Accomplishing your definitive goal typically
requires your mind to be set on reaching it. In my sport it is common practice
to diet for 20-30 weeks at a time, waking at very unsociable hours to do
cardio, prepping meals for extended periods, weight training at a enormously
high intensity and doing all of this on a calorie delimited, mundane nutrition
program.
There are many different ways in which
people help motivate themselves; watching videos on the internet, listening to
motivational speakers, smashing Cannibal Corpse out of their IPod after necking
a doubly strong pre-workout stimulant drink etc. There is one thing that
dominates all of these other extrinsic motivators. It comes from basic biological
instinct. It will push you far past what you thought your boundaries were and
it is simply the notion of “Failing”.
For me this is my greatest motivator. So
the next time you push that last repetition on a high-rep-set of squats, just
stop for a second and think about the aspect of failing; getting beat and
outworked by someone else, and you just might get that one more rep!
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