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    Bodybuilding Motivation
    Bodybuilding Motivation
    Bodybuilding Motivation
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    Bodybuilding Motivation

    By Andrew Pense

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    Bodybuilding motivation is a collection of inspiring stories, tips and tricks to help you maximize performance in the gym, and the best way to manage your must important asset: Your mind. Huge improvements and unbelievable performance are unlocked by best managing your mindset before, during, and after your workout.
    Topics include diet and nutrition, workout strategies, and goal setting. This is not a how to book, but instead an instruction manual for best utilizing mental preparation strategies in order to succeed both in and out of the gym.
    Readers new to the work out lifestyle will benefit from this book, as well as seasoned veterans looking for a competitive edge. Readers can choose to use this as a guide just for vastly improving their workouts, or use it as a guide for success in other areas of life. Topics such as meditation and positive self talk are explored, but the work is far from flighty or new age. They are real world tools for best maximizing your performance whether you are a weekend warrior or a competitive athlete.

    With each stride; each repetition,
    With each run into the wind and rain,
    Each set to fatigue that seems unwinnable,
    with each strange look from comfortable passengers in a car,
    I continue to fight.
    Each rep, each stretch, each gate
    means one step closer.
    Each stride and pull
    makes my enemies shrink in fear
    and my allies feel more secure.
    This isn't lifting, working out, or jogging.
    This is a battle.
    No, this is war.
    And I forgot to bring my white flag.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrew Pense
    Release dateJul 5, 2012
    ISBN9781476006529
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      Bodybuilding Motivation - Andrew Pense

      Body Building Motivation

      Inspiration for Lifting and Life

      ANDREW PENSE

      Copyright © 2012 Andrew Pense

      Smashwords edition

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN-13: 978-1478174172

      CONTENTS

      Acknowledgments

      Chapter 1 Introduction

      Chapter 2 Mood music

      Chapter 3 Who are you?

      Chapter 4 Because it feels so good when I stop

      Chapter 5 Broken hearts and ripped abs

      Chapter 6 The church of iron

      Chapter 7 Genesis

      Chapter 8 Lemonade

      Chapter 9 Your quit button

      Chapter 10 The magic

      Chapter 11 Do it once, and then it is yours

      Chapter 12 Pay it forward

      Chapter 13 Diet

      Chapter 14 Further Thoughts on Dieting

      Chapter 15Making Change Stick

      Chapter 16 Mind over mass

      Chapter 17 Rest Relaxation and refocusing

      Chapter 18 Angry Lifting

      Chapter 19 Vane, Narcissistic, and worth it

      Chapter 20 How can I help you today?

      Chapter 21 Mind games

      Chapter 22 Fate versus focus

      Chapter 23 Absolutely

      Chapter 24 Do they still stuff kids in lockers?

      Chapter 25 From panicked to empowered

      Chapter 26 Redemption

      Chapter 27- Let's get mental

      Chapter 28- 28 Pitfalls

      Chapter 29- The goal driven life

      Chapter 30 If it ain't broke, break it

      Chapter 31 What's stopping you

      Chapter 32 In your corner

      Chapter 33 R & R

      Chapter 34 Juiced

      Chapter 35 Failure? I hardly knew her

      Chapter 36 And now it is yours

      DEDICATION

      For all those who have ever picked up a weight or ran a few miles and said to themselves…

      Nothing will ever be the same again

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Thank you to all those in both the fitness and literary communities who encouraged me to share my work with the world.

      1 INTRODUCTION

      Most people remember their first bicycle, the first baseball glove, or their first cell phone. If you are like me, you have fond memories of your first weight set. My first set of weights came into my life though the good graces of my parents. My parents gave me two great gifts in my childhood. The first was a blue drum set. I believe there is a special place in heaven for parents who have so little concern for their own level of sanity that they willingly put down their hard earned money on something that they know will disturb the peace and quiet in their home for years to come. For that special gift I have my Mom to thank. There aren't words strong enough to phrase my level of appreciation for that gift and what it meant for my future.

      My father gave me the other gift that changed my life forever, that being a set of weights. I don't know who manufactured this set, but it was your standard entry level junior kit. It included a matte black bench press, with an adjustable backboard for performing incline presses. It also had the leg extension kit, built on wobbly hardware made of recycled steel that only a foreign country could produce. Thank goodness I wasn't going heavy back in those days.

