At the beginning of last month, we launched our first every charity intiative with Pencils of Promise. You can read the full announcement here, but here's the gist: We going to raise $25,000 to build an #impossible school in Guatemala and make education possible for 1,000 students. Since then, we've raised $7,184.31 of $25,000 – almost 30% BOOM! Nicely done team! But there's still a ways to go and still few months to make things happen. Here's an update ...
30 Pounds In 2 Months: Meet Justin, The First Impossible Abs Success Story
Impossible Abs hasn't even been out a full week and there's already an Impossible Abs success story? Dang straight. Here's how it happened. I finished my challenge in June and did a photo shoot to celebrate. Throughout the program, my friends and family started to notice my actions and transformation and their reactions changed over time accordingly. When I started this whole thing, they were asking: What are you doing again? As I kept doing it ...
Get Disciplined, Not Motivated
There's a lot of problems with simple motivation: Motivation is fleeting Motivation comes and goes however it wants. It might not last to the end of the week, end of the day, or even the end of blog post you just read. It's fleeting. Motivation is situational Motivation is based on your current situation. How do you feel? If you don't feel like doing it, then you're off the hook. You don't have to do it - because you don't feel like it! But then you ...
Impossible Abs Is Here!
I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty excited today. After 6 months of planning, testing, programming, some more testing, a ton of work and even more anticipation, it's finally here. As promised, Impossible Abs is now live. This project will help you burn fat, kill your excuses and get six pack abs through a zero-excuses 8-week fitness program designed to work anywhere in the world without fancy equipment or an expensive gym membership. You can read more or ...
All About Impossible Abs
Whew! In the last week, I've moved and settled into my apartment downtown Chicago, finalized Impossible Abs and . I'm really excited to make this available to you guys. Yesterday, we answered a bunch of questions about the program and tomorrow is launch day (9am EST sharp!), so today, I'm going to clear up any remaining questions about the program. Impossible Abs: What It's About When I set out to knock "get six pack abs and do a photo shoot to celebrate" ...
30 Questions About Six Pack Abs
Impossible Abs is coming out in just a few days. Whew. After working to create a library of 25+ video tutorials for Impossible Abs, I decided that I'm going to be incorporating more video throughout the blog as we move forward. So, when I got a bunch of questions via emails, comments and facebook, I decided to bust out the video camera and answer them all at once. 30 questions total - dang! You can watch each of the videos or click on the questions that ...
How To Deal With A Sweet Tooth On The Paleo Diet
Sugar. You can't escape it. Even after you cut out the usual culprits – desserts, candy, and simple carbohydrates – there are still plenty of places sugars manage to sneak into. Even the "healthy" foods are loaded with it. Take for example: Chobani - The yogurt you see all those Olympians eating - has 19grams of Sugar in a dish. Naked Juice - The "natural" fruit juice smoothie - has 28g in 8oz (Compare that to 26g in the same serving of Coca ...
3 Questions To Kill Every Excuse You’ve Ever Had
The next time you're tempted to give up because you came up with a really good excuse. Ask yourself: Would I believe this excuse if anyone else besides myself was saying it? (You wouldn't). Does this excuse even make any sense? (It doesn't). Am I really going to let this excuse stop me? (You shouldn't). Then keep going and don't quit. Your excuses are invalid ...
5 Common Myths About Six Pack Abs
Last week, I was downtown chowing down breakfast with my friend Patrick Hitches downtown Chicago. Patrick's like a walking terminator and made his own abs transformation a few months back. Our talk quickly shifted from just catching up to fitness and comparing notes on our six-pack transformations. And, as we talked, we marveled just how much bad information is out there about losing weight and burning fat (and even worse, how much of it I believed over ...
A Crash Course Intro To Impossible HQ
We've had a lot of new people in the last 10 days so I thought I'd take the time to review exactly what it is we're up to at the site (we have a lot of things happening). If you've been around for a while, you'll still want to read this. We've got a ton of projects going on and you may have just missed a few things. First things first, there are a lot of sites that are about inspiration, feeling good and happy self-talk a-la a virtual internet ...