Pro Iron Fitness

Becoming a parent is one of the greatest gifts life has to offer, it also presents some of life’s biggest challenges. Time and energy become without a doubt the biggest hurdle for most parents. Just remember that without your health (both mentally & physically) you cannot effectively serve others, including your children. Making time for yourself is not a luxury, it is a necessity in becoming the best version of you.

FYI my clients and I average less than 1 hour a week in the gym and continue to progress through the power of consistency. Week after week. Month after month. Year after year.

Currently enjoying some upper body gains due to a torn meniscus in my left knee (work injury I fell off a ladder 🙄)
Resting the lower body has decreased the overall systemic recovery period between training sessions allowing me train my chest and back twice per week. Thankfully the knee will be good to go in another 3 weeks time, love my leg days.

What are your top 5 values in life?
Most people say..
1. My Family
2. My Friends
3. My Home
4. My Career
5. My time
Seems logical right? Well let’s look at it this way..
Tell me how much any of this matters if you no longer have your health? 🧐Most of us are well aware that exercise and diet can greatly improve our health both physically and mentally, so why put it off? Understand your core values and prioritise your life accordingly, I believe this is the blueprint to happiness 😁
P.S here’s my own core values:
1. My Health (physically & mentally)
2. My Time (life is short)
3. My FAMILY (friends are family too)
4. My Business (serving others)
5. Having FUN! (life’s purpose)

Lean Beef, Rice and Greens 🥩 🍚 🥬
60g Protein
75g Carbs
15g Fat

Pushing yourself to the limit physiologically is a psychological battle 🤪

Time & health are your most important assets. Take care of your health or you will lose them both forever.

Another great example of High Intensity Training at its best! 💪

The Colorado Experiment took place in May of 1973 at Colorado State University. The purpose of the experiment was to produce a high level of muscular growth by training Casey Viator every other day, or 14 times in 28 days, in a supervised university setting.

Nautilus-inventor Arthur Jones personally trained Casey for every workout. Training was intense, progressive, and involved a negative-only repetition style on 50 percent of the exercises.

During the first week alone, Viator gained 27.25 pounds of solid muscle. Repeat: That's 27.25 pounds of muscle in 7 days, or an average of 3.9 pounds of muscle per day. The facts show that during week 1, Viator gained 20.25 pounds of body weight and lost 7 pounds of fat, for a total of 27.25 pounds of muscle mass.

Viator's overall muscle mass gain in 28 days was 63.21 pounds. That was an average muscle mass increase of 2.26 pounds per day.

These results are incredible but here’s the central message: what imparts the benefit the stimulus to which the body adapts is an aggressive recruitment and momentary weakening of muscle fibres. If you are able to recruit, fatigue, and weaken muscle fibres within a defined time frame, then you are going to recruit all of the different muscle fibre types aggressively and therefore get the most mechanical and metabolic effect for producing an adaptation. If the exercises are performed properly that is, in accordance with muscle and joint function you can do so in a way that eliminates all of the other extraneous components, such as excessive force and excessive wear and tear on the joints, which are completely unnecessary for
the delivery of the stimulus. This is the level of understanding that should be baseline across the industry, though sadly we’ve resorted back to flipping truck tyres and swinging kettle bells 😅 🤦‍♂️

Full dad wear in the gym this morning! 😄

Loving the new dip machine!
The Integrity Raptor series are a solid build!
Head up, chest up and push down!!