In the intense coverage on the training and personal lives of the Olympic athletes, one of the things you discover when you listen closely is how massage and recovery are just as important as the actual physical training regimes. It's down to a science and is taken very seriously. Many athletes have personal massage therapists to make sure the tiniest of kinks are massaged out several times a day.

Without putting importance to this, they know there is no chance for Gold. Even the slightest tension will hinder peak performance physically and mentally. Milliseconds are what win Gold medals and attention to minute details such as every aspect of relaxation is also scrutinized very closely in Olympic training.

Some Olympians are lucky to have even two full-time therapists to make sure optimal muscular strength, body energy, and mental focus are flowing without hinderance.

Of course, most of us "civilians" are lucky to have a massage once a month if even that. Most spas and therapists charge an arm and a leg just for that one massage. To even consider hiring full-time massage therapists would break most people's bank account. So if have neither the money or time to do this and we still want to achieve Gold in our daily lives, what do we do?

If you're not lucky enough to be married to a massage therapist like I am, then it's certainly much harder to get in the "Gold zone" like Olympic athletes and other top performers.

Think back to how fantastic you feel when you've had a massage and how every cell in your body feels ready to exude maximum execution of movement and concentration. I'm sure most of you have thought, "Wow, just think of what I could do if I had this every day!"

Other than the cost, I know many of you simply can't afford the time with work, family, and workouts all demanding attention. But, recovery and relaxation are musts to think clearly and to make certain the body has recuperated from workouts before you pile on more pain and tension creating layers upon layers of damaged muscle tissue and injuries. Both the body and mind need recovery time - clearing time, rejuvenation time, breathing time. 

A great massage can certainly speed up clearing your mind from senseless chatter and thoughts that contain little focus that play over and over creating undue tension. But something easy you can do to help clear your mind is to take frequent and scheduled breathing, meditation, or "intention breaks" and to make certain that the sounds that are coming into your brain aren't accumulating debilitating tensions.

I've installed a program on my computer that plays incredible scenery and sounds of nature from all around the world - from underwater tropical reefs, to the snow blowing over the Alps, to crickets in grassy meadows with horses.

At work and the gym throughout the day, you can hardly go anywhere without hearing some kind of music, chatter, industrial sounds, and freeway noise. We tell ourselves we don't hear it. But believe me, scientists will tell you that it's influencing your psyche and body mechanics in ways we'd hardly think possible. Usually those sounds add to the tension instead of taking away.

Whether you're aware of it or not, your mind adjusts to the tempo of your surroundings - hence the science of music manipulation that is crafted to influence the unconscious psyche. Scientists have found that classical music played in malls decreases violence and theft. Music with tempos at 60 beats per minute slow your heart rate down. The list goes on and on.

All kinds of music is crafted and logged into specific playlists to relax you and make you more likely to buy because of your relaxed mood in groceries stores and malls.

But, just as music influences, so can the screeching of tires, motor engines, and whirs of city traffic. Pointless chatter in the office can decrease your concentration on work just as easily. These outside "tension influencers" begin encouraging shallow tight breaths day in and day out and other tensions that affect our speech, our handwriting, our choice of words, to the quick tiring of muscular strength and speed.

Today I'd like to tell you about a technique I've used for many years that has allowed me to learn faster with greater mental focus and to integrate what I learn from one field into the other at a high rate of speed. And, of course, it has also helped me gain great strength quickly by applying this very technique.

In my years in the Conservatory of Music, I think a lot of my colleagues thought I needed electroshock therapy because I'd utilized my time in our assigned practice rooms in a most peculiar manner.

Where most would be practicing their chosen instrument the entire time of several hours. I'd play the piano for 15-20 minutes and then do handstand pushups, then pick up a deck of cards, go back to the piano, then pick up my bokken(a wooden samurai practice sword) and slice through the air like one of the Seven Samurai, and then back to the piano.

I'd continually be changing things around, the time, and activities - every practice session throughout the day - never leaving time for the brain or body to get "settled in".

Yes, I'm sure it was quite bazaar to a lot of people. But going from one discipline to another in succession is an incredible tool for quick learning in many respects.

It's also one of the techniques that I firmly believe helped me in winning 13 international competitions in my career. My competition seemed to always be scrathing their heads in how I had so much energy and was quick to gain sharp mental focus no matter what the situation.

Well, duh, you exude what you practice.

One is that it instantly changes your mental focus which is a very good thing. In having to apply it instantly to different situations that don't last long and repeated many times throughout the day, you have many times to learn to regain optimal mental focus quickly in different circumstanes. Most gain mental focus in one or two things - maybe - once a day.

By getting up from one thing and moving right to the next, you change your energy and are forced to change your mental focus in a new direction each time. Most of the time, that new change in energy and mental focus are the very things that gets you past the stumbling blocks that were hindering the former.

