給兒子的信
兒， 寫這備忘錄給你，基於三個原則：
(一）、人生福禍無常，誰也不知可以活多久，有些事情還是早一點說好。
(二）、我是你的父親，我不跟你說，沒有人會跟你說。
(三）、這備忘錄裡記載的，都是我經過慘痛失敗得來的體驗，可以為你的成長省回不少冤枉路。
以下，便是你在人生中要好好記住的事：
(一）、對你不好的人，你不要太介懷，在你一生中，沒有人有義務要對你好，除了我和你媽媽。至於那些對你好的人，你除了要珍惜、感恩外，也請多防備一點，因為，每個人做每件事，總有一個原因，他對你好，未必真的是因為喜歡你，請你必須搞清楚，而不必太快將對方看作真朋友。
(二）、沒有人是不可代替，沒有東西是必須擁有。看透了這一點，將來你身邊的人不再要你，或許失去了世間上最愛的一切時，也應該明白，這並不是甚麼大不了的事。
(三）、生命是短暫的，今日你還在浪費著生命，明日會發覺生命已遠離你了。因此，愈早珍惜生命，你享受生命的日子也愈多，與其盼望長壽，倒不如早點享受。
(四）、世界上並沒有最愛這回事，愛情只是一種霎時的感覺，而這感覺絕對會隨時日、心境而改變。如果你的所謂最愛離開你，請耐心地等候一下，讓時日慢慢沖洗，讓心靈慢慢沉澱，你的苦就會慢慢淡化。不要過分憧憬愛情的美，不要過分誇大失戀的悲。
(五）、雖然，很多有成就的人士都沒有受過很多教育，但並不等如不用用功讀書。你學到的知識，就是你擁有的武器。人，可以白手興家，但不可以手無寸鐵，緊記！
(六）、我不會要求你供養我下半輩子，同樣地我也不會供養你的下半輩子，當你長大到可以獨立的時候，我的責任已經完結。以後，你要坐巴士還是Benz，吃魚翅還是粉絲，都要自己負責。
(七）、你可以要求自己守信，但不能要求別人守信，你可以要求自己對人好，但不能期待人家對你好。你怎樣對人，並不代表人家就會怎樣對你，如果看不透這一點，你只會徒添不必要的煩惱。
(八）、我買了十多二十年六合彩，還是一窮二白，連三獎也沒有中，這證明人要發達，還是要努力工作才可以，世界上並沒有免費午餐。
(九）、親人只有一次的緣份，無論這輩子我和你會相處多久，也請好好珍惜共聚的時光，下輩子，無論愛與不愛，都不會再見。
爸爸
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Sunday, November 20, 2011
For BodyBuilders :)
“My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.” by charlie chaplin
Every time you stay out late....
Every time you sleep in.....
Every time you miss a workout....
Every time you don't give 100%....
You make it that much easier
for me to beat you. - Unknown
"My goal when I come in here everyday is to make sure that if someone beats me - its not because they outworked me!" - Layne Norton, Natural Pro.
"You gotta be true to yourself because if you let what others do influence what you do you really have nothing left of yourself" - Layne Norton, Natural Pro.
"If you don't have it. Don't hit it" - Arnold
"The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is... The Pump. Let's say you train your biceps. Blood is rushing into your muscles and that's what we call The Pump. You muscles get a really tight feeling, like your skin is going to explode any minute, and it's really tight - it's like somebody blowing air into it, into your muscle. It just blows up, and it feels really different. It feels fantastic." "It's as satisfying to me as, uh, coming is, you know? As, ah, having sex with a woman and coming. And so can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am like, uh, getting the feeling of coming in a gym, I'm getting the feeling of coming at home, I'm getting the feeling of coming backstage when I pump up, when I pose in front of 5,000 people, I get the same feeling, so I am coming day and night. I mean, it's terrific. Right? So you know, I am in heaven."
