Psych set out to master the game and has made a rapid (yet incredibly difficult) transformation. Since entering the community, he has been ranked “best new pua” was a coach for the show MADE on MTV, has been a speaker at world wide self-improvement seminars, and has authored many articles, which include writing for Thundercat’s blog and The Seduction Bible, has gained degrees in Pedagogy (the science of teaching) and is currently working on his Ph.D. in Psychology.

As an author, “21 Convention” speaker, and Psychology Ph.D. candidate, he has learned, practiced or winged with all the big seduction gurus. Psych has learned every theory and style out there, created a massive social circle filled with beautiful women, had a long lasting relationship that consisted of couple-sarging (picking-up women with your girlfriend), and has traveled the world coaching men.

His method involves an easy, free flowing structure based on classic psychology and the progression of pick-up, as well as a natural style someone can call their own. Social proof, self-amusement, interesting conversation, and the ability to get women having fun and enjoying his presence in any situation is what he feels “game” is all about.

Psych uses teaching techniques and motivational tactics he learned while obtaining his degrees. A training session involves a relaxed, fun environment in which students obtain useful theory, which is then put into practice. After each approach, Psych goes over exactly what the student did right and wrong — allowing immediate improvement in the next set. His ability to break down a student’s interaction and find hidden sticking points is second to none.

However this wasn’t always the case. Throughout all of high school Psych was clueless when it came to women. The phone rarely rang for him. His passions included watching TV, reading comics, and spending every weekend playing the card game “Magic The Gathering”…by himself. But this all changed once he found the “community”. Now he’s ready to share all he’s learned with you.

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Psych set out to master the game and has made a rapid (yet incredibly difficult) transformation. Since entering the community, he has been ranked “best new pua” was a coach for the show MADE on MTV, has been a speaker at world wide self-improvement seminars, and has authored many articles, which include writing for Thundercat’s blog and The Seduction Bible, has gained degrees in Pedagogy (the science of teaching) and is currently working on his Ph.D. in Psychology.

As an author, “21 Convention” speaker, and Psychology Ph.D. candidate, he has learned, practiced or winged with all the big seduction gurus. Psych has learned every theory and style out there, created a massive social circle filled with beautiful women, had a long lasting relationship that consisted of couple-sarging (picking-up women with your girlfriend), and has traveled the world coaching men.

His method involves an easy, free flowing structure based on classic psychology and the progression of pick-up, as well as a natural style someone can call their own. Social proof, self-amusement, interesting conversation, and the ability to get women having fun and enjoying his presence in any situation is what he feels “game” is all about.

Psych uses teaching techniques and motivational tactics he learned while obtaining his degrees. A training session involves a relaxed, fun environment in which students obtain useful theory, which is then put into practice. After each approach, Psych goes over exactly what the student did right and wrong — allowing immediate improvement in the next set. His ability to break down a student’s interaction and find hidden sticking points is second to none.

However this wasn’t always the case. Throughout all of high school Psych was clueless when it came to women. The phone rarely rang for him. His passions included watching TV, reading comics, and spending every weekend playing the card game “Magic The Gathering”…by himself. But this all changed once he found the “community”. Now he’s ready to share all he’s learned with you.

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This is an all new post series from The 21 Convention, featuring the best content from over 50 independent 21 Convention speakers on a weekly basis, including newsletters, podcasts, videos, blogs and more. Check in every Sunday for the latest and greatest independently produced content from T21C speakers.

Male/Female Relationships

• Brad Branson discusses his view on daygame and how, when approaching a girl, the most important thing you should be focusing on is your mindset going in on that interaction.

• Shasha. “Girls always know when you’re faking”, that’s Shasha’s first point in his new video and that’s why he counsels his students to be whatever suits their own personalities, in other words, be their ideal self.
  

Nutrition

• Mark Sisson after a wonderful series on inflammation and its effects on the human body, it’s time now to know which top-foods Mark has found to be anti-inflammatory.
  

Exercise

• Doug McDuff M.D. An interesting study showing that children performing HIT have an increase in spontaneous physical activity, a finding that may not surprise anyone who is training in the same fashion and has, at some point, entertained the idea of jumping off walls and doing triple backflips.
  

