Start the new year with INTENSITY!

To develop the pain tolerance for hard work, you will need to sacrifice laziness and pain avoidance. Hard work helps ensure that your sustained efforts will lead you in the direction of achievement. You must battle against fear, apathy and pain avoidance to defeat your worst enemy - most likely yourself.
Your mind is the strongest "muscle" in your body. If you believe those that say things such as "Don't strain yourself", "You can't do this", and "Pain isn't good", you'll be imprisoned by your own fears. The choice is yours: Be guided by your fears or be self directed by your own free will and determination.
If you're intimidated by the thought of adding more weight to the bar when you can safely handle it, you aren't tapping into your true physical potential. Now is the time to reconsidered your options. Remember, to defeat your fears, you must face them with the conviction and courage that you'll ultimately succeed.

yeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaa im ready to pound out some 25 pound dumbell presses baby grrrr lol

Presser said:

yeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaa im ready to pound out some 25 pound dumbell presses baby grrrr lol

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presser i almost went it and fixed your post for you....i think you meant 125 pound dumbell presses

yea

im thinkin the same thoughts!!!!!!!

I was almosy motivate to go have a killer workout, the kind where you get bloodshot eyes and are so pumped you can hardly hold your food afterwards, but I was right in the middle of a great episode of"trading spaces". Doug really screwed up this couples bedroom and boy were the pissed.Oh well maybe tommorrow......

KidRok said:

To develop the pain tolerance for hard work, you will need to sacrifice laziness and pain avoidance. Hard work helps ensure that your sustained efforts will lead you in the direction of achievement. You must battle against fear, apathy and pain avoidance to defeat your worst enemy - most likely yourself.
Your mind is the strongest "muscle" in your body. If you believe those that say things such as "Don't strain yourself", "You can't do this", and "Pain isn't good", you'll be imprisoned by your own fears. The choice is yours: Be guided by your fears or be self directed by your own free will and determination.
If you're intimidated by the thought of adding more weight to the bar when you can safely handle it, you aren't tapping into your true physical potential. Now is the time to reconsidered your options. Remember, to defeat your fears, you must face them with the conviction and courage that you'll ultimately succeed.

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looks like we have a journalist.....j/k...... this is so true!! you have to break through the barriers when your mind is telling you to stop, that's when you have to consciously decide to continue and force yourself to squeeze out a few more reps even though your muscles are burning and the rest of your body is in pain... try it a few times and you will become addicted

There is no such thing as a recreational weight lifter – defined as someone who lifts weights to break sweat – that is aerobics and we want none of it for muscle development. There is only one way to train and that is intensive bodybuilding. Intensity as you know has nothing to do with the duration of your workout or the frequency. The latter is related to the intensity but they do not represent intensity in themselves. Once intensity is high, frequency and duration must be low. You can’t train hard and long. One must give in to the other. A lack of intensity is a major reason why weight training athletes fail at showing any progress from their workouts.

Just wanted to expand a little on this.....

Centaur

Centaur said:

Intensity as you know has nothing to do with the duration of your workout or the frequency.

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*sniff* I'm so proud ....you really have listened and learned from me!