How to Use Your Own Mind To Make Faster Muscle Gains And Get Amazing Results Like Never Before!
This blog along with my “mini-course” is designed to take you step-by-step through the most simple yet effective methods of training. If you use what you learn here, you’ll end up the finished product.
But you’ve got to want it and you’ve got to concentrate on it. Don’t let anybody kid you that muscle comes easy. It doesn’t. You’ve got to have a strong mental drive to get what you’re after – muscles or anything else. If you expect to build muscle fast then you’ve got to want it and you’ve got to want it bad. You’ve got to want it so bad you can taste it.
There aren’t any “magic bullets” and there isn’t any wonder system. You’ll reach your goals one way and one way only. That’s by intelligent, planned physical effort backed by an intense consuming desire. So keep reading, and I’ll show you how to build the positive mental drive you’ve got to have to accomplish anything in this world.
You’d be surprised at how much better you could do if you put your mind to it. You could accomplish wonders. We’re going to talk about what’s known as “auto-suggestion.” You’re going to learn how to use it to focus your subconscious on your goals, and how to use it as a stimulus for each and every workout.
You see a lot of self-improvement courses advertised on television and on the Internet. The improvement offered covers a varied field, ranging all the way from how to make a million bucks peddling junk around the neighborhood to cutting up big with the opposite sex.
The courses all have two things in common. They’re all expensive and they all push auto-suggestion in one form or another. You can get better results from reading this blog post a few times, and then buy yourself a quality supplement with the money you save.
If you’ve been following my emails and newsletters, you should be working right now to build up your poundage in a small range of basic exercises. Keep working on your program but start to give some thought to extreme concentration in your training.
You’ve got to learn to concentrate on the exercise you’re doing to the exclusion of every other thing. You’ve got to learn to concentrate on the exercise you’re doing to the point where you don’t see or hear anything else. You’ve got to learn to concentrate so powerfully that you’re in a state resembling auto-hypnosis. You’ll progress in leaps and bounds once you learn this trick.
Unless you’ve been blessed with phenomenal powers of concentration at birth, there’s only one way to develop this ability. That’s by learning, developing, and using the trick of auto-suggestion. With properly applied auto-suggestion you can develop your powers of concentration unbelievably. And with properly applied concentration you can develop your body unbelievably.
Every good bodybuilder or lifter uses auto-suggestion in one form or another. Some of them don’t even know they’re doing it. Watch a top bodybuilder preparing himself for a lift. He’ll stand above the bar. He’ll either look at the bar or he’ll have his eyes closed. He’ll stand there so quietly and for so long you’d think he’d forgotten what he came for.
He’s concentrating. He’s concentration to the limit. He’s picturing the lift. He’s telling himself he can make the lift. He’s telling himself he’s going to explode every ounce of power he’s got. He’s picturing the lift being completed successfully. He’s suggesting success to himself. He’s using auto-suggestion.
I’m about to show you how the trick of auto-suggestion works. You’re about to learn how to apply it to your training. You’ll learn how to focus your concentration and strength on whatever goals you have in mind. You’re gonna learn how to use your mind to develop your body. You’re going to learn how to make progress using factional relaxation and auto-suggestion.
Fractional relaxation is the best method of increasing suggestibility in your subconscious mind. Auto-suggestion is the technique of implanting constructive and deliberate thought processes in your subconscious mind.
Let’s simplify it a bit. What you’re trying to achieve is absolute relaxation. Not relaxation as you normally know it, but the complete letting go of every particle of tension in your mind and body. If you’ve ever taken sodium-pentothal you’ll know the feeling I’m talking about.
The best time to practice fractional relaxation is when you’re lying in bed just before going to sleep. Practice every night. If you can find time to lie down and rest for a few minutes throughout the day you can work in another practice session.
You’re going to get a big bonus in the form of added rest if you learn this. You’ll find that fifteen minutes in the completely relaxed state is like two hours of sleep. There’ll be a big surge in your energy levels.
Do it like this: Lay on your back and get as comfortable as possible. Stretch your arms and legs a couple of times and then let them relax. Open your eyes and fix them on a spot on the ceiling. If the room is too dark then just imagine a spot. Keep your eyes on the spot and start suggesting to yourself that your eyes are becoming heavy and tired. Repeat over and over that your eyelids are like lead weights and soon they’ll close. Don’t talk out loud. Just imagine the words.
Do the talking in your head. Keep repeating the suggestion that your eyes are heavy and tired. Make the suggestion monotonous. Keep repeating them. Over and over. Over and over. After a minute or so you’ll find your eyelids getting tired. Let your eyes close. Just lie there as limply as possible with your eyes closed and your body relaxed.
Now start relaxing your whole body. Start with your feet and ankles. Concentrate on dissolving every bit of tension. Suggest to yourself that your feet and ankles are limp. Relaxed. Explore their muscles with your mind. Relax them. Search out tense parts. Relax them.
Work up through your ankles into your calves. Relax them. Make them limp. Heavy. Soft as an old dish rag. Next your knees. Then your thighs. Make them heavy. Soft. Work through your whole body this way. Take one section at a time. Don’t let your mind wander. Keep suggesting relaxation. Work right through from the tips of your toes to the top of your head. The whole process will take you about ten minutes.
Now lay there with your eyes still closed and as relaxed as possible and start counting to yourself. Count slowly and deliberately and suggest relaxation between each number. Something like this:
“ONE. Very relaxed now. Very tired and relaxed. Dropping down into a deep relaxing sleep. TWO. Very tired. Very heavy. Very tired. Very heavy. Completely relaxed now and dropping down into deep sleep. THREE. Drowsy now. Tired and drowsy. Heavy and tired and drowsy. Limp and relaxed and dropping down to deep, deep, sleep.”
