Insomnia or successfull patterns?
Not sure why I am up right now.
I only had about 2-3 hours of sleep the night before and now I am still up working on things.
I have been awake since 2:30 AM yesterday and reaching that point after being at KRANK since 4:15 AM yesterday morning.
I am just stoked for some upcoming things and events that I can’t rest.
This is the last lap and I have to finish this…
I feel like the night before a wrestling match and all you do is toss and turn and think of what tomorrow had to bring.
I am so grateful everyday that i can wake up and say that…mainly because I wake up.
Most people want to sleep, I want to get up and LIVE.
There is no LIVING in bed.
The bed is where no goals are accomplished.
the bed is where the weak stay and ponder what to do next.
While i make the next thing happen.
Bed is for people that wish the hit the “POWERBALL”
Awake is where I make the lotto come to me.
So in short.
Get up Like you mean it.
Because an hour wasted in bed may be the hour of the biggest in your life opportunity missed.
Be well people
Pete
ps. Check out www.howtotrainfortoughmudder.wordpress.com
New workout blog
Two words that change lives
I’ve had this talk with one of the Kranksters and the brotha called me upand just said “thank you”
“thank you”: two of the simplest words that can go a long way.
The simple words that changed the mood I was in and let
me know that my purpose in life was real.
It’s not about the dollar or the fame that I’m in this line of career for .
It’s about the countless “thank yous” that let you know u affected them in a good way.
Had anyone ever said thank you and you just ignored it?
Booooo
Or times that someone said thank you after you took the time to hold the door for them?
It felt good right?
So why don’t you reach out to someone today and say thank you.
Thank you for being a friend
Thank you for caring about me
Thank you for loving me
So on thus note I want to say
thank you, thank you, thanks to all of you for taking your time to follow me around and listen to what i have to talk about.
Be easy…
Pete isip
You are what you hangout with…
Today is Wednesday and always read what my friend Chad has to say or post. I really enjoyed this one today and want to share it with you all. It really works well with what we have been talking about this past week.
check it out
I hope you all have a great and healthy KRANKS-GIVING!!!!!
Wednesdays with Chad
How Your Friends Impact Your Life
What would you say if I told you that your friends, your friend’s friends and your friend’s friend’s friends could impact how healthy you are? What about how successful you are? What about how happy you are?
Sounds ridiculous right? How could your friend’s friend’s friends negatively impact your life? Someone you don’t even know could right now be negatively impacting how successful or healthy or happy you are? Yeah, that does sounds foolish.
Well, it may not be so ridiculous after all. Dr. Nicholas Christakis has been studying health and social networks for years. Through his research he has discovered that if your friends are, for instance, overweight you are 45% more likely to be overweight. And if your friend’s friends are overweight you are 25% more likely to be overweight. And lastly, if your friend’s friend’s friends are overweight you are still 10% more likely to be overweight. It is not until you are four degrees separated in your social network that the people in your social network no longer have a direct effect on you. That is a pretty profound piece of information. One that you should consider not just in passing.
What you should be doing is evaluating your social network. How does it look? How many of your friends are healthy, successful and happy? How about your friend’s friends? How about your friend’s friend’s friends? I’ve talked about it before in previous posts about how the 5 people you spend the most time with will have the largest impact on your life. That probably still holds true but now you have to look a little further when choosing what social networks to belong to. Or, more importantly, who you let into your social network.
Recognize that not only do these people have this effect on you but you also have this effect on them. This does not mean that you can blame any misfortune you have on your friends or others in your social network. What this does mean is that you have a responsibility to yourself and to those in your social network to be the best you can be, so not only do you have a better life but those who are closest to you also reap those benefits. Ultimately, you will all prosper together.
Dr. Christakis brings up an interesting difference between American and European ways of thinking. When this study first came out headlines in American papers read something to the effect of, “Are you packing it on? Blame your fat friends!” whereas the headlines in Europe read, “Are your friends gaining weight? Perhaps you are to blame!”
Pretty interesting difference in thought process. I think its really a two way street and both statements have valid arguments. But do you really want to be one of those people who blames their misfortunes on others? If you do, stop it. Don’t adopt the American thought process. Adopt the European thought process. Be responsible. Make sure you are doing your best. But don’t feel bad that you also expect the best from your friends. Don’t be afraid to take steps to cut away the fat from your social network. After all, it could make the difference in your level of success, health and happiness.