When you hit each project for short periods with both varied mental focuses and vast changes in energies, you begin seeing the crossovers of applications to each discipline. Thus, you learn faster, gain greater speed, increase strength, power, mental focus and awareness - quicker.

Try hitting your handstand pushups several times a day during a quick break at work. Really how long do 3-5 take to do? Try doing wall isomentrics the breathing deeply for 30 seconds while waiting for an elevator. The list is endless. But watch how quickly your strength and your mental focus begin improving  tremendously fast by doing changing things around on a daily basis. Notice how that rush of blood to your head, your lungs, and muscles many times a day changes both your energy and mental focus for the very next activity you do afterwards.

Sure, you might get some stares and family members and coworkers quickly looking for the right sized straight jacket for you. But from what you learn from this, they'll never be fast enough to catch you. :)

To Your Strength and Mastery,
Garin Bader

'I am only one,

But still I am one.

I cannot do everything,

But still I can do something;

And because I cannot do
everything

I will not refuse to do the
something that I can do.'

- Edward Everett Hale


I try to use every opportunity to program my mind for super strength and success. It's in the everyday things we do and in each second that passes by that great moments and ideas are born and are the very things that can make all the difference in fast-forwarding ourselves towards the goals in our lives that really matter.

Too many people think they need to allot a bunch of time to think about success and their goals. They feel a need to find a quiet place, the right time, the right mood - and it usually never comes.

By the time they think about scheduling the "right time", they've already passed hundreds of opportunities to program their minds for victory in so many things - the very things that matter to them the most if they could become a reality.

We say so often that the time just flew by and then turn right around and say that time stands still. So which is it?

Time's second hand is always ticking the same relentless beat. It's our minds that interpret it as being fast or slow.

Regardless of whether it's fast or slow, take each second that seems idle to program your mind for success instead of with stupid mind chatter that disempowers us.

For instance, upload several awesomely inspiring photos into your phone for a screensaver. Every time you answer your phone the screensaver will light up and you'll see a picture that inspires you towards a goal, a peak performance moment, a victory snapshot.

Most ab training exercise videos fail miserably in their content and are a big waste of time and I’d like to tell you about one that’s quite extraordinary. Of course, a lot of ab training videos on the market have great eye candy with models who usually have never worked out with the very program they promote and have first-rate production values and all kinds of hype and endorsements from celebrities.

In spite of all this, most these are quite often an ineffectual waste of time and you're left with only hope by some chance they will sculpt six-pack abs. Instead you're left with flab and frustration - and the only thing that’s flat is your wallet.

You've heard that doing crunches or some other small motion ab exercises will trim and tone your tummy. But the fact is, watch real gymnasts with the best abs in the world train, and you'll rarely ever see them doing such exercises.

It's a well-known fact that gymnasts have the strongest, most muscular abs on the planet.

So, why would you want to spend hours doing ab exercises from videos by quite often diet fatigued skinny models with air-brushed abs doing exercises that barely move your heartbeat up one notch - and think you’re going to get gymnast strong abs?

Most of us don't have a lot of time these days but we still want awesome results. You know I haven't recommended many products and I will tell you the program I’m going to tell you about gives you an incredible workout in no matter how little or much time you have. It gives you ab exercises that hit your entire body to give you full functional strength - something most courses don't do.

These exercises run the gamut of very easy to very difficult, and this course shows you exactly how to progress and really get into the muscles and motions to get the most effective results for sculpting and strengthening.

To really get a lean set of abs and to truly carve your core, you need to do the exercises that are done by
those athletes with the best abs and who demonstrate powerful muscular strength and strength in all angles: the gymnasts.

A good friend of mine, Eddie Baran, is a first class gymnast and he walks his talk in every dimension and that's always a good indicator of someone to learn from. I recommend this one highly for good reason. The exercises will rip your abs and give you tremendous core strength. You will learn how to use your abdominal muscles for full functional strength and exercise all parts of the abs including those obnoxious "love handles".

In his Gymnastic Abs program, Eddie Baran shows you the gymnast's secret to powerful ripped abs and full body strength. The program works and gets results if you do it.

If you do exactly what he instructs, in no time your midsection will be chiseled and flat. With this program, you're guaranteed to get a great workout, increase strength, and get rid of back pain in a very short time by doing his ab exercises.

If you use this special link to buy Gymnastics Ab Strength, I will send you a bonus link to additional ab exercises that I personally use in my CoreForce Energy workouts and my wife Vanessa, creator of HotBurning Body, will give you some of the tips for ab training that has given her a first-class physique as well.

To Your Strength and Mastery,
Garin Bader

P.S. These bonus ab exercises I'll include are completely different than what you'll see in Eddie's program, not only complimenting them but also showing you how to apply CoreForce Energy strength and HotBurning Body body sculpting to Eddie's program with tips that'll help your ab workouts generate even more power in all that you do. Remember though it’s only through this special link that you get these bonuses:
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