The Purposeful Primitive by Marty Gallagher

Author:Marty Gallagher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dragon Door Publications
Published: 2008-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

Regardless the athletic battleground—ordinary training session or head-to-head competition—the elite effortlessly access the mythological Zone, a beatific mental state wherein athletic performance exceeds all realistic expectations. You can do the same.

There exist specific procedures used by Zen Masters to establish concentration and focus and specific procedures used by Iron Curtain athletes to peak the psyche immediately prior to a limit attempt. Our suggestion is to learn each and then link them. Our Mental Amalgamation uses the Zen procedure to achieve a quiet alertness, then gently segues into an intense visualization process designed to peak the psyche and pre-program you for immediate athletic success. Best of all, the techniques we relate are simple and battle-proven. These are mental tactics that obtain quantifiable results; results that separate 1st place from 9th place, or transform the ordinary, mundane training session into a mind-boggling, muscle-expanding, result-producing event.

Some applied mental fire and brimstone, as it relates to fitness training, could make a world of difference for you in terms of results; assuming you buy into the seemingly obvious conclusion that a focused, concentrated, fired-up mind is conducive to superior physical performance. The path has been blazed by Zen Masters, martial art monks, elite power men and Iron Curtain Olympic Champions. The first order of business, to echo the Zen Archery Master, is to understand when and then how to use Brain Train as it applies specifically to weight training.

The optimal time for the bodybuilder or serious fitness trainee to jack-up their psyche, to enter into what Arnold Schwarzenegger labeled the “maximal arousal mode” (hush-up your dirty minds) is just prior to performing a limit set. Before you become maximally aroused, you need to become maximally quiet. First we calm the mind then we focus the mind, we strip away extemporaneous thoughts and eliminate external distractions. This is accomplished by taking conscious control of the breathing process and applying particular techniques and tactics.

Within two minutes of commencement (using our procedure) you will achieve maximum chill: alert, centered, focused and quiet. When Stage I is complete, we rip a page out of the training logs of top Communist athletes from a bygone era and get fired-up using auto-visualization (AV).

AV teaches you to vividly imagine yourself hoisting the ponderous poundage using exquisite technique while projecting ease, power and precision. The idea is to picture oneself performing the limit lift. Imagine in your mind’s eye a movie, repeatedly shown with an ever increasing degree of detail, played in real time.

The elite use some type of psyche-up procedure and they do it for practical reasons: a proper psyche (not too over-the-top, or conversely not too reserved) will add 10% to your top set poundage. Over time this proves profoundly beneficial. Hoist bigger poundage and/or squeeze out more reps and reap maximum muscle growth. Strength simultaneously skyrockets; all by harnessing the mind.

Allow yourself a few minutes to familiarize yourself with a specific breathing procedure known in Zen meditation as Shikantaza. Understanding and implementing this technical procedure is deceptively simple; yet mastery is elusive and requires repeated and systematic practice for a protracted period of time.

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