machine it means one of two things, either you're injured and you know what you're doing or you don't know what you're doing, you're insecure and you jump on the elliptical machine I think that the dumbbells and barbells are a really good way to start and to gain your stability.
So yeah, we pay attention to that as well. I liken it to picking up a 500 pound barbell.
coffee because we can put a human Dimension and feel to a pretty virtual electronic delivery mode so it's kind of barbell than its concept um and um that basically says that people can relate to you in a very different way uh that is
Why is it that we don't see, we don't hear about these people? Do you have any practical tips for the individual investor for creating a sort of barbell strategy in a portfolio?
Yeah, OK. Thank you for that. Yeah. I use the vowel sounds like barbells. Think about it. When I go, Oh-- What you're hearing is a vowel sound stretching the throat muscles.
Last but not least, they all incorporated community. I can guarantee you--. Community and competition. I can guarantee you, Staci wouldn't look the way she does today if she had never found the Nerd Fitness community that helped her find her love of barbell training and really enjoying strength training. I can tell you Saint would still be stuck at 203 pounds today if he didn't have that competition behind him to finally push him over the edge and wanna start making some serious changes.
All this stuff will be explained once you read the book in further detail, but fall script utilizes the forearms and the arms as well as the primary muscle of the chest when you're doing, say, pushups or barbell press. You have to know where you fit into that program and you have to be honest with yourself.
machine it means one of two things, either you're injured and you know what you're doing or you don't know what you're doing, you're insecure and you jump on the elliptical machine So I'll take my clients through working a set of dumbbells and then they'll do a barbell press and then we'll do cable machines and then we'll do seated, guided smith machines,
know the there's almost always a a way to to to to do it in a really light-handed way but to still say company make sure you got a lot of cash right so so sort of use a barbell a lot of cash and then Savings in your company
Get up every 10 minutes or so. We have this idea that cavemen are these ripped guys with giant muscles, and they could lift giant barbells over their heads
belongs in a body weight competition and not in a, not the look that they're going for." Well, I'm here to tell you that's all crap. I show you here that Staci, like I said, she started weight training. And not only did she start weight training, she started weight training old school. I'm talking barbell, big plates on the side, lifting heavy, dead lifts, squats, overhead presses, bench press. And it was actually right around this point in October when she started to really get into the whole strength training thing.
It also presented an interesting situation for me. I've been a gym rat, I guess, for the past decade of my life. I can think of maybe three or four months along the way where I haven't had a gym membership. And in those three or four months, I've gotten weaker because I didn't know what the heck to do if I didn't have barbells and plates and all that good