ChrisLindsay9
MuscleHead
- Jun 17, 2013
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Damn, this says it all. I sometimes wonder if you experience lifters get inured to heavy lifting over time. I'm just two years into lifting heavy, and I still can't believe what I have done or am doing. When I have that barbell on my back, I have to remind myself that its based on past experience, that I can indeed come out of the hole despite the fact that it's really heavy ass weight. Because it doesn't matter if it's 280 or 325+ ... it just feels freakin' heavy to me.It's a messed up thing to do. Unrack a heavy back squat. The weight literally sitting on your CNS. The mind starts to freak out like hey man wtf is this... we don't have to do this man just put it down... please don't do this. Then your decent... that's the point you have taken almost total control.
It's remarkable to watch breakdown in technique too. It's that same cns in action. Trying to shift the stress from weaker areas to stronger ones. Passing the stress back and forth between muscle groups in less than the blink of an eye.
I love this shit.
It's like repeatedly dialing up that "fight or flight" survival instinct over and over again.
At the local/regional meets, I just rely on the confidence of the weeks of training leading up to the meet. So while people are nervous, I'm usually cracking jokes and trying to boost people's spirits.I am a wreck on meet day. Other guys have mastered that mental piece.
But I became a POB-like head case at the Arnold. Being around 3-5 elite-type lifters at my local meets was the norm, and I can handle that with no problem. But at the Arnold, where every single person was not only an elite lifter, but they all looked freakin' strong. My mental game folded like origami. Man, I hope to get a redemption attempt at a national meet like that someday.