The 7 Most Important Lifts

The 7 Most Important Lifts

https://www.t-nation.com/training/the-7-most-important-lifts

Discipline

“The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win—you pass the test. If you are mentally weak for that moment and you let that weakness keep you in bed, you fail. Though it seems small, that weakness translates to more significant decisions. But if you exercise discipline, that too translates to more substantial elements of your life.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

Balancing Life

Balancing life is like juggling
- From Ben Bergeron’s podcast “Chasing Excellence” - Episode #048 “What it means to be productive” (16:20 mark)
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Every role in your life is represented by a ball:
⚪️ Faith - glass
⚪️ Family - glass
⚪️ Health - glass
⚪️ Friendships - glass
🔴 Career - rubber
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Bergeron states:
“The goal is to juggle all five of those balls in the air at once. You realize that all those balls are made of glass, and if you drop one of them it might may be scuffed, chipped, cracked, it might be shattered. You can’t let any of those drop.”

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“Except potentially the one called ‘career’ because that one is made of rubber.”
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“There is the potential that you can’t put those glass ones back together.
But the career one:
- if you lose your job
- if you have a career shift - if your business gets sold
You can land on your feet. You can figure it out.”
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How do you relate to this perspective?

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4 Tests Every Lifter Should Be Able to Pass

Got Relative Strength? Find Out Right Now.

https://www.t-nation.com/training/4-tests-every-lifter-should-be-able-to-pass

Tip: The Goblet Squat Test

If you can pass this test, move to heavy barbell squats. If not, you have some work to do first.

Before you graduate to barbell squats, you should be able to goblet squat to parallel using a dumbbell or kettlebell for 25 unbroken reps. It's a test of relative strength, which means it'll show you whether or not you're strong for your size.

https://www.t-nation.com/training/tip-the-goblet-squat-test

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Wasting Time

“No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over. No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives! We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.” — Seneca the Younger