• Drew Baye’s “My Philosophy of Exercise” has already been posted as a guest post here on The 21 Convention but it bears another mention if you haven’t checked it out already, especially now that Crossfit is becoming more and more mainstream.
  

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This is a guest post by 21 Convention speaker and world renowned exercise authority Drew Baye. Re-posted with permission from Baye.com.

 
Maintaining your health and achieving and maintaining a high level of functional ability should be among your highest priorities. You only live once, and both how long you live and yourenjoyment of it are directly affected by your health, your physical capabilities and your appearance.

Proper exercise is a requirement for living the longest, happiest life possible. It is a requirementfor self-actualization – realizing your full human potential and necessary for achieving the idealof a sound mind in a sound body.

While many people have at least some awareness of the potential benefits of exercise relatively few fully realize its importance. I believe at least two of the main reasons for this are failure to associate a lack of exercise with the resulting physical consequences, and underestimation of human physical potential.

It is easier to make cause and effect associations when the cause is one of commission rather than omission and when the time between cause and effect is shorter. The consequences of a lack or omission of exercise are not immediately apparent and in some cases take years. Nautilus inventor Arthur Jones once explained during a seminar:

“If I were to grab you by the throat, and choke off your air supply, it would immediately become apparent to you that oxygen is absolutely essential for life. If I were to lock you in a room with no water, after several hours, the degree of thirst you would experience would indicate to you that water is a requirement for life. If I were to lock you in that room with water, but no food, it would take a little longer, a matter of a couple of days, before you would be ravenously hungry, and there would be no question in your mind that food was absolutely essential for life. However, it often takes years before ones body begins to show the harm done by a lack of proper exercise.”

 
 
In the long run, if nothing is done to prevent it, we gradually lose muscle as we age, becoming weaker and more frail and suffering other problems as a result such as decreased basal metabolic rate, decreased insulin sensitivity, increased body fat, decreased cardiovascular and metabolic capacity, increased blood pressure, osteoporosis, increased risk of falling due to reduction in speed and steadiness of movement, etc.

In the meanwhile, if you do not exercise you live with a level of functional ability and a physical appearance far below your potential. Compared to what you can and should be, you are weak, slow, and fragile. If you do exercise, properly, the improvements in strength, speed, durability, and overall health will allow you to do more, do it better, do it longer, and look good while you’re at it. I believe the average, untrained person grossly underestimates their potential, would be surprised at what they are capable of becoming with proper exercise.

Exercise is one of the most important things you can do to improve your life. It deserves the same serious consideration, attention to detail, and effort – both physical and mental – as any other major life goal or achievement of high value. It is not enough to just do exercise, you should strive  to master it.

You should perform every exercise and every workout in the safest, most effective, most efficient manner possible.

Safety

It ought to go without saying that exercise should performed in the safest manner possible, but considering the sloppy and haphazard form commonly displayed in gyms and the outright dangerous antics of Crossfit, plyometrics, “core stability training” and similar activities touted as exercise it is apparent most either aren’t aware of or underestimate the potential for injury and long term damage of improper training.

While all physical activity poses some risk of injury exercise can and should be performed in a manner and with a level of control which makes it safer than almost any other activity. It would be counterproductive and downright stupid to perform an activity for the purpose of physical improvement which simultaneously poses a significant risk of causing physical injury or undermining your long term functional ability and health.

This does not mean exercise should be easy. On the contrary, to be effective exercisemust involve a high level of effort. There is no conflict between safety and intensity of effort during exercise, however; the manner of performance required to minimize risk of injury is the exact same required to maximize the quality of muscular loading and effectiveness.

Effectiveness 

More than any other factor, exercise effectiveness is related to effort, and effort is maximized with proper form. Contrary to claims of some ignorant trainers that how you perform an exercise is less important than the effort you put into it, proper form and maximum effort arenot mutually exclusive but directly related. The better your form the higher the intensity.

The histrionics and bodily contortions often associated with a high level of effort during training are not an indication of greater intensity; many trainees commit these discrepancies even when they are not actually working hard. They are attempts to reduce the difficulty of the exercise or distractions from the discomfort of hard work.

