[nns]

If you don't know who or what AverageBroz is: Average Broz’s gymnasium (http://www.averagebroz.com/ABG/ABG.html)

Their lifters: BROZKNOWS's Channel - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/BROZKNOWS?feature=g-all-u)

Their gym coach has some some solid advice posted on their site.

Here's one about motivation,

asked by rob1992
if an athlete were to train fairly hard several days in a row, and after that they were especially tired and weak, should they continue to train as hard as they can? or should they have a slightly easier session to allow them to recover?

Tired and weak? How do you know you're weak when you haven't gone to the gym to try yet? There are way TOOOO many days that not only myself, but other lifters would have swore up and down that they could not perform well only to find themselves setting a pr.

Here's a story that I like to tell:

When I was a young kid I had to promise my coach that I would come train everyday that the team was lifting. I literally had to beg him for 3 years to coach me. After this, I gave my word I would go in everyday no matter what. The rules were simple: show up, bring your bag/gear and lift. If you couldn't make it for some unexpected reason you had to call and let him know.

One day I was so crushed - my back was so sore that I had to kneel on the floor to brush my teeth cause bending over was too painful. There was NO WAY I could train. I called him and his reply was simple: "come here and watch. You can always learn technique and be involved." Ok, so I grabbed my bag (following the rules) and walked to the gym. After I got there I sat down to watch other lifters. As they were lifting, they all began, one at at time asking me why I wasn't training. After making up excuses for the 7th and 8th time I began to feel like such a puss. One lifter finally said "hey, why don't you just stretch with the stick. you can work technique and warm up. Might make you feel better?" Ok - so I put on my shoes and began to warm up. After about 10 min another lifter says "Hey Broz, why not come over here and do some snatches with us. We are just starting and you can jump in. surely you can do 40kg!" So here I go doing 40kg. I eventually keep doing more work up and setting a lifetime PR!!

As I was getting ready to leave the gym my coach looks at me and says "If you wait for the day to train when you feel good, you will lift about 2x/year. Those days are few and far between." As I walked home I was elated but still in shock that as horrible as I felt earlier, I actually set a PR and felt better then before I walked in the door. That was a lifelong lesson I will never forget. YOUR MIND PLAYS TRICKS ON YOU! Learn to ignore it and keep training.

Since that time I have seen that happen to hundreds of lifters, thousands of times. It just happened last Sat with a master lifter in our gym who, during warmups another master asked him if he was going to hit a big one and his response was negative. He had already determined his daily fate. I questioned him and said "how do you know? Do you have a crystal ball at home?" After about a 2 min conversation about his ability to not be able to see in the future he went on that day to set lifetime PR's in Snatch, C/J and total!

The mind of a champion is developed just like your body.

Q&A (http://www.averagebroz.com/ABG/Q_%26_A/Entries/2010/5/23_motivation.html)

[jeffh]

why you no post in workout thread?

[nns]

I felt it deserved it's own thread.

[RRxtar]

thats a tight rope to walk between pushing thru and actually hurting yourself tho. pushing thru pain caused by a slip disk probably wont result in anything but spending 6 months in bed instead of one day off. haha



that being said, a little quote i made up: "the difference between an excuse and a reason is where they come from. an excuse comes from your head, a reason comes from your body. learning the difference is what keeps you moving forward as rarely do you have a reason and more often than not its just an excuse."

[RRxtar]

im hijacking this thread as a new motivational thread. buckle up



http://www.fitoverfat.com/wp-content/uploads/motivation9.jpg

[RRxtar]

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[RRxtar]

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[RRxtar]

I posted this a few weeks ago. But this is the best motivational video Ive seen lately. I've watched it 10+ times at least

Motivation for Success: Uncomfortable vs Exhaustion - YouTube

[RRxtar]

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[subordinate]

+1000%

Have a cold, went to gym anyways.

Aside from dizziness at times, I killed it. OH Presses felt better than previous workouts.

