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]]>The Leadership of Fitness – Interview With Lee Labrada
Leadership comes in all shapes and sizes. The interview we did for this weeks 911 call is a testament to that. On this weeks 911 Fitness call Jim and I had the opportunity to speak with a true legend in both the body building and business communities – Lee Labrada. Lee is a former pro body builder with countless amateurs and pro titles under his belt. He is also the founder/owner of Labrada Nutrition one of the most successful nutrition supplement companies on the planet.
Along with his insightful and experienced training and nutrition strategies for long term success, Lee also shares with our listeners his 5 basic leadership tenants.
Lee’s 5 key leadership tenets:
1. Personal responsibility
2. Responsibility to and for others
3. Supporting others in their growth
4. Commitment to ones mission and goals
5. Flexibility
Listen to the interview below. (It may take a few moments for the audio to load- be patient)
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Accountability…Who Needs It?
We surveyed 32 random people regarding the importance or unimportance of accountability in the achievement of a goal or objective.
The results clearly indicate that the vast majority of people surveyed either have experienced positive results with, or believe that having someone (mentor, coach, partner) keep them accountable to what they say they are going to do or achieve will or has helped them achieve the desired or stated outcome.
This runs counter to much of the anecdotal and empirical evidence suggesting that sharing your goal with someone else can, as a result of the immediate gratification of sharing the goal, actuality reduce motivation and the likelihood of achieving it.
Below are the actual Survey questions and results
For more about ACCOUNTABILITY go to
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]]>Our success in life and on the playing field (whatever that field is for you) will depend in large part on our ability to identify our objective, commit to achieving it and our ability to keep ourselves accountable.
The truth is accountability and especially accountability partners can be a HUGE pain in the ass. But truthfully I know of very few of us including the greatest athletes in the world who have the discipline, presence of mind and sheer will power to keep themselves on track and accountable all the time – especially to those big audacious commitments.
We all slip now and then… but to keep us from slipping too far or repeating the same mistake twice we may need someone to call us on our shit when it shows up.
In this episode of Max Mind Set I address the issue of accountability and how without it we can easily fall off the commitment wagon.
Watch the full Max Mind Set episode at Muscle and Fitness Magazine
Then come back and take my Accountability Survey
Here are the Survey results
There’s a of talk today about “transparency” and being authenticity who you are. But how much should you reveal about yourself to the world. Do we share with the public, our friends, the media the real reason we started lifting, the deep core truth about our desire… need to be better then what a fast food meal plan and 14 hours of boob tube would a week might otherwise produce?
In John Rowley’s inaugural BlogTalk radio show last week John asked me about my biker background, and the truth about winning the Mr. America… did I reveal too much?
Give a listen and share your thought… I certainly did.
I would appreciate your feedback.
Tom
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In this episode of my Muscle & Fitness: Max Mind Set, I talk about leaving the New Year’s Resolution “BULLSHIT” at 2012′s doorstep and invoking some real passion by setting an empowering, challenging and audacious goal for the new year.
Ready to rock… then check it out.
Watch My Video at Muscle & Fitness Magazine
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How BIG a game did you play in 2011?
Chances are, like your neighbors up the street and millions of other people, you were directed less by a sense of desire and ambition and more by a need for survival. As a collective we contracted last year like we have for the past 3 years and as a result we experienced very little GROWTH… personally or collectively.
Can you even remember the goals or “resolutions” you set for yourself last year… more importantly did you achieve them?
Perhaps you did. Maybe you stopped smoking, gave up the booze, started a diet, asked your boss for a raise or read a book a month. If so – bravo. But the odds are you either didn’t set any goals or don’t even remember your goals.
And there’s an even greater likelihood that if you did set some goals, like the ones I mentioned above, you didn’t come close to achieving them.
WHY?
It’s simple, those objectives aren’t ambitious enough to invoke even the slightest bit of excitement much less passion…
Read the rest of the story at Ironman Magazine
Ok, so pretty much anybody who has heard the radio, seen the television or read the newspaper in the last week knows this past Saturday December 10, 2011 was the last full lunar eclipse for another 14 years.
I didn’t have the chance to see it myself as it was hidden behind those pesky Rocky Mountains.
But I understand from friends on the west coast, who had dragged themselves kicking and screaming out of bed a t 4:30 am, that it was a very cool sight as what appeared to be a massively overinflated moon, draped in red, passed through and was completely eclipsed by the earth’s shadow cast by the sun.
Although I missed this particular eclipse and they say there won’t be another one for 14 years this isn’t exactly a rare spectacle for me and likely not for you.
I see it happen all the time in the area of achievement and success.
