Demoralized Bodybuilding

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Right, I tend to be the one of the few people on this forum to talk about subjects that many people do not decide or think of talking about. Last time i mentioned sex and bodybuilding, this time I mention the psychological factors on the bodybuilder (both pro and ameteur like myself)

Lets assume that you are an advance trainer and have put on considerable mass (as many of you already are), asin you know all about the daily intakes required to gain mass and not to keep on the same week in week out workout plans to stop plateau etc. From my own personal experiences I have many a time gone onto a bodybuilding website and thought, OMG my pecs are alright but i have along way to go before I get that type of thickness and development. As soon as you say this to yourself your mind seems to tell you to go into a stage of denial, asin am I actually growing anymore, my pecs aint getting bigger what an I doing wrong. When truthfully, you are still growing its just a slow and unnoticible process[/b], as everytime you workout you try to see if you have grown which wont show to the naked eye until considerable time has passed.

What the point in this post is, is to share with you that when you have negative thoughts about your building, you may be just growing perfectly fine but you fail to see you are. Hopefully now i have shared this personal thought, hopefully you will be able to surpass it in the future. As I can promise you this thought crops up every 6 months or so.

Opinions of this post obviously welcome and own personal experiences, and also could sometime reassure me that I aint the only person here to undergo such demoralizing thoughts that actually are the complete opposit.

The best ever motivator is seeing old friends and them saying omg your massive, which immediately brings an hidden grin to yourself and a thought of my hardwork is paying off.
 
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One thing I always keep in mind is it is not important where I am in a week or a month, but where I will be 10 years from now. Your goal should be to be healthy and strong for life, so any short term lack of progress or even setback needs to be considered in that light. Remember if you are an advanced trainee a gain of 5 pounds of real muscle or a 5% increase in your workout poundages in a year is a good year. Maybe I look at it that way because I have been doing it for 40 years or so. In fact sometimes a year where you don't have any major injuries or loose ground is a good year.
 
Both of you have excellent points. In fact there seems to be a pre-occupation in society these days with short term results for minimum effort. Being strong and healthy for life is definately a priority.

Human beings are never really satisfied with what they've got (unless you're an enlightened being, which not many of us are); if we recognize this as an inherent part of our nature and use it to strive for continual development and personal evolution, we can get satisfaction from the fact that we're using our lives constructively. We're all gonna get frustrated at times, but putting our efforts into improving ourselves and helping others (which in my opinion is what this forum is all about) can help give us purpose. Purpose really is a key word, without it we're lost and can become self-destructive (maybe this is an inbuilt mechanism, as what is the point of a life which exists for no reason / doesn't benefit the whole).

A bit philosophical, but there's nothing wrong with that.
 
It is natural, especially in the means of body building, that you expect more than your getting and you are usually in a state of denial. It is just the way it is. Going to the gym, seeing a guy with huge arms lifting way more than you is the same as a rookie player in the MLB seeing someone hit a home-run.

I don't call it wrong to have that sort of denial, and I do think that what you brought up Exe is that psychological bar you need to pass. It is the same reason why a TON of people start working out then quit shortly after.

I don't think it is necessarily wrong to think that. I bet everyone thinks that. I consider it motivation and inspiration, rather than questioning my training. Any body builder should know it is a long, long path to get to where you want to get, and even when there, you will have set new goals.
 
Ye underfooter, I agree with you completely along with every other person to post so far. Now we've shared opinions it helps show me that I aint the only person to undergo such thoughts, which so far I have always managed to overcome on my own. Your opinions just help back my already winning confidence and probably help back other peoples who read this thread.
 
I find it funny we are questing the philisophy behind bodybuilding. I mean really it is just going to a gym and getting bigger. It is pretty simple stuff.
 
all this is very true. though I havnt been lifting for a long time, I can relate this to loosing weight. sometimes you just have to remember that these things take time, and as long as your healthy, thats all that matters. :)

BTW, nice job underfooter, I believe your the first person I have ever seen that has used philisophy and bodybuilding in the same sentence :p
 
to me the fact that I have a long way to go gives me the reason to go on. If I had the ultimate body I think I might just give up (ironically).

I always oncentrate on the people better than me - there are loads of huge people whos bodys I envy, esp. in the media, but the fact is that a)some of these guys are on drugs and b)there are way more people below me in terms of physique ... i mean theres thousands who don pu in any effort whatsoever so every poster on this board should be proud of yourselfs that you do put the effort in :)
 
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