The mind is a powerful tool

Side note: SICK Motivation Video

[jeffh]

Inspiration : How Bad Do You Want It? (Success) - YouTube

my favorite
i think strykn threw this one up first?

[strykn]

i dunno but this thread is great now after hijack :fullofwin:

i still trained with a slipped disk, torn tendon, and torn hamstring and now i can deadlift more, bench more, and squat nearly 2x the weight. niggasup

[RRxtar]

http://www.sparkpeople.com/assets/quote_images/quote_179.jpg

[jimzilla]

I posted this a few weeks ago. But this is the best motivational video Ive seen lately. I've watched it 10+ times at least

Motivation for Success: Uncomfortable vs Exhaustion - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV63DbQ_qSc)

Here's the mp3 of the guy talking

Motivation for Success Uncomfortable vs Exhaustion - YouTube.mp3 (http://www.mediafire.com/?yiy7qcy66wck0im)

[vafanculo]

This thread is win. Makes me want to go to the gym NOW.

But I'll wait until tomorrow at 6am.
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[RRxtar]

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[RRxtar]

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[vafanculo]

Lol, if the last 2 posts were directed at me, I posted at 7pm, and had a 1.5h root canal scheduled at 730pm. Going to bed early so I can wake up at 530am
Posted via RS Mobile (http://www.revscene.net/forums/announcement.php?a=228)

[RRxtar]

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[RRxtar]

Lol, if the last 2 posts were directed at me, I posted at 7pm, and had a 1.5h root canal scheduled at 730pm. Going to bed early so I can wake up at 530am
Posted via RS Mobile (http://www.revscene.net/forums/announcement.php?a=228)
no man not at all these are all completely random, im just finding good motivational posters online. if it just so happens they fit with whats going in in your life, or stir you to do something, well then i guess they are working ;)

[RRxtar]

another one I just came up with


"Its going to be summer in 6 months. In 6 months when you are standing there on the beach, are you going to wish you fucked around today? Or busted your ass in the gym?"

[RRxtar]

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[RRxtar]

a little kai-losophy

http://i53.tinypic.com/sawswm.jpg

[JD¹³]

http://www.thepaperwall.com/wallpapers/sports/big/big_725177b6fdea9ed1f81f55193aad8f01a0851ad4.jpg

[Excelsis]

Ronnie Coleman lifting 800 Pounds!! - YouTube

first time i saw this and then pulled 800 lbs and said "lightweight" i died laughing lol

[Excelsis]

Article that Dhillon posted props to him

T NATION | Merry Christmas, Bob (http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sex_news_sports_funny_grok/guest_atomic_dog)

[Ron_Swanson]

Warhawk Matt Scott in Nike 'No Excuses' Commercial - YouTube

[RRxtar]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/g2mike/random/motivationalposter1.jpg
made this one myself

[Excelsis]

what's wrong with toyota camry's :alone:

[RRxtar]

no caption required

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[Nlkko]

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[Excelsis]

new vid :woot:

Bodybuilding Motivation - No Shortcut (Muscle Factory) - YouTube

[strykn]

"Architect of my own reality" BEAUTIFUL GONNNA DEADLIFT LIKE A BEAST TODAY COME AT ME FUCKERS

[RRxtar]

i posted this in the WO thread back before the olympia. love a lot of kai's outlook on things. guy would be interesting as hell to have a conversation with.

"I can be whatever I say I wanna be, but the trick is, not just say it with my mouth, but I have to say it with my thoughts. And by saying it with my thoughts, my thoughts govern my actions, and my actions become the work that will produce the desired end result" -Kai Greene



Building Something Beautiful - Kai Greene speaks about the Olympia, 2011 - YouTube

[Excelsis]

another new one

BODYBUILDING - SOMETHING THAT WE LOVE - YouTube

[Stealthy]

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Life's 6 Rules - YouTube

[teddyah]

Beauty of Bodybuilding - YouTube

[Excelsis]

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[BrRsn]

Article that Dhillon posted props to him

T NATION | Merry Christmas, Bob (http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sex_news_sports_funny_grok/guest_atomic_dog)

Just to add to the reading list:

The Iron - Henry rollins ... motivated me a lot the first time I read it (a couple years back). Still remembered it to this day. Good read.


