Men\'s Health Singapore - June 2017

(WallPaper) #1
JUNE 2017 75

Six Steps


To Maximum


Fitness


THE ONLY WAY TO BUILD THE


MUSCLES YOU WANT IS TO TAKE


ON CHALLENGES THAT OTHERS


WON’T. GO ALL IN WITH OUR SIX-


STEP, BEST-BODY-EVER PLAN,


CREATED BY GYM JONES TRAINER


BOBBY MAXIMUS.


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The building in Salt Lake City was all black with
no signage, and it felt like stepping into an
underground club. Once inside, I was immediately
overpowered by the smell of sweat and the whirring
of Concept2 rowers.
Eight men cranked on the machines at a suicidal
pace. Spurring them on was one of the largest human
beings I had ever seen. “What’s causing you to slow
down?” he hollered. “Your mind or your body?” The
man had the calm confi dence of a star athlete and the
physique of someone who fi ghts in a cage for money.
(Which, I later learned, he used to do in the UFC.)
I fi rst heard of Robert “Bobby Maximus” MacDonald
while reporting a story for this magazine. In a mass
e-mail to some of the best and brightest people I knew
in fi tness, I’d asked a simple question: Who are the
fi t est men in the world?
Each respondent named three or four people,
most of whom were pro athletes. But the name that
popped up most frequently was unfamiliar to me:
Bobby Maximus, training director of Gym Jones in
Salt Lake City.


This impossibly large
Canadian, they said, was not
only breaking world records but
also helping pro athletes win
championships and turning
average guys into superheroes.
So I went to Gym Jones and
soon found myself sit ing on a
rower as Maximus programmed
2,000m into its computer. “Try to
fi nish in seven minutes,” he said.
“If you don’t want to quit halfway
through, you’re not going hard
enough. Go!”
I’ve been covering fi tness for a
decade. I’ve fi nished in the top 3
percent of half marathons and
trained at the best facilities in the
country. But nothing prepared
me for this.

In the fi nal 500m, with
Maximus reminding me that
fatigue is more mental than
physical, I reached a new level of
intensity. This was not a workout.
It was a revelation.
I’ve followed his methods ever
since, and they’ve changed me
both physically and mentally.
I’m hardly unique. Maximus has
helped countless people shat er
their notion of what their “best”
could be. That’s why we wrote
Maximus Body together. To give
you a taste, I asked him to reveal
what’s most important to reach
peak fi tness.

FORGE THE
MAXIMUS BODY
Bobby Maximus tells us how to
hone your body and endurance
the Gym Jones way.

Step 1:
Get Your Mind Right
People who become supremely
fi t don’t do secret one-of-a-kind
exercises, eat “superfoods” or
take magic supplements. They
just work harder. They don’t
quit or make excuses or take
shortcuts. That kind of discipline
comes from the organ between
your ears, not the muscles below
them. Try these two mind-
hardening exercises.

fGo Green Self-doubt poisons
performance; “green-light
thoughts” are the antidote. If you
catch yourself thinking “I’m too
tired” or “I need to slow down,”
reverse it by saying “I’ve got this”
or “This is easy” or “I feel great.”
You can take it a step further.
When I was in the UFC, my sports
psychologist, Brian Cain, had me

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