Consider This Before Your Next Workout

What exercises should I do today?

How much weight should I use?

Should I do bodyweight exercises or weight training exercises?

Should I do cardio before I workout?

Should I do cardio after I workout?

There is a good chance that you have asked yourself some of these questions at some point or another before heading to the gym. They are all viable questions to be asking, but even after you answer those questions there is still one major factor that you need to consider before you can even think to begin your workout.

Is your head on board with what you are doing or what you are about to do?

If the answer to that question is not a big fat 'yes' then there is a good chance that your workout is going to come up short of its goal.

In recent weeks some of the 'meatheads' (guys that look like they have been lifting their entire lives) have been running into some plateaus on their workout programs preventing them from moving any closer to their goals.

On the other hand, there are a few guys in the gym that seem to defy the laws of physics when it comes to their workouts.

An individual just two weeks ago attempted to do three repetitions of power cleans at a weight of 225-pounds.

The individual was able to do all three repetitions so he moved on to his next set at 235-pounds.

He got all three repetitions at 235-pounds, so he moved up to 245-pounds at which point he only achieved on rep due in part to his hands were having a hard time hanging onto the bar.

Now, that was not the incredible feat that this article is depicting. The incredible feat is that this article is eluding to is that same individual was able to do 25-power cleans at 225-pounds in a row just two weeks after doing that weight for the first time.

How did he do it?

After interviewing him he said that he 'told himself that he could and was going to do it.'

You read that correctly, he simply told himself that he could do it and he went and did it.

If you think about it that is the only explanation as to why we can or cannot accomplish our weight-lifting goals in the gym. So many of us cannot jump over that mental hurdle keeping us from reaching farther than we ever have before.

The fact of the matter is that the guy at the gym was always able to do 25-power cleans at 225-pounds all along his brain just did not know it.

The next time you find yourself at the gym asking yourself those questions at the beginning of this article do not forget to ask yourself if your head is on board.

The mind is the most powerful tool in the body and the only way that you will be able to reach your goals is if it is fully aware of what that goal is and what it takes to get there.

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