20 Second Mental Run

Determination

2012-05-29T21:19:00.001-04:00

What do you train for? breathe to? what is the thing you must crave today?

What are you doing to achieve that what you want the most? Thinking about doing it (SPOILER) BRINGS YOU NOTHING..

Ill put this in perspective, thinking about going to the gym burns between 0 and 0 calories.....
GOT IT?

Set objectives, walk trough a planned path in order to achieve what you want the most. Achievements are wishes with a deadline... they were written down.

I love this picture because you can actually see a progress curve between the girls... I bet everyone of these girls have set their objectives clearly in their mind. THEY ARE HUNGRY OF SUCCESS...

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Escape

2012-05-28T17:06:00.000-04:00

A day off

2012-05-28T08:59:00.000-04:00

I rarely sleep. I don´t know sometimes I just feel is just kind of a jinx. I would love to sleep more but it just does´t happen. Maybe thats one of the reasons sometimes I'm so active and doing things.

That and that I really believe the next phrase:

"You will have plenty of sleep when you die"

Harsh but true... I actually love to think that I did something with my day than sleeping over it. I will have plenty of sleep when I die and I won't ever be able to come back and do things that I´ve should have done when I could.

This is something I found and I think it will help you out if you are stuck... or just sleeping through your life...

My 20 Second Mental Run your daily break for your mind. Take a bit of your day to fill your motivation fuel tank.

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Maybe

2012-05-27T18:38:00.000-04:00

As I told you before, or for those who aren't aware, I'm an Basketball fan. HUGE Basketball fan, and specially when it comes to terms of great players I fancy Michael Jordan. Of course considered the best player in History, his example is not to be ignored.

He was good because he could shoot, pass, dribble, or dunk. But he was better because he had the determination and will to set objectives and pursue them and never gave up until he achieved them...

I love marketing too, and in the next Nike Commercial Michael Jordan´s life and career lifestyle is incredibly projected... Listen and Watch carefully...

Don´t make excuses for what you want to do.. there is only a path, a hardworking one..

Failure is a path

2012-05-25T09:55:00.000-04:00

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot…and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan is one of my Idols and from him I´ve learned that, I had to fail several times to realize what I could do... It does´t matter how many times you fail. The important part if to recognize you´ve failed and prove yourself what you can do after doing it...

This is my picture after losing 74lbs..

Embrace failure

Excuse me?

2012-05-24T22:09:00.000-04:00

Something for you to discuss with your pillow tonight:

Put all your excuses aside and remember this: YOU ARE CAPABLE

Do it Now sometines later becomes NEVER

If you feel like giving up on your goal today ............................ DON´T

If you can´t sacrifice for your dream, then it is not your dream...

Impossible is not a fact, is an opinion..

What´s your excuse today? Feel like having one?

Strong as a ROCK.

2012-05-24T09:39:00.000-04:00

Before doing anything in your life, making any decision, I Like to think If my time invested in that decision will be well spent. A day that passes is a day that I will never leave again. Am I going to give every single breath to things I do in life?

I invite you to watch this video and rethink whether you are willing to give away your time FOR FREE... Are you going to go all the way? Or you just going to try?

Be careful in doing things you may not even want to do, that's a day and time that will never come back...

Are you strong enough?

Only last week I murdered a rock,
injured a stone,
hospitalized a brick!
I'm so mean I make medicine sick!"
-- Muhammad Ali

About pain...

2012-05-23T21:29:00.001-04:00

Pain is an indicator... You are going through the right track.. I find really funny when people rage about dieting and complaining that they cannot eat their normal burgeers and french fries.

SPOILER: It´s a diet, they are not meant to enjoy entirely... its a process...

Good things are WORTH the time and suffering...

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Quote of the day:

2012-05-23T17:41:00.000-04:00

Weight Loss is a personal journey and while others may run with you no one runs for you..

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Quote of the day:

2012-05-23T17:39:00.001-04:00

Today it's different

2012-05-23T11:26:00.002-04:00

We've been here before...

You have told all your friends you were really going to lose a lot of weight this time... and failed
You started tracking your progress, and then eventually lost all your annotations
You went to the gym a whole week, before you found new excuses not to go
You have filled with healthy supplies your fridge, to eventually throw more than half of it
You said you were not going to drink, and failing in the first weekend because of peer pressure..
You have told yourself several times "This time is going to be different", before repeating the same things you have done every time you have failed...

