Viking Muscle
Black Coffee, Black Metal, and Heavy Weights – The Viking Muscle mantra
That’s the secret…
Black Coffee, Black Metal, and Heavy weights.
If you go search the web for weight lifting advice, you will find 15,080,000 results. Let me help you sort through all the garbage that has now become the ‘health and fitness’ industry. Most of you reading this will fall into 2 categories, the “I want to burn fat and look toned”, and the “I want to pack on muscle and get strong” groups. Regardless of the end goal, I can safely say there are three things proven to help you get there.
Black Coffee, Black Metal, and Heavy Weights.
I will go ahead right now and tell you the rest of this article is not about a secret ritual I know of that will let you get shredded abs while you eat cheeseburgers and watch the Real Housewives of wherever. SPOILER ALERT: you will have to work hard.
However, the good news is, it doesn’t have to be complicated! Get rid of the $150 dollars worth of supplements you buy each month, blast some Burzum, and get in the gym. Simplicity and consistency will make the difference between you hitting your goals and you getting frustrated and giving up.
Let’s break it down:
Black Coffee:
The supplement industry has done a fantastic job convincing you that you will never be able to lose weight / get stronger without waking up with a Casein Shake, taking your Ripped Fuel, NO Xplode and a Muscle Milk pre-workout, Syntha-Six post workout, ZMA complex before bed, wake up, repeat…
How have we even survived this long without chemically formulated dehydrated lactose free – protein isolates?
The truth is, you can spend all you want on supplements and not make a difference on your overall health, your strength or your six-pack. There are very few supplements that can make a true, well documented, and proven difference in body composition. Not counting steroids.
One of those is Black Coffee.
It provides a significant energy boost, it is proven to increase physical strength and endurance, it is a highly effective appetite suppressant, and to top it off it is good for your heart.
Drink a cup about 30-45 minutes before you hit the gym or go for a run.
Black Metal:
Nothing works better at increasing your focus and strength than black metal. Well… for those of you with less experienced tastes, any music with a fast BPM and, more importantly, music that fires you up.
Music has been proven to provide an increase in muscular endurance by about 15%. That means, just by throwing a song on that gets your heart pumping, you could crush your previous bench test. I recommend getting some real dark and hateful Norwegian black metal that makes you want to break stuff and burn churches down… or the latest Justin Beiber song, whatever works for you.
Plus, listening to your music helps you stay focused in the gym or on a run. Don’t allow yourself to get distracted chatting or people watching, get to work!
Heavy Weights:
Too often I see hoards of weak, skinny-fat guys come into the gym and stand on a Bosu Ball while banging out a set of 20-30 reps with 15 pound dumbbells. People want to believe that by doing a ton of light, high volume / high repetition weight work, they will have their fat magically replaced by lean and beautiful muscle. It won’t happen.
This one is simple, you need to consistently increase your weight load to see results. Doing the same weight each week won’t take you to the next level. You have to push yourself mentally and physically to get better / faster / stronger.
I am not saying to just throw 4 plates on a squat rack and go, but using a weight that you can perform a series of well executed, controlled repetitions at will make your body adapt and stimulate muscle growth.
I can already hear the women protesting … “I don’t want to get big and bulky” … If it were possible to get huge and bulky from a couple of trips to the gym men all over would be rejoicing. Women have to lift hard as well, strength and turn over speed are important factors for total body conditioning.
That’s it… you can go out of your way to make weight training so hard and complicated that you need a personal secretary to keep it in order, but I suggest you keep it simple and maintainable. Pick a program that forces you to adapt new weight each week, look here for examples.
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