Intensity is Thy name!
It’s a glorious sunny day here in West Central Ohio but while others were out enjoying family activities Susan and I were in a gym laying waste to our back muscles and biceps. It was a wonderful thing! I’m sitting here now…barely able to type because my hands are shaking so bad. And it’s been a good hour or more since the workout ended.
Over the past 2 years I have become a real student of the sport of bodybuilding. I’ve read tons of books and magazines and spent countless hours on the internet researching diet and exercise routines as well as supplements. I’ve even delved into the spiritual aspects of the sport such as visualization and mediatation.
After all the research I have come to the simple conclusion that….everyone from beginner to pro pretty much does the same basic thing!
What I mean by that is that there are only so many exercises and so many combination and we all do the same things Oh we might add our own little twist such as suppinating your wrist or some other such thing but basically we are all doing the same exercises.
We pretty much all follow the same type of diet….some of us are just a little more devoted to it than others and as far as supplements go….well we all have our favorites and I do believe that some are far superior than others. But we all have the same access to them and use the same products. Those being protein, NO supplements and fat burners.
The thing that makes the contenders stand out from the pretenders is one thing and one thing only….INTENSITY! The ones who truly stand out from the crowd are the ones who go balls to the wall each and everytime they touch that weight. The ones that walk into the gym all business right from the get go and are barely able to crawl out the door when they are done.
The ones who are making the faces…grunting on groaning and upping the poundages till their muscles are ready to explode! They’re the ones you see doing supersets and tri sets and dropsets. They are the ones that push every set to failure…up the weight and go at it again with even more intensity than the last set. They are the ones who never talk to anyone in the gym…never smile and have that cold hard stare of intensity. The one that says…DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT TALKING TO ME WHILE I’M LIFTING!
Who are these people??? They are the ones you see walking away with the trophys week after week, show after show. The ones making huge gains and turning heads every where they go.
Up the intensity and you could be one of those people. I am determined to be one of those people!
Intensity is the name of the game. Want to get the body you’ve always dreamed of??? Well just turn up the intensity and you’ll get there…I swear you will.
I swear that I will!!
