The Classic to bring Boxing back to life:

Awesome night of fights to get the Super 6 started, I feel for J taylor getting KO'd again in the 12th. Though I predicted Abraham to win.
I can't stand Dirrel, to much running and not enough fighting. Though a close fight that could have gone either way. I will always vote for the guy that brings the fight and keeps coming trying to win and not run away.
I Predict kessler will win against ward next month but will have a tougher time than most think.
Ward is a scrapper who is not afraid to mix it up. I just think kessler is better. Below is my picks for the next rounds.

GROUP STAGE 2
Andre Dirrell vs. Arthur Abraham-Abraham
Mikkel Kessler vs. Carl Froch-Kessler
Jermain Taylor vs. Andre Ward-Ward

GROUP STAGE 3
Andre Dirrell vs. Andre Ward-Ward
Carl Froch vs. Arthur Abraham-Abraham
Mikkel Kessler vs. Jermain Taylor-Kessler

I just can't pick J Taylor anymore, too many Ko's in his last couple scraps and he may be just to beat up mentally.

The final round of machine madness:wrestling conditioning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzH7ZsSgkyI

Wrestlers training in The Machine Shop part2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDcWKSS28gw

new vid of breaking chain

Hey machines here is a vid of my first time breaking chain. Not bad, I'm much improved now.
Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMbhERg8EQA

Now taking bookings for your Holiday party.

If you have a Party planned and you want something that your guests will never forget then call The Machine Today! I will come to your event and put on a display of Incredible Power and Craziness that will leave your jaw dropped on the floor in Amazement

Machine Shop News part 2

One of our new members Pastor D.York did an amazing 20 Super Sprawls in 40 seconds. Pastor D was many pounds heavier when I first met him a few yrs back.

But since that time he started bike riding and dropped 60#!!! on his own. Pastor recently joined our ranks and is in much better shape than he gives himself credit for. Not only is Pastor D strong in his spiritual walk but his physical walk as well. We are very glad to have this man in our Dojo.

Another very impressive new member is another Man of God: Jason Collins. I have gotten to know this Gent and his family quite well and he is one strong brother!

1arm presses with 100# standing up, all the while nursing his shoulder back to health.,300+ bench presser, 500+deadlifter and more. Brother J is a welcome blessing to The Shop and I look forward to seeing just how much better this man gets.

Not to be out done by his brother Jason is one of my old standbys Joshua Collins. I used to train Josh and he has been blessed to be very busy with his company so he has not been to steady lately. But brother Josh looks like he has dropped a few more # and when he is in the gym he really sets the tone for intensity and determination. Josh can often be seen working out with the man who can pop at any time, anywhere................Brother Carson Atwood. I truly believe that if you are stuck in the middle of nowhere Brother Carson will pop up right before your eyes out of a bush or just in with the wind, I think Brother C as I call him has Ninja Powers.

Till later this week may you be blessed and do something nice for somebody!,

THE MACHINE SAID SO.

Great saturday morning @ The Machine Shop.

Today was awesome, with a lot of CLANGING and BANGIN going on. One of my compadres from winchester drove in for a little PTA-PAIN-TORTURE-AGONY. He was joined by "The Voodo Child" and I put them throught the paces of a serious Stomp a hole in your body, lay the smack down workout.

It was very intense and needless to say the boys did not make it through to the finish, I also let up the slack on them and made it a little easier. Both of these Gents are Pro Wrastlers, no that's not a typo. They are making a comeback and were quite a big deal around this part of KY.

We filmed much of their unhappiness which will be uploaded by sunday night.

I also got another one of the main thigs to add to my Finished list and thus am very happy.

Now time to go eat some chow and hang out with the Queen and the boys.

That's how we do things at The Shop, on a saturday we still don't rest and tear it up.

We also had a special appearence by The Champ......Ms V, working it as usual.

Coach M

Bad Coaching and Weak Minded people.

I'm going to talk about two people that both displayed bad judgement.

