The Important Role of Time Management.

    You will hear me repeat this phrase over and over again, "86,400 seconds is all we get per day." Because, that is the cold hard truth we get 24 hours per day to manifest our dreams into reality. The most successful people have mastered this art. The art that is time management. Those such as Elliott Hulse, Tony Robbins, Oprah, and others alike, have all mastered the art of time management. You see, managing time is the hardest but most resourceful thing to creating your image and business. You can go far as back as to say those such as Vincent Van Gough, and Nostradamus to see just how well time management can work in your favor.

    All great artists, historians and musicians alike use time management on their side. All of the successful people know that there is a fine line that distinguishes between work and pleasure. You have to manage your time so that you can get the best of both worlds. Not only will you get more work productivity accomplished, you will have more time to relax and recharge. Ask any person who has gotten success, and they will tell you the easiest way to become successful is to manage your time spent doing things. Cut your time down. Stop and take a 15 minute break if it seems that your task is becoming so daunting that you are dragging ass on it. Go for a walk to recharge your batteries, get some sunlight. Meditate, or practice yoga. Make sure to have yourself a good solid workout routine. Sleep regularly, weather or not 8 hours is on the agenda matters not, Make sure you keep a sleep schedule that is coherent to your goals.

    You make life work around you, not the other way around. If you have work, school, the gym, a family, you make it all work together. You find a way to incorporate as much as you can into as little time as possible. Find a shorter, but more effective workout to do at the gym. Choose to get more done at work in a shorter time, so that you can spend the down time working on yourself. If your goals is to work from home, and manage your own business. Start now, and get your presence known. What you want to do, will determine your next moves. Whatever your niche, find all forums on that subject. Join them, begin integrating yourself into the community. Build your social status, build your name. Grow your business around that. Become a part of the community you wish to thrive in, and your following will grow before your business even begins to take off.

    "Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."- Tony Robbins.
    
     Tony said it best, be committed but flexible. Flexibility is the ultimate tool in an arsenal when building yourself and your brand. Life will happen, and things will arise. You must be able to adapt to those things, and allow life to become your tool. You must allow life, to be subservient to you. You control life, and you control time. In the end, you will master anything you set your mind after. Go out, become the next Van Gough, the next Bach, the next Kobe Bryant, Kurt Warner, Adrian Peterson, Stone Cold Steve Austin, the next Brad Pitt, the next Tony Robbins. Go out, manage your time correctly. And you will gain everything you have ever wanted. I will explain more in detail on time management in my next book I am working on. Look for it in the next couple of weeks.
Until tomorrow,
Corey.

A few posts you may like:
http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2015/10/how-do-you-identify-yourself.html
http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-wolf-doesnt-concern-himself-with.html
http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2016/01/live-in-now.html
http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2016/01/feed-negative.html


In case you missed it, or you're new around here:
 http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2015/10/my-introduction-pt-1.html

Check out my book, How To Get Everything You Want:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/609912

I'm also selling custom made T-shirts, to which half of the proceeds will go towards testicular and prostate cancer charity.
https://teespring.com/liftwithyourbeard

Primal: Is It Any Good? Should I Follow It? What Is It Exactly?

  You're walking through the dense jungle, leaving your cave or home you had built. In one hand, a spear the other, is bare. As you are walking barefoot across sticks and leaves, you don't think twice, this is your nature. You've walked these forests a thousand times. You are crawling over rocks, climbing branches as about 100 yards away, you spot a wild boar. So instinctively you drop down slowly crawling, keeping your eyes fixed on it. You get close enough, and slowly rise, not to alarm it. As you cock back, you throw your spear, just right catching it in the heart. Instantly killing it. as you hoist it up on your shoulder you find a stick, and sharpen it as you arrive back at your home, putting it over the fire to slow cook all day. As you go out, foraging for nuts, and other vegetables or the occasional fruit you can find. As you find nothing else. Today was a lucky day, you actually get some meat to help keep you going through the rigorous daily activities you have to do, in order to live and survive.

