Are you strong at 11:45pm?

May you all be blessed!

Are you strong at any time of the day or night? What if you miss training for a day? What if you have to work double shifts for a week? What if you miss sleeping one night? What if you’ve been on a plane for eight hours? What if any number of circumstances puts you out of your normal training routine?

The first time I met Dennis Rogers was in Savannah, Georgia. We drove up to meet him and watch one of his shows. We didn’t get there till late, but as strongmen do, when we get around each other training and feats just come up no matter what else has been going on. At about 11:45, I’m sitting in his hotel room watching him tear a deck of cards into eighths. That’s right eighths… 1/8. That means he ripped the deck of cards in half, then ripped that half in half, then took that quarter and ripped IT in half! Even for a grizzled strength veteran that is an over the top feat. Yet Dennis had been on a plane and up since early that morning with about two hours of sleep the night before.

So on no sleep and unfamiliar surroundings, I watched a beyond world class feat of strength. Most modern trainees, flounder like a clubbed seal if they stay up and extra hour watching old Gilligan’s Island re-runs. If it ain’t at their gym, at their appointed time of day, wearing their lucky shorts, with the right carbo drink and their special gloves on, they can only lift about a quarter of their normal poundage. I want you to be different. Here are the keys to being strong 24 hours per day not just when you’re at the gym or in perfect conditions.

First, build real drug free strength, using real exercises. Heavy weights, low reps. This builds your tendons, builds up your vitality and hormone levels and doesn’t give you the off-roid let down. The strength stays with you.

Second get in good shape. The better your cardiovascular and muscular endurance, the better you tolerate long days and recover not just from training, but life to be able to demonstrate your strength at any time.

Third, unlock your mind. Get past the idea of a perfect setting for training and into the idea that your strength is always with you and can be displayed at a moments notice. Get past the concepts having to be in the middle of a perfect training cycle to really do anything heavy. Force your body to be subject to your mind.

Fourth, build up your powers of concentration. Even if your body isn’t feeling 100%, your mind has truly developed concentrating powers you can recruit 100% out of your body.

Doing these things gives you the right kind of strength to display at any time. Real world power. It also builds up your internal energy or “chi” giving you the ability to focus your mental and emotional strength as well as the subtle energy of your body along with the physical. This is when you become a truly powerful force.

Since first meeting Dennis I’ve spent quite a bit of time with him. I’ve seen him pull out the same type of strength under even more adverse conditions. I was with him when he did an entire show and had a fever all the night before, most of the day and within an hour after the show became extremely ill. People shouldn’t be able to bend wrenches, and all the other insane feats that he does when they’re in the middle of an illness. But his physical and especially mental training has prepared him to be able to completely control his body and make it subject to his mind. You can too. You’ve just gotta get the right training behind a giant freight train of desire.

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