He works out
When you're training, you have well-defined goals which you want to achieve. You hear people say they're training for a competition, like a race or marathon or a fight, you don't hear these people saying they're working out.
Don't get the wrong idea, I don't think I'm better than people who 'work out', I simply believe that if you're training, then you are serious about what you're doing and know exactly what you want to achieve. And those who are serious about what they do get results. Someone who trains knows exactly what they're going to do as soon as they walk into the gym. They don't walk around all clueless, doing random exercises and jumping on random machines.
Don't be those people who go to the gym to socialise and muck around. Go to the gym and make shit happen. People should know just by seeing how you train that you're serious about what you're doing.
As a general rule of thumb, if you're able to talk during the exercise that you are performing, then that exercise is either useless or you are not busting your ass enough. When you're squatting heavy, there is no room for chit-chat because you need to hold your breath in to brace your abs tight. When you get under the bar, for that minute that you're doing the set, everything else around you should be blocked out and you should be completely focused.
It's not enough to want to 'get big' or 'get strong', you should have a target bodyweight in mind, as well as lifts which you want to achieve e.g. 200kg squat, 250kg deadlift, 140kg bench press. Having well-defined goals gives you direction, it ensures that you have something to work towards. And when your goals change you adjust your training accordingly.
Don't get the wrong idea, I don't think I'm better than people who 'work out', I simply believe that if you're training, then you are serious about what you're doing and know exactly what you want to achieve. And those who are serious about what they do get results. Someone who trains knows exactly what they're going to do as soon as they walk into the gym. They don't walk around all clueless, doing random exercises and jumping on random machines.
Don't be those people who go to the gym to socialise and muck around. Go to the gym and make shit happen. People should know just by seeing how you train that you're serious about what you're doing.
As a general rule of thumb, if you're able to talk during the exercise that you are performing, then that exercise is either useless or you are not busting your ass enough. When you're squatting heavy, there is no room for chit-chat because you need to hold your breath in to brace your abs tight. When you get under the bar, for that minute that you're doing the set, everything else around you should be blocked out and you should be completely focused.
It's not enough to want to 'get big' or 'get strong', you should have a target bodyweight in mind, as well as lifts which you want to achieve e.g. 200kg squat, 250kg deadlift, 140kg bench press. Having well-defined goals gives you direction, it ensures that you have something to work towards. And when your goals change you adjust your training accordingly.
Stop working out...
...and start training
...and start training
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