-Arnold
"Train beyond the pain and death is your only release" -Steve Michalik-Mr. America
"I don't eat for taste, I eat for function." -Jay Cutler
"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent." -Arnold
"Experiencing this pain in my muscles and aching and going on and on is my challenge. The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. I have no fear of fainting. I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It's not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I'm OK. A lot of other athletes are afraid of this. So they don't pass out. They don't go on."
- Arnold
No I don't drink milk. Milk is for babies, when you get older you drink beer -Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Stimulate don't annihilate"-The Great Lee Haney
"With determination and heart, there is nothing you can't do. I don't care how small you are, how skinny you are - I mean if you have the heart, and you have the drive, and you have the determination you can do whatever the hell you want! - Guy Cisterino, NPC Competitor
"Anybody that ever tells me that I can't do something - thats just more fuel to my fire. I love it when people say 'oh you can't do this, you can't do that,' because they're the ones that make me do the extra rep, to throw the extra 10lbs on the bar, they're the ones that, when I step on stage, I want them right along side me so I can just destroy them on stage.
- Guy Cisterino, NPC Competitor
"Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weights"
-Ronnie Coleman
"Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it." -big ronald
"I don't do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles." -MARKUS RUHL
you cant over train, you can only under eat- Trey Brewer
"I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.
Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate.
I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.
The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found.
There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength.
Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's
impossible to turn back.
The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get
told that you're a god or a total bastard.
The Iron will always kick you the real deal.
The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver.
Always there like a beacon in the pitch black.
I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend.
It never freaks out on me, never runs.
Friends may come and go.
But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds."
-Henry Rollins
"Aint nothin but a peanut" -King Coleman
"You never know it till you live it" -Ronald D. Coleman
I had a goal to be the best from day one -Jay Cutler
"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life." - Edward B. Butler
"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Gagehot
"Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination." - Anonymous
"Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride."
- Vince Lombardi
"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability." - Anonymous
"Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them." - Anonymous
"Todays preparation determines tomorrow's achievement." - Anonymous
"The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else." - Anonymous
"Always act as though it were impossible to fail." - Anonymous
"The quality of a persons life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." - Anonymous
"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after." - Anonymous
"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." - Anonymous
"If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting." - Anonymous
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will”
"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence." - Anonymous
"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal- a commitment to excellence- that will enable you to attain the success you seek." - Anonymous
“If the pain gets too much, just think. The universe is so large and your pain is almost non-exsistant in comparison. Therefore your pain does not exist."
“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
“Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success."
“I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying."
“You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."
“The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account."
“The more you train, the more people there are who are weaker than you."
“No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training...what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."
- Socrates
I do now what others won't - so I can have later what others can't.
"I don't have time to lift, I make time"
I can deadlift you. - my wife
“When I was ten years old I got this thing that I wanted to be the best in something, so I started swimming. I won championships, but I felt I couldn’t be the best. I tried skiing, but there I felt I didn’t have potential. I played soccer, but I didn’t like that to well because there I didn’t get the credit alone if I did something special. I just avoided team sports from then on. Then I started lifting through the other sports and I enjoyed it the most. I won the Austrian championship in 1964 but found out I was too tall. So I quit that and went into body building. Two years later I found out that that’s it-that’s what I can be the best in.” -arnold