The person who grunts, grimaces, and makes a show of heaving or jerking to gain momentum and leaning this way and that to find a lever advantage during exercise is not the one training the hardest, but rather the person who remains stoic as the pain of effort increases, impassive and expressionless, focusing on intensely contracting the targeted muscles while maintaining strict control of the position and movement of their body.

Correct form during exercise involves positioning and or alignment of the body and a path, range and manner of movement designed to effectively load the muscles. Breaking or “loosening” form makes an exercise easier, not harder. Some trainers claim “loosening” form is advantageous because it allows more repetitions to be performed displaying their ignorance of the real objective of exercise.

Efficiency

Exercise is not an end in itself, but a means to improving your health and functional ability to better enjoy other activities and aspects of life. You should spend no more time exercising than necessary for best results. Doing so will not give you better results, but will take away from the finite amount of time you have to pursue other goals or  interests and enjoy the company of friends and family. Fortunately very little exercise is required if performed properly and with a high level of effort.

The only exercise you need – in fact the only activity that truly qualifies as exercise – is progressive resistance training. When performed properly it is the safest and most effective method of stimulating improvements in all trainable factors of fitness; muscular strength, size and endurance, cardiovascular and metabolic efficiency, flexibility, bone density and connective tissue strength, and body composition.

The Standard

There are other considerations, but these three – safety, effectiveness, and efficiency – are the highest priorities and the standard against which different methods should be compared if the ultimate purpose of exercise is to contribute to greater enjoyment of life.

There are a lot of training methods, programs, and modalities which can eventually maximize your strength and overall fitness and functional ability.

Any strength training method performed with a relatively high level of effort, consistently, and progressively, and any program that addresses all the major muscle groups without exceeding a volume and frequency of work your body can recover from and adapt to can eventually get you about as strong and as muscular as your genetics will allow.

Any physical activity or combination of activities performed with a relatively high level of effort, over a full range of joint motions, involving loads meaningful to the skeletal system, can eventually result in significant improvements in cardiovascular and metabolic conditioning, flexibility and bone density.

Any modality that provides the ability to meaningfully and progressively load the muscles – free weights, machines, body weight, manual resistance, isometric stations, etc. – can be effective for this purpose if used correctly.

These things are often pointed out to avoid criticizing or making comparisons between methods, however in any objective comparison of different methods of achieving the same goal one will be best.

Your life, your health, and your time, are far too important to settle for just any training method, program, modality. Accept nothing less than the best.

The Mission

My mission is to promote this philosophy, of training in the safest, most effective, most efficient manner possible to maximize life-long health and functional ability with enjoyment of life as the standard, and to teach the best methods of achieving this.

This will be the purpose of this web site.

This refinement of philosophy and mission are why Elements of Form has been almost completely rewritten and rather than teach will expose the flaws of protocols like rest pause, negative-only, and the misuse of various unnecessary and counterproductive “advanced” techniques like forced reps, forced negatives, drop sets, etc. and why they have no place in a proper exercise program.

This is the reason I sought employment with Overload Fitness and membership in Renaissance Exercise, as they are the best in the field of exercise and represent true advancement in the art and science of exercise performance and instruction.

– Drew Baye

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Male/Female Relationships

• Adam Lyons. Okay, many of you probably won’t be able to watch it, but still, this is pretty cool: the first pickup ever recorded in 3D. Enjoy.

Nutrition

• Mark Sisson. A very interesting new post about inflammation and how it leads heart disease. Mark has also a very important post on oral contraception that I think you should check out.

Exercise

• Bill deSimone has a new interview up at High Intensity Nation where, for example,  he shares the wonderful meaning of “functional fairy dust”. I couldn’t invent it if I wanted to.

• Keith Norris talks about how he believes the Paleo community has overlooked the importance of resistance training for optimum fat loss and sustained well-being.

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About Steve Mayeda

Five time speaker of The 21 Convention

“I started training with gurus in the Pick Up community like Sinn and Captain Jack, I worked with Legends like Future and Shaft. It wasn’t long after I started working with this rich crowd that I started taking guys under my wing. I had a background in working with people throughout my past in more of a counseling capacity and I found out how gratifying it could be working with other men and teaching them these skills and taking them on a similar journey.

