Being Comfortable
The Plague that has hit America right now!
Being Comfortable with what you are, or what you got, or what you do. It’s plagued America, T.V., Internet, Phones, Video Games, Soft Parents, Soft Administrators. People who are afraid of being uncomfortable. Being comfortable is EASY, being comfortable gives you security. Being Uncomfortable leaves you with uncertainty.
That is complete B.S.!!! Being comfortable with who you are, or what you do, or what you stand for is NOT OK. Standing up for what you believe in, working for what you want, living the LIFE you want to live….means you have to be UNCOMFORTABLE. Living the life our founding fathers meant for us means living an uncomfortable but meaningful life!
Understand that being uncomfortable gives you more comfort. It makes you feel the freedom you were meant to feel. For me being uncomfortable is being 25 years old and starting a successful business from scratch. It means living a proud life for my family, being a leader for my future kids. It means hitting Massive PR’s in every lift.
See that’s the beauty about working out. It gives you visible results. If you are comfortable with your workouts and don’t challenge yourself…you probably don’t see any PR’s (for the ones who don’t know what a “PR” is Personal Record). But if you are uncomfortable during your workouts, I mean sweating, out of breath, mentally and physically challenged. Then you probably see a lot of PR’s in the workouts you do.
Lifting or working out, has a lot to do with how your life is ran. There are a lot of correlations between the 2.
Slack off in lifting = No PR’s
Slack off in Life = No Freedom
Comfortable in Lifting = No PR’s
Comfortable in Life = No Freedom
Uncomfortable in Lifting = PR’s
Uncomfortable in Life = Freedom
It’s a simple formula, but many seem to miss it. We live a life that is in worry all the time. We worry for our jobs, we worry about how people think of us, we worry about what could happen, we are comfortable because it’s easier to not fight than it is to fight. I shouldn’t say WE because that’s NOT me, maybe I should say YOU. But I don’t know you personally and maybe I shouldn’t say that. Or maybe I’m going to be Uncomfortable and Challenge you, give you the discipline you NEED in your life! Give you the eye opener YOU need.
Stop being Comfortable with yourself. Stop this steady line of being Mediocre. Start being Uncomfortable and start challenging yourself, either in your workouts or in your LIFE! The ball is in your court, no one else controls your life besides YOU!
If you want to be Uncomfortable check out Joliet’s ONLY Elite Athletic Development Facility! Try out the Free Trial to see if you have what it takes to be the BEST!
No Special Formula, Just Hard Work
Coach Rustman
Summer Specials
I hope everyone had a GREAT Mothers day weekend! Also a GREAT Tuesday!
I’m shooting this quick blog post bout our summer rates coming up for June, July, and August. We are running 2 different rates. Each group will start June 4th.
1. Summer College athletic development rate: $300 for 3 months w/ unlimited acess
The college athletic program is geared for high school seniors going into their first year of college. This will teach these athletes what it actually takes to excel at this level. We will be training a D1, D2, D3, NAIA athletes. We have a few signed up already so don’t let this class fill before you lose out!
Check out last Summers College Group:
2. Summer Athletic Development rate: $400 for all 3 months w/ unlimited access to the Training Hall.
This class is geared to all Athletes both male and female looking to get ready for their upcoming Fall Sport. We are limited to the first 15 to sign up. This class will go fast so act fast to lock in this deal. We will focus on season preparation, mental toughness, strength, speed, power, agility, injury prevention. We will make you a Better Athlete! Be Prepared to Work!
Remember if you are thinking about signing up, you have to go through the interview process before. Just because we are giving you a deal, doesn’t mean the level of competition drops. We only train a certain type of athlete….the one who WANTS to be good, the one who WILL put forth blood, sweat, and tears. The athletes who are willing to work their tails off to be the BEST!
All Summer rates must be paid upfront! You can with credit/debt, cash, or check
No Special Formula, Just Hard Work
Coach Rustman
Girl Power
I want to send this quick post!
I have been pretty impressed with 1 of my athletes who is a GIRL! She has been dominating her workouts and improving off each one! Check the video out below and drop a comment.
And to answer your question…..YES girls do need to workout, especially if they are in athletics. Girls need to develop their muscles just like guys do. Being an athlete is being an athlete. All the movements are the same. If you have goals of jumping higher, being faster, getting stronger, being agile on the field/court. YOU NEED TO PREPARE FOR IT! It wont happen overnight!
Have a GREAT weekend!
No Special Formula, Just Hard Work
Coach Rustman
New Training Program & Mental Toughness
The Football Season is almost HERE!!!!!
I wanted to throw a short quick post about my new training program that is coming out. I’m releasing this in a few weeks. It’s geared towards power and combat athletes. Alot of the stuff I post on this site and my Offensive and Defensive line training site (Steel Yard Strength). will be included in this. The program is SIC! I do have to say so. I tested this thing out way before I put it together. They same style, intensity and bad assness I use in my workouts will be used in this program. I call them my S.Y.S.tem’s Training (Steel Yard Strength) training methods. Methods that helped athletes get to the D-1 level in football and wrestling.