“The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That’s why I call it the torture routine. Because it’s like forced torture. Torturing my body. What helps me is to think of this pain as pleasure. Pain make me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure. And so when I am experiencing pain I’m in heaven. It’s great. People suggest this is masochistic. But they’re wrong. I like pain for a particular reason. I don’t like needle’s stuck in my arm. But I do like the pain that is necessary to be a champion.” -arnold
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit" -Aristotle-
"Suffering is what champions are all about, and champions suffer the longest". -Anonymous
“Can you imagine what I would do, if I could do all I can?” -Sun Tzu-
"Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself." -Arnold Schwarzenegger
Train like God is watching -Anonymous
shut up and train.. -Anonymous
I'm too sexy for my shirt. -Anonymous
"Go heavy or Go home" -Anonymous
"At the end, the ladies always prefer the bigger guy- me" -Anonymous
"Right now, your competition is training" -Anonymous
Why live if one cannot Deadlift? -Anonymous
"You have to do what others won't, to achieve what others don't" -Anonymous
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog" - Magic Johnson, NBA Star
"Only the weak attempts to accomplish what he knows he can already achieve." - Stella Juarez Author
"Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger" - Micheal S. Kirby
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher & Writer
"That which does not kill me makes me stronger" - Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher, Poet, and Classical Philologist
"Fall down seven times, get up eight" -Chinese proverb
"There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Success must be felt within before it can be seen on the outside." - Unknown
"There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them." - Ralph Marston, Author and Publisher of The Daily Motivator
"Pain is only weakness leaving the body" - Unknown
"Strength is the product of struggle" - Unknown
"How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?" -Jason Bishop, About Bodybuilding Reader
"Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you" - Ovid
"Tough times don't last. Tough people do." - Unknown
"There are only two options regarding commitment, You're either in or your out. There's no such thing as life in between." - Anonymous
Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated." -Anonymous
"It's never too late to become what you might have been". -George Elliot
"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. - Brian Tracy, Motivational speaker
"Your body hears everything your mind says." - Naomi Judd, Singer/Songwriter
"The man who has no imagination has no wings. " - Muhammad Ali, Boxing Champion, Peace Ambassador
"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take." -Wayne Gretzky, Professional Hockey Player
"The harder you work, the luckier you get." -Gary Player, Golfer
"Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do" - John Wooden, UCLA Basketball Coach
"I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big." - Donald Trump, Entrepreneur
"To give any less than your best is to sacrifice a gift" Steve Prefontaine, runner
"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes."- Chinese Proverb
"Things do not change. We change." - Henry David Thoreau, Author/Philosopher
" So you want to grow , first you have to learn " Chi Town bb.com moderator
"The weights won't lift themselves." - unknown
No matter what anyone says, everyone wants to be in great shape. They are just jealous because we are the ones who actually get it done. -unknown
"Nobody ever drowned in sweat." - USMC saying
"When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not."-unknown
"it's always a good day to start lifting"-unknown
COME ON DO IT -Arnold
Cowards never start...the weak never finish -Johnny Mentalist
"When life gets complicated I lift" -Johnny Mentalist
"don't worry about this weight.....just worry about the next one!" -Johnny Mentalist
"Day 7 AKA Non-Training day Rest,Sleep,Eat, and Grow! The other 5-6 you know what to f'ing do!" -Johnny Mentalist
"You can cheat on your girlfriend but not on your workout."-Johnny Mentalist
good luck is a result of hard work and preparation. - Johnny Mentalist
''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'' - Johnny Mentalist
"No one believe in miracles until SOMEONE achieved" - Johnny Mentalist
"Pain is temporary, pride is forever" - Johnny Mentalist
"Your hard work WILL pay off. Progress may sometimes seem very slow but stick with it and you’ll be rewarded." - Steve Chen
Athletes also have PASSION and you’ll want to develop PASSION too!
Remember the abbreviation PASSION and apply it to your own goal(s).
P =You must PLAN
A = You must take ACTION and put your plan into ACTION.
S =You must have SELF BELIEF and begin with SUCCESS IN MIND.
S =You must find SOCIAL SUPPORT-SURROUND yourself with positive people.
I =You must be INVESTED physically, emotionally and financially.
O =You must identify any and all-potential OBSTACLES.
N =You must develop a NEVER GIVE UP attitude.
Every time you stay out late....
Every time you sleep in.....
Every time you miss a workout....
Every time you don't give 100%....
You make it that much easier
for me to beat you. - Unknown
"My goal when I come in here everyday is to make sure that if someone beats me - its not because they outworked me!" - Layne Norton, Natural Pro.
"You gotta be true to yourself because if you let what others do influence what you do you really have nothing left of yourself" - Layne Norton, Natural Pro.
