Dips Challenge for You

Yesterday my chest and back got a great workout. Part of it was from the bench press and the rows, while a lot of it also had to do with the Pullup and Dip challenges that I did.

How many dips can you do in 4 minutes? That was another part of my workout today, and I did 56. (Using bars, not shoulder-destroying bench dips.) Any gymnasts out there that can hit 100?

By the way, you can find out from Men's Health contributor Bill Hartman as to why bench dips are shoulder destroyers here:
- http://turbulencetraining.blogspot.ca/2007/08/triceps-exercises-for-fat-loss-muscle.html

Today's Kickbutt Mindset Tips:
I'm re-reading an incredible book, "Turning Pro", by Steven Pressfield. Here are some of his gems from it:

TURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT’S NOT EASY.

When we turn pro, we give up a life that we may have become extremely comfortable with. We give up a self that we have come to identify with and to call our own.

TURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT DEMANDS SACRIFICE.

The passage from amateur to professional is often achieved via an interior odyssey whose trials are survived only at great cost, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. We pass through a membrane when we turn pro. It’s messy and it’s scary. We tread in blood when we turn pro.

WHAT WE GET WHEN WE TURN PRO.

What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.

- Steven Pressfield, http://www.stevenpressfield.com/turning-pro/

And he continues...

“Turning Pro changes how we spend our time and with whom we spend it…It changes how people perceive us. Those who are still fleeing from their own fears will now try to sabotage us.

"They will tell us we’ve changed and try to undermine our efforts at further change. The will attempt to make us feel guilty for these changes. They will try to entice us to waste time with them as we’ve done in the past, and when we refuse, they will turn against us and talk us down behind our backs.”

“At the same time, new people will appear in our lives. They will be people who are facing their own fears and who are conquering them. These people will become our new friends.”

“We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.” – Steven Pressfield

Great stuff.

Along those lines of turning pro and achieving big things:

“Ask yourself: What grand goals would inspire me every minute of every day? What would I do with my life if I were playing full-out? If I were thinking big – and even BIGGER than that! – what dream would I commit to fulfilling?” – Dr. Gay Hendricks

Craig Ballantyne, CTT
Certified Turbulence Trainer

PS - Enjoy the ride.

"Enjoy life. Treat it as an adventure. Care passionately about the outcome, but keep it in perspective. Things are seldom as bleak as they seem when they are going wrong – or as good as they seem when they are going well. Lighten up. You’ll live longer." – Kekich Credo #55