DoubleDbol’s BodyBlog

I have a lot of people come in my gym or ask me out in public how I can lift heavy weight for reps over and over and my answer is its mostly all about the mindset. Now I wouldn’t expect a beginner or an intermediate to come into the gym and lift as much as I do, but I think that they could push themselves beyond their normal threshold. My threshold may be higher than theirs, but if they were to get it in there mind that they could lift something heavy, like say a new 1RM, then it could happen. The longer you can keep that overall mindset with no distractions the more overall reps they could do. For beginners who don’t understand the proper form of the excercise, they should learn the form first, and I do always recommend a spotter, because accidents do happen. I tell them to visualize themselves, in their mind, doing all the reps that they are wanting to accomplish before they even preform the excercise. “Zone out” and don’t let ANYTHING distract you at this point, it’s just you and the weight. When it comes down to it all your pushing against is gravity, right, and it never changes. All big weight looks like 135 from the inside out.