  That's exactly how we lived, tens of thousands of years ago. There were no, Walmart, or big grocery stores to go shop at. There was no, frozen pizza, chicken nuggets, french fries, hell no friend, breaded, potato. corn. anything grain like. It was meat, when you could get it. And all the vegetables you could gather. You didn't get the luxury to go and buy it in abundance only to let it all waste. There was no ice cream and brownies for you "cheat meal" or "cheat day". The food you ate back then was to survive, to nourish your body. To keep it able to keep up with your necessary daily activity. You walked, daily. You crawled, and jumped. Sprinted when being chased on occasions. You climbed, and lifted heavy things. Hoisted animal carcasses. You threw spears, stabbed spears. Sharpened sticks. And there was no down time. Not even to blog like I am right now. You were always busy.

  I guess that is what we have "evolved" into. The "I want it now, it's easy to get and than I will let it waste because that health thing was only a fling". So we go back to our unhealthy grains, and we go back to our unhealthy foods. We get those frozen pizzas and those corn dogs, and such. And we stuff them into our bodies, getting the little amount of protein they offer. And hardly nourishing our bodies, and actually doing the opposite. Killing ourselves, slowly and surely. Getting a number of diseases, that weren't around 100,000 years ago. Because the food additives just did not exist. They were not even thought of.

 What does it mean to eat, live and be primal? Well, after I found the blog called "Marks Daily Apple" I decided to start adapting to living a primal life. Mark Sisson, is the one who created the "primal blueprint".

Being primal, means living the way our ancestors did thousands of years ago.

  Being primal means:

-Eating good foods, animals, good fats, plants and the occasional fruit.

-Low carb, your only carbs should come from plant sources.

-High fat, good fats such as avocado, coconut, olive oil, etc.

-Moderate protein.

-Walk daily.

-Lift heavy things.

-Stay active.

-Play (doing socially fun things or things you enjoy)

-Minimal stress.

-Get a good amount of sleep.

That pretty much outlines the basics of living a primal lifestyle.

No more being a couch potato. (speaking of potatoes, they are bad. They aren't included in the primal lifestyle. Unless it is an occasional sweet potato)

Now, that isn't saying you cannot watch TV. Just, don't revolve your life around it.

Just stay busy, stay active.

Walk around, do movements that mimic the lifestyle back then.

Crawl, hop, jump, walk, sprint on an occasion, lift heavy things, compound movements. Just do the opposite of all you have been taught.

Carbs are bad. Potatoes, grains, corn, all of it. 99% of what the modern diet consists of. Is bad for you. And is killing everyone slowly.

And they have those fancy commercials, "if you're hungry, grab a snickers"

 Oh, grab that snickers. Satisfy your hunger, for 10 seconds. Until you want another, and another. Of those empty calorie heart disease bars. All I see when I look at the candy section:

-cancer.

-heart disease.

-diabetes.

-obesity.

-tooth decay.

-death.

Because eating a diet, consistent of all that, is a surefire way to be put on prescription medication, that causes more problems than it fixes.

  To live the primal life, is to live the life that was lived for hundreds of thousands of years. Before artificial anything was around.

Now am I implying to go out and hunt for food everyday? To ask that of most people is, asinine. Quite frankly, not a lot of people CAN do that. But, what I am suggesting, is to go out and buy GRASS fed animals. ORGANIC fruits and vegetables. To buy GRASS fed everything. To supplement where you lack, with ORGANIC products. And to use healthier alternatives. Because, they're out there.

 The argument I always use is, would you rather pay $1.00 extra for the grass fed beef a pound. Or be charged $100.00 monthly for medication, and a hospital bill from your cancer treatments.

  Because, it's not a matter of IF anymore, it's a matter of WHEN. If you eat a diet, like the modern american.

