>be me
>chest/back day
>tired as shit but going ham bam thank ya mam
>start rows
>begin thinking I’m a Viking rowing a nordic ship across the open seas
>instant surge of power
Anyone else do this? I figured it’s similar to a mom lifting a car that is trapping their kid but fuck man this shit gets me PUMPED
are you schizophrenic?
Nah man it seems pretty natural to find different ways to hype yourself up in the gym
Pitiful imaginationlet.
do it all the time bro. usually when i’m running. i pretend i’m a caveman chasing a deer, or running away from wolves, or some autistic shit like that. who cares, if it gives you an extra boost, do it.
I imagine the iron is my depression, so I push it back up, knowing full well it will push me back down again.
Op here
Dude that’s fucking awesome. Keep running like a wild man.
That shit is real man. The more I lift the more I hate myself. Keep it up brosama bin laden
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I always imagine i'm like a celtic warrior like pic related when running
I always think about how much I fucking hate cardio and turn up the speed so I can get it over with quicker.
Fuck, me too except I imagine I’m one of the soldiers running in a city crawling with enemies, specifically Black Hawk Down.
I imagine I'm a socially inept 6/10 guy who is too undisciplined to study or take on adult responsibility and cope by moving big weights around for self validation.
Did they ever actually fight without a shield wall formation? It always looks like suicide charging pell mell into battle like that.
OP here
Easy man you’re hitting a little to close to home. I’m not trying to commit die tonight.
>sometimes work in with gymwife, she'll follow along my routine on random days [shes a casual powerlifter]
>always add 5lb to my PRs when working with her, think its the sex drive test boost
i kinda try to egg her into working with me on overhead press days for this reason desu
Ah shit I should pretend I'm a black man running from the cops. Maybe that's why the blacks are always beating me in track and field.
>be me
>doing overhead press
>imagine myself lifting a gate open with the sheer strength of my frail human body as my fellow countrymen flood the enemy castle
>Thunderstruck starts playing
>instantly climb 2 grades harder
I think of the pitfighting scene in the original Conan movie all the time. Always gets me motivated.
Doing this from now on
When I was younger I would motivate myself when I was struggling by telling myself that I was descended from Romans and Vikings.
Shit nigga are you me? Additionally I listen to Wardruna or other Nordic folk bands, other autistic thing I do is imagining that behind the mirror there’s a group of nazi scientist taking notes and tracking my progress.
i imagine one where my tulpa is spotting me, i'm always able to do a rep or two because of it
Based and Greek mythologypilled
Op here
Fuck bro I definitely won’t look at mirrors the same now
Will use this method for next leg day
Based warrior
Definitely. When running especially, if I imagine charging into battle in any era of my choosing, my adrenaline spikes and I get a free sprint. Roman battalion is my usual go to
>>chest AND back day
Excuse me?
OP here
That’s sick man! I’ll have to try that out. Cardio is always a notch so anything to get it going faster helps.
It makes for a great pump. I was skeptical about it at first because my buddy and I originally split chest/triceps one day and back/biceps another. When we first switched it I didn’t have much energy to throw around weight for the back portion but overtime I’ve noticed that, for me personally, the pump is crazy and definitely worth the try.
But how the fuck do you do a 6 day split and do push and pull on the same day? Defeats the whole purpose of the program
Have sex. Or don't. You seem like you'll stay a total buzzkill regardless
Chest/back (back day switches on and off weekly from vertical to rows) , biceps/triceps/forearms, shoulder/traps/abs, legs, rest day.
That’s the workout routine I stick to. A lot of the muscle groups for chest and back are working together simultaneously. For instance, t bar rows can be felt throughout the back as well as the chest if you’re properly squeezing. For vertical back day lay pull downs can have the same effect from what I’ve noticed.
This man is truly chosen
Artists rendition
Hell yeah, I listen to Warduna, Heilung, and SKALD all the time for the pump
when I run I pretend I'm an ancient hero arriving late to a battlefield my army is losing, and then when I run down the line the men gain courage and hope again, chanting things like "It's user, the battle is saved!"
It helps with my posture while running, too
Start chasing the wolves
They will stand no chance
>FUCK THE CLOCK BATTERY DIED
>FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
>GUYS I'M ALMOST THERE
>FUCKFUCKFUCK
bro, I imagine I'm a raider rowing out to foreign coasts whenever I row, I put this song on literal repeat for 25 minutes or however long I row and row in pace with the 'rowing' in the song.
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we're gonna make it, broÞers
Ultrabased, I always imagine either raising the gate with a ferocious growl to let my brothers in arms in
>Facepulls
Loading a large crossbow/ballista
>Farmer Walks
Carrying critically needed supplies to the frontlines
I usually just imagine I'm among a crop of selected individuals for a Spartan super soldier-like program and all of the scientists are behind the mirrors in awe at the fact that I'm the perfect human specimen. Austistic af but it works.
