I have now recommended the uniqe program "Core Force Energy", created by Garin Bader several times. This program WILL greatly improve your strength, power and speed - and do so quickly.

One of Garin Bader's important characteristics is that he asks intelligent questions. Questions that force you to think in new ways and go beyond limits.

The following is - with permission - reprinted from Garin's highly recommended blog at www.garinbader.com:

Everywhere you look there seems to be countless advice on the benefits of having a strong heart. You see controversy everywhere of whether intense cardio or moderate cardio is the better way to have optimal health.

Hundreds of thousands of books are written on the benefits from medical journals to fitness magazines extolling the benefits of putting a strong cardio routine into your exercise to keep you healthy and strong.

But few seem to mention the benefits of relaxing the heart quickly from intense beating and training it to have an elastic quality.

It's elasticity of the heart, arteries, and capillaries that will give you greater strength, stamina and energy from your youth well into old age.

Many think that just doing quick sprints or intense spurts of bodyweight exercises, super sets of weights, or kettlebells will automatically give them this elasticity. But it doesn't come automatically for everyone.

You must train your heart to relax quickly from extreme tensions just as you would train your muscles to relax quickly after a quick jab or punch.

A quick release to muscular contractions in a punch or kick gives you greater snap, strength, and speed. The same goes for the heart. But intention and purpose must be there for it to happen. It doesn't always happen by itself.

I train with a heart rate monitor no matter what I do in the gym. I watch it constantly to monitor not only how fast my heart rate goes up but how fast it comes down.

As unusual as it may seem, my aim is not to get my heart rate up to a highest number every time for maximu cardio benefit. When your intention is to get it to a certain number, your body usually responds - and responds fast with training. Thus, you train your body to respond to get to a high number - fast.

I think it's much smarter instead to intend on LOWERING the heart rate every time  while INCREASING the workload. I don't always succeed but the point is that I try to increase my speed and strength, while lowering the heart rate mentally by intending it right from the start instead of setting a goal to get to a certain level.

I want increased capacity of strength and lowered stress on the heart and greater output by it at the same time.

So, when I run on a treadmill, my intention is to get a HIGHER speed on the treadmill and a LOWER heart rate each time for each short burst.

Then after each set, it's my intention to get that heart rate down as quickly as possible. Practicing elasticity has to be practiced - it doesn't come without intention - few things do.

Watching the heart rate with bodyweight exercises, weights,kettlebells, martial arts is all the same. The quest to build great health, energy, strength, and stamia to me lies in asking this question...

"How can I increase my weight and reps while lowering my heart rate. AND, how fast between each set can I get my heart rate back down?"

By asking intelligent questions like this, you get your own answers and insight to whether you're overtraining, whether you're pushing yourself too hard, and whether you might want to drop things down a notch or jump them up. Your heart will tell you in more ways than one.

To Your Strength and Mastery,
Garin Bader

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Move with Passion,
Karsten Jensen