We've all been there. The weight that was lifted with ease last week feels a hundred pounds heavier now. You come to the last few reps of your set. Your muscles feel like Jello. Your mind is screaming,"Oh dear GOD what have I DONE?" Your willpower starts to slip like a climber down a mountain and you scramble desperately to find something
--anything--to hold on to to keep you from falling, and failing. Here it is, boys and girls, the breaking point. You've got the span of two heartbeats to find the mojo to lift that weight, or you can rack it and go home. The breaking point seperates the men from the boys, the warriors from the wienies, the studs from the duds. What's it gonna be? Give it up? Call it a day? Or are you going to dig deep, get mean and snag that handhold to stop your fall? Thunk-thunk, one more heartbeat to decide. You look silly holding that. Lift it or put it away. What's it gonna be?
You're going to lift it, of course. Close your eyes and visualize. Think about that nasty confontation with your boss, that jerk that cut you off in traffic (and then decided to drive 20 MPH!), the rude salesperson, idiot coworker, money troubles, whatever it takes. I have even dredged up memories of being picked on in grade school, faces I haven't seen in decades. They are there, all around you, shadows and memories, laughing at you, scorning you, mocking you. They think you are weak, scrawny, puny, runty, unworthy. Show them, prove them wrong. You can do it. Do it lift that weight shut them up prove it to them make them see make them stop laughing show them what you can do lift it hit them in the mouth bash them smash them doubts and fears tear them burn them rip them to shreds make them go away do it stand over their broken battered bleeding bodies with your foot on their throat and scream down at them, "HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW, HUH? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
NOW LIFT!!!!!! Writer's note: There is a difference between training with intensity and training with an injury. Training with intensity feels like you've just ran a marathon. Training with an injury feels like you've stubbed your toe every time you move the affected area. Training with intensity makes things better. Training with and injury makes things worse. If you are tired, keep going. If you are hurt, stop.
I was checking out the guidelines for the articles. Sorry, I don't think I am going to count the words. I don't have enough fingers and toes.
I will leave a short bio though:
I make my home in the midwest. I have been working out for a little over a year, and have only taken to bodybuilding seriously in the last six months or so. Questions or comments to:
tvonburg@alltel.net. Thanks!