What's better?
Chest/back or legs/back?
based and UNSC pilled
OP here
Gah damn boys didn’t know I had so many Viking brethren wandering this sight. Keep up the intensity man we’re going to conquer all the weaker nations.
That’s sick man. Face pulls are definitely going to be done more thoroughly from now on.
I prefer chest/back, but to be quite honest I’ve never done legs/back. I find that legs already make my lower back pretty tight so that may in turn just make my back tighter off of the get go thus making me less able to get through legs. I generally hit legs by themselves too because I’m there for a solid 2 and 1/2 hours already and don’t need to add an extra hour to an already intense workout.
I've been listening to a ww1 history podcast with a ton of first hand accounts from the men that fought in the war. Some of my ancestors fought in ww1 and I want to make them proud and be just as strong as they were. Call me what you will, but that gives me proper motivation.
I love you lot
how do you make dead, barely related people proud? (also note you have like 8 great grand parents)
>OP is going to make it
>slamming out new bench PR to Heidevolk
god its so good
name the podcast
Have I got a fucking chant for you buddy.
If you have not heard of hardcore history than get the podcast asap.
Dan carlins work is amazing and all of you should listen to it at least once unless history doesn't interest you.
Blueprint for Armageddon
Give it a try. The way he does the podcast is really good and i can't explain it here. Download it and listen for a few hours
I've got something for you there user. YT video simulating what an artillery shelling would sound like during WW1. Watch the entire thing, don't skip around.
Agreed, I'm on part two.
This is incredibly based
I am of southern european descent but you have my respect for that
fuck bro I do the same but I imagine im a privateer going whaling and listen to sea shanties
Jesus fuck thats intense
I imagine myself in a post apocalyptic world and thinking how i would hide and kill one by one the enemies chasing me. I like to run in an abandones industrial area nearby so the scenario helps
Think about the shell shock listening to that for hours.
yep
If you don't lift for the exact purpose of getting into Valhall then get out of my face desu
Not calling to mighty Thor to beat your PRs
>Never gonna make it
look at this fuckmook
I have two recurring fantasies.
One is that I'm driving away from the seas of hell across a warping desert in a Buick Grand National while trying to save the concept of human goodness anthropomorphized into an angelic, sleeping young girl in the passenger seat. This goes for Let There be Light by Justice
The other is being in the Tet Offensive and outrunning the broken arrow napalm order. There's a slurry of songs for this, but Evil Things by The Black Angels invokes it.
OP here
Jesus user that gave me chills thanks for sharing.
That’s pretty crazy man. We all have our different methods and I’m sure your ancestors are proud they can live through the intensity of your lifts.
Thanks man. I didn’t know autism would make me feel so good.
I don’t think there’s any reason to live if it weren’t for glorious Valhalla.
Unironically yes
>doing cable rows
>listening to hammer fall
>imagine I'm a rower in a giant sea battle with lightning and magic flying over head while the female vocalist is singing encantations and spells to fight against the sea niggers
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BASED
>crusader
>roman legionary
>germanic barbarian
>bronze age steppe chad
>medieval visigothic knight
>cromagnon
>ancient greek
>alexander
>scythian
i love larping as historical stuff
internally rotate that siege....
i imagine the race war, i stand against the brown hoards, squats and ohp for mass and overall strength.
I do something similiar when I running and feel like giving up I always imagine myself as a Viking landing on new land attacking a castle. Feels amaznig with the right music
i imagine im training for a fight. not like a ufc title fight. like a fight with my worst enemy. on top of a mountain during a thunderstorm.
Some say to run pretending you are chased by ferocious wolf.
Traditional peoples run, to chase the wolf.
Based, gotta get swole to join the Bloatlord phalanx
A favourite of mine whilst on long distance runs is to bang on some Serbian wartime music and imagine I'm marching into Herzegovina.
Listen to 793 (slaget om Lindisfarne) by Enslaved. It's a song about one of the first Viking raids in the British Isles, in which an island monastery was sacked. S
I listen to this song when I bench. I imagine being a hermit getting swole and pulling a Zarathustra.
It gets me in the zone. I don't know why, I don't ask questions.
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Forgot to post song.
Well yeah, my heaviest diddy prs were when I was lifting "for something" in the sense. Iirc Eddie hall said something similar. He talked how his psychologist helped him to get into fight or flight manually. And this helped him lift that 500kgs.
What I noticed myself, is that nicotine gum can actually activate this somehow. I think it's linked adrenaline release.
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Do you remember where you heard that part about Hall? That psycological stuff is always interesting to me