Belt is good for heavy lifts. Contrary to popular opinion using a belt doesn't really weaken your core.

However I just don't see any need to use a belt for weight you push in high volume training

Belt exists mostly for safety and for helping maintain internal pressure during a lift by giving your core something to push against

The safety thing is mostly for 90%+

I'll only use a belt for like overloading my hammies and glutes during squats so i don't have to worry about my back

or when going for a pr

Does anyone have tips for getting/staying motivated to work out and excerise? Especially during those cold weeks of December when you just want to stay in and feast every day

Was on XC team in high school. When I was 15 I was in he best shape of my life and I really want to take up running and swimming again

@Warren H you’re not always gonna be motivated. It’s more about discipline. Telling yourself that these days, when you really don’t feel like going, they’re the most important

Set a schedule and really dedicate yourself to it. You’ll always feel better after it’s done

What do you mean by discipline? Like forming a habit of working out on certain days

And thanks @Ekdromoi

Sticking to it and not deviating just because you don’t necessarily feel like it (As long as you’re not legitimately sick or injured or anything). Motivation isn’y necessarily something you can force to happen. I used to think so but I realized that it’s really all by chance or by circumstance that you feel “motivation”. Training is more about discipline and not doing it because you “feel” like it. Do it because you know you have to, and that you should, with the knowledge that you will be better for it afterward

Watch shit like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysylVPq81l4

Or this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spsS0b76Ok8

The number of videos like this are endless. It puts you in a foul mood but sometimes that's what it takes.

Haha yeah those will definitely get me fired up

The vast majority of us would like to think that we'd intervene in situations like these but, it seems, most people do not. One of the things that will increase your chances of doing so is having confidence in your physicality. I train like I do not because I want to be a bad ass but because I never want to live with myself if something like this happens and, like most people, I just stand there. There's never any telling until the moment arises but I want to put myself in the best possible position to help if I'm needed.

I imagine if a guy like @Nick-NJ, @Robtheroman, @Tyler0317, @Deleted User or a lot of the boys here were present in that first video. At least one of those two skinny pricks in the first video is gonna get *mauled*. Also helps to remember that @Reinhard Wolff has been clear about his expectations for our physical fitness.

The IE servers in general (and especially the pagan server for me in particular) are great motivation. @Warren H You have to make it part of your mindset. Given my ideology and values, I'd be a (WEAK) hypocrite if I didn't constantly pursue to better myself. I want to learn, grow, become stronger.

@Deleted User what about the pagan server motivates you? I've been looking for that as well on the server as a way to be empowered and motivated myself

Well that's something you have to look inwards for, but. Paganism has this metaphysical European strength to it. Honor thy ancestors, the Western 'sun and steel'

Have these stuck to my fridge.

👆 👆 👆

@Deleted User pagan server?… invite?

@Deleted User I am Admin in it. I'll DM you.

👌🏻

@Havamal respectfully request invite to pagan server

Dm'd

I know it's into the future quite a ways, but I'd definitely like to plan for another Warrior Dash group run, if you and anyone else are interested @Deleted User

If anyone else plays tennis, we should add a channel!

@Deleted User Let's play tennis together

I'm in Pennsylvania

Ya buddy! 🎾 I’ll bring my Blade to the IE conference in March.

@Deleted User

Alright I'll bring mine too

Terrible Test Tennis