If you’re interested in watching the full video it is below and will take an investment of 18 minutes of your time.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Do you follow this map?
Whats up everyone?
Today I’m going to be writing my goals down AGAIN.
I do this once a month for my 5 year and 10 year goals.
everyday I have my daily goals mapped out on my piece of paper.
And that’s the “secret”…make a workout program out of your life.
Track your progress vs your loss.
What time spent was beneficial and what was a waste?
i.e., waste: me stalking people on Facebook …hahaaha
Whats are you going to accomplish today? tomorrow? next week?
When do you want to finish it?
MAP OUT THE ULTIMATE PLAN and I’ll guarantee you will see the finish line.
Here’s a little vid I made a couple of months ago. But it’s that time again.
Goal time!
Thanks and be well. Don’t forget to hit the subscribe button on this blog or YouTube and “like” them if you do.
Word!
Its all in how you look at it…
My bro and I always have a talk in the morning and this is what we talked about today.
Its all in about how you think.
Spread the word…comment and like
Thank you so much for following.
Till the end
Hey everyone
Just returning from Elmira ny and training with Smitty from Diesel Crew and his men. It was a great and honorable experience.
Hitting a little conditioning medley at the end called the “widow maker”(FUCK!).
Awesome but a fight to the end with every last step. It lasted about 10 mins and the loads got up to close to 500 pounds in the prowler.
End point… it broke me.
I vomited….Twice.
But in the time of pushing I wanted to quit and it seemed like I couldn’t move anymore.
There is one thing I will never do and that’s give up.
Even if it takes me forever I’m going to truck through little steps at a time.
Am I proud if my performance?
Negatory but still did work. Weighing only 165-170 that load gets heavy. No excuses I could do better.
And that right there is why we have to do things that make is uncomfortable. And don’t quit at things.
ALLLL HEART!
It makes us realize how much more we need to push or how much harder we need to work.
Being uncomfortable will help you progress as a person and will develop character.
Stepping outta your comfort zone id where we learn new things about ourselves that we may not have known.
Breaking outta the routine is only going to make you stronger.
Do today do something that you’ve been afraid to do.
Something you are terrified to do.
Ask someone who you’ve been dying ti ask out.
And don’t worry about the end result.
It may be great it may be shitty.
But by practicing the method stepping outta the comfort zone will become easier and easier.
And that’s progress on its own.
Kill the day everyone!!!
This what it felt like and want to thank the NY warriors for their support! Was a pleasure to sweat, grunt and achieve with you boys.
100% YOU
I have a dream and this dream told me this:
You are 100 % responsible for your life and what happens in it.
ITS YOU! Not your friends fault, bosses fault, parents fault, anyones fault, ITS YOU!
No one makes decisions for you only you do and to be honest..
No one really cares that much about you.
The one that should care the most, is the person reading this blog post.
We can blame people alllll day for the things that we didn’t get or the things we didn’t achieve.
But we have to learn to point the finger to ourselves.
If you don’t take responsiblity for your actions or you future.
No one is going to help you out that much.
In the end its all about you.
Responsiblity is the main fundamental of success.
Without self-discipline there are no goals.
I have the word discipline tattooed on my right arm because its the most important thing you need in life.
You need the discipline to hold on to plans and keep you on track of the road of your goals.
When you stop blaming other people and situations for “YOUR” unhappiness that you can finally move forward.
So pretty much everyone the goal of today is to stop thinking negatively about who did what and who did that to you.
Because your life is not about them, its about YOU.
If you want to lose weight then you make that choice and hold on to it.
If you want to make 1000000dollars then you make that choice and do all the work you have to do to get there.
if you want to be the boss of your company then you work till you bleed to get there.
if you want that state championship then you drill till you bleed, and get in the best possible shape you can…
Take 100% RESPONSIBLITY for what happens in it.
Enjoy the day!
Time to go kill it!
Pete
This exercise works….
Just had a killer 2 classes at 5AM (the dedicated) and the 6 AM (same dedication)..They did work and had some new heads join the family..
Wanted to let everyone know that I am grateful.
Being grateful is empowering.
What are you grateful
I’m just ranting and listing off what I am grateful for…
Why don’t you try it out…
I felt amazing right after…
Its all about the little things that you are grateful for..
after doing this exercise I wanted to take on the world.
