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Boost Mental Workout Intensity
We’ve all been there. After taking your pre workout, you walk, no check that, charge into the gym feeling like you’ve got a massive pump even though you have yet to touch a weight. The weights feel like they’re filled with helium, you’re smashing PRs easily, adding on monster drop sets just because you can and they feel good.
You walk out of the gym feeling massive, energized and in a mental zone. THAT was the workout you’ve been waiting for.
Those workouts only come around every so often though, but what if there was a way to bring your everyday workout up to your peak intensity? Simply put, how can you stop wasting your time and efforts in the gym even when you don’t physically, emotionally or mentally feel like pushing yourself and training hard?
You’re in luck, because here are the three most effective mental techniques of elite athletes that you can use to dominate your next training session… If you’re mentally strong enough, that is.
#1 Imagery
This is the most powerful
technique at your disposal. More
powerful than your pre-workout
concoction or fancy fitness
gadgets, imagery can help take
you from good to great in almost
any physical pursuit. When John
McCain was a POW in Vietnam,
he reportedly played 18 holes of
golf at his favorite course in the
US mentally twice a day. When
he was released, he was able to shoot four shots under his previous best, despite being imprisoned for five and a half years. That’s impressive, but I guess that same strategy hasn’t helped in presidential elections.
If imagery is so powerful, why isn’t it more mainstreamed? There’s a reason that not everyone uses imagery to take themselves to the next level. It’s HARD and takes time and patience to master over time.
Much like training is to the body, imagery is to the mind. Combining the two can create incredible results, as long you take into account several key aspects.