Post by Min on Jul 19, 2004 17:06:04 GMT -5
This is my first post - i just joined as i have heard about the site from MM forum. I have always enjoyed reading Tim's advice so i decided to join his forum. Glad to be here.
You completed your warm up sets, you’re geared up now, and you can sense the flame in your quads. Your mind says stop but your heart tells you to continue. You load up the bar with more weight plates than you ever done before. Yep that’s right, you’re going for a personal best. You look around and catch sight of all the other gym goers going through their routine; you know they have one eye on your lift. You feel supreme like you are supernatural being and they are mere humans who could never dream of doing what you are doing. It’s like in your mind, your showing them what training is all about; it is you against the world as you stand behind the metal bar. All these people around are waiting, anticipating your demise, your failure, you feel fragile, you see the bar loaded in front of you and it has curvature in the middle of the bar due to the stress of the weight.
Now you are anxious, will you make it, will you complete a full rep or will you do a pu**y half squat, will you fall short in front of all these people?
Then you have a surge of energy, inspiration from an unknown source. You have tapped into a power you never thought you had – all the reasons why you lift, why your there, what your there to prove goes through your mind. Reasons which seem juvenile to the average man, this is what your performing for: the girls who think muscle men look great, to sing your own praises to your friends and show them how enormous your becoming or is it the most important reason: your doing it for yourself – just you against the burden.
Whatever your reasons are – there is always that eternity before you actually make a choice to pick up the weight. Where will you gain the motivation for this accomplishment of power?
Enough with the bullsh*t! What goes through your mind the seconds before lifting a personal best?
I often draw back on Ronnie Coleman’s Unbelievable video, ‘aint nothing but a peanut comes to mind’, you put your-self in Ronnie’s shoes and ask yourself would he quit! QUIT – HE WOULD NEVER QUIT SO WHY SHOULD YOU!
You completed your warm up sets, you’re geared up now, and you can sense the flame in your quads. Your mind says stop but your heart tells you to continue. You load up the bar with more weight plates than you ever done before. Yep that’s right, you’re going for a personal best. You look around and catch sight of all the other gym goers going through their routine; you know they have one eye on your lift. You feel supreme like you are supernatural being and they are mere humans who could never dream of doing what you are doing. It’s like in your mind, your showing them what training is all about; it is you against the world as you stand behind the metal bar. All these people around are waiting, anticipating your demise, your failure, you feel fragile, you see the bar loaded in front of you and it has curvature in the middle of the bar due to the stress of the weight.
Now you are anxious, will you make it, will you complete a full rep or will you do a pu**y half squat, will you fall short in front of all these people?
Then you have a surge of energy, inspiration from an unknown source. You have tapped into a power you never thought you had – all the reasons why you lift, why your there, what your there to prove goes through your mind. Reasons which seem juvenile to the average man, this is what your performing for: the girls who think muscle men look great, to sing your own praises to your friends and show them how enormous your becoming or is it the most important reason: your doing it for yourself – just you against the burden.
Whatever your reasons are – there is always that eternity before you actually make a choice to pick up the weight. Where will you gain the motivation for this accomplishment of power?
Enough with the bullsh*t! What goes through your mind the seconds before lifting a personal best?
I often draw back on Ronnie Coleman’s Unbelievable video, ‘aint nothing but a peanut comes to mind’, you put your-self in Ronnie’s shoes and ask yourself would he quit! QUIT – HE WOULD NEVER QUIT SO WHY SHOULD YOU!
