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    1. 12-08-08, 3:36 pm #1
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      Doubting the doubts...

      Doubt has been my biggest enemy. It's not the negative comments I've received from friends, family and co-workers. It's not the jeers I get from haters. Those things only serve to fuel the fire. The fire itself however exists within my own mind. If I let those words affect me, they blow the coals of the fires of doubt and my old mind takes off running with it.

      I haven't been long in the iron life, however I am not new to living. I've been down a lot of empty roads in my time. Looking for a reason to live my life. That peace I've found with God. He is the one that has given me the body I live in. If I gave you a car to drive around in because you were my son, and I saw that you did nothing but neglect it, put crap fuel in it, never changed it's oil, never washed it and drove it with reckless regard... I'd be a bit offended I'm sure. I feel that God feels the same way about the body he gave me to live my life in. He expects me to take care of it. Nurture it. Feed it good fuel, exercise it and show some self respect and true appreciation for what I've been given.

      I lift, I eat, I sleep, when the morning comes, I walk the walk that I talk and I do it all again. Sometimes the road is windy, sometimes it is straight, the speed limit changes. There are stop signs and red lights, yield signs and warning lights. There is much more than just one fork in the road. Some days, it's all forks, connected by a few roads. Other days are just one long highway. Learning how to operate in all these circumstances is the life of the iron man. When, what and how much to eat. When to lift heavier, when to do more reps, when to switch it up, when to stop. Wisdom comes with experience and from watching those who have forged on ahead of us.

      In my mind I still hear them, the whispers, the taunts, the doubts... they tell me every day what it is that I cannot do. I've threatened them, chased them off with loud music, ignored them, got mad at them, I've tried a lot of things but it seems they are still there. Everyday. Every time. No matter how many times I've proven them wrong! I've shown them over and over again, they are wrong! Dead wrong! I can do it! I can do anything I put my mind to! Still, with no regard for my past and present victories, they press on, almost as if they are more determined to bring me down than I am to crush them...

      I've found a new weapon. It's a good one. It isn't new. In fact our forefathers used this tactic to win many a war in the past. If your best shots can't bring down the enemy, then beat him at his own game! It's time to deploy the old school weaponry that has served us so well in the past...

      ...When doubts come, I doubt them back...

      You can't pull 500 lbs off the pins dood, your back will give out if you try- I doubt that!

      No way you are going to be able to grow lean muscle tissue at your age, you waited too long, don't even try- I doubt that!

      You wont last at this more than a year tops- I doubt that!

      Tire um out, wear um down at their own game. I doubt every single doubt that comes into my mind. I can do it, I can do it all, and I WILL!

      I share with you all today, that I sincerely doubt that any of my doubts will ever get the best of me again...

      ~it's only just begun

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    2. 12-08-08, 3:55 pm #2
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      Great post mate.
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      Really good post, Hoomgar -- I like that: "Doubt the doubts". I'll definitely remember that doing front squats tomorrow!
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      You know when I`m in the gym and about to do an all out DC set, especially squats, the little voice chirps in,"you sure you`re gonna make it to 20 reps"? and I always say back "I`ve got to coz every single mofo in the gym is watching me" and I visulaise everyone around me stopping what they are doing to watch me, its very powerful and works well.
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    5. 12-08-08, 4:07 pm #5
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      Quote Originally Posted by sanga Check Out Post
      You know when I`m in the gym and about to do an all out DC set, especially squats, the little voice chirps in,"you sure you`re gonna make it to 20 reps"? and I always say back "I`ve got to coz every single mofo in the gym is watching me" and I visulaise everyone around me stopping what they are doing to watch me, its very powerful and works well.
      Next time that happens sanga, try adding a reply to that as well, tell that little thought in your head, "I doubt that, I've done stuff like this before and I keep getting better all the time".