The Iron
by Henry Rollins

I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself.

Completely.

When I was young I had no sense of myself. All I was, was a product of all the fear and humiliation I suffered. Fear of my parents. The humiliation of teachers calling me "garbage can" and telling me I'd be mowing lawns for a living. And the very real terror of my fellow students. I was threatened and beaten up for the color of my skin and my size. I was skinny and clumsy, and when others would tease me I didn't run home crying, wondering why.

I knew all too well. I was there to be antagonized. In sports I was laughed at. A spaz. I was pretty good at boxing but only because the rage that filled my every waking moment made me wild and unpredictable. I fought with some strange fury. The other boys thought I was crazy.

I hated myself all the time.

As stupid at it seems now, I wanted to talk like them, dress like them, carry myself with the ease of knowing that I wasn't going to get pounded in the hallway between classes. Years passed and I learned to keep it all inside. I only talked to a few boys in my grade. Other losers. Some of them are to this day the greatest people I have ever known. Hang out with a guy who has had his head flushed down a toilet a few times, treat him with respect, and you'll find a faithful friend forever. But even with friends, school sucked. Teachers gave me hard time. I didn't think much of them either.

Then came Mr. Pepperman, my advisor. He was a powerfully built Vietnam veteran, and he was scary. No one ever talked out of turn in his class. Once one kid did and Mr. P. lifted him off the ground and pinned him to the blackboard. Mr. P. could see that I was in bad shape, and one Friday in October he asked me if I had ever worked out with weights. I told him no.

He told me that I was going to take some of the money that I had saved and buy a hundred-pound set of weights at Sears. As I left his office, I started to think of things I would say to him on Monday when he asked about the weights that I was not going to buy. Still, it made me feel special. My father never really got that close to caring. On Saturday I bought the weights, but I couldn't even drag them to my mom's car. An attendant laughed at me as he put them on a dolly.

Monday came and I was called into Mr. P.'s office after school. He said that he was going to show me how to work out. He was going to put me on a program and start hitting me in the solar plexus in the hallway when I wasn't looking. When I could take the punch we would know that we were getting somewhere. At no time was I to look at myself in the mirror or tell anyone at school what I was doing. In the gym he showed me ten basic exercises. I paid more attention than I ever did in any of my classes. I didn't want to blow it. I went home that night and started right in.

Weeks passed, and every once in a while Mr. P. would give me a shot and drop me in the hallway, sending my books flying. The other students didn't know what to think. More weeks passed, and I was steadily adding new weights to the bar. I could sense the power inside my body growing. I could feel it.

Right before Christmas break I was walking to class, and from out of nowhere Mr. Pepperman appeared and gave me a shot in the chest. I laughed and kept going. He said I could look at myself now. I got home and ran to the bathroom and pulled off my shirt. I saw a body, not just the shell that housed my stomach and my heart. My biceps bulged. My chest had definition. I felt strong. It was the first time I can remember having a sense of myself. I had done something and no one could ever take it away. You couldn't say s--t to me.

It took me years to fully appreciate the value of the lessons I have learned from the Iron. I used to think that it was my adversary, that I was trying to lift that which does not want to be lifted. I was wrong. When the Iron doesn't want to come off the mat, it's the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn't teach you anything. That's the way the Iron talks to you. It tells you that the material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you.

It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.

I used to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call to greatness. But when dealing with the Iron, one must be careful to interpret the pain correctly. Most injuries involving the Iron come from ego. I once spent a few weeks lifting weight that my body wasn't ready for and spent a few months not picking up anything heavier than a fork. Try to lift what you're not prepared to and the Iron will teach you a little lesson in restraint and self-control.

