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Insane Feats of Strength

April 30, 2010

Mostly I like to keep this blog ectomorph-centric, in that I don’t bring in content that would be an unfair representation of what the majority of hardgainers could realistically achieve or experience. But this is different.
The dude in the video below is surely not an ectomorph, but shows off some insane feats of strength using [...]

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How To Build Killer Grip Strength with the Farmer’s Walk

February 11, 2010

Grip strength is a huge weakness of all ectomorphs and to be honest, I’ve been fairly lazy in training it myself. Sure, doing pull ups will improve your grip strength, but your grip will still be a bottleneck until you train it independently.
This is where the Farmer’s Walk comes in.
How this exercise works is simple: [...]

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Lessons from Will Smith About Building Muscle

February 10, 2010

There’s a good chance you’ve seen this already because it’s been making its rounds on the internet, but for the rest of you, this is full of brilliant advice from Will Smith about making choices, focus, and protecting your dreams. Here’s a summary of some of the best points from the video:

Lay one brick at [...]

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How to Live to Be 100+

February 9, 2010

One of my main focuses with this blog is to look at ectomorphic muscle building through the lens of health rather than just “getting ripped” and other forms of pure vanity. In this video, Dan Buettner shares his research about what it takes to live to 100 and after taking some notes there were a [...]

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Better Than Zero

January 28, 2010

Here’s a fantastic philosophy to put in your pipe and smoke it:
Do whatever is better than zero.
This is not an idea of my own concoction. I first learned about it from “internet celebrity” Gary Vaynerchuk, but he spoke about it in the context of business.
For an ectomorph the “better than zero” concept is wonderfully simple: [...]

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Choose Not to Fall

December 30, 2009

Over the years I’ve become increasingly interested in parkour, and although I’ve never committed to going to a class or anything (I didn’t realize that classes are held every Sunday not too far from me – I’ll probably go to the next one) every now and then a video will pop up into my radar [...]

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How To Do a One Arm Push Up

December 28, 2009

In my occasional blog stumbling I came across Mark Sisson’s Weekend Live Love post for the 27th of December and a video he linked to about how to do a one arm push up was just too good to ignore. I’m yet to try the method (still sore from pull ups) but it appears to [...]

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Implicit vs. Explicit Motivations – Why Do You Want to Be Less Skinny?

December 24, 2009

I’m fascinated with what motivates us because it’s those motivations that determine our thoughts, habits and progress.
When it comes to motivation, specifically motivation that affects your ability to persist with the quest to build muscle, there are two types of motivation: implicit and explicit. Firstly, I’ll tackle explicit.
Explicit motivations are essentially external motivations, they’re signals [...]

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Apply the 8 Secrets of Success to Ectomorphic Muscle Building

December 23, 2009

This is a great video from the TED conference, where the world’s greatest minds meet and share their ideas. Here’s a summary of the 8 secrets of success and how they can be applied to ectomorphic muscle building:

Passion. Do it for love. Understand why you’re wanting to gain weight and build muscle. Have a powerful [...]

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