"If you don't have it. Don't hit it" - Arnold
"The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is... The Pump. Let's say you train your biceps. Blood is rushing into your muscles and that's what we call The Pump. You muscles get a really tight feeling, like your skin is going to explode any minute, and it's really tight - it's like somebody blowing air into it, into your muscle. It just blows up, and it feels really different. It feels fantastic." "It's as satisfying to me as, uh, coming is, you know? As, ah, having sex with a woman and coming. And so can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am like, uh, getting the feeling of coming in a gym, I'm getting the feeling of coming at home, I'm getting the feeling of coming backstage when I pump up, when I pose in front of 5,000 people, I get the same feeling, so I am coming day and night. I mean, it's terrific. Right? So you know, I am in heaven."
-Arnold
"Train beyond the pain and death is your only release" -Steve Michalik-Mr. America
"I don't eat for taste, I eat for function." -Jay Cutler
"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent." -Arnold
"Experiencing this pain in my muscles and aching and going on and on is my challenge. The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. I have no fear of fainting. I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It's not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I'm OK. A lot of other athletes are afraid of this. So they don't pass out. They don't go on."
- Arnold
No I don't drink milk. Milk is for babies, when you get older you drink beer -Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Stimulate don't annihilate"-The Great Lee Haney
"With determination and heart, there is nothing you can't do. I don't care how small you are, how skinny you are - I mean if you have the heart, and you have the drive, and you have the determination you can do whatever the hell you want! - Guy Cisterino, NPC Competitor
"Anybody that ever tells me that I can't do something - thats just more fuel to my fire. I love it when people say 'oh you can't do this, you can't do that,' because they're the ones that make me do the extra rep, to throw the extra 10lbs on the bar, they're the ones that, when I step on stage, I want them right along side me so I can just destroy them on stage.
- Guy Cisterino, NPC Competitor
"Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weights"
-Ronnie Coleman
"Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it." -big ronald
"I don't do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles." -MARKUS RUHL
you cant over train, you can only under eat- Trey Brewer
"I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.
Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate.
I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.
The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found.
There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength.
Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's
impossible to turn back.
The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get
told that you're a god or a total bastard.
The Iron will always kick you the real deal.
The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver.
Always there like a beacon in the pitch black.
I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend.
It never freaks out on me, never runs.
Friends may come and go.
But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds."
-Henry Rollins
"Aint nothin but a peanut" -King Coleman
"You never know it till you live it" -Ronald D. Coleman
I had a goal to be the best from day one -Jay Cutler
"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life." - Edward B. Butler
"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Gagehot
"Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination." - Anonymous
"Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride."
- Vince Lombardi
"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability." - Anonymous
"Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them." - Anonymous
"Todays preparation determines tomorrow's achievement." - Anonymous
"The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else." - Anonymous
"Always act as though it were impossible to fail." - Anonymous
"The quality of a persons life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." - Anonymous
"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after." - Anonymous
"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." - Anonymous
"If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting." - Anonymous
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will”
"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence." - Anonymous
"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal- a commitment to excellence- that will enable you to attain the success you seek." - Anonymous
“If the pain gets too much, just think. The universe is so large and your pain is almost non-exsistant in comparison. Therefore your pain does not exist."
“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
“Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success."
“I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying."
“You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."
“The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account."
“The more you train, the more people there are who are weaker than you."
“No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training...what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."
- Socrates
I do now what others won't - so I can have later what others can't.