I have never met a truly strong person who didn't have self-respect. I think a lot of inwardly and outwardly directed contempt passes itself off as self-respect: the idea of raising yourself by stepping on someone's shoulders instead of doing it yourself. When I see guys working out for cosmetic reasons, I see vanity exposing them in the worst way, as cartoon characters, billboards for imbalance and insecurity. Strength reveals itself through character. It is the difference between bouncers who get off strong-arming people and Mr.Pepperman.

Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart.

Yukio Mishima said that he could not entertain the idea of romance if he was not strong. Romance is such a strong and overwhelming passion, a weakened body cannot sustain it for long. I have some of my most romantic thoughts when I am with the Iron. Once I was in love with a woman. I thought about her the most when the pain from a workout was racing through my body.

Everything in me wanted her. So much so that sex was only a fraction of my total desire. It was the single most intense love I have ever felt, but she lived far away and I didn't see her very often. Working out was a healthy way of dealing with the loneliness. To this day, when I work out I usually listen to ballads.

I prefer to work out alone.

It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me. Learning about what you're made of is always time well spent, and I have found no better teacher. The Iron had taught me how to live. Life is capable of driving you out of your mind. The way it all comes down these days, it's some kind of miracle if you're not insane. People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole.

I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to their suburban homes. They stress out constantly, they lose sleep, they eat badly. And they behave badly. Their egos run wild; they become motivated by that which will eventually give them a massive stroke. They need the Iron Mind.

Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. 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.

[Excelsis]

I was pretty good at boxing but only because the rage that filled my every waking moment made me wild and unpredictable. I fought with some strange fury. The other boys thought I was crazy.

I hated myself all the time.

As stupid at it seems now, I wanted to talk like them, dress like them, carry myself with the ease of knowing that I wasn't going to get pounded in the hallway between classes. Years passed and I learned to keep it all inside. I only talked to a few boys in my grade. Other losers. Some of them are to this day the greatest people I have ever known. Hang out with a guy who has had his head flushed down a toilet a few times, treat him with respect, and you'll find a faithful friend forever. But even with friends, school sucked. Teachers gave me hard time. I didn't think much of them either.

can relate, i laugh at the other retards and where they are now

Once I was in love with a woman. I thought about her the most when the pain from a workout was racing through my body.

that too LOL

[Excelsis]

DO OR DIE - YouTube

[RRxtar]

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[BrRsn]

My favorite part got kinda cut out :okay: sick speech though :)

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Life's 6 Rules - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U708pyoDxM4

he's a little crazy but good points, hurts cuz what he says is true :okay:

[neggo]

fat people (jailbait warrior) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U708pyoDxM4)

he's a little crazy but good points, hurts cuz what he says is true :okay:

LOL, HOLY SHIT THAT GUY IS A NUT

[RRxtar]

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[Excelsis]

BODYBUILDING MOTIVATION - YOU ARE YOUR MAKER! - YouTube

best part at 2:32

[RRxtar]

You probably already know what YOU have to do to get what YOU want.
Perhaps YOU still haven’t done these things because YOU keep on looking for a shortcut.
There is no such thing; there is no shortcut to getting things, the good things YOU want in life.
Remember,
No Sacrifice, No Success

[strykn]

Motivation by the power of words - YouTube

[Phozy]

BODYBUILDING MOTIVATION - YOU ARE YOUR MAKER! - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE_gAYkQghU&list=PL5382166FE1DF17B3&index=2&feature=plpp_video)

best part at 2:32

LOL at the ending :

"Role models you say? I say Zeus, Apollo, The Gods! and now i too am i god!"

"We become what we think about."

[Stealthy]

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[incubus]

http://www.gethenchnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/135358349914.jpg


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[PK6o4*]

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[BrRsn]

http://p.twimg.com/Amn0p-MCEAA4HBi.jpg

Would be a sick background if someone could scale it up

[nns]

Coach John Broz interview:
An interview with John Broz - YouTube

[Excelsis]

Tate's words of wisdom

Dave Tate on Human Potential - YouTube

[Excelsis]

Bodybuilding Motivation - Imagine (MPW) - YouTube

damn first speech..

[teddyah]

Motivational: Invest in you - YouTube