Life, like bodybuilding
A lot of people have commented, during their comp prep, that they have learned a lot about themselves. I was always curious about what these lessons where. Where they that obvious? Maybe it’s more subtle than that but everyday my bodybuilding journey informs the rest of my life and vice versa.
For a while now I’ve been complaining to ‘the lovely boy’ that I wished I could have the focus in the rest of my life that I have when I’m in the gym. I blamed it on all the supps, afterall that Thermofuel is pretty sweat stuff. Lately, I’ve been training on almost no supps (shock, horror!). Only taking aminos to stop my muscles falling off due to my massive calorie deffecite. However, even on my most sleep deprived days (and I’ve been zonked) I’ve managed to pull out some serious PB’s. How can I explain this, I wondered?
It’s simple. I go to the gym with a list of things I have to do. A bag with the equipment I need to do it and an allocated time-frame to do it in. I visualise success with every set. Only do one thing at a time. It’s a deadset formulae for success. If I get distracted by the weird things the 18yr/o PT’s are doing to their trainees or start day dreaming it all turns to muck, so I know not to go there.
Why not apply this formulea to getting other stuff done??
I’ve been dilly dallying about getting my new portfolio together so I can go for job interviews. I’ve ummed and arred about it for days and haven’t achieved anything. Then, eeek, a job interview comes up. So I spent yesterday in an unproductive panic. Today, being a new day (where I got enough sleep!) I thought about the process I use to get my bb stuff done and decided the focused, one thing at a time method may just work. Guess what? I set a PB. It’s all done and at the printers before meal 3. I’d estimated at least another 2 hours, which means I can have a nice nap now.
Once again I’m reminded that success is inevitable as long as success is living in the moment.
