Stressed the F#@* out
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I think lifting weights with anger is a bad idea personally. If i do that, i end up hurting myself or overtraining. You need to be quite calm and focussed i think. Although, bodyweight routines might be a different story.
As for motivation, i have always done weights and gone to gym, but always in 3 month durations, then when i'm fit, i stop. Purely because 'looking nice for girlies' wasn't enough reason for me to continue to bust my ass every day. However, have a goal, a plan and it's easy.
I need stuff writing down, so it's there in black and white "do this, on this day, to get this".
But i you have no motivation, i suppose the obvious ironic question is...what's your motivation to do anything in first place?
As for motivation, i have always done weights and gone to gym, but always in 3 month durations, then when i'm fit, i stop. Purely because 'looking nice for girlies' wasn't enough reason for me to continue to bust my ass every day. However, have a goal, a plan and it's easy.
I need stuff writing down, so it's there in black and white "do this, on this day, to get this".
But i you have no motivation, i suppose the obvious ironic question is...what's your motivation to do anything in first place?
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I'm definitely from the Adlerian physiological school of thought that says our motivation to do anything, is pulled along by our insecurities, inadequacies and feelings of inferiority. The reason anyone does anything is to be happy. If we were happy, we wouldn't need do anything but stay alive and that's it. I personally do Mixed Martial Arts, because of insecurities and feelings of inadequacy, as would pretty much every MMA practitioner. If you are laking motivation, you are either a) happy, or b) simply lazy.
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I harness, not necessarily anger, but definitely aggression when I lift especially at maximal weights. You can't get so caught up that you disregard form, timing etc. obviously because that's how you get injured as Zobario touched upon. I use music to get me pumped up as some do. Favorites are Five Finger Death Punch, Metallica, Killswitch and the list goes on.
I find that music is best for me because it's an outward way of increasing aggression and focus instead of diving in to your own mind and conjuring up all the things that piss you off and getting overly angry etc. On the other hand I've heard many experienced lifters go from "the weight is the enemy" to becoming friends with it as they get older. They and the weight are on a journey together and one can't do anything w/o the other...stuff like that.
Something that works for me when I go for maximal weight is I envision Wendler/Tate etc. standing above me berating me to move the fuckin' weight, calling me a pussy etc. After I finish the set if I'm happy with it imaginary Wendler and I exchange high fives and go out for milkshakes after the gym.
I find that music is best for me because it's an outward way of increasing aggression and focus instead of diving in to your own mind and conjuring up all the things that piss you off and getting overly angry etc. On the other hand I've heard many experienced lifters go from "the weight is the enemy" to becoming friends with it as they get older. They and the weight are on a journey together and one can't do anything w/o the other...stuff like that.
Something that works for me when I go for maximal weight is I envision Wendler/Tate etc. standing above me berating me to move the fuckin' weight, calling me a pussy etc. After I finish the set if I'm happy with it imaginary Wendler and I exchange high fives and go out for milkshakes after the gym.
With me it was simply having a goal, i need goals and reason to do ANYTHING, even the washing up (i.e. i ran out of forks). Nothing is for the sake of it.
For me, i was drinking and going out too much, spending a bomb and feeling very tired too often. I was damaging my body and needed a hobby that i could dedicate too and forever improve at, with an ever increasing goal.
Doing MMA to me seemed to have the ability to improve so many areas of my life, that i decided to throw everything i have into it. My health, my drive, my focus, my confidence, my pride, the knowledge that every day, i am improving at something in my life.
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weightlifting for me is completely destressing to me. I don't get angry even on the super heavy sets. I just focus and tell the weights "you are going up!" then do it. Same way when I'm fighting or at a grappling tournament. ANger doesn't help me at all. I just get focused.
I think you need to focus on some hard cardio to diffuse your stress and anger as I'm not sure that weight training is going to do it for you. I agree with Knuckle that aggression can be used during your weight training but stress and anger may actually hurt your ability to stay focused, have a goal and reach it.
Haha i did this last night. I made up my own circuit and my shoulders were just dead, it's a HIIT routine, but they were gone after 15 mins and obviously i need to tweak it. Anyway, pissed off, i put on Disturbed song and said "oh no you fuckin don't!" and managed another round. With heavy weights i would've just ripped my arms off though lol
This is so true for me, all of my injuries have been caused by my inability to take a pause off training or taking things slowly and that was always a matter of being angry. Traning like that never paid off to me except in 1 or 2 PR's but that was mostly the effect of a good song.
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Go on youtube.
