What’s up ? This is THE stephane ANDRE ! I watched an Olivier Roland’s video and I learned some good stuff.

Nature has given an extraordinary tool to every human being. This tool has different performance depending on the people but it’s the best for solving problems compared to the tools invented by humans.

This tool is our brain. This tool is better than a computer because a computer needs a human to work. For now, artificial intelligence has lower performance than the human brain.

Unfortunately, many of us don’t use our brains to find solutions and solve problems that are important to us. Many of us consume a lot of distractions. The question is : « Are we asking enough questions to our brain to find solution ? ». If you don’t give problems to your brain, your brain will be less and less efficient. It’s the same principle for your body.

If you give junk food to your body all day long, you will be fat, bitter, you will not have any more energy, you will not have any more libido. Everything that will comes out of you brain will be diminished in quality and quantity. If you will give healthy food to your body all day long, you will be slim, you will have more energy, you will have a better libido. Everything that comes out of your brain will be increased in quality and quantity.

Training your brain

To improve the brain to solve problems, it’s necessary to ask questions. A question is the interface between our brain and reality. This is what will put the brain in mode : « search for solutions ». By asking questions, you will look for different angles of approach to deal with the problem. The better the question and the better the solution to the reality of the world.

To have a good quality of question, it’s necessary to learn to educate oneself with books, trainings, meeting people who share their experiences, etc. Realize that you have to dedicate time to solve problems, allows you to organize your days. It’s like dedicating a few hours in your day to play sports. There is a method that I advise you to test, it’s to have a diary.

Attention, it’s a special diary because you’ll ask yourself questions. The first thing is that you’ll tell events of your life and this will allow you to better understand them and better understand yourself. And the second thing is that you’re going to ask yourself questions. There will be general questions like: « How can I become happier ? ». And more specific questions like : « How can I become happier with the 80/20’s law (Pareto’s principle) from today and see a measurable result next week ? ».

With questions, you put your brain in mode : « search for solutions » and you find several ideas to test to solve the problem. It’s the human process to find a solution since first hominids. Imagine, millions years ago, first hominids already found solutions because of a constraint. Imagine this scene, a hominid finds an animal with a carapace that is dead. The hominid is hungry and seeing the animal dead, he’s even more hungry. He asks himself this question : « How can I eat this animal that I can’t eat ? ». His brain goes into mode : « search for solutions ». After a few minutes, he remembers that by tapping a stone on something, the stone become sharper. After several tests, he manages to cut the animal with a carapace that dead to eat it.

Virtuous circle

This human process is a virtuous circle. You ask yourself questions to find solutions to problems. These solutions create other constraints that lead to others problems. So you have to ask yourself other questions to find a solutions. To evolve, we need challenges and there are always challenges in the world. Do you realize that millions of years ago, first hominids created tools with stones and wood and today we have internet technology ? With internet, people from distant country can read my blog’s articles 24/24 7/7, it’s incredible.

Among these questions, there will always be questions that will have different answers depending on what the situation you’re in your life. For example the question : « How can I become happier ? ». When you’re single, you have a solution. When you’re in a relationship, you have another solution and when you have children, you have another different solution. Solutions are influenced by different variants in your life and it’s important to ask yourself this question throughout your life.

Reserve some time in you day to ask yourself questions to solve problems. It’s a kind of physical activity for your brain. It’s a good process to become a better version of yourself. But beware, there are solutions that you will find quickly and others, it will be necessary to work on for months or years to find the solution.

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-Steph

I stopped to do Romanian deadlift when I increased weights to 90kg (198 lbs) + olympic barbell weight. I lost my balance so I changed to the classic deadlift.

After searching informations on web to improve my technique, I managed successfully. I’m really happy, 3 sets of 8 reps and the last set, 6 reps. Disappointed, I didn’t do 8 reps for the last set but it’s a lot better than the last time when I was losing balance.

When I did this exercice, it happened two things, from the sixth reps my grip decreases. This is especially with the left hand, I grip the barbell with fingertips, it’s hot. I believe that from the 3rd set, I had a sore lower back, but only on the left side before it was all over the lower back. I think it’s because this is my weak side. Fortunately the pain was gone with the next exercice.

With training and strengthening my lower back, I can make Romanian deadlift like Squat, EASY. For grip, I don’t know how to train it but I’ll find. Objective 4 sets of 8 repetitions, clean.

Tomorrow, I go to a new level in my training, I add 2 reps to each exercises except Squat and Romanian deadlift. It will be hard but I’ll do it, I felt this week with several exercises I could add a set. Maybe I will can’t do 4 sets of 10 reps for each exercice but I will continue until I do all reps cleanly.

What excites me most is that in two months, the next change in my workout is weights. Yeah, I will increase weights of 2 kg (4.4 lbs) but I’ll tell you this in another article.

Do a diary to know what weight you lift and how much reps you do to track your progress. I advise you to do that because your entourage will not tell you your progress, they become jealous of your progress but it doesn’t matter. It‘s you who choose the life you want to live.

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-Steph