"I don't have time to lift, I make time"
I can deadlift you. - my wife
“When I was ten years old I got this thing that I wanted to be the best in something, so I started swimming. I won championships, but I felt I couldn’t be the best. I tried skiing, but there I felt I didn’t have potential. I played soccer, but I didn’t like that to well because there I didn’t get the credit alone if I did something special. I just avoided team sports from then on. Then I started lifting through the other sports and I enjoyed it the most. I won the Austrian championship in 1964 but found out I was too tall. So I quit that and went into body building. Two years later I found out that that’s it-that’s what I can be the best in.” -arnold
“The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That’s why I call it the torture routine. Because it’s like forced torture. Torturing my body. What helps me is to think of this pain as pleasure. Pain make me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure. And so when I am experiencing pain I’m in heaven. It’s great. People suggest this is masochistic. But they’re wrong. I like pain for a particular reason. I don’t like needle’s stuck in my arm. But I do like the pain that is necessary to be a champion.” -arnold
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit" -Aristotle-
"Suffering is what champions are all about, and champions suffer the longest". -Anonymous
“Can you imagine what I would do, if I could do all I can?” -Sun Tzu-
"Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself." -Arnold Schwarzenegger
Train like God is watching -Anonymous
shut up and train.. -Anonymous
I'm too sexy for my shirt. -Anonymous
"Go heavy or Go home" -Anonymous
"At the end, the ladies always prefer the bigger guy- me" -Anonymous
"Right now, your competition is training" -Anonymous
Why live if one cannot Deadlift? -Anonymous
"You have to do what others won't, to achieve what others don't" -Anonymous
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog" - Magic Johnson, NBA Star
"Only the weak attempts to accomplish what he knows he can already achieve." - Stella Juarez Author
"Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger" - Micheal S. Kirby
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher & Writer
"That which does not kill me makes me stronger" - Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher, Poet, and Classical Philologist
"Fall down seven times, get up eight" -Chinese proverb
"There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Success must be felt within before it can be seen on the outside." - Unknown
"There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them." - Ralph Marston, Author and Publisher of The Daily Motivator
"Pain is only weakness leaving the body" - Unknown
"Strength is the product of struggle" - Unknown
"How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?" -Jason Bishop, About Bodybuilding Reader
"Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you" - Ovid
"Tough times don't last. Tough people do." - Unknown
"There are only two options regarding commitment, You're either in or your out. There's no such thing as life in between." - Anonymous
Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated." -Anonymous
"It's never too late to become what you might have been". -George Elliot
"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. - Brian Tracy, Motivational speaker
"Your body hears everything your mind says." - Naomi Judd, Singer/Songwriter
"The man who has no imagination has no wings. " - Muhammad Ali, Boxing Champion, Peace Ambassador
"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take." -Wayne Gretzky, Professional Hockey Player
"The harder you work, the luckier you get." -Gary Player, Golfer
"Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do" - John Wooden, UCLA Basketball Coach
"I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big." - Donald Trump, Entrepreneur
"To give any less than your best is to sacrifice a gift" Steve Prefontaine, runner
"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes."- Chinese Proverb
"Things do not change. We change." - Henry David Thoreau, Author/Philosopher
" So you want to grow , first you have to learn " Chi Town bb.com moderator
"The weights won't lift themselves." - unknown
No matter what anyone says, everyone wants to be in great shape. They are just jealous because we are the ones who actually get it done. -unknown
"Nobody ever drowned in sweat." - USMC saying
"When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not."-unknown
"it's always a good day to start lifting"-unknown
COME ON DO IT -Arnold
Cowards never start...the weak never finish -Johnny Mentalist
"When life gets complicated I lift" -Johnny Mentalist
"don't worry about this weight.....just worry about the next one!" -Johnny Mentalist
"Day 7 AKA Non-Training day Rest,Sleep,Eat, and Grow! The other 5-6 you know what to f'ing do!" -Johnny Mentalist
"You can cheat on your girlfriend but not on your workout."-Johnny Mentalist
good luck is a result of hard work and preparation. - Johnny Mentalist
''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'' - Johnny Mentalist
"No one believe in miracles until SOMEONE achieved" - Johnny Mentalist
"Pain is temporary, pride is forever" - Johnny Mentalist
"Your hard work WILL pay off. Progress may sometimes seem very slow but stick with it and you’ll be rewarded." - Steve Chen
Athletes also have PASSION and you’ll want to develop PASSION too!
