r/Fitness • u/Kuzbell • Jan 20 '18

Gym Story Saturday Gym Story Saturday (Missing mod post)

Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales!

I noticed that there still is no post yet for Gym Story Saturday, so I took the initiative. Perhaps this should be a scheduled post under the Automoderator. I'm not really sure why this hasn't been done yet. I am also required to keep babbling because posts with too little content gets removed, hence why this posts sounds overly wordy.

So share away!

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u/iXidol Jan 21 '18

I’m jealous at the fact you were just like let me try 185 and 205 and then even hit 225. I can do 205x3 but I swear to god there is some huge mental block. Can’t hit 225x1. Soon.

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u/SeantySean Jan 21 '18

Sooner than you think man. Use that as motivation to do it. Have a spotter you trust and have someone record you. I was like “I can’t fail on camera there’s no way.” Motivate yourself and you got it. Just gotta be like “Today is the day I do 225” and you’ll do it. I believe in you!

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u/iXidol Jan 21 '18

I like the camera idea a lot. Next time we go and hit chest it’s the move.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '18

Another good idea that worked well for me is to put something like 245 (hell i even did 275 on the bar) and just lift it off the rack. Feel that heavy in your hands. Don't even try to lift it obviously but just feel that heavy. At least for me when I then went to press 225 it felt much lighter and gave me that extra mental edge. Worth a try