how good are the quotes though, gets me going:
“ When I deadlift I keep the bar close to my shins. My intensity is such that I've cut myself during sets, and didn’t realize that it was blood dripping down my legs as opposed to sweat. My whole body was in pain, how could a few cuts from the bar sway my attention from the task at hand? “ --- Tom Prince
“ Welcome to The Pain Zone, This is Where We Live “ --- Tom Platz
“ That was when I realized that pain could become pleasure. We were benefiting from pain. We were breaking through the pain barrier and shocking the muscles. I looked at this pain as a positive thing, because I grew.
It was a fantastic feeling to gain size from pain. All of a sudden I was looking forward to it as something pleasurable. The whole idea of pain became a pleasure trip. I couldn’t tell anybody about it then, because I knew they would say I was weird. Which wasn’t true, I had just converted the pain into pleasure - not for its own sake but because it meant growing. We bragged to each other about how much our workouts hurt. “ --- Arnold Schwarzenegger
In fact, I believe very much that bodybuilding is more mental than physical. You are concerned first of all with a mental perception. What you want to look like, what you want to be like as far as the contours of your body. You are concerned with daily feelings of exercises, handles, muscles, you are concerned with putting your mind literally inside of your muscles. ---- Tom Platz – “ The Comeback “
If you want to be a champion you cannot have any outside negative force come in and defect you. Lets say before a contest I get emotionally involved with a girl. That can have a negative effect on my mind and therefore destroy my workouts. So therefore I have to cut my emotions off and become kind of cold in a way. If somebody stills my car outside right now, I don’t care, because I can't be bothered with that. The only thing that I will do is call my insurance agent and have a laugh about it. I trained myself to be totally cold and to not have things go into my mind that could negatively effect me. ----- Arnold Quote
“ The dedication I have for this sport is very intense. Ill give anything, Ill give whole commitment to do it. Because I must do it, to the best or better than I can possible to it to my ability. That’s what its about tomorrow night on stage. All year long I’ve been doing this and now the final day is here to show what I've got. “ --- Tom Platz – Mr. Universe
The body isn’t used to the 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th rep. But that’s what makes it grow! Going through that pain barrier, experiencing the muscular pain, aching, and continuing to go on and go on. That’s what divides a champion from everyone else. If you can go through this pain barrier, then you may get to be a champion, if you can’t go threw it, then forget it. And that’s what most people lack. Having the guts to go threw, the guts to go in and say I don’t care what happens! If it aches, or I fall during a workout, I don’t care. I know it could happen, but I have no fear of fainting in the gym. I've thrown up many times while I was training, but it doesn’t matter, because its all worth it.
