Texas Strong Man Cory Jones

Change is good

2006-11-03T09:14:00.000-08:00

Continuing to do the same thing your doing now will continue to get the same result. Change forces us to adapt and grow.

Try something new and different, often power lifters and other strength focused trainers neglect to include some cardio training. Cardio helps to keep you limber and builds speed and power in addition to raw strength.

In strong man competitions cardio conditioning is extremely important in events that require carrying weights over distances of up inclines.

And remember cardio does not have to be areboics or a step climer. Get out and play racket ball or something totaly different once in a while. Try something you are not the best at as well it helps to keep you in check with reality.

Even when it just comes to weights try different positions and lifts, switch things around so you don't so adapt to a routine that you plateau. Change is good not only does it help keep you improving it also help keep you excited and that goes a long way to helping you keep your commitments to train by your schedule.

~ Cory

Get quality sleep each night

2006-10-21T09:05:00.000-07:00

All of your mental and physical recovery processes run at night while you’re sleeping. Muscle growth, fat loss, short-term memory processing, and the recharging of your immune system all happen during deep sleep.

Many people are shocked to learn that a grown man has as much HGH, (human growth hormone), as a growing teenager. What changes as we age is our ability to access it. See it is all tied up by the anterior pituitary gland which stimulates growth and cell reproduction in humans and other vertebrate animals.

When we are young it is released a lot but release slows down as we age. Yet in both children and adults it is only released during REM Sleep. So get a great nights sleep after training hard, HGH doesn't just keep you in great shape it help keep you young as well.

~ Cory

Educate yourself.

2006-10-16T11:56:00.000-07:00

Arm yourself with the knowledge to create your own path, rather than following the path of others. You have unique goals, strengths and weaknesses. What works for them may not work for you.

No matter what you are attempting to achieve in life it is knowledge that seperates winners from loosers. In the military they teach you that your rifle is your life and with out it you are useless. In the world of competition both in business and athletic competition at the top levels it is education and learning daily that make the difference.

Learn one new thing every day and develop a knowledge base that can help you become a top achiever, then remember to give back and share your knowledge, real winners are always great mentors.

~ Cory

Progress is the key

2006-10-12T08:46:00.000-07:00

Decide on your priorities and strive for continuous improvement in these areas. However, don’t get discouraged if you’re not perfect all the time. One step forward is better than no steps. In fact a 1% improvement may sound small but if you were to improve just 1% a week you would more then double your achievements in less then a year.

Improvement comes easy in the beginning, when you first start to really train, in anything, going from the bottom makes a improvement of 20-50% or more fairly easy to achieve. As you develop it takes more effort and the real winners are the ones that continue to measure and expect success. Strive each week and even each day for even the smallest improvement, over a life time that is what develops a champion, in all walks of life.

~ Cory

Define your goals and create specific objectives.

2006-10-01T08:37:00.000-07:00

Set realistic but challenging short-term and long-term goals for yourself, and continuously track your progress. If you don’t know where you’re going, how can you ever expect to get there? When you don't meet a goal, start over, figure out why and take another run at it.

It doesn't matter if you fail to meet a goal only if you fail to keep striving to hit it at some point. When you have to take several shots to hit a goal the achievement is actually a bigger rush. It all starts with setting goals and tracking them,

~ Cory Jones