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This experience for him wouldnt be surprising or shocking or even mind blowingthose words arent big enough. He might actually die. But heres the interesting thingif he then went back to 1. Most steroid users are not athletes. Between 1 million and 3 million people 1 of the population are thought to have misused AAS in the United States. Studies in. And the 1. It would be far less of an insane experience for him, because while 1. Hello YOU readers Its me, Joe Wicks, The Body Coach. Im back with another instalment of Lean in 15 and this time its The Shape Plan. Startup Tools Click Here 2. Lean LaunchPad Videos Click Here 3. FoundingRunning Startup Advice Click Here 4. Market Research Click Here 5. Life Science Click. DOO5IyzQ-wo/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Lean On Me Full Movie Part 1' title='Lean On Me Full Movie Part 1' />The 1. Europe turned out to be with that new imperialism fad, and hed have to do some major revisions of his world map conception. But watching everyday life go by in 1. 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Soadvances are getting bigger and bigger and happening more and more quickly. This suggests some pretty intense things about our future, right Kurzweil suggests that the progress of the entire 2. He believes another 2. A couple decades later, he believes a 2. All in all, because of the Law of Accelerating Returns, Kurzweil believes that the 2. If Kurzweil and others who agree with him are correct, then we may be as blown away by 2. DPU might only take a couple decadesand the world in 2. This isnt science fiction. Its what many scientists smarter and more knowledgeable than you or I firmly believeand if you look at history, its what we should logically predict. So then why, when you hear me say something like the world 3. Cool. but nahhhhhhh Three reasons were skeptical of outlandish forecasts of the future 1 When it comes to history, we think in straight lines. When we imagine the progress of the next 3. When we think about the extent to which the world will change in the 2. This was the same mistake our 1. Its most intuitive for us to think linearly, when we should be thinking exponentially. If someone is being more clever about it, they might predict the advances of the next 3. Theyd be more accurate, but still way off. In order to think about the future correctly, you need to imagine things moving at a much faster rate than theyre moving now. The trajectory of very recent history often tells a distorted story. First, even a steep exponential curve seems linear when you only look at a tiny slice of it, the same way if you look at a little segment of a huge circle up close, it looks almost like a straight line. Second, exponential growth isnt totally smooth and uniform. Kurzweil explains that progress happens in S curves An S is created by the wave of progress when a new paradigm sweeps the world. The curve goes through three phases 1. Slow growth the early phase of exponential growth2. Rapid growth the late, explosive phase of exponential growth3. A leveling off as the particular paradigm matures. If you look only at very recent history, the part of the S curve youre on at the moment can obscure your perception of how fast things are advancing. The chunk of time between 1. Microsoft, Google, and Facebook into the public consciousness, the birth of social networking, and the introduction of cell phones and then smart phones. That was Phase 2 the growth spurt part of the S. But 2. 00. 8 to 2. Someone thinking about the future today might examine the last few years to gauge the current rate of advancement, but thats missing the bigger picture. In fact, a new, huge Phase 2 growth spurt might be brewing right now. Our own experience makes us stubborn old men about the future. We base our ideas about the world on our personal experience, and that experience has ingrained the rate of growth of the recent past in our heads as the way things happen. Were also limited by our imagination, which takes our experience and uses it to conjure future predictionsbut often, what we know simply doesnt give us the tools to think accurately about the future. When we hear a prediction about the future that contradicts our experience based notion of how things work, our instinct is that the prediction must be naive. If I tell you, later in this post, that you may live to be 1. Thats stupidif theres one thing I know from history, its that everybody dies. And yes, no one in the past has not died. But no one flew airplanes before airplanes were invented either. So while nahhhhh might feel right as you read this post, its probably actually wrong. The fact is, if were being truly logical and expecting historical patterns to continue, we should conclude that much, much, much more should change in the coming decades than we intuitively expect. Gym strong versus real life strength. You know, going to the gym and working out isnt the only way to get strong. Theres actually a huge difference between being gym strong versus real life strong. Its completely possible to be in good shape and strongand I mean really strongwithout ever having stepped inside a gym. How is this possibleAre these guys just genetic freaks Let me tell you that it is possible and no, you do not have to be a genetic anomaly to be in great shape and what I like to call real life strong. My own dad is a great example of a guy who is really strong but yet hes never worked out a day in his life. He did however, do a lot of manual labor. He was always working on things outside in the yard, building stuff, working with wood or any number of other things. On the flip side is meI have been working out since I was in high school in Connecticut. I really started to get serious about training when I finally started growing and getting stronger. By the time I hit my senior year and was playing football I was able to bench 2. It all got put into perspective though one day when my dad needed my help to get rid of some large rocks sticking out of the grass. The area where we lived in Connecticut was kind of mountainous with these huge rocks just about everywhere. Around our yard, they seemed to even multiply so every now and then wed have to dig them up and haul them away in a wheelbarrow. One year, my dad wanted to get rid of some especially big rocks on the property so we got to work digging. Once the dirt was removed I went in to move the boulders. Knowing how strong I had been getting I figured I could take care of the bulk of it by myself. I was shocked though to find out that I could hardly even budge them. But my dadthe guy who had never worked out a day in his lifewas able to move them all by himself. I was shocked. I could not believe that this old man, who I knew I could beat on any machine in the weight room, was still stronger than me when it came to real life. I started to refer to it as old man strength. Today, Im older, a bit wiser and I realize that my dad hadnt developed old man strength but he had actually developed hybrid strength without even trying. Those activities that he did around the house just about every day gave him a physical edge that is very difficult to duplicate in a gym. Most ordinary training routines isolate individual muscles, which is not how our bodies are really designed to work. The kinds of things my dad did though recruited multiple muscle groups simultaneously and even more importantwould have required both strength and endurance, just like a hybrid workout. And what he did in the process of doing these activities was to develop hybrid type III muscles, which is really the optimal muscle fiber because not only does it produce strength, but its also able to sustain that strength for extended periods. Ordinary type I or type II fibers just cant do thatthey basically sit at opposite ends of the spectrum. Typical gym workouts focus on developing the type I, type IIa and type IIb fibersnot developing hybrid muscle. And because my dad was developing type III muscle fibers, he had a lot more real life strength than I did. Sure I could have beat the snot out of him at the gym, but in the real world, there was no competitionI was licked. Of course my dad isnt the only example of someone who either by accident or by design, was engaging in hybrid muscle training and in the process, developing hybrid type III muscle. The movie Rocky IV provides another great example of the superiority of real world strength versus gym strength. In the movie, Rocky trains in the mountains focusing on building his real world strengthin reality doing hybrid workouts and developing hybrid type III muscle. Conversely, the Russian guy trains in this futuristic high tech gym using scientifically designed treadmills and exercise equipment. Yeah, the guy looked pretty muscular but when it came time to fight, his gym engineered muscles were no match for the real world strength of Rocky. So you see, although science has tried to come up with all sorts of interesting ways for guys to get bigger, stronger and leaner, when it comes down to actual results, basic functionality and real world strength still triumph every time. Tell me, do you personally know anyone that has old man strength or has incredible real life strength even though they havent spent much time in the weight room Someone that naturally built this kind of hybrid muscle Share your experience and comments below.