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2006/07/03, 12:29 PM
Hi all, been reading some posts both new and old, and one thing I contintue to find is the way we all make this way harder than it is and or should be. I know a few of us are really really into the "why" things work in the gym and out of it. But for most of us it really is not needed. I am NOT saying that we should not research each and everything we do in the gym, after all that is how we learn and get better at what we do. Rather I am suggesting this: GO in the gym, lift, go home eat, then rest.
There you are, that is the secert to reaching your goals. I know that the times I think about a set of deadlifts to long or too much I fail to get the lift. Arnold said that he could tell if someone was going to be able to finish a challgening set by looking at their eyes. When people made the lift he could see that they believed, and those that failed had the failed look in their eyes from the start.
I think that a lot of failures both in terms of lifting and dieting and cardio is that we talk our selves out of it. This then goes back to what I just said: Lift, eat, and rest. Do those three things and it all should fall into line.
Now I realize that is a very simplified statement. But think back to your best lift, run or day eating, was it the one where you thought about it over and over, I think the word is obsessing, or was it the time that you just "did it"?
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Less Talk, More Chalk!
The Men and Boys are Separated by one thing: The Squat Cage!
7707mutt@freetrainers.com
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2006/07/03, 12:52 PM
I'm guilty of over thinking it myself sometimes...for me though if I get interested in a new area of exercise I haven't explored yet it keeps me motivated to ask lots of questions.then I hop on here and get the answers and ponder them while I do my morning workout...it gets me through the walls.Make sense...probably not:)
But yes you're right.... in the end ....NIKE hit it on the head with the "Just Do It" campaign.
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2006/07/03, 12:59 PM
Exactly! Nothing wrong in reading up on a subject. But there is a very thin line in learning and obsessing about it.
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Less Talk, More Chalk!
The Men and Boys are Separated by one thing: The Squat Cage!
7707mutt@freetrainers.com
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2006/07/03, 04:47 PM
It ain't brain surgery.
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I am training for birthdays.
Be here. Live. Love. Hope. Now. Faith. Believe. You. - Keith Urban
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2006/07/03, 05:20 PM
I just wrote a paper on this very subject....bodybuilders are notorious that if they aren't miserable, it can't be working. Same with diet. Don't make a thesis out of your workouts....just train to your recovery abilities(you will have to judge this level), and eat, rest, repeat. :)
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Maximus from Gladiator....Strength and Honor!
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2006/07/06, 12:12 PM
This is so true!!! I know for myself the more I think about having to do cardio, the harder it gets and the more excuses not to do it come to mind. In the end I'm having to force myself. Whenever I don't think about it ahead of time, and then just do it, it's almost fun:)
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"One Ring to rule them all; One Ring to find them; One Ring to bring them all, and in the Darkness bind them." -LOTR Trilogy
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2006/07/06, 01:25 PM
I know what you mean manny...sometimes as soon as I get up in the morning I start thinking of excuses why I can't or don't want to do my workout.I have to tell myself sometimes "stop thinking it".Some mornings it's so bad I just have to drop what I'm doing and hit the treadmill or I know I will never get it done.I read a quote from Stump a few days ago that said "sometimes the hardest habbit to break is making excuses" or something along those lines.
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2006/07/12, 11:50 PM
Who was it that said "pick it up, put it down, rest, eat? That's pretty much it.
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Sometimes life is like herding cats.
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