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 Mental toughtness a must!
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Steelsoldier Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 275) |
posted July 19, 2000 02:41 PM
  
In order to succeed in either B.B or P.L one must have outstanding mental toughness! I see way to many people "Scared to really train". The right mental approach is like night and day, those who have it are the same people making and breaking there own personal records day in and day out, Those who don't are the other 80% that make up our gyms! I just needed a place to vent because i am tired of pump artists taking up my training space! ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Steelsoldier Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 275) |
posted July 19, 2000 02:51 PM
BUMP! ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Romeo Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 534) |
posted July 19, 2000 02:52 PM
steel i know what you are saying because i used to make up that 80% you were talking about ...thought i knew it all...but then i learned ...and knowledge is power ...i know consider myself a dedicated person to training peace romeo IP: Logged |
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FitnessChick Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 1031) |
posted July 19, 2000 05:32 PM
words of wisdom by steel....  IP: Logged |
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skydancer Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 417) |
posted July 19, 2000 05:38 PM
I agree...your state of mind is extremely important in ANY sport. Not just bb/pl. If the focus isn't there, than my workout suffers. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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WarLobo Moderator (Total posts: 917) |
posted July 19, 2000 05:57 PM
Cool, cause everyone tells me I'm mental.... Late Lobo IP: Logged |
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ThePitbull Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 571) |
posted July 19, 2000 06:09 PM
I agree! If your heads not into it, your just going through the motions. Do this and you will be rewarded with sub-par results. Focus and you will be amazed at what you can achieve. Pitbull IP: Logged |
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bikinimom Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 290) |
posted July 19, 2000 06:36 PM
I COULDN'T AGREE WITH YA MORE BROTHA! I get so FUCKING - (Oh, Excuse me, that wasn't very lady-like!) annoyed with all the dead weight taking up my precious time and space! GO AWAY!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!! And don't hate me because my only purpose for being in the gym is NOT to show off my new outfit - not that this girl doesn't like to shop! - Hey, I may be chasing the pump, but after all, I am still a girl! IP: Logged |
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Twisted_Steel Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 353) |
posted July 19, 2000 06:40 PM
My last response of the day, better be a good one. I coined a term in my gym,"80%ers". The Eighty percenters composes the bulk of most gyms within the world. These are the people who fund our gyms with sufficient amounts of revenue to keep them going. On a monthly basis their bank accounts are drafted, they buy all of our supplements, and wear our "No Limit" baggy pants, fanny packs, and towel shirts. They come in for an hour a day, spending most of their time in constant communication with their peers. They converse on many issues, stock moarket, kids, careers, etc. On occassion they will actually break a sweat, or strain for a fraction of a second under the stress of a 25lb dumbell press. Then, after drinking a 3 doller carb drink "post workout" or buying a couple World Wide Protien bars at 3 bucks a peice the meandar out of the gym to go home to their families, shower, and look at themselves in the mirror wonder why they never seem to loose those last few pounds, or why they never get "sore" like the other people after their workouts. I am not a member of the "eighty percenters". I am economically challanged as a college student, my focus begins and end with my training. I enter my gym as an employee ready to please, great, and communicate with my members. However, when I am there to train, the head phones come on, my demeanor changes, my focus begins. The oddesy perpetuates for over an hour. I ache, I am pumped. Veins are throbbing, and blood is rushing. The gym is a mulit-purpose environment, however one can only benefit from its intended design if he or she possess the "Mental Faculties" to dispose of lifes problems for only and hour. And accomplish in that hour what the Eighty percenters will never realize in a lifetime.
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Iron God Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 257) |
posted July 19, 2000 08:32 PM
You sound like someone I see in the mirror all the time. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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bikinimom Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 290) |
posted July 19, 2000 09:33 PM
Good news brothas - I have returned from a MoFo of a workout ...worked out my frustrations ...am back to my old docile self..... NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTT!!!!!!!! IP: Logged |
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Plato Amateur Bodybuilder (Total posts: 45) |
posted July 19, 2000 09:45 PM
I'm gonna start printing this stuff out and posting it in my gym. IP: Logged |
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ThePitbull Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 571) |
posted July 19, 2000 10:56 PM
Good post Twisted Steel! Pitbull IP: Logged |
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Big Buck Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 242) |
posted July 20, 2000 05:04 PM
good post bro. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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CONAN Amateur Bodybuilder (Total posts: 30) |
posted July 20, 2000 05:25 PM
Man can I relate! Tuesday night, leg training...last real leg workout before contest. Went in late so as to have some space. So there I am doing a superset between single leg legpress and single leg extensions...and what do you know an "80%'er" jumps on the extension. So after telling him "Hey, I'm in the middle of a superset here!" and finishing my set, what do you know...another "80%'er" is now on the leg-press. I mean, it is not as if my training log and water are not right on the machine frame or anything. So after a not too quiet string of explatives..."80%'er" #2 gets the hint. Before I was done, it happened again on the leg extension machine. The funny part is all three idiots were training arms and who know what not five minutes before. And were again after I chased them away! Who let these people on my planet anyway! IP: Logged |
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WarLobo Moderator (Total posts: 917) |
posted July 20, 2000 07:28 PM
And Heaven forbid if you try and use two machines.... Like leg extentions and leg curls - OR three when I toss in the seated calf and do a no stop, no rest, circle jerk set from hell. No prob if you want to work in, BUT DO NOT SIT THERE AND REST YOUR LAZY ASS while I'm waiting to use it you fucking fucked-up fucks! That was for you B.Mom  Cause I WAS a sailor at one time! LAte Lobo IP: Logged |
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IronChick Amateur Bodybuilder (Total posts: 50) |
posted July 20, 2000 08:56 PM
Yeah, there's tons of those morons at every gym. They don't get it. I chase them away, too, and don't give a shit if they don't like me. I don't want anybody working in with me unless I am training alone - I already have a partner and we got a rhythm going and these people slow you down. And what about the geniuses who line up for free personal training questions right in the middle of your workout? No damn respect. And this takes the cake: my partner is giving me a spot and some guy asks him to come over and give him a spot. Meanwhile, there's 20 other guys standing around with their thumb up their ass, but they gotta have my guy spot them. WTF? I got a friend getting ready for the USA - the poor guy had to get the hell out of our gym cuz people were hounding him for advice so bad. He started roaming to other gyms to get in his workouts in peace. These people are never gonna get it. Times like that you just have to be totally rude, otherwise they keep doing it. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Rexie317 Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 353) |
posted July 22, 2000 05:23 PM
I know what you guys mean with the "80%ers". I went lifting monday, went to the shore tue-today so havent gotten to lift. Well I went to try my max on the leg press. I started out at 175ish just to see, cause I missed some training time due to work. Then I jacked it up to 200. I got a look from 2 guys talkin by the bench press out of the corner of my eye. Did 200 a couple times and went to 250, did it, then to 300, did it. Well they seen me going for 350 they got this look on their eyes that said "This kid aint gonna even be able to lift that up let alone do a rep with it" Well I did lift it up, so they're thinking I won't be able to do a rep with it." My face went beat red, I'm a dark skinned Italian so thats alot of pressure to make my face red, and put the mofo up with good form. Got done, put the weights back, gave a smile and went to do my other lifts. Did it b/c I focussed on lifting the 350 and nothing else. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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