OK. As you know I have been celebrating my 50th birthday this week…ouch! 

So I did something special for my coaching clients and marketing list that I want to do for you as well. I gave them a free gift. And I want you to have it as well.

It’s a powerful Goal Achievement Hypnosis and Time Line Therapy audio program that I know you are going to love.

Go to - Achievement Visualization  and download the mp3 directly into your computer.

And because I can’t turn back the clock by 50 years… not that I would want to, I dropped 50 from something else.

I gave them an opportunity to pick up my two most popular training courses Inner Game of Confidence and 7 Rules of Achievement for $50 off the website price.

And I want you to have the same opportunity.

All you have to do is enter the special access code – 50Th Bash  once you get to the shopping cart and the discount is yours.  You could pick up one course at less then half price or both courses for less than the price of one.

I can only do this until Sunday, so head on over and check them out when you get a chance…you’re going to love the programs.

Go to – Life Changing Courses

Hey… Happy Birthday.

Below is an email I received early this morning and my answer to their question.  I have also included one of my most favorite workout routines for everyone to enjoy. 

All I ask is that you leave a comment and tell me your response/results from using this program.

Hello Mr Tom Terwilliger.

I am from norway and is 48 years old. I remember you from the muscle & fitness. I always thougt you had a vere good physique.

I wonder if you could give me some general advice about training. I have trained on and off for many years and have always trained heavy(5 to 8 reps).  My shoulders and knees are now starting to ache the day after a heavy session.

Is it OK to train lighter with more reps and shorter rest? I want to continue building muscle. Should I train intensive(to failure?)

Hope you have the time to give me some general advice.

Thanks, per gunnar olsen, Norway 

Gunnar, Great to hear from you and I appreciate the compliment about my physique back in the day!

You ask a very good question.  First, let me first say I am going to be turning 50 in January so I know exactly what you mean about the post workout aches and pains, in fact they’re more like pre-during and post-workout pains now.  But I still train extremely hard and are glad to hear that you are as well, why da hell not?!

I credit my longevity success to variety in my training.  One half of the year I train with moderate weight and higher reps 20, 15, 10 generally using either super or giant sets (combing 2-3 exercises back to back). And one fourth of the year is spent training very heavy with reps as low as 2-4.  The final quarter, I go extremely light with very high reps (100) to strengthen connective tissue and shock the muscle big time.

As for intensity, keep it high but listen to the feedback from your body, it will tell you if you need rest of if yoiu need to back off a bit.  I also mix up the routines every 8-12 weeks so that my joints aren’t constantly bombarded from the same angle and movement.  Mixing things up also keeps my body responding to the exercise rather than getting stale through adaptation.

My recommendation would be to take a week off from your current training to allow your body to heal and recover then start back with something completely different than what you have been used to.  I have attached a copy of the 100’s routine I have been staggering into my regiment for years.  Try it.  Either you will love or absolutley hate it.

You may also want to include some glutamine and some live greens with your post workout drink for added recover.  And you should be taking a joint formula with glucosamine and chondroitin.

Also check out my new personal development program THE LEAP.  One of the components goes deep into developing “Body Rapport” and I believe you would benefit from it.  Either way give me a shout again when you are 60 and we’ll talk more about aches and pains.

Good luck Gunner!

Tom Terwilliger’s 100’s Routine

Why would my good friend and world renowned nutrition expert, Jonny Bowden say, “He’s just a fraction of the guy who was on the cover of Muscular Development” about your good buddy, Tom Terwilliger (me)?

I’ll give you a hint… it has to do with BIG eating and early mortality.

Check out the rest of the story at ‘Eat Big Die Young’

I was just visiting my Facebook and Twitter pages and it got me wondering, “What da hell am I doing here?”

That’s a ligitimate question.

With little time and all the work I have on my plate what compells me to return again and again to these and other social networking sites?

Granted, part of the draw is the marketing possiblities.  After all my intention is to reach as many people as possible with the information I have to share. 

I can’t help change lives if I can’t reach them. 

But that is only part of it.  There is something deeper.  There are afterall thousands even millions of people visiting these sites daily with absolutely no marketing agenda what so ever.  

Why?

Then I got to thinking about what I teach.  We are all universally connected on a spiritual and energetic level.  You and I are connected with every human being on the planet and yet most of us feel extemely disconeected the majority of the time; some to the point of depression.

It has been said that the internet has brought us all closer together… so I won’t repeat it.  (Oops already did).

Hell you can get closer with people, a lot of people, as I did for years by cramming yourself into a New York City subway car during rush hour without ever feeling connected to a single person.

So it dawned on me that it’s the connection I am after.  I want to touch in some way that man or women in Indonesia, Great Britain, Nebraska, and even New York.  I want to feel that connection, not simply know it’s there.

And perhaps most importently I want to reconnect with those dear friends and acquaintances from all those lives I had in the past.  It’s a tremendous thrill to visit my Facebook page to find that someone from my old biker of bodybuilding days has stopped by to say hi and share a memory.

And so I keep going back.  I hope you’ll stop by and say “HEY!”  It will make my next visit worth the trip.