YOU HAVE TO DO IT OUTLOUD and WITH PASSION.
If its fake then it not worth it.
You have to get uncomfortable and F’ everyoe else right now
and appreciate everything you are happy with..
It s all about the little things and we ahve to remember that…
Time for me to kill it and have a awesome goal accomplishing day.
“The wrong side of the bed”
“Believe and your belief will CREATE the fact.”
The way you think can change the way you ARE.
People, day by day tell me.
“Ahhhh its just one of those days!”
“You know when you just get up on the wrong side of the bed.”
“You know, just one of those days the doesn’t go your way.”
BLAH BLAH BLAH
No…
Nooo…and bullshit!
One of what days? The one where you are ALIVE and able to tell someone about your shitty day?
What bed? Who decides where the wrong side is?
Is the left side full of naked women and 100 dollar bills and the right side is fire pits and dog shit? ( you get my point)
If you wake up and automatically think that way then your day is going to continue to be just the same.
It’s not in the stars or GOD wants you to have the shittiest day of your life.
It’s because you want to be there.
Subconciously
YOU WANT TO FEEL SORRY for yourself and want others to SYMPATHIZE.
I remember when I was dealing with depressions and bi-polar, I use to think so negatively soooo much that I thought of no other way.
That was the only way I thought..
I had No confidence
No self esteem
No will to live.
I was fed up.
So don’t tell me that I don’t know what its like and he doesn’t know what it feels like to have one of “those days”
When I have that feeling like I don’t want to wake up…I FUCKING WAKE UP!
When I don’t feel like “myself today”…
I make myself feel like “MYSELF”
It’s all in the way you think and how you feel about yourself.
If you think you’re a piece of shit…
Well then…you’re a piece of shit.
If you want to be a million bucks, then believe you have it and walk around with that attitude.
Mindsets can take you far in life…
But if your mindset is shitty then it will take you to the place is belongs.
Down the fucking toilet with the rest of the shit.
Enjoy the day and stop thinking shitty.
Its not worth it because
We are Powerful Beyond Measure.
Print this bill out and post it on your desk, your note-book, your vision boards, and think of how you can get there.
Be well everyone
###Pete###
Chapter 12: I hated taking off my shirt
Hey everyone hope you are all enjoying the Sunday
Went out to the park today and talked about
Thoughts and fears about taking off my shirt in grade and highscool.
Be well
### Pete####
Ima Show you how great “I” am!!!…(incorrect)
I am grateful…
I am grateful for the souls and being in my gym
I am grateful for their work ethic and willingness to “Do work”
They motivate me just as much as I motivate them.
With out them, there would be no “Me”.
I am grateful everyday that I walk into my gym and see their faces ready for battle, ready to kill it, ready for the fight they call life.
I am grateful for the fire in their eyes ready to lift the next big thing or kill what lies ahead…
People ask why do you train that way?
Because this is what we are…
This is the life style we choose to have….
With that mentality, will follow the dreams we are going to accomplish together.
Why?
Because we are Kranksters…
We are Powerful Beyond Measure.
We never surrender.
“We’re” gonna show you how great we are”
Thanks to everyone that follows the blog. Big ups to my fellow Kranksters.
BELIEVE….(thats all)
So I went to see my boy’s New spot in Long Branch,NJ called REVERB.
if you’re in the area check it out son.
And then headed over to NYC to rekindle with an old stand up comedy friend.
And the discussion went a little like this….
The best around…
This move makes me jump outta my seat every time I see it.
Ever since I was a kid I loved this movie and how this song and montage made me feel.
The kid was a nobody in a new town and it was time for him to make some noise because he was tired of taking shit.
The gang of bullies kept rackin on him and beating the piss outta him.
Did he ever give up?
NO
Did he want to at times?
Yess
Did he succeed at the end?
Fuck yeah Crane KICK bitches!!!
This thing you have to notice is his work ethic.
He worked with Miagi day and night just doing the simple things and working the basics.
It’s not about the complex shit out there it always comes down to the real shit, the base. the basics.
“YOU’RE THE BEST AROUND”
Believe in that man.
Take those words home and embed them into your brain.
You have to believe it though.
I remember when I didn’t believe in it and just shit on myself.
I got down and depressed in the process because I didn’t believe I was the best around.
I believed I was just another kid….
and that what we are not.
We all have the potential to be great…
to be the best…
to be powerful beyond measure.
