5 Secrets to Dominate Your Training

I hope you are having an awesome day and woke up with energy and fire to not just do something today, but to do something that makes you or someone else better. That is the key to being successful in all aspects of your life.

I wanted to shoot you 5 secrets that will not just help you dominate your training, but if applied correctly can even help you dominate your day to day life.

1) Open Your Mind and Train Outside the Box

The best way to figure out what your body needs and what gets you the best results, is by trying many different high quality things out. Start researching and following 5-10 well known strength coaches and embrace their ideas, programs, exercises, and knowledge. Then implement and try them out for yourself. Stop thinking one way of training is the best way to reach your goal, because it probably isn’t. Instead, of always trying to defend and fight for that specific idea *cough* CrossFit *cough*, give yourself the opportunity to train and see what works on the other side of the fence.

Be open to hear other methodologies other than your own, because you never know what might end working even better for you.

2) Don’t Let Your Strengths Turn to Weaknesses

I see it happening all the time, especially once people get in the muscle imbalance bandwagon. Whatever it is you are strong in, don’t just continue to do it… totally dominate it and let everyone else see how good you are at it. For example, there is nothing worse than seeing someone who has a huge deadlift stop doing them in an effort to bring up their squat because it is weak.

You can still bring up your weaknesses, but if God gave you specific strength, then you better use it as much as possible and get the absolute most out of it.

3) Shut Up, Listen, & Soak It All In

Have you ever lifted in total silence? I’m talking the type of silence that typically occurs in the dead of night, where you can hear anything that makes the smallest noise? I’m willing to guess probably never.

Unfortunately we live in such a crazy 24/7 always on world, that people are high strung, stressed, and that carries over to your training. If you train at a commercial gym, you have the latest top 40 techno, Abercrombie & Fitch, hipster music playing, and if you put in headphones or actually train somewhere when you get to pick the music it is typically Hammer Smash Face Metal or Drive By Shooting in the AM, Sexing My Lady in the PM Rap/Hip-Hop. Unfortunately that cranks up the stress and tension up another notch…

Bring it down. Lift in absolute silence or take it one step further and if you have the ability, lift absolutely alone (don’t max on bench or squat or anything that might kill you… duh). Learn to listen to your breathing, your heart pumping, the weights clanking, and put yourself in the moment. Cut out the distractions every few training sessions and totally immerse yourself in what you are doing at that time with no distractions around you.

If you train at a globo gym, pop in some earplugs, or wear your headphones that block out noise but don’t turn any music on.

If you lift somewhere else, then shut the doors, turn off the fans, and just go at it alone… You against the weights.

Think of it as meditation on steroids…

4) Act as if You Have Already Achieved “It”

If you don’t already know exactly what it is you want to achieve, what numbers you want to hit, or how exactly you want to look, then how will you ever reach it? I’m not talking about setting goals though. I’m talking about taking those brief ideas you have as to what greatness is, and turning them into reality. Take just 5 minutes a day, get relaxed, think of one aspect of greatness that you would like to achieve, and picture it.

Don’t just picture it, but picture every detail. What you are wearing, where exactly you are, who else is there, what they are wearing, how you are feeling, what the temperature is and how it smells. Picture even the smallest detail. The more indepth you are while creating this 5 minute ideal image/movie, the more you are teaching your body and brain exactly what it takes to achieve that feeling.

Do this daily and anytime a weak thought pops into your head (see #5), replace it with that exact image you have worked so hard to achieve.

For more information about this step and just how powerful it is, I HIGHLY recommend picking up the book Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Martz and reading it yearly.

5) Stop Letting in Weak Thoughts

While setting goals is great and is one of the better things you can do to get you towards your idea physique and/or lifts, don’t set them too far off or too high, or else you are going to be inviting in failure.

Far too often have I seen athletes, gym rats, powerlifters and others come up with a semi-outrageous goal that seems attainable if they do everything 100%. Unfortunately, life never lets anything happen at 100% so once a small slip-up happens, those weak thoughts start pouring in.

You know those thoughts. Just small little things that start off by quickly flashing in your head. Then again, again, and again… Each time the thought lingers around just a little bit longer than the last. Pretty soon the only thing in your head is how you aren’t going to be successful and reach your goal(s), no matter how obtainable they originally seemed.

Set attainable goals and even if life gets you sidetracked, get pissed off, use it as motivation and when that first weak thought pops into your head, squash it, smile, and get back rolling.

So there you have it… 5 secrets that not only will help you in your training, but also help you dominate your day to day life.

I would love to know your thoughts or if you have applied any of these how it went, so please comment below.

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