This document provides a blueprint for improving one's life by optimizing four main areas: mindset, strength training, and nutrition. It discusses developing an "iron mindset" through qualities like desire, drive, purpose, persistence and patience. It recommends strength training 3-4 times per week focusing on compound exercises and hiring a coach. It also stresses customizing nutrition to address goals like fat loss, health and longevity through a variety of strategies rather than a single diet. The overall message is that achieving meaningful goals requires consistent effort over time across multiple areas of one's life.
This document provides a blueprint for improving one's life by optimizing four main areas: mindset, strength training, and nutrition. It discusses developing an "iron mindset" through qualities like desire, drive, purpose, persistence and patience. It recommends strength training 3-4 times per week focusing on compound exercises and hiring a coach. It also stresses customizing nutrition to address goals like fat loss, health and longevity through a variety of strategies rather than a single diet. The overall message is that achieving meaningful goals requires consistent effort over time across multiple areas of one's life.
This document provides a blueprint for improving one's life by optimizing four main areas: mindset, strength training, and nutrition. It discusses developing an "iron mindset" through qualities like desire, drive, purpose, persistence and patience. It recommends strength training 3-4 times per week focusing on compound exercises and hiring a coach. It also stresses customizing nutrition to address goals like fat loss, health and longevity through a variety of strategies rather than a single diet. The overall message is that achieving meaningful goals requires consistent effort over time across multiple areas of one's life.
This document provides a blueprint for improving one's life by optimizing four main areas: mindset, strength training, and nutrition. It discusses developing an "iron mindset" through qualities like desire, drive, purpose, persistence and patience. It recommends strength training 3-4 times per week focusing on compound exercises and hiring a coach. It also stresses customizing nutrition to address goals like fat loss, health and longevity through a variety of strategies rather than a single diet. The overall message is that achieving meaningful goals requires consistent effort over time across multiple areas of one's life.
program If you were Im sorry to disappoint you but the shortcut doesnt exist and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something. Truth is, anything thats really worth achieving takes time, effort and patience. If youre still here lets talk about what it takes to create change and get better results and improve your life in any area you choose. When you want to make big changes in your life and be happier, more successful and fulfilled you have to strive to master four main areas of your life. I applied the same measures in my life and continue to apply them, to give me the best chance of hitting my goals and living a kick arse life. Truth is theres nothing stopping you living an absolutely fantastic life - except you. So to give yourself the best chance of hitting your goals, moving things to the next level and living the life you want in the future - apply the following steps to your life. Youll get a lot more out of life if you optimise the fundamental areas of your life - body, mind, health and performance - thats what this blueprint is about! Page 1
1- Develop an Iron Mindset
To get into the best shape ever and to live the life you want to live youll will have to develop the mental habits which support and bring your goal to fruition. The goal of course, never comes as we are in a state of constant evolution - the road is better than the inn! Theres no getting away from it, life can be hard and you never know what will be thrown at you. Thats why I urge people to get into Iron Game training and make it a habit for life. Why? Because it forges you into a stronger man or woman and helps you take the hits in life, shrug them off and march on towards your goal. This warrior kind of mindset is made up of a set of mental drivers that gets people into the shape of their lives, makes them excel in sport or business or achieve any other worthy goal thats considered an achievement in life. This mindset Im talking about contains the usual suspects: Desire - you have to want to do it. Drive - you have to have the get up and go attitude. Purpose - if you always work with your purpose or dharma in mind regardless of circumstances - it helps you take the hits that will inevitably come in life. Page 2
Persistence - the ability to keep on, keeping on even when
things dont go well or you fail temporarily. Patience - it wont happen overnight but it will happen by sticking to a plan over time and will appear as surely as the morning sun if you develop these qualities. If you look over that list and you find yourself saying that looks like a lot of work - youd be right. But instead of always looking for the easy route or wishing for a cushy life - strive to make yourself a stronger, more resilient and capable man. This builds character. Be more concerned of your character than your reputation because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are - John Wooden. If youre thinking that developing this mindset is a waste of time, you may also want to remember that it not only helps you with your training and getting the physique you want but also in many other aspects in the game of life. Winning in the game of life stems from living the Life. The Life is the actions and habits that are the foundation of the way you live your life and which leads you to the life and circumstances you want. The Life is what you do in your day to day living. The qualities Ive mentioned above are the success mindset and will help you in every aspect of your life. If you want to begin to acquire this mindset right now - you can by getting Page 3
your hands on, reading and applying the information from
the following books.
