What you think everything having to do with the brain has been discovered ?
[quote]triple-10sets wrote:
What is the part of the brain that controls pain…how can you numb that area safely ? [/quote]
This works well.
I guess Im putting one foot, 10 miles in front of the other. I just wish there was a glamorous way I could rid my brain of all the extra BS and have it super-humanly focused in on the weight. Then I would double results easy. I actually heard rumor of some russian herb that is supposed to get your mind super in tune with your body. Anoral it might be ? I dunno.
Uhm. Dude just go to a place in your mind where you hate things. Where you get to the point of angry tears. HAHA
It works. “If you don’t lift this you will lose all of your friends and die alone.”
Repeat that to yourself and see if you don’t get that weight up. hahaha
[quote]dhuge67 wrote:
Uhm. Dude just go to a place in your mind where you hate things. [/quote]
The scary thing is how easily this comes to me.
Interesting. Ive thought about this too. It seems everyday there is a new “theory” and new “way” to lift, etc etc. I dont know, I respect everyone who puts out these theories…but it does get confusing. Im not gonna lie I used to be the “twat” with the log book…lol and I was 145 lbs too…and I just saw such minimal results…because I focused more on making sure I hit a certain number, or doing things a certain way, then when i couldnt hit that goal or whatever I’d stress out and get discouraged and not focus.
Finally after a couple months I just said fuck it and just started lifting…I used WSFSB as my “base” routine if you will, and went from there. I know dialing down your nutrition and routine is important, but sometimes it seems like its just better to go in the gym and just lift heavy shit…do some deads, squats, DB bench, rows, a little cardio here and there, and you get so much more results.
Again, nothing against pre-made routines. I started Waterbury’s 10/10 plan and its great because it kind of encompasses the aforementioned stuff. Its simple, tough, and at the end of the workout I feel like I accomplished something.
Hey guys, earlier I was yappin’ about brain, body connection, and I should have been browsing around the site. I found that stuff Power Drive in the store on here, and it looks legit. I hardly ever hear it being mentioned maybe I dont visit the supplement nutrition forum often enough. But apparently this stuff has got L-Tyrosine which brings out your “Fight, or Flight” hormones, and phosphatidylcholine, and this stuff called dimethylaminoethanol Bitartrate. Anyway you can read the advertisement, has anyone used this stuff and if so how did it work for you ?
[quote]triple-10sets wrote:
Hey guys, earlier I was yappin’ about brain, body connection, and I should have been browsing around the site. I found that stuff Power Drive in the store on here, and it looks legit. I hardly ever hear it being mentioned maybe I dont visit the supplement nutrition forum often enough. But apparently this stuff has got L-Tyrosine which brings out your “Fight, or Flight” hormones, and phosphatidylcholine, and this stuff called dimethylaminoethanol Bitartrate. Anyway you can read the advertisement, has anyone used this stuff and if so how did it work for you ? [/quote]
It didn’t work as good as coping an attitude on the way to the gym knowing that the logbook/yourself the last time is laughing at you saying you can’t do any better than before. Save your money
I used the search engine and I didnt saw alot of mixed responses like “should I take caffeine with the product” If it was that good why would somebody need caffeine as well ?
[quote]dhuge67 wrote:
It is so simple. I get nods and stares and congratulations for a 500 lb deadlift. Whatever, it’s bullshit. I am weak and not big enough. It isn’t something to be satisfied about.
That’s the difference. If you are ever able to be satisfied with anything about yourself, aesthetically, or strength-wise, then you’re not cut out for lifting or T-Nation. [/quote]
I get what you are saying 100%, but there is a difference in being satisfied and being complacent. Weather its 500lb or 300lb if thats the best you have ever done there is nothing rong with being satisfied with your self. But dont become complacent and settal for what you did. 5 min latter say “Fuck It!! Through 5 more lbs up there.” b/c it about what you can still do
[quote]Himora22 wrote:
dhuge67 wrote:
It is so simple. I get nods and stares and congratulations for a 500 lb deadlift. Whatever, it’s bullshit. I am weak and not big enough. It isn’t something to be satisfied about.
That’s the difference. If you are ever able to be satisfied with anything about yourself, aesthetically, or strength-wise, then you’re not cut out for lifting or T-Nation.
I get what you are saying 100%, but there is a difference in being satisfied and being complacent. Weather its 500lb or 300lb if thats the best you have ever done there is nothing rong with being satisfied with your self. But dont become complacent and settal for what you did. 5 min latter say “Fuck It!! Through 5 more lbs up there.” b/c it about what you can still do[/quote]
Exactly, nothing wrong with self love and confidence in what you do. Dan John comes to mind when I think of an athlete who is well rounded and self confident, yet can still throw around big iron.
His articles and e-book were what made me realize that… yes it is so simple. Bust your ass, eat the right foods at the right times, be wary of your recovery, and repeat.
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
Legionnaire wrote:
triple-10sets wrote:
Well what is the fact ? Are you talking about muscular energy output, or psychological ? And its not like the average Joe can actually measures this stuff scientifically. Its just a judgement call basically.
True, but there are some obvious indications that people are not putting in enough.
If you are:
Not sweating
Looking around like a lost child
Talking to others
Not breathing heavily
or Not fighting to stay conscious,
then you probably aren’t pushing far enough.
yea those are some pretty obvious tell tale signs lol.
i mean theres no monitor you can strap on thats going to measure your intensity output vs. intensity potential but i think everyone knows whethere what they are doing is really giving what they have or not. i feel like im saying the same thing over and over now. you shouldnt need someone to describe what going all out is.
a workout should never be easy, every session should be as difficult or more difficult than the one before it. the difficulty is measured by a constant adjustment of increasing weight, reps, lowering rest, etc and it is up to you to overcome that difficulty each and every time. that way every day, every week you can say that youre stronger today than you were yesterday or last week and you can say it with confidence
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Yes but I am talking about when you are not sure if you have another rep in you. Like on the bench press I get 9 reps, and you say “I want to go for another one”, but with the 10th one the bar simply doesn’t budge no matter how hard you push.
