NOW, it’s time to get freaky with the good stuff and, as promised, my 3 BEST tricks for you to absolutely crush the “Curse of Motivation” and keep rocking and rolling with your athletic success.

So, let’s get it on:

1. Write a thank-you letter to yourself TODAY

This little trick is all about personal accountability..

I discovered it a few years back when I was actually writing thank-you letters to some friends, and because I’m awesomely weird, I decided to write a thank-you letter to myself.

This is something I’ve never really talked about before:

When I was going through my original speed and quickness transformation (the one where I went from super-slow and CUT from my own high school’s basketball team to playing college basketball and getting so darn quick, I was asked to create a best-selling speed and quickness program called “The Truth About Quickness”),  I struggled. A lot.

It’s funny now, because when we talk about it or look back on it, it seems so easy, simple and straightforward. And it sort of is..

Ya know, it’s like.. You do these exercises, you do them this often and you do this much of them, and pretty soon, YOU’RE incredibly fast too.

But that’s not the whole picture, is it?

**QUICK NOTE: BE SURE TO READ THIS WHOLE ARTICLE. SEVERAL IMPORTANT THINGS ARE BEING REVEALED HERE**

So here it is! The exclusive interview I secured for you with Vert Freak 2.0 Creator Adam Linkenauger.

If you don’t know who Adam is, he’s a former National Champion Long Jumper, creator of the Vert Freak System and (DRUMROLL…), owner of a 50-INCH VERTICAL JUMP (one that he TRAINED for, it’s NOT something he was born with).

As you probably already know, Adam has just released the Vert Freak 2.0 System and I’m a really big fan of it, mainly because it has so MANY different vertical jump workouts to follow and reveals several different TECHNIQUE strategies for jumping higher.

These techniques are so special, because they ALLOW YOU to gain anywhere from 2-12 inches in a matter of MINUTES…anyways, Adam’s gonna explain it all below for you, and if you’re ready to check out the newest version of Vert Freak 2.0, check out this link below:

Vert Freak 2.0 <——— Click This!

Also, there were 500 copies to start and I know everyone’s been on them like gangbusters, so, don’t wait on this, ya know?

Imagine if you’re an athlete that’s just been focusing on sarcoplasmic hypertrophy all this time…hopefully you’re NOT one of them!

Let me know your thoughts below on the video above, I always dig seeing what you have to say (also, at least 25 comments and I’ll crank out another cool video for you this weekend…please do this, I have way too much fun making these videos!).

And if you have any specific questions, let me know below too, and I’ll do my best to get them answered for you.

Also, here’s the link to Jason’s new program: Triple Threat Muscle

But like I said, DON’T get it yet…I worked my Maroko Magic and got him to drop the price just for you guys next week, but don’t worry about that for now, I’m gonna try and get a couple more good videos up for you this week and weekend before then.

Talk to you in the Comments Section,

Alex

Kinda weird. Anyways…

Lots has been going on lately that’s prevented me from updating the blog recently, so my bizzad for that. Before you forgive me, let me tell you why, and what’s been going on.

I’ve been super busy with this crazy, but always exciting thing called life (did I pronounce that right? LOL).

Between training in “real life”, my new Platinum Athletic Clients, helping everyone in the Destroy The 40 Program and helping run all the different websites for TAQ, FIF and EBH (my 3 products), I’ve sort of been tied up.

On top of that, I’ve also started writing a book (a REAL book, that is). Very early stages right now, but it actually isn’t just about training or fitness, but about lifestyle, influence, self-help, lots of cool stuff that I’m enormously passionate about, so I’ve been beyond EXCITED about that (and I’ll be sure to keep you guys posted on that).

I’ve also think I’ve put together a good “email update” schedule that should work out well for you and for me…here’s what it looks like:

**IMPORTANT MESSAGE — PLEASE READ CAREFULLY**

Here is the PERSONAL video I promised you from BodyWeightCoach.Com Expert Trainer Adam Steer. In it, he’s going to tell you:

• The NUMBER ONE problem with not using bodyweight training in your workouts
• How bodyweight training specifically and DIRECTLY helps you on the field or court with your speed, power and explosiveness
• One MAJOR HALL-OF-FAME ATHLETE who trained with Adam and WHY he said Adam’s bodyweight training techniques rocked his WORLD (this guy is a LEGEND)
• EXACTLY why you need to include bodyweight workouts in your own training, but even more, exactly why you need to be using what Adam teaches to achieve the absolute BEST results

…it wasn’t all socializing and partying (too bad, right?). Almost every morning, while my buddies were on the beach “gaming and shaming”, I was in the warped and twisted hotel weight room, getting my sweat on!

I managed to capture some video of some of the workouts for you, but as you’ll see below in the video below, the weight room there was hopelessly weak!

The squat rack was the missing the barbell, the dumbbells only went up to 50 lbs. and when I even decided to give the machines a shot, I found that they only worked for half the repetition (the resistance disappeared for the eccentric portion of the lift — which to me, as I’m in a “muscle-building” focused stage is most important, since most of the muscular damage and the hormonal response it initiates comes from those intense eccentric contractions).

You would think you can’t get a good, athletic-specific workout in such a situation, right?

WRONG!

Now, I’m from Michigan. My dad spent some time back in the day with the University of Michigan football team (at 5-9, 170 lbs., he was a beast of an O-linemen…ok, he was actually a punter), when good ‘ol Bo Shembechler was coaching and it rubbed off on me growing up…we always cheered for the Wolverine football team on some fun, fall Saturday afternoons.

So as I was watching the Cardinals mollywamp the Packers, a familiar name kept coming up from the Cardinals

I don’t know if you’ve ever seen that show How I Met Your Mother (CBS Mondays at 8 PM Eastern Time), but I watch it all the time, own all the seasons on DVD, quote my favorite characters….you know, the whole nine.

Anyways, there was an episode I watched for the <totally lost count> time the other day where it’s New Year’s Eve and the show’s main character, hopeless romantic and narrator Ted Mosby decides to take New Year’s Eve into his own hands.

See, earlier in the episode and throughout the entire thing, Ted and crew say something like “New Year’s Eve is the most overrated night of the year…with all the hype and pre-planning it gets, there’s no way it can ever live up to its billing.”

Interesting story…

I was talking to one of my Platinum Athletic athletes a couple days ago (which is, btw, shutting down…just a little too much demand compared to the amount of time I’d like to to give to it…everyone currently in it, no worries, you’re still in for as long as you want), and through our emailing back and forth, he was telling me that while he was feeling quicker and faster, he wasn’t any stronger.

He said he was still using the same amount of of weight on all his major exercises, and his bathroom mirror was telling him he hadn’t gained any muscle either.

Hmm…