Weightlifting University Nationals 2013: Fried Chicken, Coffee, And Milk Shakes

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Tamara and I spend all of Sunday rocking it at University Nationals for Olympic Weightlifting.

It was a lot of fun, and we filmed the whole thing.

Below I’ve compiled all the videos into 3 topic areas:

  1. Tamara (Tbone) and I get silly… very silly…
  2. Weightlifting Interviews
  3. Weightlifting Highlights

Enjoy!!!

Tbone & The Iron Samurai Eat Big, So You Can Lift Big

On the way there we discuss the differences between the North West and the South, review McDonalds coffee, and make an observation about sweet tea…

For lunch we decided we needed to destroy our stomachs with fried chicken and biscuits (in a good way)… If you ever confused us for “health” professionals, this might change your mind, LOL

Finally we do a review of our experience at University Nationals over giant milk shakes…

Weightlifting Interviews

We got a few weightlifters and coaches to do some interviews with us too!

Anthony Pomponio of The Yard weightlifting club, an amazing 85k lifter, and a good friend.

Nick Frasca, head coach of The Yard

Megan Poole and Shelbie Serpan

Christian Carter, coach at ETSU

Weightlifting Highlights

And finally here are all the cool lifting videos we got. I wish we’d gotten more, but the ones we did get are AWESOME

Holley Mangold:

Megan Poole, who lifts for ETSU and is crazy talented:

Kollin Cockrell’s 147k snatch

Colin Ito’s 143k snatch

Kollin Cockrell’s 186 kg clean and jerk

Ian Wilson – all 6 lifts

Caleb Ward – aka, The Zen Master – aka, Caleb Freakin’ Ward!

Our friend Rebecca Gerdon’s 81 kg clean and jerk, yay!

 

 

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Post Valentines Day Rant, And Something Truly Romantic (For A Weightlifter)

 

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First, the rant…

I really hate Valentines day.

It’s cheesy, generic, and isn’t so much about romantic love, as it is about the watering down of it.

(Don’t get me wrong, the number 14 – the totally arbitrary date of V-day – IS romantic. It’s the double of my favorite prime. It’s like 7 found it’s soul mate and they lived happily ever after… Don’t judge, I’m a math guy.)

I hate Valentines Day precisely BECAUSE I’m a romantic.

I want to cherish and celebrate those things I have with someone that are unique to us, no matter how random they may seem to anyone else.

If my girl and I have a thing for ducks and green covers and kissing while brushing our teeth, well… those are OUR things. And we aren’t switching to roses and diamonds just to make everyone else happy.

In other words, there is the Romance expressed on the surface (embodied in a gesture or object, whatever), and the underlying reasons for that expression in the first place, and how the two of you see all of that in context.

True romance is hyper-personal.

Cultural pressure makes us feel like if we don’t give our romantic partner a V-day gift on that universally imposed date, then we clearly don’t love them.

And cultural pressure also dictates that we give them a gift that fits within the very small, clear boundaries set forth in front of you.

Paint by numbers romance. That’s the opposite of true romance: Impersonal and forced.

I’d rather avoid that stupid “holiday” outright, and be romantic with the person I’m in love with every day on our own terms, thank you.

Speaking of romance

ROMANCING THE CLEAN: MONDAY

You spoke, I listened!

I asked you which eBook I should finish next, and you chose a beginners guide to Clean Technique. (Which is the 3rd – and final – installment of my Romancing the Bar Trilogy.)

So… this week, I’ve been hammering away on it, and making great progress.

I’ll be putting the final touches on it this weekend and I will release it on Monday!

To celebrate this auspicious occasion I’m going to do two things.

First, on Saturday and Sunday I will be giving you 2 “How To Clean” tips & tricks videos on some points that are subtle in concept, but profound in application:

Video 1: How To Have A Bigger Rack Than Dolly Parton

Video 2: When I Think About Cleans, I Touch Myself

The second cool thing I’m doing to celebrate is a “Pre-Release Trilogy Sale”.

Starting today, and ending Monday morning when the book is released… you can get the entire Trilogy:

  • Romancing the Snatch
  • Romancing the Jerk
  • Romancing the Clean

For a whopping 50% off if you go here:

WeightliftingAcademy.com/trilogy

You’ll get to download (instantly) the first two, and you’ll be emailed a secret download link to the clean book on Monday.