  I will get more in depth, on the dangers of grains. On the benefits of walking daily, and other aspects of the primal lifestyle.

That's it for today guys and gals.

Stay healthy, stay strong, stay grain free, Stay primal.

Until a future time,
Corey.

Check out my book, How To Get Everything You Want:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/609912

I'm also selling custom made T-shirts, to which half of the proceeds will go towards testicular and prostate cancer charity.
https://teespring.com/liftwithyourbeard

A post I did about diseases, and the primal connection: 

http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2016/01/diseases-can-you-cure-or-even-prevent.html

In case you missed it, or you're new around here: http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2015/10/my-introduction-pt-1.html

How do you identify yourself?

We all have our stories, we all have things that define us. That people think of us when they see it.
  We have two choices, choose things that will make others adore you. Or choose things that will make others shy away from you. Do you want to be revered or do you want to bring about a negative presence?
  Now, it is your life,  do whatever the fuck you wish, but I encourage you to choose option #1 over the latter. It all comes down to the question, "How do you wish to be remembeted?"  And the sad reality is, most of us won't make the impact on the world we should be.
  Most of us settle, settle for that job, settle with that comfortable life. But, complain when things don't happen how we wanted.  You hear it time and time again. "I wish I would have done this" "I should have done that". And the later years of life, are filled with regret.
  The saddest aspect,  is most people are okay with this.  They are okay with being a drone. Working the generic 9-5. They are okay with smashing their dreams into the back of reality. Not caring that they're living less than they deserve. They settle, for the mundane and the constant.
  You see, most of us fear the unknown. Yet,  the unknown is what we already know. We just have to discover it ourselves. The unknown, is not scary. It is not to be feared. The unknown, to get uncomfortable,  is growth. Growth, means at some point you have suffered.  To live is to suffer,  to survive is the find meaning in the suffering. 
  You can either suffer, in suffering. Or you can suffer in success.
You choose.

Check out my book, How To Get Everything You Want:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/609912

I'm also selling custom made T-shirts, to which half of the proceeds will go towards testicular and prostate cancer charity.
https://teespring.com/liftwithyourbeard

https://youtu.be/wmrdLuGACaE

Stretching: How, When, & Why You Should Do It.

  Our muscles are very complex. They get tight, and they hurt. But, with proper stretching, we can loosen them up thus, eliminating the nagging pains we often feel. When we stretch our muscles, they become more elastic and they have a greater range of motion. They often help us with our daily lives. With tight muscles (which most have now a days, due to the overwhelming rise in technology), it is hard sometimes to perform a simple daily action of even walking. Our posture becomes terrible, we hunch over, we complain when we walk. Our bodies are deteriorating, slowly. But thankfully, we have this little thing on our side called time.

  With time, perseverance and patience. We can change that. We can reverse the damage we have caused. We can change what we have done to our bodies over time. With a simple stretching routine every morning, you will see improvement in your posture, in your mood, your physical pay load. Everything. You will noticed your gym activities, whatever they may be, will improve. Your life will improve ten fold.

  Now, why do we stretch? Well when we are active, our muscles become tight, and filled with lactic acid. If not properly stretched, the tightness never goes away and sticks with us forever. Hindering our abilities to perform some simple tasks as: squatting down, bending over and even walking. Reaching for things, can become a burden too.

  You can see why stretching is so important. It helps us, well live better lives. So I will tell you the basic fundamental stretches that will help you in your everyday life. And perform better at the gym.

  With every stretch, hold it for 30-90 seconds, working your way up to 90.

1.Sit with your legs spread as far apart as you can, bend forward like a hinge at your waist, stretching your arms out towards your feet. Reaching as far as you can. And hold that position for up to 90 seconds, or as long as you can.

2. Repeat, doing it with a single leg.

3. The butterfly, I'm sure you remember this from gym class. Sit with your feet together, and press on your thighs with your elbows stretching open your hips.

