their muscles cramp up, and their motivation slacks tremendously within just an hour. They cannot even conceive of 8-13 hours of super high intensity.

They end up sore and exasperated feeling they’re spinning their wheels - not making improvements even though they have the discipline to do the same thing every day. And yet, they wonder why they end up passionless in their delivery of inspirational content, why they fail to make the gains they so badly want, why they feel so frustrated their bodies aren’t responding quickly in comparison to all the hard work they’re putting in.

People sometimes think I’m some kind of discipline nut or cyborg from another planet who’s completely oblivious to boredom and the pain of hard work – or who is just one of those “born happy” people who’s “lucky” to have found things I love to do for a living.

But the truth be known. Passion and intensity can be developed once you know how to and can be applied to anything you do – even if it seems monotonous. Believe me, I too spent years and years of frustration getting uninspired results – even though I had a tremendous amount of persistence.

Mozart believed that that the Rests between notes were just as important as the musical notes themselves.

I too believe the rests between your sets in working out are equally as important the as how much you lift.

No matter whether you're lifting weights, kettlebells, doing bodyweight exercises, sprinting, etc., there' a lot of controversy to how much to rest in between sets.

I feel it's always good to change it up and keep records of your progress because sometimes your body just can't recover quick enough from the prior day's workout even when you do everything "right" in eating, getting enough sleep, and keep your mental electrical charge high and motivated.

The Rest is just as important as the actual workout sometimes if your body has not fully recovered.

With all the literature there is on how much to rest between sets, I do believe it's the quality of your rest between sets that's most important.

How long exactly is 30 seconds if you're not counting the seconds or watching a clock? 40 seconds? Most people don't have that great of a sense of time if they're not counting or looking directly at a clock.

Yet, even with all the emphasis on how much to rest between sets, I rarely ever see anyone looking at their watches or keeping precise track of either their time between sets - or their actual weight for that matter.

This is interesting to me. I don't usually travel with any sheet music on my concert tours and can remember and perform thousands of notes in just one piece of music. But yet, I can't remember exactly what exercises I did the day before yesterday, how many sets I did, how many reps, what set did I feel fatigue on, whether I performed at a 7 or a 9.5, etc. - unless I write them down.

I think most people don't remember these things either - and that's why you see them making minuscule gains through the months, losing momentum, and usually lifting about the same poundage and doing about the same number of reps they did months before.

So getting back to the Rests. Instead of counting the seconds, how about just count your breaths. Do you know how many breaths you normally would breathe in 30 seconds? 40 seconds? 90 seconds?

I get a plethora of questions about CoreForce Energy every day and thought I'd occasionally  share those questions and my answers.

Here's one I got yesterday:

Can CoreForce Energy give me more confidence?

When you learn to move your body with greater efficiency and greater strength, you most certainly begin walking, speaking, and acting different. You have the essence of what confidence is - self-assuredness with sleek and powerful body language.

When you learn the concepts of CoreForce Energy and in a short time can see vast improvements in your strength and speed, that is certainly a confidence builder in itself. When you realize that your improved strength already had it's roots within you and all that you needed was to discover it and release it, it becomes obvious that there are probably a lot more reserves that you haven't tapped into and will motivate you to find more.

CoreForce Energy can help you find those untapped reserves in many areas that will help build the tools that become the foundation from which greater confidence can be built. The better you are at something, the more you like it, the more you want to develop it, the more you become confident at it because you get good at it the more you do it. This is something that my father taught me as a teacher himself. One positive motion sets in play more positive results.

CoreForce Energy is, in a sense, a learning accelerant for the mind to take charge of the body and be congruent with it.

People quite often are wanting and coveting things and attributes of others that they think they don't have and think, that if they can obtain them, they'd be as confident as those they admire. CoreForce Energy can help you discover YOUR hidden powers not only in strength training, but in many areas such as business, the arts, speaking, etc.

In short, when you learn to move your body with greater efficiency and greater strength through CoreForce Energy, you most certainly begin walking, speaking, and acting different. You immediately begin displaying the essence of what confidence is - self-assuredness that expresses itself with sleek and powerful body language. People WILL take notice when you learn to express your own Core with great Energy.

To Your Strength and Mastery, Garin Bader