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Be A Part of Something Bigger

As strength athletes, our pursuit to get stronger, bigger, and set PRs is individual and self-centred. You may have a training partner, or team you train with, or maybe even an entire gym of like-minded individuals, but at the end of the day your goals are just that - your own. That being said, the greater community of Brother and Sisters of Iron is a strong one. We bond in blood, sweat, and tears and push each other to become greater. As overwhelmingly, eye-rollingly stereotypical as the quote is, “with great power comes great responsibility,” and I believe that the strength community as a whole should harness their power towards contributing to greater missions. When you have the opportunity to be a part of something bigger, you should take it.

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The 5 Laws of Training Like an Athlete

Train like an athlete, even if you have no intention of ever competing in your chosen sport. If you want to make greater progress and improve, you should treat yourself more like a competitive athlete.

Being a competitive athlete, whether in strength sports or a more professional sport, takes serious commitment and sacrifice. Not everyone wants to take their fitness and training regime to the level of a competitive athlete, but applying the 5 laws that dictate an athlete’s life to your own life will grant you the results you seek (or beyond) with greater success in less time.

Law 1 - Training

Treating your training and fitness like an athlete consists of one thing. Create goals.

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The Kraut Chronicles: Probiotics Primer

How addressing this often neglected area of nutrition can help to maximize your athletic potential.

A lot goes into optimizing your nutrition for health and performance. With so many nuanced decisions to make, it’s not surprising that only the top level athletes in the world are dialled in to perfecting every aspect of their diet. Unless you are at the very top level of your game, I don’t believe it necessary for everything food-wise you put in your body to be perfectly suited to your specific nutritional requirements, but striving to be better is always a good goal to have. Because everybody is slightly different, different nutritional strategies and sub-categories of dietary choices will have varying impacts on your results towards your goals. While in the grand scheme of things, total caloric consumption and optimizing you macronutrient ratios to fit your needs will have the greatest impact on your athletic performance, probiotics and enhancing your gut health can have a tremendous impact on your overall health as well as some factors in athletic performance.