First MMA fighter Rampage Jackson:
last night on the UFC show his fighter got caught in an Anaconda choke. No big deal, everyone loses. But when your fighter loses the least you can do is go over to him while he is still in the ring and ask if he is ok, console him, pick him back up and bring confidence back to the Gent. Tell him to take this as a learning experience and let's move forward. Instead all the coach did was sit on his duft and ask stupid questions like did he really just get caught in that? I can't believe he got caught in that. While coach Rampage was sitting out on his duft in disbelief, Team Rashad went in to the ring and picked up the fallen fighter and gave him praise. I felt this was very professional on this teams behalf and really showed a class of professionalism for Rashad Evans and his staff. I am a strength coach as well as a former instructor for my fellow recruits in USMC boot camp, hotel company 2170. The way Coach Rashad acted was exactly what I would hope my instructors/coaches would act.

Another fighter, known infamously for his rediculous behavior, Junie Browning tried to overdose on some prescription drugs and then got arrested for attacking the hospital staff, a lady was one of them. Now, for all you out there in Internet land that do not know my background or my life story, or have not ssen me perform then you might not understand my actions on this guy.
But I came from a very bad childhood thanks to my biological dad and my 1st stepfather.
During my strength shows/motivational speaking I always talk about how you are resposible for your actions. YOU! not anyone else. It seems that many back this guy, who is an adult and blame his upbringing for his actions. I can't stand this weak minded way of thinking. I wne thtrough Hell and I'm no different than anyone of you out there, I just decided that I wanted to become something positive in life and chose not go down the path that was put before me.
This guy Junie needs to be somewhere he can get lots of help. He gives the impression that he is very self destructive. And based on his attitude and actions if not get help he may end up even further down the bad path than he is now.

It is a shame people act this way, they have everything going for them, chance after chance and then they blow it. They are lost or just don't care. It is a shame, I can only hope that things get better for them both.

Personalities can come and go but our Character must continue to be built on everyday.

In Strength,
Machine

Workout of the day

After my shows I usually do a bodybuilding type of workout. Today looked like this:

High Volume chest,

Dbell flyes 4x15

Dips 4x12,8,8,8

Incline dbell bench press 4x12

Barbell bench press Max reps at 4 different weights:95#,135#,185# and 225#

Incline flyes [dbell] 3x10

Crossovers on the Total gym to flush the muscle even more 3x15.

Neck work as usual, 1 set of 100 reps in all 3 directions of my neck, front-back-side.

Have at it kids.

No pencil necks allowed!

New piece over at my boy karsten site in Canada,

http://www.yestostrength.com/images/PDF/high_rep_shrugging_to_big_traps-article_by_mike_bruce.pdf

Here is an article on one of my favorite muscles to work, The Traps. In this article I discuss some of my favorite methods for building HUGE traps.
I hope you enjoy and be sure to leave me your comments below.

In Strength,
Coach Machine

The Machine Shop News

More and more people at our gym are attaining their goals. As I have said before we are not a commercial gym. We are a private gym where you must go through an interview process in order to gain entry into our facility.

I implemented this method for many reasons. Here are a few:
: So that my clients can feel comfortable no matter their look or physical level.
: No steroid using clowns.
: No knuckleheads using the gym as a dating service and making the ladies feel uneasy.
: No social gathering and gossiping on who is doing what, when, where in town.
: We are only looking for a few, the few that are have a great work ethic, are serious about changing their body and life, and the few that are not afraid to get a little dirty and make some noise.
There is much more to this list as well. BUT......................Moving on to the important stuff, and that is my people.

Dr.H.V, inclined dbell benched 50#pounders in each hand for 4 reps. This was awesome to see. The gains this man has made are phenomenal. He had never worked out a day in his life prior to last april. His overall conditioning has improved, he is faster, stronger, and has lost weight. Heck, he even has some traps coming in to add to his newly thickened back.

Josh D and his queen, have now joined forces and are the new Tag-team champions of the gym. Josh was already a big man to start with, but now with a little Tweak here and a little Tweak there he is looking much more refined and lean all the while keep ing his Muscle mass. His queen already has a lean build, great triceps and delts, but she got a WAKE UP CALL courtesy of some of my Methods of Madness and Mayhem.

Member of the month, is Mrs Dr.V, this young lady has made the most gains this month, changing her body, performing 85 hanging knee raises, she now has muscles in places she did'nt know she had. She has lost inches and has now become a true Iron-Head.