Stay Tuned on this because people who are subscribers will get the first bite at it (which will be for a discounted price). Start following J.R’z Training Hall and learn the basic methods we use to train like BEASTS!
Now on to even cooler stuff! I will be posting Monthly Mental Toughness workouts instead of the EOM’s. Workouts that will challenge your mind along with your heart. I will be doing these workouts myself and posting my best times. I don’t want you to do this every week. If you are going to do it, it should be at the beginning of the month and end of the month so you can test your progress, and challenge yourself. Check it out and post your times in the comment box below!!!
NOTE: You can modify these workouts as your ability lets you. For example: I can’t do pull-ups very well so I modify my pull-ups, below is the workout I will be doing. You can adjust anything to your ability!
WOM 5712
5 Rounds for time
315+ Backward Sled Drag
5 Jumping Pull-ups
25 yd Sprint
Video of this workout will come along with my times! Post your times and Comments below!
No Special Formula, Just Hard Work
Coach Rustman
Time to draw the line
I’m in the business of STRONG. That”s that I do…That’s what I live for. I do everything STRONG.
As a man with Ethics and morals (not present in today’s “younger man). I can’t stand some of the things “men” wear and do. Guys who have gaps in their ears the size of Texas, skinny jeans, ear rings, blah blah blah…i’m sure you get the point. You probably see it everyday. When people think of MEN they should think of guys like this
I’m not saying you have to lift 263 kilos (579lb) overhead. I’m saying you need to be FEARLESS, CONFIDENT, TOUGH. These dudes are freak weightlifters. But they all have those 3 attributes in common.
Look at yourself, do you have those attributes? Are you fearless on the field? Are you confident in your lifts? Are you tough enough to stay true to the grind? These are all parts of life and sport. The “modern man” has forgotten some of these aspects. It takes a real man to step up and take action, to change the way his life is going.
Take action with what you have. Don’t pout because you don’t have the best things given to you. Do the best with what has been given to you.
No Special Formula, Just Hard Work
Coach Rustman
What is Potential to you?
Potential is not how good you are. It’s how good you can be.
In a coaches eye, Potential is a powerful topic. Many colleges base their recruiting off of the athletics potential. What they see in an athlete’s build or frame. They look at the frame, size, build, after they look at film they can decide if you have the “game potential” as in the game knowledge or feel.
With how intense recruiting is these days, they even look into Character. They call coaches, parents, teachers, principals, just to ask about your character. Once you pass the “eye test” of their recruiting they ask to scholarship your potential. They don’t ask to scholarship you, they ask to scholarship what you can do.
Now this is where 98% of the athletic or even general world falls off. They are told they have “Great Potential.” They think well I don’t have to work for anything now. They mistake Potential with Ability. Because you are able to dominate in high school, DOES NOT mean you will dominate in College, because you are able to dominate in College DOES NOT mean you will dominate in the Pros.
It’s what you do with YOUR potential that matters. I see athletes who walk around with endless potential, but do nothing because they THINK they have it all. They think they can GET BY, by doing nothing and living off talent alone. Bottom line is, if you rely on talent at the college level…..you will be washed away. You will be forgotten, and you will be that old man in your home town who talks about what he COULD have done.
Your potential is your future. It’s the hard work, determination, discipline and being mentally tough enough, that puts YOU in the driver’s seat for a GREAT FUTURE.
Check out how to reach your Potential at Joliet’s Only Elite Athletic Development Facility. Check out our FREE Trial to see if you have what it takes to be GREAT
No Special Formula, Just Hard Work
Coach Rustman
p.s. How many of you took action on these old school workouts? Leave a comment and let me know how they went!
2 Workouts you NEED to Do
As you know J.R’z Training Hall is an ELITE Training Facility. We train to be STRONG, FAST, and DOMINATE! WE start fast and end FASTER. If you want to be a part of A TRIBE of Warriors, then check out the FREE TRIAL offer. If you DON’T want to be a part of a TRIBE of WARRIORS….then EXIT this site now, because we don’t want people like you wasting our time.
I’m Posting 2 mental toughness workouts. Do 1 of them this weekend to test your Mental ability. Becasue when life attacks are you going to be mentally tough to fight back?
1 workout I posted earlier this week….I BET YOU DIDN”T DO IT. You probably saw it and said HELL NO. That’s because you are WEAK
Workout 1: Jesus WOD
14 Rounds for time @ 95lbs
10 deads
10 Squat Cleans
10 Push Press
50 ft walking lunge
Rounds 3, 7, 9- 7 total reps of Turkish Get-ups
Workout 2: Battle Preperation
This one is Old School (not bodybuilding) Old School MAN strength
1 Rep Max of DB/KB Snatch
10, 8, 6, 4, 2 reps of
Weighted Squat Variation
Double DB/KB Rows
Double DB/KB Military Press
Try 1 of these Old school workouts this weekend and let me know what you think.
