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Joined: 01 Jan 2002
Posts: 694
Location: Right Next Door to Hell
Posted: Jun 16, 2004 4:01am Post subject: Are you obsessed? Are you living NOW?
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Are you obsessed? Are you living NOW?
I practice Zen, and one of the primary teachings in Zen is the supreme importance of “living in the moment”. Please understand that “now” is all you have. Your time is a constant unfolding of “now”; the past is only memories of what was. The future is only our dreams of what we want or believe it will be. You only have “now”. Problem is most people do not even remotely live in the moment. They spend most of their time mulling over what was, or what they hope to be, and spend little of their precious time truly enjoying the moment to moment unfolding of this beautiful and mysterious world we live in. Studies show the average persons thoughts are about 90% comprised of WHAT THEY THOUGHT ABOUT THE DAY BEFORE, AND THE DAY PREVIOUS TO THAT, AND SO ON—WOW! No wonder so few are truly happy……..
When you shift you focus on being fully aware and spending your time fully involved with your day to day, moment to moment small pieces of eternity, you slowly learn to fully enjoy life because eventually the realization sets in the right NOW is all you have and all you will ever have. It spurs you to not waste time, and to live impeccably. And of course it also drives you to find ways to make NOW more enjoyable.
While the statements made above apply to everyone, I think it’s especially relevant for bodybuilders. Why? Because you will be hard-pressed to find another group of people that spend as much time obsessing about their sport/lives and spend as much time living for tomorrow. Why are they living for tomorrow? Because they are not satisfied with how they look. While it is healthy to constantly strive for improvement, it is unhealthy to be constantly frustrated with life NOW. And now is what you have…..all you have. Not true? Well 6 months from now, it will again be NOW. And the truth is despite all your progress, you will still want to achieve the next level, and as long as you are truly dissatisfied with how you look, you will be projecting into the future fully believing that you will finally be happy when………………….
By far the biggest reasons bodybuilders are dissatisfied with their physique’s are:
They are too damn fat!!!
They have a marginal strength base, which leaves them….well…..small.
They obsess about their training.
Here are a few solutions to these so vary common problems, and in case you are wondering, this comes from a voice of experience. I used to TOTALLY obsess about my training, used to walk around too damn fat because I was “bulking” and was frustrated because I was way too weak.
Being too fat is good for me, bad for you. Why do I say this? Because 75-80% of those that come to me seeking personal training come to me with their #1 priority being to lose the excess bodyfat. Many of these guys haven’t seen their abs in YEARS because they are not happy with their size and strength levels, so they eat like pigs and look like them in some cases. And they are bodybuilders who are embarrassed to take off their T-shirts. Which in my mind, pretty much disqualifies them from being a bodybuilder. GET LEAN, and STAY lean. Your “bulking” cycles should not be called “bulking up”, but “muscling up”. A big percentage of the guys reading this are nodding their heads and thinking yup, he’s right, maybe after I gain 10 more pounds I’ll do it………
In the mean time, the guys that weigh as 20-50 pounds LESS than fatso, look WAY bigger, and can take off their shirt with a big grin on their faces. If it is done right you can add lots of muscle while staying relatively lean. No, not contest ready lean. But damn sure lean enough to be comfy with your shirt off. The lean guy is much more likely to be enjoying NOW than the fat guy who is going to get lean “one day”.
Most lifters are way dissatisfied with their strength. The two biggest factors at play here are a lousy diet, and always training to ensure “complete development”. That leads them to do so damn many lifts and so much volume that instead of getting “complete development” they get very little progress instead. Until you are quite advanced, you should be seeing progress on pretty much every lift, almost every time you hit the gym. If you are not, you are overtraining or/and under-eating…..period.
Being obsessed with anything hinders progress. It doesn’t make it better. You will grow at a rate your body will grow at when you have the diet and training factors in place that are right for you. Thinking about bodybuilding 16 hours a day, and going over all the intricacies and trivial details in your head until you are ready to pop is just not needed. And it tends to only slow one down by stressing them and leading one to bounce from one training/diet modality to the next. Usually to the point where progress suffers. Study all you can without it consuming you, execute flawlessly in the gym and at the dinner table….and detach from it.
Live in, and enjoy the moment. It’s always NOW.