4. Stand, feet spread as wide as you can, breathe in and exhale down slowly. As you fold your arms, hand your head, arms folded in front of you. And dangle there, stretching your hamstrings and lower back. This is a great one, to help your nagging hamstrings.

5. Now, feet wide again, squat as far as possible. And maintain that position. Stretching your hips again, and inner thighs.

6. Step one foot in front of the other, and bend forward, keeping your feel about 2 or 3 feet apart, like scissors. And bend over that front leg, like a hinge. Reaching as far as possible.

7.Repeat #6, but bend your front knee. Do #6 and #7 for both legs.

8. On your hands and knees, inhale, and arch your back, exhale and press it out. Called the cat stretch. Do this, for 10 reps.

9.Stand, and cross one arm across your chest and make an L with the other one, hugging it close to you. Repeat for both.

10. Reach one hand behind your back, like you have an itch and press on it with your opposite hand. Repeat for both arms.

11. Sit, with one leg crossed, putting your leg on the opposite side, and push on your knee with your elbow, stretching your spine. Take care of those spines, they help you live and walk right. It is, the "backbone" of your body.

12. Get in the push up position, and push back, having legs straight. And bend one ankle. Stretching your calf. Repeat on each side, up to 10 times.

Those, are pretty much the basics.

There is a more in depth stretching guide, I will be writing soon. For now, do these daily. But, at least 2 hours before you work out.

 You don't want to do static exercises before working out. You want to do dynamic stretches, such as.

Body squats, pot stirs, etc.

These will open up your muscles and get them warm for working out.

More on those tomorrow.

Stay strong, stay fit, stay active, and stay healthy.

Check out my book, How To Get Everything You Want:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/609912

I'm also selling custom made T-shirts, to which half of the proceeds will go towards testicular and prostate cancer charity.
https://teespring.com/liftwithyourbeard

Yesterdays post about fitness, and over complication, in case you happened to miss it! http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2016/01/fitness-quit-over-complicating-it.html


In case you missed it, or you're new around here: http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2015/10/my-introduction-pt-1.html

Until another time,

Corey.

Fitness: Quit Over-Complicating It.

  We are all guilty of this in our lifetime. We over complicate things. We get so caught up in the lights and glamour of things. We have so many options. So many avenues, and they all claim to the be "right answer".

This place says, do high this and low that. This place says, the opposite. One says, heavy this, one says light that. Another says to follow this routine, another says that routine is bogus.

  It can be quite overwhelming. But, I am here to shed some light for you all. The truth is, there is no "right" or "wrong" way. But, there is effective and non-effective. Depending, on exactly what your end goal is.

  So you want to lose weight? But, not sure where to begin? Join the millions of other people who are researching along side you. Who are so overwhelmed with all the information.

  First off, forget all you have ever been taught. Forget all the health and fitness magazines. It's all just for show, to sell their supplements. Those big jacked guys, are simply on steroids. And you won't get those results without them.

  Okay, so, you're looking for a plan to help lose that fat.

First thing's first: WALK.

Just go for a walk, 30 minutes a day. That isn't such a big commitment, is it? You can walk around your neighborhood, get some sunlight. Anything, just walk for 30 minutes a day. It will get your fat loss jump started. Help your cardiovascular system. Help your bone structure. Your posture will improve. It will help your health seven fold.

  That is your first step, just to walk, make the commitment, and promise to yourself.

 Second step, is to find a program. Now, a lot of programs well quite frankly, suck. They give you all these complicated exercises, with all these crazy machines that twist your body into unnatural positions.

The ONLY exercises you will need, to build muscle and lose fat:

-Deadlift.

-Squat.(front and back)

-Bench Press.

-Overhead Press.

-Lunges.

-Power Cleans(and press)

-Bent over row

-Pull ups.