Ah, love…

Now go lift something heavy,
Nick Horton

 

Post Valentines Day Rant, And Something Truly Romantic (For A Weightlifter) Feb15

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What Should My Next eBook Be? (Your Choice)

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I’m sitting here at Starbucks working and downing copious amounts of coffee – of course!

And as usual, I’ve got multiple projects staring me in the face… which is how I like it. I have a bit of a one-man factory system going where I like to have one project that I’m creating, while outlining and preparing the next one at the same time. This way, as soon as the one is finished and ready to go into circulation, I can jump straight into the next.

So… as I was sitting here writing the upcoming 21 Day Squat Challenge book (which should be finished and available within the next few weeks), it occurred to me that I have a problem.

I have the book I’m writing now, but I’m going back and forth between what my next one should be! I have two options, and I don’t know which one should go first in the queue.

I figured I’d let you decide :-)

I’m going to write BOTH of them – don’t worry – but since I’m writing them for you, it only seems right that you have a say in the ordering of them.

Here are the two options:

Romancing the Clean: A step-by-step guide to Clean technique for the Totally Clueless

This will be the completion of my Romancing the Bar trilogy. If you haven’t already checked out Romancing the Snatch and Romancing the Jerk, make sure you do. The snatch book is the first step if you’re a beginner.

But the problem with teaching the clean and jerk… is that pesky “and” in the middle!

It is nearly always true that a lifter will feel very natural with one and feel horrible with the other. For most beginners, the jerk is the hardest, and it’s why I wrote that book first. But that is NOT universally true.

It wasn’t true for me! The jerk is a lift I feel very comfortable with… but the clean is (by far) my worst lift. And so I’ve had to really get sneaky with it to keep up.  A number of the athletes I’ve trained have felt the same.

This book will contain all of that sneakiness :-) so that you can clean like the bad-ass you are.

Platform Domination: A complete Contest Preparation guide for intermediate Weightlifters

This is the “What happens next?” after you’ve finished my beginners Samurai Strength program. In that program, your goal was to DO a contest for the first time. Now it’s time to up your goals so that you can kick-ass. It will include a full 15-week contest prep routine as well as all of my insider mental strategies that are used by the best athletes in the world to dominate.

After you’ve completed Samurai Strength, you are not a “true” beginner any more (by my definition). You are an intermediate. And that means your training needs to change and reflect that.

This book is that next step.

So…

Which one do you want first???

Go below and tell me which book you want first in the comments sectionAND, if you have any OTHER big questions that might make for a great eGuide, let me know. All of the books I’ve written so far were in direct response to what YOU told me you need. 

What Should My Next eBook Be? (Your Choice) Feb10

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How To Get My Phone Number

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Do you want to talk about weightlifting?

…. or anything else your heart wants to tell me?

I do.

Click Here to learn how YOU can get my phone number (and a ton of help to take your weightlifting to the next level)

Now go lift something heavy,
Nick Horton

Ooops! I Screwed Up… You Win

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I messed up.

As you well know, I’m an “jump into the deep end” kind of guy.

Normally this is a good thing…

It’s the “secret” behind any successes I’ve had in my life. When I believe something is the right move… I ACT.

Luck is an opportunity that can be lost.

I follow my heart and I go “all in”.

The trouble is … it isn’t always a bad idea to make sure that the pool has water in it first!

Now… with the big things in your life… that isn’t an issue.

Why?

Because when you honestly follow your heart, the act of diving in CAUSES the pool to fill with water… the right water.

But when you are dealing with things that aren’t big life-changing events… but are rather like, “Oooh, baby, that is a great idea!” … Then, it’s a good idea to look over the side and make sure there is water in the pool before you dive!

You still need to dive. Never do things half-assed and expect to get what you really want.

But … water feels better on the old skull than concrete. Just sayin’

THE BIG PROBLEM

So the other day, I send out an email to you inviting you to join a new coaching program.

It’s something I’m very excited about.

But the funny thing is, the next day I got a call from one of my private clients, Mike, who I’ve been coaching for a little over a year.