Iron Addict
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http://animalkits.haha.be/phpBB7/viewtopic.php?t=9965
"Iron Addict
Joined: 01 Jan 2002
Posts: 694
Location: Right Next Door to Hell
Posted: Jun 16, 2004 4:01am Post subject: Are you obsessed? Are you living NOW?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Are you obsessed? Are you living NOW?
I practice Zen, and one of the primary teachings in Zen is the supreme importance of “living in the moment”. Please understand that “now” is all you have. Your time is a constant unfolding of “now”; the past is only memories of what was. The future is only our dreams of what we want or believe it will be. You only have “now”. Problem is most people do not even remotely live in the moment. They spend most of their time mulling over what was, or what they hope to be, and spend little of their precious time truly enjoying the moment to moment unfolding of this beautiful and mysterious world we live in. Studies show the average persons thoughts are about 90% comprised of WHAT THEY THOUGHT ABOUT THE DAY BEFORE, AND THE DAY PREVIOUS TO THAT, AND SO ON—WOW! No wonder so few are truly happy……..
When you shift you focus on being fully aware and spending your time fully involved with your day to day, moment to moment small pieces of eternity, you slowly learn to fully enjoy life because eventually the realization sets in the right NOW is all you have and all you will ever have. It spurs you to not waste time, and to live impeccably. And of course it also drives you to find ways to make NOW more enjoyable.
While the statements made above apply to everyone, I think it’s especially relevant for bodybuilders. Why? Because you will be hard-pressed to find another group of people that spend as much time obsessing about their sport/lives and spend as much time living for tomorrow. Why are they living for tomorrow? Because they are not satisfied with how they look. While it is healthy to constantly strive for improvement, it is unhealthy to be constantly frustrated with life NOW. And now is what you have…..all you have. Not true? Well 6 months from now, it will again be NOW. And the truth is despite all your progress, you will still want to achieve the next level, and as long as you are truly dissatisfied with how you look, you will be projecting into the future fully believing that you will finally be happy when………………….
By far the biggest reasons bodybuilders are dissatisfied with their physique’s are:
They are too damn fat!!!
They have a marginal strength base, which leaves them….well…..small.
They obsess about their training.
Here are a few solutions to these so vary common problems, and in case you are wondering, this comes from a voice of experience. I used to TOTALLY obsess about my training, used to walk around too damn fat because I was “bulking” and was frustrated because I was way too weak.
Being too fat is good for me, bad for you. Why do I say this? Because 75-80% of those that come to me seeking personal training come to me with their #1 priority being to lose the excess bodyfat. Many of these guys haven’t seen their abs in YEARS because they are not happy with their size and strength levels, so they eat like pigs and look like them in some cases. And they are bodybuilders who are embarrassed to take off their T-shirts. Which in my mind, pretty much disqualifies them from being a bodybuilder. GET LEAN, and STAY lean. Your “bulking” cycles should not be called “bulking up”, but “muscling up”. A big percentage of the guys reading this are nodding their heads and thinking yup, he’s right, maybe after I gain 10 more pounds I’ll do it………
In the mean time, the guys that weigh as 20-50 pounds LESS than fatso, look WAY bigger, and can take off their shirt with a big grin on their faces. If it is done right you can add lots of muscle while staying relatively lean. No, not contest ready lean. But damn sure lean enough to be comfy with your shirt off. The lean guy is much more likely to be enjoying NOW than the fat guy who is going to get lean “one day”.
Most lifters are way dissatisfied with their strength. The two biggest factors at play here are a lousy diet, and always training to ensure “complete development”. That leads them to do so damn many lifts and so much volume that instead of getting “complete development” they get very little progress instead. Until you are quite advanced, you should be seeing progress on pretty much every lift, almost every time you hit the gym. If you are not, you are overtraining or/and under-eating…..period.
Being obsessed with anything hinders progress. It doesn’t make it better. You will grow at a rate your body will grow at when you have the diet and training factors in place that are right for you. Thinking about bodybuilding 16 hours a day, and going over all the intricacies and trivial details in your head until you are ready to pop is just not needed. And it tends to only slow one down by stressing them and leading one to bounce from one training/diet modality to the next. Usually to the point where progress suffers. Study all you can without it consuming you, execute flawlessly in the gym and at the dinner table….and detach from it.
Live in, and enjoy the moment. It’s always NOW.
Iron Addict
_________________