3 Books will help you Develop the Mindset - for the
Training and Life: 1.Thick Face Black Heart - Chin-ning Chu 2.Dinosaur Training - Brooks Kubik 3.Mastery - George Leonard Applying the info from the above resources really helped me and if you put the work in theyll help you too.
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2 - Get Into Strength Training
Do you think you can just go to bootcamp when it suits or just turn up at the gym 3 times a week and get the body, health and performance you want? Let me save you some time, you cant. If that worked everyone would be walking around in fantastic shape - but theyre not. Instead wake up to the real world and get into the training thatll give you the best bang of your buck results - strength training. To look good, be fit for your sport or whatever your goals is, you need to realise you cant just turn up and go through the motions. Good results comes from putting the work in and addressing multiple strength qualities. Depending on your goals youll want to, at least some degree, train strength, speed, endurance, agility, youll want to carry good lean muscle tissue for your frame and be flexible. Thats a lot of areas that need covered and the biggest investment you can make in your health and fitness endeavours is to hire a strength coach or a good trainer to help you put a plan together that works. Lack of programming knowledge is the biggest challenge people face when they decide to get into training seriously and this will seriously hamper your results if you dont know what youre doing. Its also why there are so many non Page 5
competing bodybuilder people off the street who take
steroids - because of a lack of knowledge. So hiring a coach or a good trainer is a great investment and Id recommend it even if you arent competing in serious sport, because the results you get from coaching can act as a springboard to propel you in other areas of your life. Here are a few training tips to get you going: 7 Tips To Get Your Results Producing Program on Track 1.Train 3-4 times per week for an hour at a time. Nail the basics down, learn and use big compound exercises for the majority of your work; squats, deadlifts, presses and heavy pulls and perform them with purpose and effort. This will take you further than anything. 2.Perform upper and lower body maximum strength work once per week. When training strength, use weights that enable you to complete the exercises with good form, poor form leads to injury. 3.Throw upper and lower body speed exercises into your workouts to develop explosiveness - once per week. When training speed focus on form and bar speed - you have to move the bar fast. 4.Perform repetition work to build muscle mass and strength endurance every workout. When training to build muscle, dont say goodbye to the set until youve said hello to the pain - In other words, Dont quit the set as soon as you feel the burn, thats where you want to be, so maximise it. 5.Use all rep ranges to target the different strength qualities weve touched on. Think of it like this: 1-3 reps - max strength, 4-8 reps - functional hypertrophy, 8-12 reps hypertrophy, 15 reps and over - endurance. Speed is Page 6
achieved through training with the correct bar speed - if the
bar isnt moving fast enough youre not training speed. 6.Train 3-4 times per week and change your workouts completely every 3-4 weeks to prevent stagnation, 7.Get help, learn from people who did it, educate yourself through books or even better hire a coach! If you cant afford to hire a coach check out my 4 Week Iron Game Video Foundation program. <<<Make this a link to a free video Whether youre a rank beginner, an experienced lifter coming back from injury or a gym rat who to freshen things up for better results - this program will give you the solution. This is the only place you will see this program at a 75% Discount! - through this link.
