I briefly hit a variant of most muscular in the unlit bathroom mirror, think “damn I’m jacked”, wonder what an hour a day of flexing would do as your entire training program, and recall a couple of recent conversations :
•the asian college kid telling me my cut will look insane, that I’ll have a greek god body soon
•my former coworker stressing that I’m a big athletic dude
I had a laugh thinking about how the kid who wrestled at 125/130 the year I wrestled at 189 went to the school weight room, set the leg press (pin loaded) to his weight or heavier, and did it for minutes (longer than 6:00/match length) saying it’d make his legs strong for the mat.
I realized how that groks to my getting people to rep progressively weighted sets of 100 on pf’s similar machine.
“When in doubt do high reps.”
I could use that work too.
I’ve been adding in glute and quad work again. Hilarious to be hip thrusting 5p in the smith machine, yet using a plate, even less to feel the muscle work on smith squats.
I know that I’m causing a show, 5p, at pf.
“Believe in it, and it’ll work.”
That’s a universal truth. I’m very good about applying this to my gym training. I need to work on taking this lesson from the gym and applying it to my entire life.
There is no perfect program.
There is no silly program.
How a program’s effectiveness is defined is by whether you’ve bought into it or not.
Do you believe that it will, or believe that it won’t?
Will!
I tell you I can revert to nothing but one set of pushups a day, and continue to get stronger full body.
I’ve bought in to pushups that much, in intensity of belief, and in frequency of opting in/renewing the belief to make it so.
Persistence & Tenacity