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Post by jdjprimer19 on Oct 24, 2008 3:37:03 GMT -5
"Baby with the lights off please. I'm bulking."-Anonymous
"It's simple. If it jiggles, it's fat." -Arnold
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Post by Blade on Oct 24, 2008 12:11:18 GMT -5
Courage is the hallmark of the warrior It's better to be approximately right than precisely wrong ~ fortune cookies I ate today,
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fasttwitchiix
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learn by mistakes, improve through learning
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Post by fasttwitchiix on Jan 27, 2009 19:34:35 GMT -5
my old coach always used to say: "you only cheat yourself boys!"
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Post by fitiron on Jan 28, 2009 14:28:18 GMT -5
The most important thing you take to the gym is not in your bag
It is in your head!!
When you get to the gym, what is on your mind? What are you thinking? Is your focus on your workout or are you thinking about the day before or the day to come.
Why are these questions important? Because it is your focus that will make the difference in a workout that is one to be proud of, or one where you know you could have worked harder.
As competitive bodybuilders and fitness competitors, we can never leave anything in the gym. If ever muscle fiber you worked is not on fire, then you haven’t done the job you were there to do.
I am often asked about my intensity day in and day out in the gym. My answer is simple. I am there to work, and nothing else!
It is that hour or so that is MY time. Nothing else in the world matters to me while I am at the gym. Nothing………It makes no difference what supplement you have, what diet and training program you are on. If your head is not in the iron you are wasting your time.
I am either wearing a cap with the bill pulled downed low, or a beanie that is almost covering my eyes. As I walk from one machine to the next, I do not look up. I do not look around. I do not care who, or if anyone is looking. My tunes are hard and loud and my focus and desire are sharp. My goal is to push myself beyond all imaginable limits. Punishment is the only thing on my mind.
To me, the gym is not a social meeting place. It is a place to build and mold a winning physique. Anything else is fluff.
One of the biggest distractions from working out is showing up at the gym without a plan. This will cause people to linger and lose focus. Once the focus is lost you may as well grab your bag and go home. Studies indicate the only one in ten thousand gym goers ever compete in a bodybuilding or fitness contest. There is nothing that I have experienced in my life that has challenged me to the limits that contest prep has. Competitive Bb’ing is formidable. Many compete only once never to step on the stage again. Others have an almost primal instinct to raise above whatever obstacle necessary to get on that stage. The question is, do you have it? Do you have that focus and drive!?
How do I start!? I am up at 3:15am. I get my first meal in me, feed the dogs and check my emails. Then it begins.
I actually have a spiritual quite time. Then, I clear my head. Start thinking about my workout, and get in my zone. I spend my first ten minutes meditating on absolutely nothing. Then I begin to focus on the work ahead. I start to visualize each exercise, each set, and each rep. Even before I hit the gym, I already know the out come of the work I am about to do. I already know that when I am finished there will be nothing left. I show myself no mercy.
Find your motivation, find your focus, and show yourself…………………NO MERCY!!!
I do not train to compete, I train to WIN….
