Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
If you are using the "work each bodypart once a week" mantra then yeah, it'll probably be confusing, but once you start getting olympic lifts involved then you better toss that out of the window. Olympic lifts are great strength and size builders. They're hard to overtrain on, just make sure not to keep going once you lose your good form.Originally posted by Beatnik_666
I would like to include some new lifts into my routine, the snatch, etc and im curious about how they effect recovery... whats the potential for overtraining? The wholebody nature of it is confusing... not 100% sure how to fit it in and how often...
I would second that. Very complex moves.Originally posted by Torn Victor
I wouldn't recommend o-lifts without proper instruction, you can EASILY hurt yourself if you don't know what you're doing.
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.