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08-20-2009, 06:04 PM
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What is the perfect mindset for bodybuilding?
Ask my brother,
every time I am making my best gains I seem...well..insane. Literally during my best training and dieting cycles I lose site of reality, as if my logic circuits have been cut. Pain means nothing, and I am able to push myself to levels that would kill most. Now every time I feel my training or diet is stalled I try and get back in this state of mind because for me it seems necessary. What do you feel your perfect mindset is?
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08-20-2009, 06:51 PM
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Being Happy
There are some that find anger a motivation, or having a bad day where the workout is the stress releiver. That personally screws me up. If I have an argument with my wife for example, I don't want to work out, I want to resolve the argument. I just posted in my journal that my priorities are 1) God, 2) Family 3) Fitness. So for me, it makes sense that I can't get my best workout if I am upset with my wife or myself for being an idiot, lol. So to sum it up, the better the mood I am in, the better I tend to do in the gym.
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08-20-2009, 08:59 PM
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I get myself focused by thinking about bad things such as stressful days in work, trouble at home and combine it all. i get so wound up and seem to vent my frustrations on my own body by lifting better and harder than before. I also concentrate and think better when im wriled up. And afterward i go home happy as i know my workout was good. Working out is stress relief as well as physical gain for me so i just remember that everytime i work out and im then motivated.
i guess the mindset to have is a focused and thoughtful one, whether that be the use of stress to make you push harder or thinking about your future gains. both work well for me.
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08-20-2009, 11:16 PM
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Schwarzenegger's mind set if you can train harder than anyone else and have the confidence to stand on stage staring at the judges daring them to place you lower than first
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08-31-2009, 04:03 AM
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Ever since my iPod was stolen, I just listen to music that really pumps me up on the way. A lot of times I get in a very serious mindset when I'm in the preworkout time period. When I get in there I look at myself in the mirror and use that as my motivation, I hit it hard and during rest periods I think of those magazine articles that Animal puts out with a huge bodybuilder sitting on a bench with a protein shake in his hand lol.
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11-15-2011, 09:58 AM
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I usually spend about 20 mins getting my state of mind right before i hit the gym. I close my eyes and picture myself going through my routine and reaching the goals i've set myself for the day. Really notice the difference when i don't prepare like this.
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06-17-2012, 06:48 AM
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Hi
Can anyone here plz guide me abt the exercise "reverse flyes" in Animal's 8-week shoulder blitz ? i cannot make out even a bit of it even after going thru it many times. any help will be appreciated. Shankar India
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