But its all gotta start at one place and that’s in your heart.
You have to believe it so bad that it bleeds off your chest.
you have to believe “You ar the best” so bad that
no one will question it.
you have to believe it so bad
That you BELIEVE IT!
Don’t try to CONVINCE yourself everyday that you are…thats a waste
BEEEELLLIEEEVEEEEEE THAT YOU ARE!!!!
What you think about most of the time is what comes true.
You are the best around people…
I believe you are…SO why don’t you?
What are you scared of? Oh yeah your scared of the success it might bring.
Pete Isip
A poem that we all must adhere to….
As I moved through this life I love to push and push and push
and its hard for me to take time off and slow down.
All I want is success and a full filling life.
But how would life be so full filling is I don’t even see it.
We should take out of our week and set it for some family, friends, loved ones.
We need a “down day”. We need to recover just like when we workout.
We program a deload and our bodies and mind respond to it.
So whats the difference with writing and scheduling in deload days in a program and in life.
None.
you need to have time away and just clear your head away from everyday life and appreciate the things and movements you have achieved.
I know we want to” kill it” and love to DO Work. But if you can’t appreciate the little things that are important to you,
you’re gonna see them pass.
Below is a poem I heard last night and made so much sense. Enjoy and Kill the Day!
SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask “How are you?”
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say “Hi”?
You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift….
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
I’ll see you all later on…….be well
***************Pete Isip*******************
Awesome news: Should we do it here? What do you think?
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http://butterbeanskitchen.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/the-ban-of-the-happy-meal/#comment-157
Check it out people and tell me what you think?
Psychological effects….
Sorry guys I had the wrong vid up just before that was for later on.
This is about the story when I realized that I needed help. I suffered through depression, bi polar issues, prescribed tons of medication that made me person I didn’t want to be.
Paxil, Lithium, prozac….etc etc…
not a fun time…
Girlfriend…Whats that?
Girls was always an issue with me because I never had the confidence in asking girls out
I never saw myself as handsome or good-looking
So I never had the guts to do anything that involved rejection
Spin the bottle
7 minutes in heaven
My first kiss? What was that..
My kisses usually involved a girl with I was half was intoxicated
Because at least by that point if I were rejected I could blame the XXX
It became a front and I just got use to being “the friend”
and by that time I didn’t have the experience that most guys did at that time
so i felt insecure about that
one insecurity lead to another and another and another…
Pete
What are you grateful for?
Do you really know what you are grateful for?
What drives you?
Ended up hearing a conversation while working and this came out.
If you like mine….why not try…
Talking about alife turned around…
I am proud to say this is my family, my blood, my brother…
He has been through the shit taht most people are scraed of walking but will talk about.
These are his stories, his blood, his tears…
http://jayisip1.wordpress.com/
Amazing literature will some deep, deep poetry.
Be well everyone…
Is our country killing us?
I just came upon this killer blog about how our country is killing us.
As much as I love food and huge sizes and never ending braizlian BBQ.
This blog opens up my eyes with the statistics.
Crazy street man…check it out it will shock you.
Fuck we are a FAT country…
www.bodyhobby.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/is-your-culture-killing-you/#comment-264
Thanks everyone
Pete Isip
The Social Netwrok
Whats up everyone!
I have to vlog about this movie
“The Social Network”
This movie was very inspirational and a great watch.
I would have never thought that kid did this much so we as a country would have the most addicting thing next to KRANK. 🙂
check it
Bullshit…
Don’t make fun of your kids because they are overweight.
They feel as if they are the same as everyone else and its not until the first person makes fun of them, then they will hit that first punch of confusion.
You don’t realize you are fat until someone calls you out.
With childhood obesity causing tons of kids to have heart related diseases, we have to do something about it and must control this fast growing epidemic.
No one told me the right things to do they just told me to lose weight so I can play football.
They told me to lose weight so I can wrestle.
They told me to lose weight so I can kiss a girl.
Just be honest and let your kid know that you are concerned…show them that you care about their health…show them you love them
Most people just get use to fact they are fat and they get comfortable with that…
Now they are stuck with the mindset that
“I’m suppose to be this way!”
“My body type can’t loose weight.”
“I can’t change..ITS IN MY GENE POOL (WTF)!!!!!!!
ALL BULLSHIT…
Big Muscles Bigger Heart 