That's it. Those are all full body movements, all of them shock your CNS(central nervous system), enough to promote either fat loss or muscle gain. (depending on your level of nutrition)

Now, starting out, you can also use body weight movements.

-Body squats.

-Body lunges.

-Pull-ups.

-Push-ups.

-Bear Crawls.

-Planks (for core stability)

-Plyometrics(depends on your fitness level)

And you don't need a gym membership or fancy equipment, if you cannot afford it. Simply find heavy things to lift around the house. Anything to jump start your metabolism. Just get active.

-Barbells.

-Dumbbells.

-Kettlebells.

Those are the three major items you can buy, to use.

There are also different ways, such as tire flips/sledge hammer slams (like the UFC fighters use).

Those movements can be sort of advanced though.

Don't buy into the hype of all the items you see on tv, all the advertisements. All the information saying you need to do biceps and triceps and all that to make them look good.

You can do full body movements, and it can help grow all your secondary muscles. Like your biceps and triceps.

  Don't complicate yourself. And do what works for you. A good starting routine for strength and muscle gains (also fat loss):

(this follows the 5X5 aspects (5 sets of 5 reps each, as heavy as you can go)

Monday:

-Squat(back)

 5 sets of 5 reps each

-Pullups

5 sets till failure.

-standing barbell press

5 sets 5 reps each

-bench press

5 sets 5 reps each

Tuesday:Do your walking.

Wednesday:

-Dead lift

5 sets 5 reps each

-bent over barbell row

5 sets 5 reps each

-upright row

5 sets 5 reps each.

-push ups

5 sets till failure

Thursday: Do your walking.

Friday:

-Squat(front) (until you can do power cleans)

5 sets 5 reps each.

-Shrugs(dumbbell is better, but barbell works)

5 sets 5 reps each

-Front raises (barbell is better, but dumbbell is more versatile)

5 sets 5 reps each

-Dumbbell inclined bench press

5 sets 5 reps each

Saturday/Sunday:Do your walking.

That's it.

Age old workouts, that Arnold himself used. They're effective for muscle and strength gains. And fat loss.

These full body movements, such as dead lifts, power cleans, and squats. Tax your CNS, and send your body into a fat burning machine stage. Or a muscle building machine. Depending on your desired results. As long as you're getting stronger. It's working.

Do that, for 2-3 weeks. And if your strength gains aren't going up, change your diet up. Revise what you're doing inside the kitchen over all.

There you have it, the simplistic way of fitness. No glamour, no lights, no bullshit. Just simple, effective exercises.

Stop making it so complicated, thinking you have to follow some routine that makes you stay in the gym for 3 hours, doing all these "toning" exercises.

Now, long gym times aren't necessarily "bad" but, those are for different types of people. Such as strength athletes, training for strong man, and what not. That is a completely different world, for a different time.

Keep strong, keep healthy, keep active. And most importantly, STAY OFF THE SCALE.

Judge your fitness efforts by what your mirror says.

Until next time,

Corey.

I will be discussing stretching, and how it can help you in your fitness and healthy life goals.


Check out my book, How To Get Everything You Want:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/609912

I'm also selling custom made T-shirts, to which half of the proceeds will go towards testicular and prostate cancer charity.
https://teespring.com/liftwithyourbeard

In case you missed it, or you're new around here: http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2015/10/my-introduction-pt-1.html

If you need help with the food part: 

http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-basics-calories-carbs-fats-proteins.html

How to calculate calories:
http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2016/01/so-you-want-to-lose-weight.html

Diseases, Can You Cure or Even Prevent Them?

  We all ask the same question. "I have, such and such disease. What can I do?" It'san age old question, "I hate the side effects of my medicines, but I NEED THEM" No, let me stop you right there, you don't. You can change, prevent and even cure some if not all diseases.

