by Eugene Thong on August 27, 2009
The surest way to lose focus during an exercise is to judge yourself on that exercise. Instead, get “mechanistic.” Focus on what you can actually do, as opposed to your emotional reactions to the exercise.
Don’t think, “Damn, this weight feels heavy.” Instead, think, “Drive your heels through the floor; be patient; make it happen.”
Don’t think, [...]
by Eugene Thong on August 11, 2009
One good thing about the rise in popularity of bodybuilding in the 60s and 70s was that it got people interested in lifting weights.
One bad thing (”One bad thing?”, the peanut gallery asks) about bodybuilding going mainstream was that it made “bodypart mentality” a part of the training consciousness – bodypart mentality being the idea [...]