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(quadancer @ Aug. 01 2006,04:55)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">Good timing. I've recently added two more mirrors to my gym, totalling 3. Now I realize that you are talking fantasy visuals, but I'm jumping the gun with some psychoanalytic thoughts I've had about the real visuals.
Mirror #1 makes me look normal. It is flat.
Mirror #2 makes me look thick.
Mirror #3 makes me look tall and thin, as it leans against the wall in a curve.
At first I tended to look at all 3, thinking mirror #3 is what I was, Mirror #2 is what I'll be next week/month and Mirror #1 is what I look like today.
Since my psyche-up for workouts is heavy metal music (extremely loud) and my attitude is like a powerlifter, and my gym is at home where I can grunt, yell and roar all I want to without scaring the gym squirrels, I find that when I'm trying to get a good workout in, I only really look at mirror #2 now.
I don't wanna be a fitness model, so to look like an animal, I think like an animal, lift like an animal, and visualize myself as an animal. A big sweaty, rock hard animal.
It works. Now I gotta go kill something and EAT it.
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LMAO! Funny stuff quadancer, I like your analogy of an animal. I sometimes visualize I am arnold schwarzenegger working out in some californian dungeon back in the 70's, he had the most amazing physique I have ever seen back then. Other times I just imagine that the weights are nothing, and it really does help me get them up!! I also listen to heavy metal when lifting, mostly older metallica stuff and it really gets me in the mood to heave weights around, sweat like a pig and feel my muscles pump up with blood!
I really think the mirror helps also, I will bbe lifting with my shirt on and usually at soem point in the workout, after I am pumped up I take it off and do some poses, just to encourage myslef...I am looking at a normal mirror but in my mind I am like...man my arms are huge!! My pecs are insane I am an animal!!! Some people might think I am nuts, but I do it becaseu it works for me...whatever will keep me motivated and driven is what I need! We all know it takes drive to get your ass in the gym for an hour three/times week and put your entire muscular system through tension torture!