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We are all here because we all share a common enthusiasm and passion for enhancing our physiques. By enhancing I don't necessarily mean chemically.
Enhancing our physiques means simply, taking our bodies beyond what they physically would do on their own, the desire to be more than just a sum of our given parts.
I mean really think about this, grown people lifting heavy ass weights...intentionally? The sheer act of lifting weights for the purpose of recreation and creation is just a little bit insane to start with.
So what is it that makes a bodybuilder somewhat successful at this endeavor?
Before you answer to yourself, think about it beyond the, training, the food, the supplements, and drugs on and on...think beyond that.
Many think genetics is the big key, well a lot of people have great genetics, but not very good physiques, and others have the genetics of a refugee and yet get outstanding results.
I would love to hear from you about what it is you feel that drives you to push out that extra rep, to do 15 more minutes of cardio or push down one more bite of food even though you feel like your gonna puke.
I would love to hear from you about what it is you feel that drives you to push out that extra rep, to do 15 more minutes of cardio or push down one more bite of food even though you feel like your gonna puke.
So again I put the question to you, what is it that makes some individuals a bit more successful than others in this sport?
Ask yourself what is it that drives you to be better? Most of us have a starting point, some event that came along and changed things, introduced weight training into our lives, but something made it stick, something made it become a part of our lives, not just something we do, but something we are.
There is something common with those of us who push constantly to keep being better and better. It is something that some people never come to realize, and others eventually see it and feel it for themselves and it all falls into place.
Its more than willpower and discipline, its an element that gives superhuman effort to an individual. Its something as a bodybuilder that you have learned to draw upon at will, as if your life depended on it. Science has even documented this sudden ability to do more than was physically possible before. There are well documented cases of normal people exhibiting superhuman effort and feats of strength when the life of a loved one was in peril. However these were extreme circumstances to elicit this effect.
The bodybuilder has learned to harness this power and use it consciously, but even more incredible is this power is not drawn upon to save the life of a loved one or even their own life. This ability is used to inflict physical damage upon ones self.
Again, absolutely insane to the outside observer.
Still it begs the question, why do this, what is it that empowers individuals to draw upon their ability to go beyond physical limits? Why not do just enough?
I can tell you that from my own personal perspective, that just good enough, is equal to failure.
I think that those of us who possess the desire to push ourselves against what nature programmed us with aren't so much insane, but possessed with an extreme drive to not give up...EVER.
Just look at the time that it takes to build a physique, I mean a quality bodybuilder physique...it takes years to do, years and years of pushing against genetics and life itself in some cases.
I think people limit the scope of this warrior mentality to just the gym. No, it applies to the lifestyle in full.
A superhuman mental and physical effort is what successful bodybuilders possess.
The ability to integrate job, family, and life's occasional curve balls with a scheduled training, diet and sleep regimen. Bodybuilding is really another job, it's just a job that some of us decide to pay to do.
Again, just insane sounding. It takes a lot of constant planning and re-evaluation just to be a bodybuilder, throw in life on top of it and it's absolutely incredible that anyone does it at all. The training and diet isn't something that's mindless and you can just 'fire and forget'. Your body is like life, it's always throwing you some confusing signals. Diet, training, and the variables that come with that all must be changed from time to time, and then you need to still hit it hard. Tired yet?
That's just scratching the surface of how demanding this endeavor really is, and those of you who do it at this level of effort know exactly what I mean.
Often times I ask myself 'why the fuck am I doing this?' the only thing I can ever tell myself is that I would rather be dead, than be some mindless ordinary person who gets up every day to repeat a routine that doesn't push themselves to be better in some shape or form, be it bodybuilding or some other passion.
To me bodybuilding is like life, its pain, its hard, and it never quits trying to kill you, so you have to fight back, and I would rather keep fighting hard.
I would rather die than stop lifting weights HARD. Maybe some of you cannot understand that mentality, maybe some of you can.
All I can say is that for many of us to look in the mirror and see how far we have taken our physiques is a sense of accomplishment that you come to realize that only a select minority ever come to realize, and there is a component of our minds that pushes us to never quit, and too push harder than we did the day before.
It is an indomitable spirit that some people have within themselves that they would rather eat broken glass than give up.
That is what separates the average trainee from one who gains success with his/her physique goals.
I would love to hear from you about what it is you feel that drives you to push out that extra rep, to do 15 more minutes of cardio or push down one more bite of food even though you feel like your gonna puke.