As soon as I started working with people, I realized that with my background and life experience I actually brought something completely different to the table. I was able to take the ideas, theories and structure of game and customize it to someone’s life. Before then game was determined upon actually building up a false façade of value to attract women. I was able to take guys who worked from a wide range of jobs that most people would assume to be unattractive and turn them into empowered men with the women that they wanted in their life.

Since then I have made it my journey to improve people’s lives through my teaching. I have surrounded myself with a group of fellow instructors that lend and offer the highest quality of service out there.”

In this bonus presentation Steve Mayeda discusses sales, business, and marketing.

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About Steve Mayeda

Five time speaker of The 21 Convention

“I started training with gurus in the Pick Up community like Sinn and Captain Jack, I worked with Legends like Future and Shaft. It wasn’t long after I started working with this rich crowd that I started taking guys under my wing. I had a background in working with people throughout my past in more of a counseling capacity and I found out how gratifying it could be working with other men and teaching them these skills and taking them on a similar journey.

As soon as I started working with people, I realized that with my background and life experience I actually brought something completely different to the table. I was able to take the ideas, theories and structure of game and customize it to someone’s life. Before then game was determined upon actually building up a false façade of value to attract women. I was able to take guys who worked from a wide range of jobs that most people would assume to be unattractive and turn them into empowered men with the women that they wanted in their life.

Since then I have made it my journey to improve people’s lives through my teaching. I have surrounded myself with a group of fellow instructors that lend and offer the highest quality of service out there.”

• Visit Steve at http://TheSexualLife.com/21
• Visit Steve at TheRedMole.com
• Follow Steve Mayeda on Facebook

This is an all new post series from The 21 Convention, featuring the best content from over 50 independent 21 Convention speakers on a weekly basis, including newsletters, podcasts, videos, blogs and more. Check in every Sunday for the latest and greatest independently produced content from T21C speakers.

Male/Female Relationships

• James Marshall has a new video out on how to go about approaching someone in a park.
• Socrates. Be sure to check out his new blog at Manning Up Smart.

Nutrition

• Anthony Johnson shares his newly discovered Paleo solution to the body odor and deodorant problem: “It’s fucking condensed salt.”
• Richard Nikoley has his new Free the Animal, Beyond the Blog book out. You can read a number of free excerpts and purchase it here.

Exercise

• Keith Norris and Skyler Tanner wanted to invite all 21 Convention fans to Paleo FX, a must-attend event which is gearing up for some serious ass kicking this March in Austin TX.
• Doug McGuff, Bill deSimone, Skyler Tanner and James Steele II endorse Chris Highcock’s new book Hillfit: Fitness for Hillwalking, Hiking and Backpacking.
• James Steele II shares an interesting paper that further supports the separation between physical and skill conditioning.

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About Robbie Kramer:

In case you’re wondering, I’m not one of these self-proclaimed dating gurus. I’m just a silly, fun loving and relatively “normal” guy who wants to help you improve your dating life.

The following quote was the story of my life about 6 years ago:

“What is wrong with me, I see beautiful women all the time but I just can’t seem to go over and talk to them! And on the rare occasions when I do meet a woman I’m really into, I always find a way to screw it up!”

Before I learned that the study of attracting women existed, I was quick to jump into a relationship because I hated the single life. I had no idea how dating worked and the whole process felt uncomfortable and awkward.

Ironically, when I was in a relationship, I was often bored. When I was single, I often wanted to be in a relationship. “The grass was always greener.” I saw beautiful women all the time on campus, at the local bars, at the beach, and at the mall but I had no clue how to talk to them.

In 2005, I learned for the first time that there were people called “Pickup Artists” who could teach you how to meet women. I studied their material like a mad man to learn these elaborate methods, routines and systems they were teaching.

Sometimes, these tactics worked but it was overwhelming to try and remember all this “stuff.” When I approached a woman and got a negative reaction, I concluded that I must have screwed up the delivery of the line or routine…

So I would go home, beat myself up for doing poorly and invest more time and energy into studying. Meeting women suddenly became a chore and it stopped being fun.

In fact, I actually got worse!

I was stuck in my head and experiencing paralysis of analysis. It’s almost impossible to interact with people, let alone meet women, when you are stuck in your head. And it wasn’t that there was anything wrong with the material being taught by the pickup gurus. In fact, most of it was really good stuff. The only problem was that none of it was really the right fit for me. It just didn’t feel aligned with who I was.