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3 - Customise Your Nutrition
Nutrition can address 4 areas and how much attention you give to each area depends on what is most important to you; body, health, performance, longevity. It should now be obvious to you that there is no new, one, revolutionary diet or way of eating from a bygone era that can address all of these points. They all have different methods or protocols. The fact is we are uniquely and we respond to nutrients differently and also to varying levels of stress which further make a person's response to an eating plan so wildly different to the next person. This crucial point is not addressed by no diet Ive seen and the information Im going to give you certainly hasnt. So rather than point you to diet x, y or z - its much better to give you a toolbox full of strategies which attack the different goals that are unique to you at any given time. Once you know all of these strategies it will be like a new education on how to feed yourself for success. Dropping body fat for example is achieved by creating a caloric deficit then matching macronutrient ratios but when eating to rebuild health a calorie deficit is exactly what youd avoid as this will drain important internal resources. Page 8
We also need to consider longevity and that means being
careful about what you put in your mouth. You must give your body the best quality of food you can, most of the time, if you want it to last a long time. The truth is, if you buy commercial, mass produced, supermarket food, most of the time your body will wear out faster than someone whos ate organic, free range and grass fed food all their lives, everything else being equal. Why? Because commercial and processed food not only contains less nutrients, it also often contains things that are toxic to the body. This is why it is better to buy fresh, local, organic, free range or grass fed fayre is best, because a) it has a much higher nutrient content b) it comes without the toxins. This been a no brainer for me for years, as soon as I discovered the truth about the food quality I made a conscious effort to feed myself the best food I could, most of the time - I hope you do too. We must also factor in that eating for athletic performance goals is different than eating for physique goals which is important if youre competing in sports, you work a physical job or you play hard for fun. All of the above points Ive mentioned can be hit once you know all of the methods and strategies which I show in my nutrition ebook. Once you know these methods and strategies, youll be far better equipped to build the nutrition plan thats right for you.
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4 - Form a Few Good Habits
Here are some habits that are worth forming that will keep you moving forward in life:
Support your Iron game training with a healthy lifestyle.
I didnt say dont drink, party or let your hair down ever again. Ensure you get enough rest, enjoyment and relaxation. Have a purpose and work on it but make sure its not all work and no play. This affects us negatively so be sensible and dont construct a dogmatic regime that makes you miserable and you cant follow. Make sure your plan works and is sustainable. Get into personal development. Creating the best model of you doesnt just come from being strong and looking good but also from a healthy mind and a happy life. Identify your weak areas and work on them, dont always do what youre good at. Assimilate books, courses or seminars that supply the information which rectifies the problem youve identified. Then apply it to your life immediately. Areas that need brought up to speed could be health, money, relationships, emotional problems, business or success orientated problems. This point is one of the most important in the whole plan.
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Start a business. Even if youre working a job, start a
business on the side. It will bring extra income maybe not at first, but in time. Build it until you dont need your job. I was working as a construction worker when I was studying to be a trainer then when I built my client base enough, I quit my job and became a trainer. Then opened my own gym. Same route with my website. Having a business frees you from having to work for a boss at a job and in time allows you to be the boss of your life. Read daily. This will help you with all of the above. Reading for an hour a day translates into a book a week which is 52 books a year. This alone can transform your life. This can help rocket you into the top bracket of knowledgeable people in your field, help you beat a disease, make more money to give you more freedom or make you better in your relationships. Reading is an absolute must if youre serious about changing your life. Also, while were on this subject, learn to read faster. Get this fantastic tool: Breakthrough Rapid Reading by Peter Kump. This will help you take in and assimilate more information faster, I doubled my reading speed after the first four chapters of this book :) Have time for the people that count and dont forget to smell the roses. The people that matter are family, close friends and always help people who are in a weaker position than you - it comes back in spades and when youre travelling your path dont forget to slow down, notice and appreciate the nice little things in life. The road is better than the inn. Now get out there, strut your stuff, push for what you want, hustle, always be taking action and always be asking Page 11
whats next! Stay focused on your goals and go for what you want and dont ever stop. Best of Luck Stephen Williams