How you do amp yourself for a lift?
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dbmata
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I've read it.
Get mad. Get crazy. Amp yo self!
Yeah, well... if you lift, and lift heavy, how do you do that?
I need to cultivate that amp. I've spent 20 years working on keeping my emotions in check. Now to find they can be useful? Damn! heh.
Get mad. Get crazy. Amp yo self!
Yeah, well... if you lift, and lift heavy, how do you do that?
I need to cultivate that amp. I've spent 20 years working on keeping my emotions in check. Now to find they can be useful? Damn! heh.
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Cross my fingers. Say a prayer. As you can tell I bench with no spotter. Then I just go for it.0
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970Mikaela1 wrote: »Cross my fingers. Say a prayer. As you can tell I bench with no spotter. Then I just go for it.
My trainer can just go from a cool cat to an angry hulk the moment he touches a heavy barbell... I just can't. I'm all like hippy love and yoga pants. Meh.
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Slipknot - Custer. As loud as she'll go. That should do it.0
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I have anger issues. It helps0
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Since I don't have anger issues, mines more about focus. I visualize the lift, grip the bar tighter, take a deep breath then grit my teeth. I feel it's weight and say "I'm Rick James" and b slap the reps away.
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db...shut up whinging and just pick the *kitten* up0
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I don't find being angry helps me at all. It's a distraction and a waste of energy. I have horrible lifts when I wind up using anger.
I just focus and say get to work *kitten*. Don't be a fu**ing p*zay and do the work.
Just show up and work. It's more successful and reliable than trying to summon emotions that may or may not be there all the time.0 -
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I bottle everything up naturally, so when I'm angry; I compress it all and just imagine pushing it all into one spot in my stomach. When I come to lift, Iget in the zone a few moments before, I literally stand above the bar and bring everything up from that spot which results in me staring into one spot like a freak, I run everything through my head and pick that worthless piece of *kitten* bar up. This along side with music that I find pumps me up. Is a winning combination0
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Geez... I've suspected this all along. I'm such a nerd lifter.
I listen to books while I lift.0 -
I just tell myself - no doubt, no fear. Just me and the bar.
Everything else in my life gets shut away and there is nothing else in the world at that moment0 -
I don't find being angry helps me at all. It's a distraction and a waste of energy. I have horrible lifts when I wind up using anger.
I just focus and say get to work *kitten*. Don't be a fu**ing p*zay and do the work.
Just show up and work. It's more successful and reliable than trying to summon emotions that may or may not be there all the time.
This is me as well. Anger is a distraction. I focus on what I'm doing at that moment. I've been told that when I'm competing, I look completely bored with what I'm doing, that my face is expressionless.
Like finding what program works best for you, finding your way to your mojo is an individual thing.0 -
juliewatkin wrote: »Like finding what program works best for you, finding your way to your mojo is an individual thing.
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I have an external switch that I can flip right before a lift.0
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