  Some of you are sitting there, saying "well that cannot be, my doctor gave me this pills for a reason". The reasoning, is Big Pharma, and the prescription agenda. They make more money, off of people who have diseases that are easibly curable with diet change and supplementation of natural resources. But, they push these expensive and unnecessary medications, with a side effect list that is worse than what they are claiming to cure. My hnest opinion, they mask the underlying causes of diseases, poor nutrition and vitamin deficiences.

  These few items, can help you, with curing cancer. Yes CURING cancer. Preventing cancer, and a host of other diseases, including but not limited to:

-Alzheimer's

-Cancer

-IBS

-Heart disease

-Liver disease

-Dementia

-Cardiovascular disease

-Asthma

-Vascular diseases

-Hair loss

-Tooth decay

-Tumors(shrinking them)

  The list goes on and on. The number of diseases has grown to such a magnitude, since the early ages of man. They never knew diseases as of which we now know, The worst, was the bubonic plague. And even then, they used natural remedies to cure them.

  A lifestyle change is inevitible when faced with a life altaring or liffe threatening disease. More vegetalbles, more fruits, more meat, less starchy carbs.

These are the best natural ingredients to use, that can help rid your body of all sorts of toxins:

1.Apple cider vinegar.

  Apple cider vinegar has been used for the longest time as a natural remedy for acid reflux and a host of other stomach related problems

2. Honey.

  Honey, can be used for a number of things. From a natural allergy suppressant. To some quick energy. And, helping ward off pesky acne. It is a very versatile product.

3. Raw Coca powder(unsweetened).

  This, is a natural antioxadent that has more power than a cup of green tea. It was used along side green chillies(fresh), and vanilla. To make the first ever hot chocolate.

4. Coconut(oil).

  This, is the meca of all products. Curing and stopping cancer cells and tumors. Tooth health. Intestine health. Gut health. Hair and skin health. Brain clairty. You name it. Coconut can be used for it. The best part, is the coconut oil. But, coconut(raw), coconut milk and water are all great to use. This is a cure all, and a must in an everyday diet.

Lastly, I will talk about a controversial product, Hemp Oil.

The oil from the marijuana plant, has been shown to fight and stop cancer growth. And also help individuals be healthy. It is a highly controversial product, because of the recreational use of cannibis(which I don't frown upon). But, the oil, has a low THC count. And, can be used to help stop cancer.

There are many other products that can be used by the body, to help fight and ward off diseases. Also help prevent them.

Cayanne pepper.

Garlic.

Ginger.

Cinnamon.

Collagen.

Turmic.

The list goes on.

Inflamation, acne, poor circulation, obesity, etc.

These are all things a simple tweak or two of your diet can change.

Let me give you a start, to cleansing your system. Kevin James used this, to lose his weight.

I heard this on a Joe Rogan podcast(highly recoment listening/watching)

Drink one shake every morning:

Kale(one bundle)

Celery(2-4 stalks)

! Pear

1 cucumber

1 piece(about 2inches) of gigner root(fresh)

Make sure all ingredients are washed and fresh, no frozen, and no GMO.

Blend together(no wader needed)

And if you really want a kick, add a spoon full of chia seeds and or hemp seeds.

That shake will cleanse your body and get you on your road to fat loss.

So in closing, I recomend everyone follow a diet high in vegetables and fruits, use vitamins and supplements when needed. Use spices(organic) as much as wanted.

Moderate protein.

NO GRAINS, NO STARCHY CARBS.

Basically, any potato product is eliminated. No corn (yes, again it is a grain)

Get active. Get moving.

And stay healthy,

Until next time,

Corey.

Tomorrow, we will go over fitness, the do's and don't(s). And where most people make 
their mistakes.


Check out my book, How To Get Everything You Want:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/609912

I'm also selling custom made T-shirts, to which half of the proceeds will go towards testicular and prostate cancer charity.
https://teespring.com/liftwithyourbeard

Did you miss last nights video?: https://youtu.be/1gokY-zLM3w

In case you missed it, or you're new around here: http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2015/10/my-introduction-pt-1.html

Supplements, Do You Need Them? Are They Worth the Money?