No Special Formula, Just Hard Work
Coach Rustman
Monday Motivation
I hope your Easter was well spent with Family and Friends!
This past weekend was Easter. I hope it was spent well with family and friends. I want to challenge you to do the Jesus W.O.D. that a few of my athletes and myself did. This is to give thanks during the holiday. A workout that I found from a buddy from Austin, Texas who owns one of the largest CrossFits in the the U.S. CrossFit Central. This guy posted this workout and it jumped at me! It was a challenge. This workout will not only test your physical will but also your MENTAL! Here is the lay out
14 rounds for time @ 95lbs
10 deadlifts
10 squat cleans
10 Push Press
50 ft walking lunge….walk back to original spot.
Barbell can’t drop until Rounds 3, 7, 9
At rounds 3, 7, 9 perform 7 total reps of Turkish Get-Ups
You can post your times in the comments section below. Our best time was 50 min. ( I thought it was going to be 20 min.)
THIS IS A TOUGH WORKOUT, AND IS NOT MEANT FOR THE MENTALLY WEAK!
This pushed every ounce of toughness I had. Around rounds 5-7 I was mentally drained already. I had a thought of shortening the rounds to 10. I was training with some of my athletes. I saw them keep busting balls, it was motivating. But when Mr. Resistance started to come after me I punched him back in the face and kept trucking, I kept grinding it. I don’t want to say rounds 8-14 were easy but they definatly made me a better person. They pushed me past my limit. I was getting comfortable being uncomfrotable. That’s what you have to do! Get to that point where YOU don’t think you can go….and go further.
Try this workout and you’ll know what I’m talking about! Even if you don’t believe in Jesus, you got to try this out and find out a tenth of what pain he went through.
Are you the Top 5%
I’m sick of it!
I’m sick of people not taking action! I’m sick of people making excuses! I have been training ELITE athletes for over a year now and I have seen enough lazy, excuse making, life sucking people. To many times I have kids sign up for The FREE TRIAL I offer, and NOT even show up for it. I do this Trial offer as a chance for you to learn what it takes to be an ELITE athlete. To see if you even have the “Marbles” to invest in your future. To dedicate yourself to the GRIND. “Oh my mom couldn’t take me there.” or “We will call you for a time.” “I can’t afford it.” You can’t afford to show up for a FREE trial? You can afford going to McDonalds every night, or you can Afford that new PS3 right? What a joke. You tell me you can’t afford it, but you sit at home with a $1000 T.V.??? Where are your priorities? Let me break it down for you. Being the Best and
training like a BEAST doesn’t have a Price Tag. Getting a college scholarship or winning a State title doesn’t have a Price Tag on it. I get 95% of this world giving me excuses on why they can’t make it into my Gym. The other 5%…Train at my gym. They aren’t excuse makers, they MAKE it happen! They pour out blood, sweat and tears, on a daily basis just for 1 goal…..TO BE THE BEST!
That 5% of people are the only ones I want to deal with. If you want to make excuses why you need to sit around and be lazy, your NOT in that top 5%. You are in the 95% and YOU will never go anywhere. YOU will always be making excuses for the REST of your LIFE! And then you have the “Marbles” to make fun of the kids that go hard all the time. Excuse makers are what fills this world with CRAP, Action Takers fill this World with Greatness!
Stop being a LIFE SUCKER. Start being that 5% that Take Actions. 
Becasue that 5% is going to make you say AHH.
Ok Coach Rustman….I don’t want to be an excuse maker anymore. How can I be an Action taker? Here is the first step. Follow your Passion, and don’t stop pursuing it until you reach your ULTIMATE GOAL. Pursue that goal with INTENSITY, FEROCITY, EXCITMENT, AND A BELIEF THAT YOU WILL SUCCEED.
I am FIRED UP right now! I have chills running down my spine. This song just came on while I was working out the other day. And it sent me into Overdrive!
I don’t know what it was but this song just got me hyped. That’s what you need to find if your trying to get out of your PIT of SUCK. Find a Mentor, someone you can look up to, someone that can give you guidance. I have many Mentors, people I follow and listen to.
So here is my shout out Stop being an Excuse maker and START being an Action Taker. Find out what it’s like at J.R’z FREE Trial
BUT IF YOU ARE SOMEONE WHO IS GOING TO MAKE AN EXCUSE……DO NOT CONTACT ME!!!!!!!
No Special Formula, Just Hard Work
Coach Rustman
April EOM- RDL
The new Exercise of the Month is here. This one is simple, but many people mess it up!
The RDL (Romanian Deadlift) Is one of the easiest barbell workouts you can do. Yet many coaches and athletes mess it up. So in this EOM I go over the techniques for the RDL. Check it out. Coaches you now have no excuse on teaching this movement. Stop cranking on your athletes lower backs with “straight leg deads” Athletes no Excuses on doing this movement the wrong way and complaining about a WRECKED back!
No Special Formula, Just Hard Work
Coach Rustman