My real breakthrough came in 2008 when I decided to shift my focus. Rather then focusing on trying to learn more techniques and tactics, I started to look for material that was in alignment with me. What happened was kinda funny. I found the most brilliant material ever! And I didn’t even have to go looking for it.

It was there all along, I just had to look inside. When I was in alignment and communicating with people from my truth, I felt much more confident and the women in my life started to notice. Women who had told me that they were “Only interested in being friends,” started showing signs of interest.

Ex girlfriends suddenly wanted to “hang out” again. Women I previously considered “Out of my league,” started hitting on me!

This may even sound corny, but when I actually started to admire and respect myself, women followed suit! As I built confidence, an abundance of women showed up in my life.

To make a long story short, I made rapid progress by focusing on building confidence… tested and refined the ideas and exercises into a formula… and put it all together.

At the end of the day, it feels amazing to know that I am in control of my life and have the power to create my ideal scenario with the fairer sex. If you are struggling, you probably know what it feels like to walk through life feeling powerless and out of control.

So why should you listen to me?

Well, you shouldn’t! I don’t claim to be a guru or to have all the answers. But I am very successful at helping others find the answers within themselves. Everything you need to know to create success is already somewhere deep inside of you. My job is to simply bring it to the surface, and help you have fun while doing it.

Life is too short to waste on things that aren’t fun!

So don’t just blindly listen to me, check in with yourself for the answer. Take what feels true for you and throw away the rest. To make the journey as simple as possible, I distilled the process of building unshakable confidence into a formula. I call it The Formula For Confidence (TM), make sure you grab a copy of my Free Content to learn more about it.

Both my profession and passion is helping men bring forth their own inner confidence and I hope to be of service to you!

Cheers,
-Robbie

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About Marcus Oakey:

“I never used to be what most people would call the ‘coolest’ or the most ’popular’ guy. I’m what you would call average in the looks department (slightly goofy to be honest) and I’m by no means rich (~bah!).

Growing up, I only had a few close friends, even fewer girlfriends and only moderate success at work. A lot of nights I would be stuck at home alone. It’s not that I didn’t have anyone to go out with – more than anything I was scared to talk to people and socialise. Besides, I liked my own company.

But those few times when I did go out to try and meet new people, I would be nearly petrified and completely unable to talk to anybody, much less try and charm them.

In every other respect, I was a completely normal guy.

But I didn’t want to be normal; I wanted what I had spent my whole life dreaming about.

I wanted to be suave like Johnny Depp, charming like Hugh Grant, and smooth like George Clooney. I wanted to be a charismatic superstar.

With that goal in mind, I set out to learn everything there was to know about human psychology and charisma. I studied the most charismatic people I could find. I talked to psychologists, hypnotists, people who learnt behavioral mannerisms, body language experts and anyone else I thought could help me.

I spent years talking to everyone I saw and managed to make more mistakes and social gaffs then you can imagine. I tried every tactic, every affirmation, and every “secret” in my search for charisma.

In the end, this search paid off and I have accomplished more than I ever dreamed of. Though posters with my face don’t sell quite as well as the ones with Johnny Depp, I’ve learned and developed more than I thought possible.

Over the past five years I have dated some incredibly amazing girls, created many fantastic friendships that I will have for the rest of my life, and am constantly having to turn down invitations to awesome parties and activities because I am just too busy (and have a cellphone with a really dodgy battery – apologies if you tried calling…)

In addition, I have personally taught hundreds of people from all over the world the same methods that I used, to become charisma superstars. It has been such an honor and privilege to help introverts come out of their shells, and even people who already had a solid conversational foundation become even more charismatic.

Needless to say, these skills work just as well on the sales floor, in the office, or at the formal dinner – as they do in the bar, swimming pool or subway journey (where the real business gets done!)

I founded YourCharismaCoach.com because, deep down, I believe that each and every person has what it takes to be charismatic. With enough work and understanding, even the most introverted and unpopular person in the world can do exactly what I did – and transform into a master of charisma.

I’m 100% committed to each of my clients’ success and I sincerely hope that you find the information I provide here on this site to be helpful on your journey.

Sincerely,

Marcus Oakey”

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