I answered the phone and immediately he said, “Your new program sucks.”

I laughed and said, “Well… hello to you too.”

“I don’t know what you are trying to sell me.”

The thing is… Mike is a professional marketer.

I’m not.

I’m a professional teacher/coach and a writer. So as much as I find the intellectual exercise of writing a sales page for a new product interesting… it isn’t exactly my speciality.

(As you well know, given how NON-slick my own websites are, lol)

So when he said he didn’t understand what I was offering or why, I had to take him seriously.

“What’s your goal?” He asked me.

“For the coaching program?” I said

“No. Not THIS program. You said you are doing a beta-test. For what? What is your big longterm goal?”

I answered right away, “I want to eventually have an ‘Elite’ members section of Weightlifting Academy, where we have weekly conference calls, where has a privately created routine just for them, etc… but I don’t exactly know how to run it yet.”

“So you are using this as an experiment to see what you can and can’t realistically include?” He asked.

“Yes.”

It started to hit me right away… Mike was trying to tell me I wasn’t following my own advice.

You see I always teach people to have a BIG goal, and then their immediate goal … the one right in front of them…

If you do that, you can largely ignore the middle stuff, because that will ebb and flow all over the place.

But if you have a very clear end-goal for your weightlifting… and you are very clear that the next step you are taking is going in that direction… then you’re at least on the right track.

I wasn’t on the right track.

“What do you plan to charge for the Weightlifting Academy upgrade?”

“Something like $49/month…”

“Then why are you charging $97 for this group?” He asked pointedly.

I paused.

“I think I see what you are saying…” I said.

“What am I saying?” The guy is a bit Socratic, if you haven’t noticed, lol.

I said, “Correct me if I’m wrong… but I think you are saying that my current idea isn’t actually a test for what I want in the long run…”

“Do you want to have the best coaching program possible?” He said.

“Well, ya, of course! Shit man… why else would I do this?”

“Then you should charge what you plan to in the future, and offer as much as you can, then you’ll have a clear idea of what does and doesn’t work. It’s better to shoot for the stars and land on the moon, than to shoot for the mud and land in shit.

I laughed very loud and said, “I haven’t heard that version, brother. I’m totally stealing that line… and I am not giving you credit.”

“Who is the program for?”

“People who have gotten past the rank-beginner stage, but aren’t truly advanced either.”

“You mean, Intermediates?”

“Yes.”

“How short can you make the program, realistically, and still get the information you need?”

“12 weeks.”

“Then the program is now 12-weeks,” he commanded.

Mike is a no-nonsense kind of guy, which is probably why he is good at almost everything he does.

He continued, “Tell me in one sentence what you are doing… and try to make it sound like you.”

I laughed again, and said, “How about… 12 weeks of coaching and accountability for weightlifters looking to dominate.

“That’s your main headline,” he said and then told me he had to run.

THE BIG SOLUTION

Mike was right.

I was wrong.

You win.

Some of you DID join up at 97 and should have received a partial refund by now (email me if you didn’t).

I am dropping the price down to 47/month.

AND

It’s capped at 12-Weeks.

What we now have is … a 12-week beta-test program, designed for people who are in that early-intermediate phase and want to take it to the next level.

The eventual version (that will end up in Weightlifting Academy) won’t have all the features this beta test group does… that isn’t realistic, since it will be open to WAY more people.

That version is going to be landed squarely on the moon, which is a nice place with a nice view.

THIS version is shooting past the moon, toward the stars… and it will be full of adventure.

I’d love for you to join me for 50% off of what I had originally opened it up at … by clicking here:

http://www.theironsamurai.com/mastermind/

Now go lift something heavy,
Nick Horton

PS. If nothing else, please do look over the page and ask me any questions you have about the program. I want to make sure that if this is a good fit for you, that you get in before I close down registration. It’s gonna be a lot of fun.

 

Help! I Need A Better New Years Resolution…

I have a good new years resolution in THEORY…

But it needs to be fleshed out, and that can only happen if you help me.

Watch this video to see what I mean (and find out how I can help YOU in 2013)

Tell me your own 2013 weightlifting new years resolutions below, and I’ll make sure I help you reach them!