Our buddy Brad Pilon put up a cool article on the new Invictus Workout that will SOON be taking the net by storm.

I liked the premise so much that I’m reprinting it here for you to feast your eyes on.

Ready?

Go!

“The Invictus Workout”

Haven’t heard of it yet?

Don’t worry, you will.

Invictus is a new movie that is coming out soon that stars Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman.

So why does it get it’s own workout?

Well Matt Damon plays Francois Pienaar, the Captain of South Africa’s Rugby team in the early to mid 1990’s. And, at minute 0:57 of the trailer for Invictus, you see Matt with his shirt
off for about 1.5 seconds.

Sounds silly but this is the equation:

Male Hollywood Celebrity Appears “Jacked” in a movie = On-line Hysteria over “How he did it”.

Think the Christian Bale Batman Workout, the Gerard Butler 300 Workout, or the Hugh Jackman Wolverine workout.

It works every time, without fail. Hollywood Celeb gets jacked, someone tries to cash in.

So I’m going to Preempt everyone with this one:

I know EXACTLY how Matt Damon got in shape for this movie…It’s the exact same way Hugh Jackman got in shape, which is the exact same way Gerard Butler got in shape and the same way Christian Bale gets in shape.

They dedicated themselves to Hard work and some form of resistance training.

We should all realize by now that there IS NO SECRET.

It doesn’t matter if you are lifting giant rocks, kettle bells, dumbbells or small barnyard animals.

It’s the hard work that gets the results, not the trendy tools.

Matt, Gerard, Christian, they are no different then you or me… well, other than the lifestyle and money part.

They work hard, they stay dedicated and consistent and they get results. It’s not some secret new workout of the star that until now was kept secret

It’s hard work.

So there you go… If you want to look like a Movie Star, the secret is hard work.

The trick to it all?

Next time you are in the gym imagine there is a 10 million dollar movie role on the line.

You get in shape, you get the role.

BP

And he’s right.

Even with the correct systems in place, if you don’t work at it, you get virtually no results.

This isn’t a walk in the park and on some days, you’ll just plain HATE it.

But them’s the ropes.

If you remember this past weeks podcast, we talked about this a bit.

Intensity.

Mental toughness.

Stretching your boundaries.

Escaping your comfort zone.

And you know what?

It’s WORTH it.

Just imagine how people will look at you when you get to that perfect Adonis Index.

Picture women asking you how you did it.

Listen to the men clamoring over your “secret” potion or “hidden” technique.

And then imagine grinning… because you know that even though you had an awesome workout system (ours) to keep you aimed in the right direction…

… you KNOW that the true secret to the body you now possess, the one that all of these people are hounding you about…

… didn’t come from anything you bought.

It didn’t come from magic.

No specific supplements.

No crazy workout machines.

YOU KNOW, that the true secret is:

Showing up and working out with rabbit-like intensity yet having turtle-like consistency

Each workout is a battle.

It’s you against your worst enemy…

… YOU!

The internal struggle of when to quit and when to push the gas. The flirting with the “edge”.

This is how it works.

This is your life.

And you’re now “that guy”.

Aren’t you? 😉

Stay cool,

Brad

p.s. Hard work is important. But so are systems.

It’s like running as fast as you can for a mile to try to get to a gas station when you’ve run out of gas in your car.

With no knowledge of which way you’re going, the results you get (finding the gas station) rely more on luck and guessing than having a true aim. After all, wouldn’t having a road map be better?

Here’s that roadmap for the body you want.

Take roadmap. Insert wily determination.

Get results. Period.

If you’ve been hitting the gym and working on your AI, then you already know that the social advantages aren’t just from the way you look… but from the way that change affects your confidence.

As your AI improves, you can feel the way people treat you differently, it makes you more confident, you’re handed even more social power because of that confidence, and that makes you even more confident.

It’s like lighting the fuse on a stack of dynamite.

Building the kind of self-trust that leads to rock-solid confidence usually starts with something external that gives you validation… whether it’s big money success or transforming your body.

Ultimately you become completely internally referenced – you’re a rock solid man who’s confident about his masculinity… a man who’s not playing it safe or playing small…

Women call this guy “passionate,” and this type of confidence is the most sexually attractive quality a man can have.