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      Will do mate.
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      This is a great post, man, and I'm glad I found it.
      I've been doubting I'll put up 120 for 3 whole sets today on my bench, but hey, I doubt I won't... :D
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      Quote Originally Posted by sodapop Check Out Post
      This is a great post, man, and I'm glad I found it.
      I've been doubting I'll put up 120 for 3 whole sets today on my bench, but hey, I doubt I won't... :D
      Now you got it bro...
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      You always have a way to light a fire under me. Very motivating HG... I can't wait to meet you IRL one of these days...
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      Quote Originally Posted by sanga Check Out Post
      You know when I`m in the gym and about to do an all out DC set, especially squats, the little voice chirps in,"you sure you`re gonna make it to 20 reps"? and I always say back "I`ve got to coz every single mofo in the gym is watching me" and I visulaise everyone around me stopping what they are doing to watch me, its very powerful and works well.
      Yeah, I get that one -- of course, that always makes me nervous that I'll screw up even worse, or ashamed of the weights I'm using **grin**
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      Quote Originally Posted by B Con Check Out Post
      You always have a way to light a fire under me. Very motivating HG... I can't wait to meet you IRL one of these days...
      A definite x2 on that!!!
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      Now you got it bro...
      Pulled it off man! Thanks for the extra motivation!
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      Quote Originally Posted by Firedrake Check Out Post
      Yeah, I get that one -- of course, that always makes me nervous that I'll screw up even worse, or ashamed of the weights I'm using **grin**

      Mate I used to throw a lot of weight around but have lowered them all for DC so I can do more reps and do them ultra strict with a good negative at slow rate, I`ve had people in the gym I know ask me why I`m training lighter, lol
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      Quote Originally Posted by Firedrake Check Out Post
      Really good post, Hoomgar -- I like that: "Doubt the doubts". I'll definitely remember that doing front squats tomorrow!
      It's a little something I heard somewhere once bro. it fits perfectly with my mental philosophy. Once something or someone tells you that you can't do it, that right there just sealed it, now it WILL be done!



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      You always have a way to light a fire under me. Very motivating HG... I can't wait to meet you IRL one of these days...
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      A definite x2 on that!!!
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      Pulled it off man! Thanks for the extra motivation!
      There you go! Use it on every single doubt bro. No matter how big it is.

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      Little slow here...missed this one earlier...outstanding post Hoomgar!!!
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      thanks HG, i think ima blast through a heavy shoulder night tonight....
      My shoulder hurts too much to continue....... i doubt it.
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      Little slow here...missed this one earlier...outstanding post Hoomgar!!!
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      thanks HG, i think ima blast through a heavy shoulder night tonight....
      My shoulder hurts too much to continue....... i doubt it.

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      The War of the daily doubts...

      Is it morning already? Man it feels like I just went to bed. I do feel rested though. I feel better today. Stronger. Tonights chest workout is going to be great. I am really looking forward to it.

      As I make my way to the laundry room to drop off some laundry, I see myself in the hall mirror. I throw my cloths in the dirty pile and make my way back to the mirror. Let's see what things are looking like these days since I haven't taken a look in a while now. Hmmm, the belly has come in, a lot! I like this. flex, flex, flex... WT??? Pop a front double bi... WT? maybe I'm not trying hard enough, errrrrr, no! Where are my biceps? Wait, look at my tri's? Hoaky crap! My chest! Where did my chest go! This isn't happening! WTH is going on?!?!

      In come the doubts...

      "You've lost all your gains dood, you cut back too much or something"

      "See, if you don't hammer it until you almost kill yourself, every week for the rest of your life you will lose your gains just like that!"

      "You're too old man, what were you thinking? Did you really think you could do this?"

      "Maybe your body just isn't up to making, building and keeping muscle at this point in your life dood?"

      Wait, what? NO! I Doubt that! I doubt all of that! In fact, I know it is all crap! I'm just a little flat this AM, it means nothing really. You old stinking smelly doubts, when are you going to learn? You can't discourage me. You can't make me quit. I don't believe a word you say. It's time to move aside now because I'm getting ready for my day. Unless you want the boot, I suggest you leave!

      I want it all the more!
      Am I a fool? Maybe, maybe not, so what!?
      Delusional? I think not!
      Silly, immature and irresponsible? You can take all of that right back to hell where it came from! I'm going to do this!

      I can see myself... -in my minds eye-, and I'm huge! I posses the physique that I always wanted and never went after in my youth. I can see me standing there clearly, on the beach, watching my kids ride the waves back into shore towards me as I take pictures of them. The dad they are proud of. Not the old hairy guy with the huge gut, the clean tight looking guy with the solid physique. That! Is! Who I am!

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