One of the most impressive members of the gym is my Brother Tom Zurowski. This 44 yrs young man finally acheived a goal he has been chasing for a long time: Bench pressed 315#!!!!
It was an honor for me to see his growth and the excitment in his eyes when he racked that bar and got off the bench. Brother Z and I performed together the other night @ Eagleheights church and I must say if you missed it SHAME on YOU! I feel it was one of my best performances and I know at least one young person and maybe even an adult were changed forever that night. Tom states that he has never been stronger in his life since joining our gym.

WOW!

I look forward to all my clients success and wake up everyday anticipating what new goal or plateau will be shattered today.

Keep The Faith,
Machine

Some early madness for all my Machines out there:

I had an amazing weekend performing two strength shows. Everything went perfect, I felt very strong and feel my words/story came across even better than I could have expected.
No injuries still,,,,,,YES! and now get a little rest before my next event, a charity for cancer on the 13th of this month.

I went to the movies with some friends and saw ZombieLand, If you like over the top, tongue and cheek gross humor then this is a must for you. Not very scary, and NOT FOR KIDS!!! But very funny and rowdy. As a big Horror movie fan this is one of my favorite movies that I will watch again.

Over the weekend one of my favorite boxers returned to the ring after a long hiatus: David "Tuaman" Tua K'Od Shane Cameron like he was nothing and this time Tua actually had a right hand to go along with his Powerful hook. Though I think he will have the same problems he has always had with tall fighters with great jabs he can and I'm sure if given the chance do some big things come next year. No, I don't think he has the ability to get inside the jab of either one of the Klitchkos, I think they both would jab him to death all night. If I was managing him I would keep him busy, and then match him with some of the other veterans of the game for some quaranteed money. Such as Holyfield, Golota, Briggs, Botha, Toney heck even Ray Mercer. All these guys can be put together and you get get some decent fights that any of them could win.

This week, maybe today I will be finishing up Armored Core 2. This seems like it is taking forever. IT IS! My dvd/editing guy has been very blessed and his business is skyrocketing right now. But I need to get out my 3 new products to keep all you "WILD ONES" out there satisfied.
Please continue to be patient, it will be well worth the wait.

Keep The Faith,
Machine

Strongmen for Jesus show last night:Recap

Last night was one of the best shows I have been a part of.

Not only did I feel my performance was one of my best but sharing the stage with one of my mentors Tom Zurowski was a blessing. Yes I have done many of the feats of strength last night many times before, and a few new ones I added last night.

But things were different this time around. Not only did I feel super strong but I felt very emotionaly charged.

I'm so thankful that I and no one else got hurt, though the bowling ball shot I took was from a height that I never had taken it from before. Many more people turned out than I was expecting.

Everything tied in well together between my speech/performance and Toms sermon. Tom used a very big, powerful man named Michael Keck to show what was done to Sampson and how even the strongest of men can give in to sin. Michael did an amazing job playing the beaten dog he was portraying.

When we were sitting in the back and Tom was telling Michael what he needed him to do I was sittin there thinking and even said out loud......Bro, you have a script to remember! LOL I couldn't do that.

John Follman did a great job putting this together, if not for him, Tom and I would not have been able to share our message with all in attendance.

The feedback was great and my mood was even better. If you have not had the chance to hear Tom speak your missing out and I suggest if your interested check out Eagle heights church and give him a shot.

As for Ole Machine here I will be at Hosana Church this afternoon @ 3pm to speak and perform. Then on the 13th of this month I will be doing a charity event for Relay for Life @ the Pulaski Center right behind Hardees at 5pm. And of course you will find me at The Machine Shop throughout the week @ 5am.

Keep The Faith and Keep looking up.

This guy is Nasty!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPN3gLVDsOY


I don't know about you but I'm all set with that. God bless him, Awesome stuff.

New short piece over at my boy karsten site in Canada,

http://www.yestostrength.com/images/PDF/be%20as%20big%2C%20cut%20and%20powerful%20as%20you%20want.pdf


Hey Ladies and Gents check out this shorty and let me know what ya think, Be safea nd have a great weekend.

M

Bending #5 Hindheel Horseshoe.

My first time bending this type of a Horseshoe.