Make a playlist consisting of either avenged sevenfold or Eminem. Rage. Lift heavy objects!
Enjoy training. When in the weightroom, theres nothing else. Whatever stresses you doesn't matter because you are in the room to fucking train, not to worry. Forget everything else, get pumped up and lift.
Make a playlist consisting of either avenged sevenfold or Eminem. Rage. Lift heavy objects!
Enjoy training. When in the weightroom, theres nothing else. Whatever stresses you doesn't matter because you are in the room to fucking train, not to worry. Forget everything else, get pumped up and lift.
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Martial arts mostly make me laugh out loud in the good way. I simply have a lot of fun even in tough training.
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This is extremely true, you will be hard pressed to find many who would admit it to it though.
Personally I lift weights for the the competition these days, I lift frequently with a few guys and we are all at a relatively same strength level. We see who will be the first to get a 600 pound DL for 3 reps or something like that, and that person gets a whole nights of booze bought for them down at the pub. It's a good system.
I have to admit though, without that I wouldn't lift nearly as well as I do. I got to a certain stage about a year ago where I no longer felt the need to push myself very far anymore with just my own self as motivation. Going back to what the person said that I quoted; I was happy with myself, completely content. I had no incentive to improve becuase in my minds eye I was already great (vanity I know, or pride, w/e you wanna call it). When I was a little younger I wanted to lift profesionally (just a little dream I had) but I have abandoned that over the course of time. The tourneys me and the lads do keeps me aspiring to big lofty goals, getting my ass kicked by them on occassion helps
If you struggle on your own TS, maybe finding a weight lifting club would be good? I know of quite a few, especially for uni/colege students. They are great at breaking into the world of serious lifting too, even if you dont intend to actually compete. Competition amongst men is a great motivator.
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Motivation is fleeting; meaning sometimes you'll have it, sometimes you won't. What's more important is having the mindset that you are going to lift no matter what your mental state is. Like anything, it's a habit, and if you stick to it you won't even think twice about heading to the gym. Discipline my friend. That being said, motivation is still great; I often get some of my best workouts in when I'm pissed off. Just don't overdo it too much to the point of overtraining.
anger is more than enough motivation for me IN the gym. Might not be a good thing but as soon as I enter the gym I hate everyone and everything.
I hate the silly trainers at my gym walking around puffed up and showing people how to do exercises wrong, I hate the other people at my gym for just coming to the gym to hang out and watch TV, I hate the bodybuilder wannabes with their invisible lat syndrome wearing a belt for every exercise (only reason they wear the belt is to look like they have a V-shaped upperbody), I hate the people looking at me like IM THE ONE DOING EVERYTHING WRONG. I hate the octagonal pound plates, I hate the shitty barbell collars and I hate the fact that I cant use chalk.
If you need motivation to even get to the gym I dont know how to help you tho..Anger in combination with some heavy metal/death metal is a great way to let out some steam on the weights. I almost knocked myself out a few times doing cleans, so if theres one exercise you shouldnt attack with pure anger its cleans..
I hate the silly trainers at my gym walking around puffed up and showing people how to do exercises wrong, I hate the other people at my gym for just coming to the gym to hang out and watch TV, I hate the bodybuilder wannabes with their invisible lat syndrome wearing a belt for every exercise (only reason they wear the belt is to look like they have a V-shaped upperbody), I hate the people looking at me like IM THE ONE DOING EVERYTHING WRONG. I hate the octagonal pound plates, I hate the shitty barbell collars and I hate the fact that I cant use chalk.
If you need motivation to even get to the gym I dont know how to help you tho..Anger in combination with some heavy metal/death metal is a great way to let out some steam on the weights. I almost knocked myself out a few times doing cleans, so if theres one exercise you shouldnt attack with pure anger its cleans..
I found out last night my ex's (who i have a kid with) brother is going to same MMA gym i will be. And he hates me. Motivation just increased tenfold
I'm 5' 8", he's 6ft and quite gangley, will have huge reach. Focusses on boxing. So i'm going to work on a ground game in preperation for when he goes "come on then". He smokes too much weed, he will gas out fast
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I found out last night my ex's (who i have a kid with) brother is going to same MMA gym i will be. And he hates me. Motivation just increased tenfold
I'm 5' 8", he's 6ft and quite gangley, will have huge reach. Focusses on boxing. So i'm going to work on a ground game in preperation for when he goes "come on then". He smokes too much weed, he will gas out fast
Ahhhhh... don't you love life some times!??!
