Summer is coming around so it’s time for new goals for gaining muscle and losing fat.
We all know that in order to achieve our goals, we have to stay with them on work on them. So many of us “start” a new program, but never actually get started. Here are a few tips on how to get or stay on track.
- Replace “I Should,” with “I Am.”
Everyone knows what they “should” be doing, the question is what “are” you doing? Every time you start to think, “I Should,” replace it with, “I Am.” When you start thinking of what you should be doing, you dwell on what you aren’t doing and negativity infiltrates your positive momentum. Keep it positive by thinking of what you are doing and ways to improve it.
- Remember “The Why”
Most people do things out of emotion, and working out is no different. You do it for a specific reason, and that reason stems from an emotion. Whenever you want to slack off, or you feel your goals sliding away, remember the actual emotional reason why you decided to get on the program in the first place.
- Learn From The Past
When you feel the negativity coming on, think back to past exercise programs that didn’t work for you. Figure out what went wrong. Was it the program, or was it you? Obviously, if it was you, and the cold hard truth is that it probably was, you need to take a step back, to step 3 and reevaluate why you started, and why you need to finish.
- Avoid the “Toos”
Avoid the immature emotional logic of the “toos” (too tired, too early, too cold, too late, too hot…). Think of the benefits of your exercise or nutrition program. Base your decision to exercise on positive emotions, not on excuses. Make a deal with yourself, once you get to the gym and workout for five minutes, if you feel like leaving you can. Most of the time, you won’t leave.
Whenever you find yourself getting off track with your workout, think of how pumped up you get after a great workout. Remember to always think of the positives, once you do, you leave little to no room for the negative to come in.
For more information on setting goals for building muscle, check out the Mental Edge Muscle Building Program. Right now, you can download the 7 Part Muscle Building Guide, for FREE. Several of the parts cover motivation and goal setting.
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Visualization and sports/ physical activity have gone hand in hand for centuries. Since the beginning of recorded athletic events, history tells us that the competitors used what we now called visualization or visual imagery.
In the early days of bodybuilding competitors realized that the mind is greatly responsible for their degree of progress. The famous Mr. Olympia, now Governator of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger has always emphasized that success in bodybuilding begins in the mind.
Concentration, or focused attention, is a key to achieving almost anything in life, and bodybuilding/ weight lifting is no exception. Regardless of how intently you apply yourself physically to the completion of an exercise, you will never meet the high standards that you need to meet in order to gain size and strength, unless your mind it totally focused on the exercise. It is a common flaw of all people that being able to focus 100% on one thing, at one time is almost impossible. There always seem to be other intrusions enter the mind: financial woes, relationship issues, doubt in yourself, lack of time…
These distractions are necessary, but as you continue to progress in your goals to succeed as a bodybuilder, you will become better and better at keeping out and ignoring these distractions.
The following 10 steps will help you hone your skills in order to concentrate on your bodybuilding success.
- Try to block out all negative thoughts. This means ALL negative thoughts.
- Always think about your training in a positive, encouraging manner.
- Keep your mind on the workout. When in the gym, don’t think about anything but success in the gym.
- Plan your workouts so you won’t be interrupted or distracted. This could include not working out next to the classroom during the bikini boot camp.
- Don’t make excuses to miss a workout.
- Make every exercise mental as well as physical.
- Go to the gym to work out. Be nice, but make it clear that you are there to train, not to socialize. Wearing headphones will cut down on chit chat.
- Have a plan. Develop a workout plan for the day’s workout so you will know what you have left to do, and what you have already accomplished.
- Look forward to training. You are doing it for a reason, look forward to the benefits of successful training.
- Use the visual imagery technique. Force your mind and will power to push your muscles.
Use these tips and stay focused.
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After watching a recent television program with the prominent preacher, Joel Osteen from Lakewood Church in Houston, my thoughts were peaked and turned towards you.
Joel Osteen
Joel said, “I do know our God, and he is all powerful. He has more in store for you. My questions for you are:
1. Can you perceive it?
2. Can you make room for it?
3. Did you know the first place it starts is in your thinking?
If your thinking is limited, then your life is going to be limited.”
Right on Joel! Being the spiritually upright person that I am, I can agree with that statement. I can also see a parallel between you, and The Mental Edge Muscle Building Program. Now, by no means am I claiming that I or my program is God. I want to clear that up right now. But what I am saying is that the program has so much more in store for you.
