Tips And Advice For Bodybuilders
by Bob Paris
1. Training with weights is much more than just swinging weights around. In order to be successful and avoid injury, you must learn to feel muscles being focused on.
2. Perfect exercise form is more important to your progress than lifting the heaviest weight you can pick up.
3. The combination of weight training, aerobics, good nutrition and motivational exercises is synergistic - the outcome from the combination far exceeds the result that would be experienced if any of the elements were left out.
4. Dietary supplements cannot make up for a poor diet. You must first develop a clean, balanced eating strategy that suits your goals and metabolism. Follow it diligently before even considering adding supplementation.
5. If you break your workout or nutrition plan, you should get right back on track. You shouldn't beat yourself up over it. Just pick up where you left off and move on.
6. There are several different ways to grow stronger in your workouts.
Increasing the amount of weight used is only one.
7. All of your goals for a flawless body should be rooted in the reality of your body structure and your ability to invest time and effort.
8. You've learned how to visualize your flawless body in action. That vision is the drawing board on which you can sketch further images of success.
9. "Just do it now" is a personal rallying cry that will get you to push forward when you feel like doing anything else in the world rather than training and eating clean.
10. Through perfecting your exercise form, you've learned the difference between appropriate pain, such as the burn in the muscle, and injurious pain.
11. Positive thinking can plant emotional success messages. The process has begun to replace negative body images with high self-esteem.
12. You know now that you can do it. You have the ability to physically control your body through exercise and nutrition.
13. Rest and recuperation are as essential to your gains as the exercise itself.
14. Yo-yo, crash dieting never works.
15. You've learned to use positive failure as a guideline for when a set is complete. You've used focus and concentration to give your fullest power to each set.
These 15 tips for bodybuilders are from Bob Paris' 1993 book Flawless. I especially like tip #7 "All of your goals for a flawless body should be rooted in the reality of your body structure and your ability to invest time and effort".
Many times we beat ourselves up for not getting to our goals fast enough, when in reality, we really don't have the ability to invest the kind of time to training that is required. I believe we have to work with what we've got and set realistic goals based on our ability to train the way we need to and to supply our body with the raw materials needed for growth.
If we can't afford the quality or quantity of nutrition, nor the time to invest in training, set new goals.
I also like #12 "You know now that you can do it. You have the ability to physically control your body through exercise and nutrition". You KNOW you can do it, it's just a matter of actually taking action and putting in the effort. Nothing happens until you take action on that which you want and desire. How much time do we spend getting ready to do something, or thinking that we need to know more about a subject before we actually begin. Taking action has power in it. You know what you need to do and you know that you can do it. Simply begin.
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Tips And Advice For Bodybuilders
was posted by Rob @ 12/03/2008 04:52:00 PM
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