And so on. Don’t try to memorize any definite patter. Just talk to yourself along that vein. Count up to twenty-five. If you’re successful, you’ll be in the completely relaxed state and receptive to auto-suggestion. You probably won’t achieve the relaxed state the first time you try. Very few people do. Keep at it and you’ll get it before you know it.
You’ll know the relaxed state when you get it. Your body will be so completely relaxed you won’t even feel it. The sensation is like having your mind alert and your body so limp it feels drugged. When you get this sensation, just lie there and you’ll drift into natural sleep. You’ll have the best most refreshing sleep of your life.
Now, if you are ready, I’ll show you how to incorporate auto-suggestion into the relaxed state and how to achieve the relaxed state at will. You’re about to learn how to use auto-suggestion. You’ll learn how to use it to boost your strength and development. You’ll learn how to use it to broaden and improve your day to day living.
Let’s go back to the completely relaxed state we were just talking about. Don’t forget that in the relaxed state you’re most receptive to auto-suggestion. The first thing you’ve got to do is learn to activate the relaxed state at will. You can do this by making a conditioned reflex out of it.
As soon as you reach the completely relaxed state, start instructing your sub-conscious mind to associate relaxation to the number TEN. Instruct yourself over and over with something like the following: “In the future when I wish to achieve the relaxed state, I merely lay still and count to ten. On the count of ten I will drop immediately into the complete relaxed state.” Drill this into yourself over and over again.
This may seem a little far out if you’ve never had any experience with it. I’ll explain it further some other time. For now just take my word for it. Every time you practice fractional relaxation start by counting to ten. If you don’t drop into the completely relaxed state on the count of ten, then deepen the relaxation the usual way. When you get complete relaxation, instruct yourself to drop into this state next time on the count of ten.
You can start practicing auto-suggestion now while you’re in a relaxed state. Pick one goal for the time being. I’d suggest you start by increasing your squat poundage. We’ll dabble more with auto-suggestion in later blog posts. For now do this:
Let’s say your doing twenty reps with 250 in the squat. Pick a goal. Determine that you’re going to add 5 pounds per workout over the next five weeks. At two workouts a week that comes to 50 pounds. Your 250 will be 300. Drill this goal into your subconscious!
Now take it one workout at a time. When you go to bed and achieve the relaxed state, tell yourself that you’re going to do twenty reps with 255 in your next workout. There can’t be any doubts about it. This 5 pound increase isn’t what you hope to do, it’s what you’re going to do.
You’ve got to eliminate any mental blocks. Forget about who can lift such and such a weight and who can’t. You’re the only one that matters. Know that you can lift it. It isn’t enough to hope you can lift it, or think you might lift it. You’ve got to know you can lift it. Picture it as clearly and sharply as you can. Work up tremendous, driving optimism.
Tell yourself (and it’s true) that 5 pounds on top of 250 isn’t even noticeable. You can always do 5 pounds more if you have to. You could do 105 pounds more if your life depended on it. Saturate your subconscious with this type of suggestion. Crowd out the possibility of any negative counter suggestion. Keep it up until you have a burning confidence about your next workout, then forget it and go to sleep.
During your workout, when you come to the squats, sit down for a minute and take it easy. Lean back and get comfortable. Close your eyes, count to ten and activate the relaxed state. Now repeat the instructions to yourself. Demand that you do the full number of reps with the increased weight. Know you can do it. Know you’re going to do it. Form a clear mental picture and hold onto it.
Visualize yourself completing the last rep in good style. Block off everything else from your mind. Demand a state of complete and utter desire. When you step up to the weight you should have one purpose and one purpose only, but that purpose should be screaming in your mind. You’re going to do the full number of reps no matter what. No thoughts should enter your mind until you finish the last rep.
You’ll gradually get better and better at fractional relaxation and auto-suggestion. Keep practicing it in the meantime. You’ve going to work up into a herculean physique and great strength, but you’ll need concentration to do it.
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Discover Why The Deadlift Is One Of The Key Exercises For Exploding Your Muscle Gains!
It’s notable that many of the most massively muscular men of all time made great use of the deadlift. Give it your maximum effort and maybe you’ll equal their muscular size and accomplishments.
The deadlift is a badly neglected exercise. It’s too bad it is because it’s also one of the very best moves for bulk and power. It’s doubtful if any exercise, other than the squat, exceeds it in value and importance. It’ll add bulk and power from the back of your neck right down to your heals.
Your back is a vital area. It’s the keystone of power and vitality. But it’s something else as well, something often overlooked by bodybuilders seeking bulk. It’s an area that’ll provide you with fast weight gains. Back work for bulk, at the proper time in your training career, can trigger twenty or thirty pounds of solid muscle for you.
The deadlift, like squats, have a growing effect on the rest of your body. Your lower back, in fact, may well determine the degree of strength and development you eventually reach. That point is important. Remember it, because we’ll be coming back to it. Back exercises like the deadlift, properly performed, have an overall growing effect on your body. Back exercises will stimulate muscle gains and enormous power.
Bodybuilders who do a lot of back work, particularly of the power variety (as seen in the video above), generally possess massive, shapely herculean physiques. They usually possess the power to go with it as well. The deadlift has the power to give you a set of spinal erectors like two boa constrictors and the strength of a superman.
No one can guarantee that you’ll get development like the current crop of professional bodybuilders no matter what exercises you do. Anybody who says he can is either kidding you or after your money. You can, however, be guaranteed of improvement. If you work hard enough on exercises like the squat and deadlift, you’ll get results. You may not look like the current Mr Olympia, but you’ll look a lot bigger and better than you do now.
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