  Ah, supplements. We all want to "get big fast" or "lose the inches in a few days".

Hell, I'm even guilty of it. When I first started working out, and nutrition. I spent over $100.00 on supplements. That hardly did any good, if not did bad to my body. I spent over, $450.00 on my share of supplements, and I have used my share of "free" ones. I quoted free, because as my favorite highschool teacher use to say, "There is no such thing as a free lunch" Meaning, even if it's free for you, someone had to pay for it.

  Anyways, back on track now.

Supplements, everyone uses them, everyone wants them. I mean, who wouldn't? Look at those muscle magazines, all these jacked and ripped dudes, and even girls, holding these supplements. And of course, they show those articles, of people who "transformed" because of the supplements. Or those stories, of how the supplements helped them so much. And then, there is the big dude, endorsing them. Claiming that they got those muscles by taking that powder, or pill. It's simply, unrealistic. Sure, those supplements help but truth is. You won't get that big, without steroids. It's physically impossible. Don't let anyone fool you.

  So, you're wondering, why am I bashing supplements? Well, I'm not exactly "bashing" them. Some are good. There are good protein powders, and such. But, the majority. Is shit. Plain and simple. Let me explain:

There are,

Pre-Workouts

Protein powders(whey, caseine, soy, rice, isolates, pea, etc)

Intra-Workouts

Creatine.(which I will say, does help a bit, one supplement I stand behind)

Fat burners

Thermogenic pills

Testosterone boosters

Post-Workout

Amino Acids

ETC.

Too many to name, really. The list goes on and on.

Now, a lot of these powders and riddled with dyes, and artificial sugars/flavors. Which, harm the body.

A lot, are simply unnecessary. Protein powders, do little for the body. When you can just eat a chicken breast.

Most have a lot of artificial ingredients (with the exception of "organic"(there is that word again) Protein powders)

Your pre workouts, well those are just a lot of stimulants and artificial ingredients. Drink some black coffee, and suck it up.

Intra workouts, do little to help you. Especially, when half the ingredients are again, artificial.

Post workout, well that's just unnecessary carbs and protein(again with lots of artificial ingredients)

Most testosterone boosters, well, have ingredients that either. Simply don't work, or they aren't a big enough dosage.

You can get most of your amino acids, from eating meat.

The only product I will stand behind, is creatine, if you want that pump. But, all it does is basically pull water to your muscles.

  You can get, most of your essential ingredients from natural sources. Such as food, and a quality multivitamin.

Now, one product line I support, is Onnit. They have good, all natural ingredients. The products work. And, they aren't full of artificial ingredients.

So, next time you pick up your copy of a muscle mag. And you see those big ripped body builders. Don't buy into the hype.

  Humans, survived and got stronger, bigger and ripped. More lean. Without those supplements. They ate food, and they did work. They stayed active. They walked daily, they did things that physically challenged them. They were in controlled stressful situations that made their bodies work.

  So instead of grabbing that $50.00 tub of protein. Buy $50.00 worth of meat. You'd be surprised how much more effective it is for you.

  Also, those fat burners/thermo pills.

Are junk, and can be dangerous. Unless you get prescription diet pills(Which I HIGHLY advise against).

They aren't going to do shit.

Your body responds to diet, and physical activity.

Quit fueling the fire, don't feed the beast. Maybe they will change. "Organic" and "all natural" products cost a tad more. But if you are looking for supplements, quality over quantity is a must.

Because, 20 years from now, you may be looking back wishing you had spent an extra $10.00 a month and not gotten that disease, or whatever.

  Be smart, be healthy, and most importantly Stay active.

Check out my book, How To Get Everything You Want:

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In case you missed it, or you're new around here: http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2015/10/my-introduction-pt-1.html

Until next time,

Corey