Change Can Be Rough – Guest Post by Logan Christopher

by Logan Christopher, the guy juggling those kettlebells.

Change can be rough.

No one likes to change. It’s too easy to stay inside your comfort zone. But some of us at least realize that great benefits and opportunities lie outside that zone.

I’ve been following Adam for a number of years. We both started doing feats of strength around the same time. I’ve seen him grow from being just strong to becoming easily one of the strongest people alive. And his progress has been fast, even accelerating instead of slowing down over time, as you‘d expect at an elite level. I’ve always read and looked at what he’s doing to get such results.

Yet when he started telling us what he was doing I wasn’t even paying attention.

Too much info?

The information age is great, as we have the best of everything right at our fingertips, but damn, if there isn’t too much. Try as you might to filter through it all, some crap slips through while gems lie there waiting.

Luckily, if you keep listening you may find out what you’ve been missing.

My introduction to biofeedback

Fast forward a little bit and I start to learn about the testing protocols of Gym Movement. And I start applying it at the most basic level, testing my exercises. That seems to be good buts it’s not always working exactly right. I have tons of questions (and still do). So I start testing more with weights and reps. I start following exactly what I think I’m suppose to be doing. Instead of ignoring poor test results I listen to them. Unsurprisingly, it starts working better.

I normally sleep quite well and deeply. But more than once I’ve woken up thinking about testing and training, with my mind racing. A business mentor of mine, Dan Kennedy once said speaking of clients, “If I wake up at 2 in the morning thinking about you, and I’m not sleeping with you, you need to be fired.”

But there was no way to fire this idea. I told you earlier change was rough. Sure I could try to deny it. But the only way to go was to embrace it completely. To go full bore with the ideas and experiment with it in my own workouts. If it happens to fail to meet expectations that’s fine by me. I can ditch it and move on with no more worries. But before I began I had to let go and go with it.

Why would I challenge my own beliefs and things that had worked? The promise. Faster progress, better movement, no injuries. That’s a huge promise. Add to that the fact that its intuitive. Physical training is about getting in tune with your body, so doesn’t it make sense that you should listen to the body itself?

There’s one way to find if it works. Experiment and test it for yourself.

It’s a complete paradigm shift.

Then

I used to have a set routine. And I made good progress on that. I’d hit PR’s a majority of the time. After all, that is what training is about. Maybe not every exercise in the workout but some would improve. This was often through sheer will power, squeezing out one more rep with guts and determination. I did this for a long time and you know what, I was good at it.

Now

Contrast that to now. I’m entering my workout not knowing what I’m going to do. Sometimes I have an idea that turns out to test well. Sometimes I’m surprised by the results. This flies in the face of an old principle I use to hold true, “Enter thy gym knowing exactly what you’re going to do.”

Stop the set before it even gets hard. There’s one I’m having trouble with. Dare I say it, I actually enjoyed the hard work of lifting. But isn’t getting better more important than that?

I still have much to learn and I plan on learning it. New doors have opened. Are you willing to accept the change?

About the author:

Logan Christopher is an amateur strongman and physical culture renaissance man. From bending steel to standing on his hands, from juggling kettlebells to doing heavy partials and much more. He has a variety of websites devoted to helping people do the same. Get started at LegendaryStrength.com for more info.

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