STOP..

Do different stuff. Change your methods, keep it to yourself. Your friends does not need to know if your going to lose weight...

When repeating to yourself "This time is going to be different" you are already doubting of your capabilities while saying it. And no figure why you doubt, you have failed in this same exact point.

The first person you need to say and prove wrong is YOU. Your inner YOU. DELETE that voice that tells you, "You can't do this"

Work on small objectives, achieve them slowly and one at a time.

This is the time when you accept and embrace all the times you have failed before...

This is the time to prove past self he was SO WRONG...

Prove it...

This is a never ending process

Just do it?

2012-05-22T17:24:00.003-04:00

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Exactly what I needed before working out today! :)

Eat Clean, Train Dirty

2012-05-22T10:19:00.002-04:00

Success in becoming a fit person does not only has to do with workouts. Half or more than half of success comes from the things you put into your mouth. Most of the people think that since they workout early in the morning, they are enabled to eat whatever godzilla monstrosity they come across..

Well that is WRONG. Specially for "fit people" what they it is how their workout will eventually reflect in their body. It's not the ones dieting for losing weight who need to eat leaner, this is due to the fact that since they drain their everyday resources exercising, their body will absorb everything they eat for energy replenishment.

Be Careful!

Welcome home

2012-05-22T06:30:00.000-04:00

Every day, every morning...

The best motivational speech, for LIFE..

2012-05-22T00:41:00.002-04:00

Give FUTURE SELF 3 minutes... Really, you will thank me after...

How Bad Do You Want Success? Floyd Mayweather 43-0 Professional Boxing Record. Speech by Eric Thomas aka The Hip Hop Preacher.

It was a, it was a young man who you know, he wanted to make a lot of money and so he went to this guru right. And he told the guru, "You know, I wanna be on the same level you on." And so the guru said, "If you wanna be on the same level I'm on, I'll meet you tomorrow at the beach at 4am." He like, "The beach? I said I wanna make money, I don't wanna swim." Guru said, "If you wanna make money, I'll meet you tomorrow. 4am." So the young man got there, 4am. He's all ready to rock and roll. Got on the suit, he shoulda' worn shorts. The old man grabs his hand, said, "How bad do you wanna be successful?" He said, "Real bad." He said, "Walk on out in the water." So he walks out into the water, watch this, when he walks out into the water he goes waist deep, so he's like "This guy crazy. How am I gonna make money he got me out here swimmin'? I didn't ask to be a lifeguard, I wanna make money." So he said, "Come out a little further." Walked out a little further, then he had it right around in this area, the shoulder area. "Yo this old man crazy, he makin' money, but he crazy." He said, "Come out a little farther." He came out a little farther. It was right at his mouth. My man like, "I'm about to go back in, he outta' his mind." So the old man said, "I thought you said you wanted to be successful." He said, "I do." He said, "Walk a little farther." He came, dropped his head in, held him down, hold him down, my man scratchin'. Just before my man was about to pass out, he raised him up. He said, "I got a question for ya, he said when you were underwater what did you want to do?" He said, "I wanted to breathe." He told the guy, he said, "When you want to succeed as bad as you wanna breathe, then you'll be successful. You don't care about no basketball game, you don't care what's on TV, you don't care about nobody callin' you, you don't care about a party, the only thing you care about when you tryin' to breathe is to get some fresh air. That's it. And when you get to the point, and when you get to the point where all you wanna do is be successful as bad as you wanna breathe, then you'll be successful." And I'm here to tell you. Number one. That most of you said you want to be successful but you don't want it bad. You just kinda' want it. You don't want it badder than you wanna party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don't want success as much as you wanna sleep. Some of you love sleep more than you love success. And I'm here to tell you today, if you're going to be successful, you've got to be willing to give up sleep. You've got to be willing to work off of 3 hours of sleep, 2 hours, if you really want to be successful, some days you gonna have to stay up 3 days in a row. You will be successful.

What defines you?

2012-05-21T16:03:00.001-04:00

This pursuit? For me is the master of My self.. See how much can I achieve...
Whats in it for you?

This is the begging of the journey, like many others. The thing is this one has no ending... Its a way of living..

#fitness #motivation #mentalstrenght

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Fitness Quote of the Day #1

2012-05-21T09:26:00.002-04:00

20 Second Mental Run

No Excuses!