Remember the abbreviation PASSION and apply it to your own goal(s).
P =You must PLAN
A = You must take ACTION and put your plan into ACTION.
S =You must have SELF BELIEF and begin with SUCCESS IN MIND.
S =You must find SOCIAL SUPPORT-SURROUND yourself with positive people.
I =You must be INVESTED physically, emotionally and financially.
O =You must identify any and all-potential OBSTACLES.
N =You must develop a NEVER GIVE UP attitude.
Matt Karstetter - tips that can make all the diffrent
1. Maximum Growth - Eat every two hours, approximately 50 grams of Carbs and 50 grams protein. If needed wear a wristwatch and set a timer for every two hours. Make the last meal of the day a protein shake. (50% Whey Protein, 50% Casein Protein) This will help fuel your body overnight.
2. Alternate Carb & Protein Sources – Change the carb and protein source each meal.
Example: Meal #1 Chicken & Rice, Meal #2 Steak & Sweet Potatoes, Meal #3 Ground Turkey and White Potatoes. You can repeat the same meal more than once in same day, just don’t eat the same meal back to back.
3. Train Controlled – Control and Isolate the specific body part, both on the descent and ascent of each movement and focus on correct form. The pace of your reps should stay the same when going up or down. Slow the descent to add negative resistance for additional stimulation.
4. Contraction – Make a point to pause and squeeze at the top and bottom of each movement. Reduce weight if needed to get the adequate contraction at the top and bottom to keep full range of motion and proper form.
5. Water – Water plays a role in nearly ever function of the human body. Consumption depends on size of the person, supplementation, diet, lifestyle, etc., but two gallons of water is generally a good daily goal most gym rats. Urine color is a good gauge to judge hydration as odd as it may sound. Keep your urine clear and you are doing a good job of keeping hydrated. Multi-vitamins however will dramatically affect color and is completely normal, so be mindful of this when analyzing your level of hydration.
10 nutrition and training tips by chad shaw
1. Training to a point of momentary muscle failure, at which completion of another repetition on any given set is impossible despite your greatest effort, is the only way to force the body to resort to it's biochemical resources sufficiently to stimulate real growth! One of the biggest mistakes I see being made in the gym is when certain individuals will end a set of an exercise just because an arbitrary number of repetitions has been completed. This will do very little to stimulate muscle growth. A set should be terminated only when your muscles have been forced to the point of it being inconceivable to produce 1 more repetition within a working set. I use the word forced, because obviously you know muscle growth doesn't come easy, and literally needs to be forced! Any degree of effort in a set that is less than 100% may yield a bodybuilder some results, but never to the same extent that all out maximum effort will.
2. Training intensely is the key to stimulating muscle growth but don't mistake volume for intensity. All too often, people trying to achieve a higher level of intensity in their training make the mistake of assuming that increasing volume and duration are effective methods of boosting training intensity. Let me make this perfectly clear. Volume, and frequency have absolutely nothing to do with intensity! High volume training sessions can actually be counter-productive. So how do you effectively increase intensity? A. By progressively increasing the amount of weight that you use. B. By progressively decreasing the amount of time it takes you to perform a particular amount of work. (For example, I have made some of my best muscle gains from workouts that lasted no longer than 30 minutes.) C. By working your muscles at the capacity of nothing less than 100% on every set.
3. You can train long, or you can train intensely, but you can't do both. For every set completed, more, and more of the body's limited reserve of biochemical resources is used up in an attempt to merely recover from, or compensate for the exhaustive effects of the workout, leaving that much less left over for over-compensation in the form of more muscle mass. Long, drawn out training sessions decrease growth hormone, and testosterone levels, while increasing cortisole levels. This hormonal shift creates a very catabolic environment in the body that will result in muscle loss, and a reduced basal metabolic rate. If it's taking you several hours to get through a workout then you're wasting your time. I suggest never allowing any lifting session to exceed 45 minutes in duration.