      I can remember the smell of the musty basement as I grabbed the cold bar. As I performed my first few presses with the bar, then fifty pounds, all the way up to probably about eighty. It only took a few sets to realize that something in my very soul had changed. Before then I thought, just like most people, that you looked like what God intended for you to look like and that was the end of it.

      After a few months of hitting the black monster I actually started gaining size in my biceps. I certainly had no sense of symmetry back then, and instead of working on other body parts I continued with bench pressing and curling those silly sand filled plastic weights I had picked up at the local sporting goods store.

      Putting on a little muscle made me feel good about myself, gave me more confidence, and I suppose in retrospect made me a better athlete. I was always an athlete growing up, participating in soccer and lacrosse mostly.

      So now I was a weightlifter. As much a weightlifter as you can be at seventeen years old and a hundred dollar weight set at your disposal.

      After a few months, however, something else changed. Girls took notice. Well if I hadn't been sold on the weight lifting before then, I certainly was now. I guess some things never change.

      If you had sat me down then and explained how many reps, how much weight, and how much effort I would eventually have to pour into this sport I might have walked away. Anyone with half of a brain would have. The science of weightlifting has a very low cost to benefit ratio, another words you have to work so very hard for just a little improvement. It is only after a lifetime of hard work do you get to enjoy real results. Thankfully no one ever had that talk with me, and I stuck with it.

      If you are a parent, consider this enormous gift you can give to your teenage child. In this world of fast food, video games, and instant digital gratification young people don't have a fighting chance against adult obesity, hyperactivity, and general laziness. At worst, your son or daughter will lose interest after a few months and the machine will take on a second life as a clothes hook for drying clothes in the basement. At best, it will change their life forever.

      So what is this book about? It is all about what makes the sport of weight training and bodybuilding magic. We will talk about diet, certain workouts, and techniques. These topics are not discussed in depth, however. There is a vast amount of information both in texts and on the internet about any of these topics.

      What we will discuss, is the motivation and the magic. What keeps me in the gym, what motivates me, and more importantly what motivates you. The workout community is both vast but tightly knit. I believe that if something motivates or touches me with regards to training, there is a good chance it will touch you.

      I have found that finding the right diet, the right workout routine, and the appropriate equipment or gym to work out at is the easy part. I find that the most difficult and hardest thing to hold on to is motivation. Think about what you are doing in the gym for a second. It is quite silly, the very act, of walking into a musty building filled with sweaty guys and girls, then locating heavy iron and steel and moving it up and down. As a practice on its own, it is quite silly. What is far from silly, however, is how after doing this for weeks, months, and years your life changes. If you are like me then training affects the very way you conduct the rest of your life. Proper training can mean the difference in the partner you attract, your success in your professional and personal pursuits, and the way you feel about life in general. With this in perspective, I feel it is only proper to give motivation a proper arena in which to grow.

      This book is far from linear, in fact at times we may jump from nutrition, dealing with injuries, and then an anecdote. I don't profess that every story will touch you, but I think if you give them a fair shake you'll find that you'll be much more focused and able to define what you currently get out of the gym and what you want to get out of it in the future.

      Feel free to jump around from chapter to chapter, or read the entire work cover to cover. Either way, it is my genuine interest that you gain a great deal from it. You must also remember to give the gift back: Once you reach a certain level of success in the gym, pass on your knowledge, hope, and aspirations to those just starting out. Remember that for us as elite athletes a solid workout means getting stronger, leaner, and smarter. For someone just starting out, it could be the difference between life and death.

      As we discussed, the book is far from linear. Please forgive me from jumping from light hearted topics like gym etiquette to life and death matters such as child obesity. I understand that it can be a wild ride at times, but isn't that what life is really like anyway?

      2 MOOD MUSIC

      One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

      --Bob Marley

      I find that choosing the right songs to put on my mp3 player that I workout to be one of the most difficult tasks in my pre-workout routine. Most gyms pipe music throughout the building, and depending on your gym it might be the soft hits of Kenny Loggins or the newest thrash metal. I've never been a big subscriber to the house music, and I will rarely workout without my device intimately snugged in my pocket.

      There is a two-fold effect to having this personal concert in my earbuds during every workout. First it allows me to concentrate, having that perfect workout song piped in just for me. It also allows me to isolate. I believe whole heartedly in the workout community and sharing my knowledge, hope, and inspiration with my fellow fitness buffs. I also

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