Achieve or not to achieve.

2012-05-20T15:00:00.000-04:00

Fitness tip of the day:

JUST DO STUFF.

Everything will come along after you´ve started doing it...

When I first started losing weight and training, I was not really sure what i was getting into... but everything came together as i Walked that path...

this is me 8 months later after I stopped thinking wether if I should start doing something or how I should start...

Destroy

2012-05-20T12:30:00.000-04:00

The Cant´s

The Don't´s

I don´t have time

One won't hurt

I worked out today

The whys

"You are insane"

"You are Crazy"

"You won't make it"

It is impossible

I won't make it

I have better things to do

There is an easier way to do it

DESTROY

Powerful Beyond Measure (Motivation Video)

2012-05-18T18:26:00.000-04:00

Have an excellent Friday! This is the start of the weekend, which is great right? Well how bad do you want to stick to your diet, and or maintain your training plan? Weekends are not the days to lay off, to have a break.

Weekends are to strength up your will, and hold it. The moment when you think nobody cares, thats exactly the moment you need to PUSH.

Keep running, keep strong.
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Composition...

2012-05-11T07:42:00.000-04:00

Have you ever seen someone and asked yourself how does he do that? Ever thought after that question, I would took me ages, to be like that, or to succeed like that.

Remember that guy/gal wasn´t born that way, he worked (probably) their butt to get what he wanted. The difference between you and them is that they STOP wondering about how did other people accomplished to get better.

In order to do that please remember this:

Good intentions are great, but you need to take them into action, ACTION.

Move, run, speak, scream, talk, walk, eat, buy, create, breathe, jump, kiss, drink, see, touch, feel.

Intentions are great but they are useless without actions.

Run, Run, Run

2012-05-10T09:24:00.000-04:00

I like how Nike uses this insight to communicate that the only thing you need to do is run away from everything, our modern lifestyle brings us, like stress, depression, and low self confidence.

This is a great advert since clearly if you don;t run you've been missing 6 key benefits from doing this activity.

Prevent Disease - By helping the arteries retain their elasticity and strengthening the heart, your chances of suffering a heart attack can be significantly reduced.
Improve Your Health - Research shows that running can raise your levels of good cholesterol while also helping you increase lung function and use
Boost your confidence - By setting and achieving goals, you can help give yourself a greater sense of empowerment that will leave you feeling much happier.
Lose Weight - You will find that it is a leading way to burn extra calories and that it is the second most effective exercise in terms of calories burned per minute
Relieve Stress - When you run, you force your body to exert excess energy and hormones.
Eliminate depression. - your brain will start to secrete hormones that naturally improve your mood. In fact, there are few things in the world that can better or more rapidly treat depression than exercise such as running.

So start running for a better you!

About staying in the Couch

2012-05-08T17:43:00.001-04:00

Recently I've starting to look for and create awkward moments. They make life so much more interesting...

OR FAILURE...

About Dedication

2012-05-07T23:03:00.001-04:00

About looking other people:

How many times have you watched other people and thought "That guy is crazy". That reaction is actually the one that has made the other person succeed. He has no fears, he´s willing to succeed so much, he do everything it takes to achieve...

Are you willing to achieve?

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Own The First Move

2012-05-01T22:32:00.000-04:00

The First move doesn't happen on the field.

The first move will jeopardize everything you've worked for:

The first move can steal your Spark.

Or Set up your success.

I really loved the approach of this video. It describes perfectly that fitness is not just about exercising. Being fit and healthy its purely about mentality, its more of lifestyle. It´s about replacing what you know you don't need to eat/drink/take with what your body needs.

Ask yourself, what have you done the past 6 weeks? Did you finally accomplished or started doing what you wanted to do? Its ok if you haven't, I mean it took me almost 4 years to finally really accomplished to change my lifestyle and lose 66 lbs. Yes it took me a while, but my listen to what i have to say:

When you finally "decide"(NOW, or maybe you can check this series of 5, 10 minute videos about decisions) remember to really turn ON the switch in your head, remember that the first move does not happen on the gym, or at the running track, it happens in your every day activities and roles.

Stop watching the people next to you and think "I wish that i could do that". I guarantee that 99% of the people who say that wont even spend five minutes actually figuring out what would it take and see if it is achievable.

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