Mindset

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that Kurt has written.

If you want to grow...

...it all starts with the right mindset. Your head needs to be in the game before you even step foot in the gym. On any day I’m thinking about my workout from the time I get up in the morning. I’m thinking about how I’m going to optimize my performance that day. I carefully consider and prepare my meals to make sure I’ll have taken adequate calories for energy, yet not too many to make me sluggish.

I consider the timing needed for my meals (I actually plan my meals out the day before in accordance with my daily schedule and workout time for the following day).

Inside one hour of your workout you shouldn’t be thinking about anything but moving some damn weight! If you are, then stay home! Don’t waste your time, because you’re probably just going to be getting in my way in the gym. When I walk into the gym I’m ready to wage war on my own body. I’m ready to get out of my comfort zone and I know that my partner is going to help me do just that! Every day you step foot in the gym you’re given an opportunity to improve your physique! Don’t F***ing waste it!!!

Forget your job, your friends, your significant other or anything else in your life and just concern yourself with moving iron. I find it helpful to induce myself into a psychotic mindset before a workout (especially leg workouts). I become a different person with capability of destruction and no fear of pain or unknown boundaries. I do whatever I must to get myself in this state of mind, because when I’m there I achieve great things in the gym and I can leave proud of myself at the end. Find whatever works for you. I like to blast music (Disturbed, Slipknot, Tool, Pantera, etc) in the car on the way to the gym. Avoid anything that’s going to take your focus away from your workout. An hour before your workout is not the time to have a discussion with your girlfriend/boyfriend about relationship issues, unless it’s going to make you angry and move more weight. Anger can be used effectively in the gym if you can harness it and channel the energy to help you with the task at hand. Bottom line: for the hour and a half (or whatever it be) that you spend in the gym, spend it well. Don’t talk to anybody, don’t look at members of the opposite sex, don’t think about any other part of your day … just focus on the moment and what you’re doing to make yourself better.