If you want to build muscle, then do it. The Mental Edge Muscle Building Program is the best way to do it. It doesn’t matter why you want to build more muscle mass, whether it’s to impress the opposite sex by looking and feeling better, to feel more secure in your ability to protect yourself and your loved ones, or even if it’s a deep rooted psychological need. The point is, it’s all here. The program has it all, it has everything you need and more to build more muscle than you ever thought you could. All you have to do is get started. The question is, why haven’t you started yet?
“Can you perceive it?”
Just like blessings from God, sometimes we can’t see the best things in life. Sometimes the best things appear to be the worst things. Sometimes the best things in life are free, and sometimes the things we need have to literally hit us over the head before we realize what’s best for us. Some people have a natural ability to know what direction to take, and they take it. Those are the people that are most successful in life, the people that can perceive what’s best for them and take action.
Are you going to be successful in life? Have you been so far? What about in your muscle building quest, have you been successful at building the body that women go crazy for, and that guys would kill for? Have you? Do you even want that?
If you do want that, have you been able to perceive the best route to take, and have you taken it?
Is the Mental Edge Muscle Building what’s best for you? Is there something in you that’s thinking that this might be the answer? That’s your perception kicking in, and you need to go with it. I guarantee you that you will gain muscle, and lose fat, and get what you want in life, but it’s not up to me, it’s up to you. You have to be able to see what’s staring you in the face and realize that this is it. This is what you have been looking for, and this is what you need. If you can see that, and take action, you will have success.
“Do you have room for it?”
If you are like most guys, you’ve got it all figured out. There is nothing left for you to learn, nothing left for you to find out, because you already know it all. Your cup is full. When your cup is full you leave no room for anything else. You’ve capped your mental capacity and completely closed your mind.
If you are one of these people, obviously I can’t help, because you already know the things that are contained in my program. Maybe you could even teach me a thing or two. If you think you’ve got it all figured out, I’m here to tell you, you don’t, I’ll guarantee it. The Mental Edge Muscle Building Program comes with a 60 day money back guarantee, and I’ll guarantee you that there are several pieces of ground breaking information in the program that you’ve never heard about.
The point is, there is always something to be learned. So make room for the program. Make room and time to see dramatic results within 4 weeks, even within days. Make room for finally knowing the absolute key to weight training. Make room for knowing exactly what supplements to take and when to take them, in order to save the most money and maximize your body’s natural muscle building reaction to them.
Make room for The Mental Edge Muscle Building Program.
“Did you know the first place it starts is in your thinking?”
Do you have room for it? Do you think that you’ve got it all figured out? Are you 100% sure that you are on the right track to gain tons of muscle, without the shadow of a doubt? You know you have room, but can you perceive it? Can you perceive all that The Mental Edge Muscle Building Program has in store? Do you believe it will help you gain 10lbs of muscle in 4 weeks? It will, and more, if you let it. Can you perceive that The Mental Edge Muscle Building Program is the best thing for you? If you can, and you take action, you will be successful.
It all starts with your thinking. “If your thinking is limited, then your life is going to be limited.” This is so true, and guess who puts your limits up. You do. The only person limiting you from building the body that all women want, is you. Take a look in the mirror, you make your life how you want it to be. It’s not up to me, your friends, or your family, it’s up to you. It’s your life, what are you going to do? Are you going to keep limiting yourself, or are you going to throw your limits out of the window? Are you going to realize that no one will give you what you want? You have to perceive it, and take action.
Are you going to make this year your best ever? Are you going to get serious about gaining muscle? Then you need the right tools, can you perceive what is best? Can you feel what the right path is?
Is The Mental Edge Muscle Building Program right for you, I think it is. What do you think? Do you feel that it is? Do you perceive that it is? Then be successful, take action.
Do you believe you can be successful? Do you want to be successful and finally gain muscle the best, easiest, and most efficient way possible? If you do, then there’s nothing left to do but get The Mental Edge Muscle Building Program.
You are just minutes away from a lifetime of success, a new you. Can you feel it? Then take action!
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Mind and Muscle: Can Doubt Hinder Muscle Growth?
By now, we are all familiar with the Placebo Effect and what it is can do for mind and muscle. If not, you can find a great post about the subject on the Mind and Muscle Placebo Effect.
Also, this is Part 2 of a 3 part series. You can view part 1: Mind Over Muscle right here.
The placebo is usually used in the medical practice when a patient is in need of medicine and gets a placebo, or a substance with no active ingredients. After the “drug” is taken, the patient feels real, positive results. The patient knew the drug healed people and believed he would be healed, and sure enough, he was healed.
