| In spite of all the years you may have spent working | | | | extreme zone of training intensity. When you have |
| out hour after hour in the gym, trying all the routines in | | | | isolated this memory, imaginatively step into it with your |
| the book, without training your mind first, you will | | | | whole body. Feel the exact same sensation as you did |
| amount to nothing and that great dream physique or | | | | then and at that moment, utter one word that you feel |
| bodybuilding title shall remain what it is, a pipe dream. | | | | represents that moment. Mentally shout it 5 times to |
| Mental training is all about developing the mind-muscle | | | | yourself with passion and intensity. |
| link, getting the mind to become as tough as the rest | | | | Anytime you are at the pain barrier, mentally exclaim |
| of your body. This enables them to get the most out | | | | that word, silently repeating it, until it 'explodes' to fill you |
| of themselves during workouts. Mentally trained | | | | with its power. That's the pain barrier power |
| bodybuilders are the ones that are able to push | | | | breakthrough. |
| themselves to heroic extremes so that every | | | | 4. Mind over muscle self talk |
| molecule of their body is worked out to the extreme. | | | | With time, you should be able to control every muscle |
| 1. Mental priming | | | | in your body. It's as if you have a relationship with |
| This is the stimulation of the nervous system with the | | | | every single group of muscles in your body. Then lie |
| levels of energy that you want to generate in the | | | | down comfortably on your back, with eyes closed and |
| following training session. Start by picturing, in | | | | start focusing on a particular muscle. When a mental |
| 3-dimensional form, yourself, one set of reps for each | | | | connection has been established, talk ti the muscle. |
| muscle you will be training. Now feel yourself | | | | Share with it what you plan for the next session. Talk |
| generating the extra energy that makes you feel as | | | | to one muscle after the other and you will be surprised |
| though every fiber in your body is going to explode. | | | | how they will begin to respond. |
| 2. Laser concentration | | | | 5. Identify and connect with your optimal emotion |
| This involves mobilizing your consciousness into a | | | | Emotions fuel work outs much like gas fuels a car. |
| singular focus point is then driven into and held within a | | | | Think of the last time when you attained peak |
| specific task of your work out. It's so powerful that | | | | performance during work out and identify the emotion |
| one is not aware of it themselves other than am | | | | at that point. You will realize that that emotion brings |
| extreme energy force focused directly into the muscle | | | | out the best in you during workout sessions. You have |
| you are training. | | | | to replicate the moment in totality for the effect to be |
| 3. Developing the pain barrier power breakthrough | | | | there. Think of what you did then and do it, feel what |
| Think of a moment when you were in the most | | | | you felt, say to yourself what you said to yourself. |