Different exercises = different mindsets. When I do my last set of deadlifts, I usually picture everyone who’s ever fucked me over, ball that rage up, and let it out on the iron. When it comes to squats, it may sound stupid, but i picture my legs as being a couple of pistons that are driving me up and down. All other exercises, i try to get inside the muscle and feel it working against the weight.
I’m gonna kill this f@%$ing weight, I’m gonna tear this f$%#ing bar apart! I just get plain angry, particularly on big lifts.
the worst thing happend lately. and that one more rep may change it.
Pretty similar to Matt L on the negative portion I am trying to keep slow controlled movement then pause and then as fast as poss, in between sets whether I like it or not I probably end up signing in my head to the crappy music thats on Venga Boys etc, man I hate that but can’t help it. About 20 secs before lift I focus on lift, my key is quick sip from water bottle then in to it.
Right before my set, i look around the gym at all the skinny fat guys and i say to myself,“this is what separates you from everybody else. This is what makes you different.”
is it safe to combine espresso and ephidrene?
All I can think about is my mother. If she comes in and interupts my workout one more time, I’m gonna backhand her through a plate glass window. I can’t stand that ‘do your chores’ crap. I can’t stand that carb eating, high machine rep bitch.
3 midgets and a llama in an elevator.
Lift the fuckin’ weight.
Pull your head in! If I were your father and found out you thought like that I’d backhand YOU thru a plate glass window.
For me, its not really about anger or being aggressive. During the set I’m think control, domination…almost to the point of strategizing each rep. If I don’t have as much control as I want I terminate the set.
Fire, Brimstone, nuclear explosions, how much I loath certain people, riots, more explosions, women who no one ever blames for things they do because they’re pretty, ect.
“MB Eric: He’s bad, he’s good, he’s…misunderstood. Since 1657.”
-Eric
most of the time i try to watch my form and count. i lift alone so i have to be careful… between sets i check out eye candy and try to visualize how good i’m gonna look when all this really pays off…
Interesting thread, and a lot of different responses. If I’m doing lighter weight/higher rep stuff, my mind will usually just wander. More intense stuff, I try to concentrate on form and breathing. I remember a quote I read a long time ago “strain is effort burdened by emotion.” I actually find that my lifts suffer when I get angry, or whatever.
Damn I love this pain…
Black
Not my thought, but I was talking to a woman at the gym the other day, and she said all she thinks about when lifitng was ‘revenge’ She was about 190 pounds last October and she’s down to 135 right now. And she keeps thinking of all the people who were mean to her while she was heavy, and now she looks better than they do…
On a really good day, absolutely nothing. It is me and the bar. On bad days, usually the guy in the gym with the really cute butt. Well, maybe that isn’t a bad day. -
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I’m thinking about counter-revolutionary guerrilla warfare. I’m thinking that somewhere else some federal agent is lifting at the same time as me, and I have to get that one extra rep to stay ahead of him.