I’m talking about the guy that even normally shy and reserved girls end up doing all kinds of crazy things with because he elicits something inside of her that’s deeper than her personality.

The fact is, there ain’t a whole lot of passionate men in the world (other than in women’s romance novels), and that’s because it’s not so simple.

We all want to build our confidence, but it’s easy to feel stuck.

So I KNOW you are working on the physical side… here’s some kick-ass techniques to work it from the INSIDE…

My friend Alex (that’s him in the picture above, pretty sweet AI right?) has launched a new system that is all about getting the confidence and the passion in your life… learning how to get WOMEN to respond to you more sexually, and how to be that guy that gets her to unleash her wild-side in the bedroom.

Alex is my friend that wrote the book, “Revolutionary Sex,” (which is definitely one of the best books ever written on the subject of bedroom skills) and his new project, “Passionate Lover, Passionate Life” is the real deal.

(As and aside, this guy always speaks at Eben Pagan/David DeAngelo’s conference’s because he KNOWS what the hell he’s talking about)

He’s created what amounts to a free mini-course on having more passionate interactions with women, and I gotta say, this stuff is baller. Go check out the 1st report:

“Overcoming The Obstacles To Living A Life Of Passion”

And you know, maybe you’re the type of guy that thinks this stuff is queer or only for sissy losers…

… and you’d be wrong.

It doesn’t cost anything and Alex is my boy so you KNOW it’s gonna be good.

This stuff isn’t “pick up”. And it’s not about how to be cool when approaching women in bars.

It’s about how to live with more guts, how to have relationships with women that are more sexually powerful and more authentic for both of you.

There’s basically 4 ideas that Alex talks about in his new system:

1. How to develop the inner confidence to become more passionate as a MAN

2. How to get any woman to be more passionate (both emotionally and sexually) in your relationship

3. How to lead a more passionate LIFE

4. When you fall in love with the right woman… how to make the passion last long-term (for both of you)

If you want to learn some really sharp new ideas that you can use right away to take your interactions with women to a MUCH higher level… you are going to want to check out the reports and virtual workshop on building a more passionate life and relationship that Alex is giving away.

Watch the cool video and download the loot here:

Oh, and by the way, if you see Alex, make sure you laugh at him for this “thong” pic… HAHAHA!

Brad

If you browse the fitness – and specifically – muscle building media, you’ll always see headlines referring to the amount of ‘muscle’ you can gain.

This muscle gain is usually measured by the pound… as in “Gain 10 pounds of muscle” etc…

That’s all well and good, but what does a pound of muscle even look like? The picture above is approx 1 pound of muscle (in the form of a t-bone steak)

And if your goal is to gain weight, where exactly do you want that weight to be?

The muscle mass on your body is almost perfectly balanced between your upper body and your lower body, 52% in your legs and 48% in your upper body.

So if you wanted to gain muscle and specifically see an increase in bodyweight, you would need to do at least as much leg training as upper body training…but seriously…

… who wants to do that?

I’m not saying that you should neglect leg training, far from it. But what I am saying is that most guys have an image in their head of what they want to look like, and they always think it equals more muscle than is really needed.

Putting on 10 pounds of muscle is going to require at least 5 of it to be in your legs.

Putting on 20 pounds is going to require at least 10 of it to be in your legs.

But in your minds eye, I’ll bet all the changes you are hoping to see are mostly upper body changes such as bigger shoulders and chest, thicker wider back and kick ass arms.

The point is that big time changes in your upper body don’t require you to put on that much muscle to see dramatic effects.

A few pounds properly added to the right spots will make ALL the difference in the world.

Again, the picture attached to this post is 1 pound of steak (which is basically the same type of muscle that makes up your body)

That one pound is pretty damn big.

Next time you’re at the grocery store go over to the butcher’s counter and ask to see 2-3 even 5 pounds of steak/meat. It’s big! Now imagine slapping that much mass to your body and realize that a few pounds in the right places is all it takes to make a big time change in your look and shape.

There is simply no need to be chasing some lofty goal of gaining massive amounts of muscle, because:

A) its not possible without drugs

B) its not necessary to look great

C) Even if you do gain lots of weight half of it will have to be in your legs anyway.

Bottom line: Don’t worry about how much you weigh on the scale, but rather what your proportions look like in the mirror.

John

P.S. Of course this is exactly why I built the Adonis Index Workout