Jurnal chrisw77, 29 Jun 21

** PEP TALK TIME **

You've got the bar loaded, gripped tight, your shoulders screwed into the bench, feet and butt planted firmly, your back is arched, chest is high... you lift the bar off the rack and lower it towards your chest... you struggle for all of 2 seconds before you realize it's not going up.

You let out a cry for help and a nearby lifter comes to your rescue.

You're as embarrassed as you've ever been that you've just failed your lift.

However, you didn't actually fail... you attempted and struggled. You still stressed your muscles which will cause them to eventually be able to move that weight. You didn't achieve what you set out to do this time, but just consider it practice... and get a spotter next time lol.


The point is, we find our "comfy weights" and our "comfy exercises" that we know we can crush and look great doing them... we don't want to change.

But if you wanna grow stronger and develop more, your muscles require a stimulus greater than the previous workout. They require a constant challenge! Their default is laziness. They wanna do the least work possible and let other muscles help out when they can. No, I'm not talking about that "muscle confusion" BS lol. More like:


You can't do an exercise? You hate doing that dreaded exercise? You feel like a wuss doing that exercise?

That's nice, dear.
NOW DO IT!
MASTER IT UNTIL YOU'RE A PRO AT IT!


Afraid that adding weight on an exercise will feel too challenging and hurt your numbers? Intimidated by adding weights to that lift? Happy just doing more reps?

That's nice, dear.
ADD THE FREAKING WEIGHT!
AND IN A LITTLE WHILE... ADD SOME MORE!


As the old saying goes, "you need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable."

This is how we stop spinning our wheels and actually grow.

There's a reason everyone doesn't have a "beach body": it takes effort - A SH*TLOAD OF EFFORT! Oh, and patience... it doesn't happen overnight.

If you just wanna lose weight, you don't need exercise to do that. But once you begin to see you're literally "skin and bones" because you haven't got much muscle after "the big reveal" - you'll need to do some work (or just be content with your skinny physique...) when you could've been doing it all along.

Been there. Done that. 3 years of lifting later and I'm not even halfway to where I wanna end up.

It. Takes. A. Long. Time.

Just enjoy the ride and the extra calories! 😊

YOU CAN DO IT! 💪

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