4. After a muscle has been stressed sufficiently with high intensity training, you must not train that muscle again too soon so that you allow for the body to respond with a compensatory build up of new muscle tissue. You can measure your progress to determine whether or not you're allowing enough recovery time for growth to take place simply by taking note whether or not you're stronger any time you repeat any given workout. Some people have argued this point with me and have stated that there is no relationship between muscle size, and strength. If this is the case, and you don't need to get stronger in order to get bigger, then how exactly should you go about getting bigger? By getting weaker?
5. Training with submaximal weights and low intensity will be easy and unproductive.Training with maximal weights and high intensity will be difficult but highly productive.
6. A muscle has 3 levels of strength: positive (raising the weight), static (holding the weight), and negative (lowering the weight). All 3 of these aspects of any exercise must be focused on in order to stimulate maximum muscle growth. In other words, don't throw weight through a range of motion just to get the weight from point A to point B. If you throw, you won't grow!
7. Nutrition is important but I find that most people over-obsess about their diets. I hear people fretting over stuff like; Should I eat a chicken breast, or a fillet of salmon? A handful of almonds, or a teaspoon of peanut butter? Broccoli, or spinach? Brown rice, or yams? A half-cup of yogurt, or a half-cup of cottage cheese? High carb, or low carb? As much wide spread confusion that exists regarding diets that should be followed in order to burn fat, the premise of the whole issue is actually very simple. Regardless of what you eat, as long as you take in fewer calories than you need in order to meet metabolic and physical activity energy requirements, you will lose fat. Some people have made great progress in fat loss simply by taking my advice and eating what they normally eat, but just eat 1/3 less of everything with the exception of green vegetables, which are actually negative calorie food items that you can eat as much as you want of. Don't complicate your nutrition and make it more difficult than it needs to be. Fats don't make you fat, and carbohydrates don't make you fat. Calories consumed beyond the body's maintenance and growth needs make you fat.
8. Anaerobic exercise, and aerobic exercise are opposites, so therefore should be treated as opposites. In the world of exercise science the definition of anaerobic refers to exercise that is of high intensity, but short of duration. Opposite to that, the definition of aerobic refers to exercise that is low in intensity, but long in duration. This is why you shouldn't perform your cardio intensely. If you're doing your cardio, and you're gasping for air to the point where you cant carry on a conversation with someone, then that means your body is burning mostly sugar, and not fat because there is not enough oxygen present to burn fat. In other words, by performing cardio intensely, you have actually made the exercise anaerobic, so you will be drawing from into the same recovery sub systems that support your weight training, and consequently will short circuit maximum muscle growth.
9. Be patient! Too many people want it all right now so they become frustrated if they haven't built their dream body within a few months of training. When such a point is reached, many bodybuilders either quit all together, or turn to dangerous drugs such as steroids, or synthetic hormones in order to speed up the process. Steroids are insidious. They may produce rapid gains in the short term, however the compromises are extraordinary and should be very carefully considered. The steroid users that I knew 15 years ago that I wished I could look like are now either dead, or out of shape dealing with severe health problems. If you love bodybuilding like I do, then you will want to be able to do it, and enjoy it from now until well into your golden years of life. Don't get discouraged when progress doesn't seem to be coming quickly enough. I've been there before, so I know how it feels. I can tell you from experience that if you are persistent it will pay off eventually. It took me 26 years to put on 40 lbs of muscle! That averages out to roughly 1.5 pounds of muscle gained each year!
10. Select quality supplements. Too many brands on the market are all show, and no go. Many supplement companies are strictly out to get your money by using flashy, or fraudulent advertising to attract you to buy a cheaply made product that doesn't do a damn thing. I personally trust anything produced by USP Labs. This is a company that has always done things right the first time with each, and every product they put on the market. I have brought my physique to a whole new level in terms of strength, and conditioning since I began using USP Labs products. Lets just say there is a reason why they were voted #1 by customers in every category they entered in the Bodybuilding.com annual supplement awards.
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