If You Wanna Be Great You Gotta Be Bad
Uh-oh.
NFL season has just begun here in the States and already we got a weekend of upsets & surprises.
Thankfully the Bronco’s weren’t one of them as they held off the Colts comeback to clench the win.
Lotsa dropped passes, penalties and mistakes all over the place.
But that’s to be expected, the season is just starting!
Takes a few games to shake the rust off, iron on the kinks.
Would be pretty silly for players to just quit after having a bad first few games.
What’s even sillier is many guys who are lifting do just that.
They try some new workout they found online or in a fitness mag and after a few weeks of mistakes or minimal progress they drop it.
Whenever beginning something new – hobby, job, relationship, whatever, there is always the sucky period.
This is the time when you are not proficient at whatever is you’re trying to do because you gotta learn the ropes.
And the only way you learn is by making mistakes, recognizing them AND CORRECTING THEM / adjusting.
Not – oh boy I made a mistake… better stop now!
No no no.
Why do you think football players watch film?
So they can study what they did right and wrong – correct and improve.
It’s the same reason we use The Spartan 7 in A Spartan Rises.
This mindset tool becomes your ‘film’ so each week you can see where you excelled and where you have opportunities to improve.
And each week you get bigger, stronger, better.
Just like Bill discovered:
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“Wanted to drop you a quick line to mention that I absolutely love the approach here (a Spartan Rises). I’ve been buying ‘tools’ like P90X, Insanity, T25, a program called ‘MI40’ (from Ben Pakulski), Books like Body for Life, the 12-second Sequence (Jorge Cruz = total moron, btw), and TONS of other stuff, since 2008.
I’ve always failed to finish these programs because I never had the right mindset. I feel like I’m starting to understand and wrap my head around this missing element and how that contributed to my prior failures.
Your podcasts are great, the Spartan Rises videos are fantastic (the ones i’ve seen so far) and it just feels like this is the one tool I stumbled upon that woke me up. Given that I’ve purchased so much garbage in the past, I was reluctant to buy ‘A Spartan Rises’. I now feel like this was one of the best things I’ve bought.
I also want to comment on one of the major differences in this program from any other, which is the unlocking of the videos for each Spartan 7.
It’s perfect for me because it forces me to take changing my mindset one step at a time, and gives me something to ‘earn’ and look forward to. Also the emails I get are based on what I’ve unlocked so far so I feel like i’m not getting too much information.
No other programs I’ve seen work this way and I believe this will be the reason that I succeed with you. I can tell a tremendous amount of work was put into this and I want to let you know I (and a lot of other people) appreciate it – VERY MUCH.”
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Never Retreat & Never Surrender,
Ryan Masters
The Spartan Doctore
Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist