Posts by Craig Ballantyne
The True Definition of Success
“Success for me,” John McAfee explained in Fast Company in 2007, “is can you wake up in the morning and feel like a twelve year old?” That was before he lost 95% of his net worth. At the time he said that, as Robert Frank explains in his book, The High-Beta Rich, McAfee was living through a second adolescence,…
Read MoreBodyweight Metabolic Workout Finishers
His chrome dome was glistening. He was, as we Canadian Hillbillies would say, “givin’ er”. It was 8:15am on the Saturday morning at the 2nd Turbulence Training Summit in San Diego, and over 23 personal trainers were going through a bootcamp workout under my watchful eye. This included TT Trainer of the Year, Mike Whitfield.…
Read MoreDo All That You Say You Will Do… And More
My mother is not the type to get upset (that was my father’s forte). But I could sense the irritation in her voice when I asked, “How’s your new house coming along?” It had been over three weeks since I last visited the farm, and, unfortunately, there had been practically no progress made on her…
Read MoreNew 5-Minute MRT Finisher Workout
At the TT Summit, I crowned Mike Whitfield the TT Trainer of the Year, and for good reason. He’s made MASSIVE progress in the past year, just like you can make massive progress with his workout finishers. His big idea was to show the world how you can make small tweaks to ANY workout and…
Read MoreSet Your Goals Using this Plan
Do me a huge favor, will you? If, I mean, WHEN, you use the Internet Moneyball system that I gave to you on Monday, please let me know your results? Cool? That gets me fired up. Like how one of our Black Smith camp attendees contacted me on Facebook the other day to let me…
Read MoreThe Metabolic Blueprint
“I’m going to start eating right and exercising on Monday.” said YOU, just before the first Monday of 2012. Do you remember saying that? Do you remember visualizing going to the gym or your basement 6 days a week, listening to your Iphone’s “Workout” playlist (I know you have one… and I know the Rocky…
Read MorePlay Internet Moneyball to Get Affiliates
In the last two weeks I’ve been consulting with a writer at a major magazine… …he’s sick of ‘working for the man’, doing twice the work as everyone else at his office, all for low pay and NO chance of promotion – because he doesn’t have insider connections. But he’s got a site, and more…
Read MoreWhy Are You So Selfish?
Late on a beautiful sunny Saturday afternoon, at the end of the (awesome) second Turbulence Training Summit in San Diego, I hung around for an hour to chat and take photos with the attendees. One young woman that had moved to California from Japan about five years ago came up to me and admitted that…
Read MoreThe One Problem with Exercise
The battleground was deep in the heart of one of Toronto’s dirtiest and darkest dungeon gyms. I was in the belly of the beast, looking to slay the Dragon that represents the #1 PROBLEM with exercise. It nearly beat me that day. Is it beating you in battle today? My own battle began as I…
Read MoreMuscle Building Blueprint
Listen, if you’re one of my American friends and off to a 4th of July BBQ wishing you had a little more muscle to show off, then please, don’t worry. (Or if you live anywhere else in the world and have the same problem, then please, print this out.) We’re going to fix your muscle…
Read MoreHow to Sell
Have you ever gone to a store with the absolute conviction that you wouldn’t buy anything under any circumstances… …and then ended up buying something? Happens to all of us – when an irresistible offer is made. Which is why a partner of mine got me so fired up on Friday. You see, we were…
Read MoreOnly Way to Beat Procrastination
So there I go and write a really nice email about my dog, and what does he do? He hamburgalared me. Earlier this week I left a hamburger on the kitchen counter and left the room for just a few minutes. I came back to an empty plate and an excited dog. He’s won this…
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