Enhancing our physiques means simply, taking our bodies beyond what they physically would do on their own, the desire to be more than just a sum of our given parts.
I mean really think about this, grown people lifting heavy ass weights...intentionally? The sheer act of lifting weights for the purpose of recreation and creation is just a little bit insane to start with.
So what is it that makes a bodybuilder somewhat successful at this endeavor?
Before you answer to yourself, think about it beyond the, training, the food, the supplements, and drugs on and on...think beyond that.
Many think genetics is the big key, well a lot of people have great genetics, but not very good physiques, and others have the genetics of a refugee and yet get outstanding results.
I would love to hear from you about what it is you feel that drives you to push out that extra rep, to do 15 more minutes of cardio or push down one more bite of food even though you feel like your gonna puke.
I would love to hear from you about what it is you feel that drives you to push out that extra rep, to do 15 more minutes of cardio or push down one more bite of food even though you feel like your gonna puke.
So again I put the question to you, what is it that makes some individuals a bit more successful than others in this sport?
Ask yourself what is it that drives you to be better? Most of us have a starting point, some event that came along and changed things, introduced weight training into our lives, but something made it stick, something made it become a part of our lives, not just something we do, but something we are.
There is something common with those of us who push constantly to keep being better and better. It is something that some people never come to realize, and others eventually see it and feel it for themselves and it all falls into place.
Its more than willpower and discipline, its an element that gives superhuman effort to an individual. Its something as a bodybuilder that you have learned to draw upon at will, as if your life depended on it. Science has even documented this sudden ability to do more than was physically possible before. There are well documented cases of normal people exhibiting superhuman effort and feats of strength when the life of a loved one was in peril. However these were extreme circumstances to elicit this effect.
The bodybuilder has learned to harness this power and use it consciously, but even more incredible is this power is not drawn upon to save the life of a loved one or even their own life. This ability is used to inflict physical damage upon ones self.
Again, absolutely insane to the outside observer.
Still it begs the question, why do this, what is it that empowers individuals to draw upon their ability to go beyond physical limits? Why not do just enough?
I can tell you that from my own personal perspective, that just good enough, is equal to failure.
I think that those of us who possess the desire to push ourselves against what nature programmed us with aren't so much insane, but possessed with an extreme drive to not give up...EVER.
Just look at the time that it takes to build a physique, I mean a quality bodybuilder physique...it takes years to do, years and years of pushing against genetics and life itself in some cases.
I think people limit the scope of this warrior mentality to just the gym. No, it applies to the lifestyle in full.
A superhuman mental and physical effort is what successful bodybuilders possess.
The ability to integrate job, family, and life's occasional curve balls with a scheduled training, diet and sleep regimen. Bodybuilding is really another job, it's just a job that some of us decide to pay to do.
Again, just insane sounding. It takes a lot of constant planning and re-evaluation just to be a bodybuilder, throw in life on top of it and it's absolutely incredible that anyone does it at all. The training and diet isn't something that's mindless and you can just 'fire and forget'. Your body is like life, it's always throwing you some confusing signals. Diet, training, and the variables that come with that all must be changed from time to time, and then you need to still hit it hard. Tired yet?
That's just scratching the surface of how demanding this endeavor really is, and those of you who do it at this level of effort know exactly what I mean.
Often times I ask myself 'why the fuck am I doing this?' the only thing I can ever tell myself is that I would rather be dead, than be some mindless ordinary person who gets up every day to repeat a routine that doesn't push themselves to be better in some shape or form, be it bodybuilding or some other passion.
To me bodybuilding is like life, its pain, its hard, and it never quits trying to kill you, so you have to fight back, and I would rather keep fighting hard.
I would rather die than stop lifting weights HARD. Maybe some of you cannot understand that mentality, maybe some of you can.
All I can say is that for many of us to look in the mirror and see how far we have taken our physiques is a sense of accomplishment that you come to realize that only a select minority ever come to realize, and there is a component of our minds that pushes us to never quit, and too push harder than we did the day before.
It is an indomitable spirit that some people have within themselves that they would rather eat broken glass than give up.
That is what separates the average trainee from one who gains success with his/her physique goals.
I would love to hear from you about what it is you feel that drives you to push out that extra rep, to do 15 more minutes of cardio or push down one more bite of food even though you feel like your gonna puke.
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