Then I get home feeling destroyed after my workout, but an hour or two later I’m thinking “could I have gotten 1 more rep if I would have had more anger in me?”
[quote]Fulmen wrote:
Airtruth wrote:
Like someone else said earlier they have an 8 hour hard labor job, he just doesn’t have time or energy to go full bore training.
God damn BULL SHIT. I was working 60 hour-a-week manual labor job and still found the time and energy to go full bore.
As X has aforementioned, it’s about priorities. I have nothing to do with those that have a weak will.
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Some people have adrenal glands the size of kiwis. I’m not one of them. Unless I was sick I have generally always had the will to push for the last rep (even with squats). The problem isn’t in the gym, it’s at work about 2 or 3 hours later! I feel pretty much dead unless I drink enough coffee. There is such a thing as burning the candle at both ends.
[quote]MytchBucanan wrote:
I feel pretty much dead unless I drink enough coffee. There is such a thing as burning the candle at both ends.
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…and coffee will do that to you! If it was genuinely an issue of adrenal fatigue coffee’s only going to make it worse.
[quote]Legionnaire wrote:
MytchBucanan wrote:
I feel pretty much dead unless I drink enough coffee. There is such a thing as burning the candle at both ends.
…and coffee will do that to you! If it was genuinely an issue of adrenal fatigue coffee’s only going to make it worse. [/quote]
Yeah that’s true. There are times that I just can’t do without it though. When I stop taking all my sets to failure then I usually bounce back.
[quote]dhuge67 wrote:
Uhm. Dude just go to a place in your mind where you hate things. Where you get to the point of angry tears. HAHA
It works. “If you don’t lift this you will lose all of your friends and die alone.”
Repeat that to yourself and see if you don’t get that weight up. hahaha[/quote]
I spend a lot of times in the gym and let me tell you, there have been sometimes when I just couldn’t find it in myself to bust out another curl, sit up, or up-down. I like to gather my thought prior to entering the gym and think of some pretty terrible things, like sad stories I read in the paper or saw on tv.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
id also like to mention that when i first started posting here i thought everyone on this site was a beast. i thought the BB forum was for actual BBers (or atleast people who trained and looked like them) now it seems those people are the rarest to find. i also was suprised when there was a “who really trains” thread…like wtf i thought everyone on here atleast lifted.
This site used to be truly hardcore. There used to be quite a few guys who were very developed and understood what it took to get there. That has changed a lot over the past 5-6 years. Now, I would bet more than half of the posters here don’t lift at all. That won’t stop them from giving advice and confusing the shit out of new lifters.
There is no reason for most beginners to need even a small percentage of the articles on this site. Many of these articles are written like they are attempting to get Olympic hopefuls into shape. The average newbie these days doesn’t even understand hard work in the gym, so going on about carb cycling and v-diets when they are that clueless is hopeless.[/quote]
Ya know, not to jock Prof, but I always liked his outlook on things and I have been familiar with his posts for some time. When I first came across T-mag in 2000, it totally changed the way I train and the sources I looked to for advice. However, I am also afraid to admit that along the way, I got quite influenced by some writers that graced this net mag and my progress went completely backwards! Actually, some of the guys that the more elite T-maggers would classify as boneheads whizzed by me in results! Some of these guys, well MOST of them never even HEARD of Poliquin or King and are now jacked as am I after returning to more basic forms of training. Some of my friends and fellow lifters even thought I was disturbed for counting tempo during reps, supersetting agonists and antagonists, and so on! My routines I believe, became goofier and goofier while my boys just stuck to splits and straight sets. Now I do the same and have loved it ever since. If I had never bothered with some of these jackass complicated routines I would have been years ahead!
Look at any of the top naturals and pros and you will see that ALL of them follow splits (none of which obey any movement pattern based scheme), do straight sets, do not time rest periods, and so on! Some of them have used the same exercises and routines for YEARS! Dorian used THREE routines throughout the course of 14 years of training! His last two lasted 5 years each and he was one of the best ever!
Basically heres the moral of the story in a nut-shell. Know yourself. Nobody can build your body better then you can. Nobody can talk you into a better body, you just have to do what you can do. Bottom line.
[quote]Scott M wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
as far as switching things up, im all for that. i mean for one, its better to switch things up from a muscle gaining standpoint
Would you mind explaining further what you mean here? I don’t want to comment if I’m interpreting this wrongly. [/quote]
switching things up from time to time. instead of barbell switch to dumb bells, instead of back squats do front squats. instead of deadlifts do some rows. that way you dont plateau. or whatever else you need to do to avoid plateauing. i mean you should know man, thats one of the key things in DC hence the 3 different exercises for each muscle.
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
Scott M wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
as far as switching things up, im all for that. i mean for one, its better to switch things up from a muscle gaining standpoint
Would you mind explaining further what you mean here? I don’t want to comment if I’m interpreting this wrongly.
switching things up from time to time. instead of barbell switch to dumb bells, instead of back squats do front squats. instead of deadlifts do some rows. that way you dont plateau. or whatever else you need to do to avoid plateauing. i mean you should know man, thats one of the key things in DC hence the 3 different exercises for each muscle. [/quote]
I use on average three different exercises for most muscle groups and it isn’t because of “plateauing”. It is to hit the muscle group from as many angles and positions as possible. I don’t usually just switch things up for no reason. In fact, unless you have a reason to switch things up, why the hell would you do it?