Through personal experience I have come to learn about myself that psyching up for a lift can be very crucial to performance. The most common problem with myself is to get TOO psyched up, yes thats right, too psyched and putting too much pressure on my lift to where the stress has a negative effect on my performance. Just recently (3 weeks ago) I have started listening to calming music before I lift (weird...I know) and it relaxes me, I don't place life or death drama on whether I make the lift or not, and my lifts have been going awesome ever since, it's really crazy. I would suggest to those of you that put a lot of pressure on yourself before big lifts, try to take a step back, take some deep breaths, and relax. Really calm confidence, saying to myself out loud "this is light, light weight, light weight...no matter what, here we go, down and back up" is really the best thing I need. If you're anything like me (high strung as performance enhanced racing kawasaki) I really believe this will help your lifts. Just some of my thoughts and experiences, everyone else please feel more than welcome to chime in here as well.
I can relate here to actually. Before I deadlift I always say ok no big deal we have done this before. Down and up lets go. It really does help your mental psychie.
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very true i usually listen to music as well to calm myself down and to relax its great when ur trying to achieve something or beat a goal but its not worth it stressing urself and it coming back at you negatively
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I always listen to hardcore rock when I lift. I might have to make a new playlist with some Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Marley, etc. BTW, I like the new avatar Rev
when you psych yourself up I think it is very important not to waste any energy...I am a big time dreamer and very emotional and motivated...Sometimes I can also get carried away to the point where I lose energy at the gym...Now what I do is wait about 10 minutes before I am about to workout and listen to about 2 songs...In the middle of the 2nd song when I feel the most emotional responce I just get up shut the music off and im out the door...I maintain the song in my head...as far as my lifts go I always make sure I am confident with the weight and no what to do...I spike my own adrenaline rush by thinking of something extremely emotional like something my grandfather said to me before he passed and then I just lift...im sure others do something similar.
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Originally posted by RipStone: I always listen to hardcore rock when I lift. I might have to make a new playlist with some Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Marley, etc. BTW, I like the new avatar Rev
Thanks, it's nice and colorful for a change. I still listen to my head bashing hardcore rock I just try to make sure its uplifting instead of hate-filled. Rage Against The Machine always gets me going, bulls on parade...enough said.
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Originally posted by myr11: when you psych yourself up I think it is very important not to waste any energy...I am a big time dreamer and very emotional and motivated...Sometimes I can also get carried away to the point where I lose energy at the gym...Now what I do is wait about 10 minutes before I am about to workout and listen to about 2 songs...In the middle of the 2nd song when I feel the most emotional responce I just get up shut the music off and im out the door...I maintain the song in my head...as far as my lifts go I always make sure I am confident with the weight and no what to do...I spike my own adrenaline rush by thinking of something extremely emotional like something my grandfather said to me before he passed and then I just lift...im sure others do something similar.
Wow, that was a great post. You sound like a very collective thinker.
i think you can pysch yourself out of a lift easily because its easy to think too much about doing the lift. If i'm doing a really heavy set and think about the weight over and over in my head, i get under the bar and it feels like its going to kill me and i usally end up doing a very bad set. i listen to hardcore music but i don't sit and think about the weight. the music just puts me in a frame of mind. then i get under the bar and lift period. without thinking i'm going to do this and this and get this many reps etc...don't try to imagin what the weight will feel like. just lift the weight without thinking of what your doing(so some extent anyway).
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Exactly, always think of a hot girl. It works for me. And the presence of an attractive female close by always gives me enough adrenaline and motivation.
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Me too - there are not too many of them around my gym, but if I can work them in to spot me on a heavy bench or something like that, I always feel significantly stronger, and with solid form.
That imagining a scantily clad beautiful women cheering you on really works for you guys? If I did that all the blood would drain from my muscles to another part of my body and it would be impossible to lift.
I'm glad you posted that, Rev. I posted something long time back about listening to very calming music in my MP3 and how that seemed to, surprisingly, help. Of course, lots of people chimed in about the music they listen to in the gym is anything but calm. I don't even do that anymore myself but it seemed to work for a while. Seemed to help me focus more. I guess, in the end, whatever works... and that may change from time to time.
Originally posted by RipStone: Q-Sorry to divert from the thread subject, but every time I look at your avatar for some reason I laugh. It's great
I second that, plus Q. is awesome in general. I always wonder if he got his screen name from Q. on the early episodes of start trek the next generation.
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