I am willing to bet on what I'm about to share with the forum, and to back me up and fully support the finer details of my message to you, I present to you just few of the Champions that I see on UK-Muscle. In no particular order, (and a very incomplete list at best)..., here they are:
@Pscarb @Chelsea @swole troll@Keeks @ellis.ben @RS86 @FelonE @Jakemaguire @Stephen9069 @DarthMaulscle @tof89 @Ross1991 @Robbie @Dead lee @sen @Mingster @herc @karbonk @Quackerz @Sphinkter
Every single one of the above 20 warriors, has both the motivation and the discipline, and that's a given. It is what they lack, that truly separates them from being another face in the crowd. Before I tell you what these Champions lack, and for the benefit of anyone wanting to know what is/and what is the difference between both motivation and discipline, I say this. My definition is based on my own personal experience of yesteryears, and I'll give it to you in simple plain English.
Motivation is having that ability, that drive, to get your butt off of the couch and into the gym. Discipline however, is having that same exact ability, except here, you get your butt off the couch irrespective whether you feel like it or not. And at times, it's exactly those times, when you think you're just not up to it, because the bub kept you awake the night before, or because you've skimped on a meal here or there..., only to go to the gym and seriously smash it, and surprise the hell out of yourself in the process!
OK, now to our "secret", this secret that all Champions lack, as if it is genetically encoded in all of them. In a word: hesitation!
That's it, no fanfare, no frills, and no bells and whistles here, just good old plain hesitation, that's exactly what they all lack. You see, before getting your shoulders under that 500lbs squat bar, or grabbing onto that 600lbs deadlift bar, there is a race going on behind the scene, to be exact, it's a race that takes place between you and your brain. Your brain's main role is to keep you alive, to help you survive, and possibly avoid all life's stresses, (including the shifting of all those tons of weights around). You on the other hand, want to lift, as that's what really drives you and keeps you alive as apposed to merely existing. You, (the Champion), do not think, because to think (as the brain would love you to do), would mean to hesitate for just few seconds, and since Champions lack the element of hesitation, they just dive in and go for the kill, i.e. conquering/mastering the lift, before the brain even gets its chance to blink, and come out with all sorts of negative excuses of why you should or shouldn't attempt the inevitable that is before you, so to speak.
So in a nutshell then, all the Champions have a good command of both motivation and discipline, and both of these elements, (in case anyone didn't know), both of these live in the yesterday and never in the moment or the now. What lives in the now is do or don't do, commit or hesitate. And that in my opinion, is what truly separates the Champion from the wanna be.
Thanks for giving me some of your time, I appreciate it.
Fadi.
@Pscarb @Chelsea @swole troll@Keeks @ellis.ben @RS86 @FelonE @Jakemaguire @Stephen9069 @DarthMaulscle @tof89 @Ross1991 @Robbie @Dead lee @sen @Mingster @herc @karbonk @Quackerz @Sphinkter
Every single one of the above 20 warriors, has both the motivation and the discipline, and that's a given. It is what they lack, that truly separates them from being another face in the crowd. Before I tell you what these Champions lack, and for the benefit of anyone wanting to know what is/and what is the difference between both motivation and discipline, I say this. My definition is based on my own personal experience of yesteryears, and I'll give it to you in simple plain English.
Motivation is having that ability, that drive, to get your butt off of the couch and into the gym. Discipline however, is having that same exact ability, except here, you get your butt off the couch irrespective whether you feel like it or not. And at times, it's exactly those times, when you think you're just not up to it, because the bub kept you awake the night before, or because you've skimped on a meal here or there..., only to go to the gym and seriously smash it, and surprise the hell out of yourself in the process!
OK, now to our "secret", this secret that all Champions lack, as if it is genetically encoded in all of them. In a word: hesitation!
That's it, no fanfare, no frills, and no bells and whistles here, just good old plain hesitation, that's exactly what they all lack. You see, before getting your shoulders under that 500lbs squat bar, or grabbing onto that 600lbs deadlift bar, there is a race going on behind the scene, to be exact, it's a race that takes place between you and your brain. Your brain's main role is to keep you alive, to help you survive, and possibly avoid all life's stresses, (including the shifting of all those tons of weights around). You on the other hand, want to lift, as that's what really drives you and keeps you alive as apposed to merely existing. You, (the Champion), do not think, because to think (as the brain would love you to do), would mean to hesitate for just few seconds, and since Champions lack the element of hesitation, they just dive in and go for the kill, i.e. conquering/mastering the lift, before the brain even gets its chance to blink, and come out with all sorts of negative excuses of why you should or shouldn't attempt the inevitable that is before you, so to speak.
So in a nutshell then, all the Champions have a good command of both motivation and discipline, and both of these elements, (in case anyone didn't know), both of these live in the yesterday and never in the moment or the now. What lives in the now is do or don't do, commit or hesitate. And that in my opinion, is what truly separates the Champion from the wanna be.
Thanks for giving me some of your time, I appreciate it.
Fadi.