-tony askew
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Post by Cathy on Jan 28, 2009 15:32:52 GMT -5
The most important thing you take to the gym is not in your bagIt is in your head!!When you get to the gym, what is on your mind? What are you thinking? Is your focus on your workout or are you thinking about the day before or the day to come. Why are these questions important? Because it is your focus that will make the difference in a workout that is one to be proud of, or one where you know you could have worked harder. As competitive bodybuilders and fitness competitors, we can never leave anything in the gym. If ever muscle fiber you worked is not on fire, then you haven’t done the job you were there to do. I am often asked about my intensity day in and day out in the gym. My answer is simple. I am there to work, and nothing else! It is that hour or so that is MY time. Nothing else in the world matters to me while I am at the gym. Nothing………It makes no difference what supplement you have, what diet and training program you are on. If your head is not in the iron you are wasting your time. I am either wearing a cap with the bill pulled downed low, or a beanie that is almost covering my eyes. As I walk from one machine to the next, I do not look up. I do not look around. I do not care who, or if anyone is looking. My tunes are hard and loud and my focus and desire are sharp. My goal is to push myself beyond all imaginable limits. Punishment is the only thing on my mind. To me, the gym is not a social meeting place. It is a place to build and mold a winning physique. Anything else is fluff. One of the biggest distractions from working out is showing up at the gym without a plan. This will cause people to linger and lose focus. Once the focus is lost you may as well grab your bag and go home. Studies indicate the only one in ten thousand gym goers ever compete in a bodybuilding or fitness contest. There is nothing that I have experienced in my life that has challenged me to the limits that contest prep has. Competitive Bb’ing is formidable. Many compete only once never to step on the stage again. Others have an almost primal instinct to raise above whatever obstacle necessary to get on that stage. The question is, do you have it? Do you have that focus and drive!? How do I start!? I am up at 3:15am. I get my first meal in me, feed the dogs and check my emails. Then it begins. I actually have a spiritual quite time. Then, I clear my head. Start thinking about my workout, and get in my zone. I spend my first ten minutes meditating on absolutely nothing. Then I begin to focus on the work ahead. I start to visualize each exercise, each set, and each rep. Even before I hit the gym, I already know the out come of the work I am about to do. I already know that when I am finished there will be nothing left. I show myself no mercy. Find your motivation, find your focus, and show yourself…………………NO MERCY!!! I do not train to compete, I train to WIN….
-tony askew Tony you are a motivating force! This is awesome stuff.
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Post by The One on Jan 28, 2009 16:46:00 GMT -5
"Baby with the lights off please. I'm bulking."-Anonymous Hilarious!
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Post by bigsarge72 on Feb 10, 2009 0:40:46 GMT -5
"If God didn't want us to eat animals, He wouldn't have made them out of meat!"
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Post by Blade on Jun 28, 2009 14:27:03 GMT -5
"We all live in the same world. The difference is how YOU look at it"
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Post by ChemProf on Jul 10, 2009 9:17:48 GMT -5
Getting a good physique is simple. Eat well, train hard and train correctly. It's just not easy.
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Post by The One on Jul 22, 2009 12:26:13 GMT -5
Good stuff guys! Keep em coming!
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Post by bloodstrike75 on Aug 3, 2009 7:46:01 GMT -5
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."
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Post by The One on Aug 3, 2009 11:03:33 GMT -5
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." EXCELLENT!!!!
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Post by masterschamp on Aug 3, 2009 18:27:49 GMT -5
This was a John DeFendis favorite:
"Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it......autograph your work with excellence."
Keith
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kpipes0683
P/RR/S Member
Max-OT Trainer/Natural Bodybuilder
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Post by kpipes0683 on Dec 16, 2009 16:21:40 GMT -5
Here's one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite movies of all time:
"If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish ANYTHING" ~Back to the Future
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Post by bloodstrike75 on Jan 1, 2010 12:27:25 GMT -5
I posted this on my Facebook status...but I wanted to share it here as well. My wife and son bought be a book that I have been skimming: Bruck Lee: The Art of Expressing The Human Body.
There is a quote in there by Bruce Lee. I actually want to write the whole paragraph...between a conversation with Bruce and one of his students, Stirling Silliphant:
Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We'd run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile [Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-an-a-half minutes per mile]. So this morning he said to me, "We're going to go five." I said, "Bruce, I can't go five. I'm a helluva lot older than you are, and I can't go five." He said, "When we get to three, we'll shift gears and it's only two more and you'll do it." I said, "Okay, hell, I'll go for it." So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and I'm okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out. I'm tired, my heart's pounding, I can't go any more and so I say to him, "Bruce if I run any more," -and we're still running- "if I run any more I'm liable to have a heart attack and die." He said, "Then die." It made me so mad that I went the full five miles. Afterward, I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, you know, "Why did you say that?" He said, "Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level."
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