Your Mind is your own limitation
Published: Fri, 11/30/12
I've been reading Arnold's book: Total Recall and it is pure fire!
If you get a chance to read it (or listen to the audio) you'll see why Arnold was so successful & became the best
The thing I want to talk about today are "Limits on Your Mind"
I posted a picture of this on Facebook, but:
On pg 68 Arnold is sharing how him and Franco Columbu were taking turns on doing squats with 500 pounds
Arnold did 6 & then it was Franco's turn but he only did 4 reps & said he was tired (not too mention that Franco was stronger than Arnold at the Squat as it is stated on the book)
To motivate Franco Arnold saw a couple of girls walking by and told Franco that they said they did not believe he could squat 500 pounds
Franco loved to show off to girls, so he picked up the weight & did 10 reps!
This was the same Franco that said he was tired 10 minutes ago
Nothing changed except for his Mindset
When you set limitations for yourself like this, you put a barrier on how much you can do
You basically conform with doing the average (even if it is incredible for others)
The real growth occurs when you break of from those limitations & let your body go to see how much it can do without setting up a barrier
Am not saying to go out there & do something foolish, but once in a while F the rules!...Ignore your planned reps & sets and just see how much you can do
You'll feel how liberating it is to Stop "thinking" & just move the weight, enjoy the feeling and the struggle
It's tough to do as we are so conditioned to always think about our next step in order to have everything calculated
And that's good but sometimes we just gotta let go & free our mind!...We gotta see how much our body can actually do
Give this a try next time, even if it is for just one exercise & I know you will feel an energy that will carry over with you for the whole day making you feel unstoppable!
It might sound like crazy talk, but when you lose sight of these stopping line & just enjoy the present, crazy shit can happen!
So that's it for today my friend, just go & soul lift!