The Placebo Effect
Obviously it wasn’t some random non medicine that healed the person, so the question remains, what healed him?
The answer is, he healed himself.
The power of the human brain is absolutely amazing. It made your body and can heal it. The thing that really healed the person was his strong belief that he would indeed be healed. It didn’t matter that he thought it was the “medicine” that healed him, it was his belief that healed him.
The Placebo Effect heals people because they believe they will be healed, but there is also an opposite reaction, the Nocebo Effect. This is when a person totally believes that they won’t be healed, so they don’t get healed.
What Does This Have To Do With Muscle Building?
The placebo and nocebo effect can also be found when trying to gain muscle. People do or don’t become healed based upon their beliefs, and people can gain or not gain muscle based on their beliefs.
This is really a problem in the fitness industry and it’s more prevalent with guys trying to gain muscle. I’m not exactly talking about the placebo effect being prevalent, but in a person’s faith in their physical abilities. So many people get on an exercise kick expecting immediate and mind blowing results, but once those results don’t occur overnight, the person’s faith in what they were doing will plummet and doubt will set in.
Just as in the Placebo or Nocebo Effect, a person can often receive physically what they believe to be totally true mentally. This can include sickness, health, fat, or muscle. The ability to change your body can be the same way. When you really believe that you will gain muscle and do the things you should, you probably will gain muscle. It can also work against you, if you don’t think you can gain muscle, you probably won’t, and you are working against yourself.
When you start believing something with all you have, you set the gears of progress in motion in your mind. This activates your brain to do what it needs to do to get you what you want. The bad part is, it also works in reverse, when you lose your faith and let doubt come in, those same wheels screech to a halt and will usually shift into reverse. It’s like having a lot of basketballs in your hands and right before you get where you want, you start to doubt that you’ll make it and all of the basketballs fall out of your hands and go bouncing away.
The best way to keep the forward progress going is the stay full of positive thoughts and not let doubt set in. Below are a few easy, basic steps to keep the muscle building success going:
- Positivity: This is as necessary as it is obvious and simple. If you are constantly thinking positively about your muscle gains, then you leave no room for doubt. I don’t want to turn this into a therapy session, just keep it simple. With all of your thoughts about supplements, nutrition, and training, think about how they are positively creating muscle building results.
- Reinforcement Visualization- You should not only think positively about your efforts to gain muscle, but you should also visualize your success. Imagine yourself looking how you want to look, lifting how you want to lift, or dating the person you want to date. Don’t just imagine this, interact with it. Make it a mental movie that you are the star of and feel how great it feels to accomplish your goal. Where you go in your mind, you’ll go in the body.
- Believe in Your Abilities: You must always believe that you can and will accomplish your goal. Never doubt that you can gain strength and size. If you don’t believe you can build muscle, you will quit way before you actually do.
Winning the muscle building mind game is just one part of success. You have to have a solid training, nutrition, and rest and recovery plan in place to really take full advantage of your mind and muscle connection. Your mind can control your brain, and your brain controls your body. Use your mind and muscle connection and use your positive thoughts for your advantage.
A few vidoes to sum it all up:
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“Tap The Power of Your Subconscious Mind…”
It has been proven over the last 50 years through many studies and reports that the subconscious mind is able to absorb information that the conscious is not focusing on. In fact, in many cases more so than when it does focus on it! It’s opposite to what you would naturally think.
Napoleon Hill told us over 70 years ago that “any impulse of thought which is repeatedly passed on to the subconscious mind is finally accepted and acted upon by the subconscious mind, which proceeds to translate that impulse into its physical equivalent, by the most practical procedure available.”
“The subconscious mind will transmute into its physical equivalent, by the most direct and practical media available, any order which is given to it in a state of BELIEF, or FAITH that the order will be carried out.”
This basically says that when a belief, or message, gets into the subconscious mind, it will act upon it and do everything it can to make it a reality.
Now suppose you could use the power of your subconscious mind to:
* Boost your enthusiasm and physical energy
* Skyrocket your self-esteem
* Become more assertive
* Make better decisions
* Enhance the healing process
* Make it easier to get rid of bad habits
* Become more self-confident
* Enjoy deepened relaxation
* Build Muscle
* Burn Fat
Well guess what, YOU CAN!
The Mental Edge Muscle Building Program is the best way to gain muscle.
When you properly combine all of the aspects of building muscle physically, with the power to build muscle mentally, you become limitless.
The Mental Edge Muscle Building Program will show you the way.
Check out The Mental Edge Muscle Building Program today.
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