eazy_mas’s BodyBlog

Before going to the gym ask one question: Why do you want to train?

Doing cardio could be very boring and tiring and the weights are time consuming so why you keep doing it?
As for me my simple answer it to be strong. But this answer is too general for me as to my goal because if you ask anyone “would you like to be strong?” it has an obvious answer for many.
Strength for many is the ability to carry heavy object around or crushing nuts with bare hands. But for me strength has greater meaning than that. It is the ability to survive critical situation. You might not know what is going to happen in the future but with strength you potential to survive harmful diseases, adventure in the middle of the desert or even to live long enough to be a grandparent is part of survival. As survival you need strength and a lot of it.
To gain strength you have to go out of you comfort zone because anyone who says there is a special formula for you to get strength might be just wasting your time. When you go out of you comfort zone and reach to you limit you not only gain physical strength but also mental.
On every training session you miss it not just you missed on training session but you reduce your ability to obtain greater strength.  You could have some coach around you and cheat during you training by not give you 110% but that is only cheating yourself. You have to have always the mentality of survival during you training session.
 As for competitive part of survival remember that when you sitting in front of the TV there is another inspired bodybuilder, figure model, boxer, gymnastic, football player…etc who been training hard to obtain strength to beat you or obtain you goal. There are some goals like a winner of Flex Magazine model 2010 have only one spot. So if you miss out on one day of training remember that somewhere around there is a person who is working hard to obtain you one spot goal.  And if you are a late bloomer you have to work twice as hard as you competitors.
Everything is within you reach some might take long time other might be quick. But remember sometimes you might have long time you reach you goal but once you reach it won’t all go to waste because you worked hard not to lose it. Thus you not only gained physical strength but also mental strength, which is the ability to withstand pain and discomfort.
 

Couple of last words I that is on my mind is about starting to train and commitment.
Never ever over plan you goal or you end up not doing it. Just take confidence in yourself on you plan and just do it. If you are a perfectionist you won’t start you training quick so that means you goals would take long time. We are human and we tend to make mistake. It okay that if you fall down once in awhile there is nothing wrong with that. Trying to make everything perfect at once won’t make you start your goal. Instead you will always have excuse that you want to start strong or perfect but that type of thing won’t happen if you don’t start at all.
Always have commitment on you training. If you feel you are committed to it you won’t always have to come to it. The commitment not only makes you go to your training session but it pumps you up mentality before coming to train. Sometimes you won’t goal in the time you though predicted to which could cause frustration. But as long as you keep moving forward little by little you going to reach you goal and it might even have more meaning to it.