We get all excited about some big, bright, and shiny object and like George Bailey we attempt to throw a lasso around it and pull it towards us. We shine a light on it, over inflate its size and make it the focus of our attention. We even run around telling people “This is it…this kind of opportunity doesn’t come around often. This is the one.”
Then before we know it, what was once bright and shiny begins turning red and going dim. The opportunity, hope and possibility that was once the source of the objects illumination is suddenly completely eclipsed by our own shadow.
A shadow cast not by the brightness of who we really are and what we’re actually capable of, but by our many inescapable fears, doubts and uncertainties.
If we only understood that all we have to do is MOVE (decisively) and the shadow will disappear.
What are your thoughts?
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If you’re anything like me, there’s a lot you have to think about from minute to minute, day to day and week to week. It can be freaking overwhelming at times. Other times it seems like we’re running on auto pilot.
Just the other day for example, I was headed to Colorado Springs from Denver and after arriving at my destination – I had vertically no recollection of driving or even what exit I took to get there. I had taken the drive so many times that it was programmed in.
It was as if I were in a trance the entire drive down except when some idiot in a semi cut me off doing 90mph. Then somehow as if on its own with no conscious effort on my part, my finger popped up…. followed by a short all be it intense stream of obscenities flowing from my lips.
It was like a reflex or part of the natural fight or flight response – or what I now call the fight/flight/finger response.
Like walking, breathing or the pumping of blood to and from the heart much of that stuff that happens automatically without us ever thinking about it is the job of your unconscious mind.
Your unconscious (or subconscious) mind is responsible for almost 90% of your actual mental activity and most of it is happening below our conscious radar.
Imagine a massive iceberg for a moment… your conscious mind is represented by what you see on the surface which is approximately 10% of the mass. This is the realm we like to 
think of as CHOICE.
The vast majority of the iceberg like your unconscious mind is somewhat hidden below the surface. And whether you’re aware of it or not it has massive influence over the vast majority of your actions, decisions and the choices you make on a minute to minute day to day basis… like flicking the bone at a truck driver that could run your ass over without a second thought.
Logically that might not have been the best choice but the emotional part of the brain can often hijack logic and automatically trigger an otherwise foolish response.
Consciously you may have decided to get up and go to the gym this morning, or grab those two beers last night, what kind of shape you’re going to be in or even the amount of money you make. But what you’re likely not aware of is the influence your unconscious programming had on those decisions.
Like the blueprints and programming you created early on about how to walk, talk and all the little idiosyncrasies you have – you we’re also busy creating unconscious blueprints and programming for how much success, happiness, fitness and money you we’re going to have… as well as the way you response to stress or fear. All based on some early experiences you had, and or the decisions or beliefs you created.
The very programs you likely created to help you safely navigate your environment at that time my now limit your options and choices and may have become the primary factors in limiting your ability to achieve what you want… providing you know what you want.
My goal was to get to Colorado Springs and back home again safely in one piece and yet my very reaction to the environment around me could have produced a decidedly different result. In many respects it was a fear based reaction.
That reaction unless identified and re-programmed does and will continue to represent a restriction and limitation to the otherwise more empowering and appropriate choices available.
Maybe it’s time to start questioning some of your unconscious automatic responses to what’s been cutting you off or getting in your way. Maybe it’s time to scrap some of the old blueprints and start building a new set of plans for the type of choice you want to make consciously.
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We’re taught to keep our eye on the ball and to focus on the outcome not the obstacle. Which I’m sure you’d agree is incredibly sound advice.
Too often we see only what stands between us and what we want and allow those things to stop us from moving forward or keep us from taking the first step. The truth is we’re always going to encounter resistance in the pursuit of what we want – most of which with the right plan, enough determination and strength of will can be overcome.
The more subversive and covert stumbling block for countless otherwise great achievers is the “internal resistance” they counter – but don’t have a clue it’s what’s slowing them down because it is on the unconscious level.
In the video I talk about the “end result” or outcome being like the leaves on a plant. Because they’re visible we get so focused on the leaves it’s all we pay any attention to….
“I must have great leaves.”
“I must have great leaves.”
“I must have great leaves.”
…and wind up ignoring what’s going on below the surface at the level of the roots.
But if the plant is going to flourish we must water and nurture the roots not the leaves.
If you have a values, integrity or worthiness conflict between what you want on the outside (the leaves) and what is going on inside (the roots) you will (not maybe) encounter overwhelming resistance, frustration and very likely failure.
The key is to fertilize, water, nurture the soil, and the roots. The only way to do that is to take your sights off the goal and focus on your internal rather than external growth.
I would love to hear your thoughts.