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Confidence and Progress
 

Lack of confidence in your own ability is a real stumbling block for bodybuilding progress. Its not about having confidence in the sense of your everyday life although it shares some parallels. In our everyday life we know, generally, that if we do this or that this will be the outcome. Of course we cannot be 100% assured of this but we can come close to the mark in making such predictions.

In bodybuilding it is not so easy. We often work ourselves into the frame of mind such as 'I cannot gain muscle unless I take gear' or 'This months workouts are useless because I haven't got my supplements.' These are very real concerns that many starting out and many veterans of  the iron game share and they limit us dramatically.

I believe that one part of my consistent gains in my early years in bodybuilding were due to the fact that I have never had the thought such as 'I cannot grow without drugs or supplements or that building muscle was hard'. Of course other factors are at play, such as eating and training, but that mental attitude was a stepping stone, a platform if you like to getting bigger because I did not set any limits to how well I could progress. If you don't have confidence that you can grow without this or that it transfers to everything you do. You don't eat as strict, you don't put in the effort into the gym, don't have that same passion. After all if you don't believe you can do it, it becomes the question of is it worth it? Worth the time in the gym and the money on food. Even the hormone balance of the body has been proven to be put into a negative state through wrong frame of mind which directly influence the muscle building potential of your body. Worry and stress makes the body produce catabolic hormones that eat away at your hard earned muscle and makes gaining that much harder.

So many people I have seen come into the gym, and I am sure you have seen your fair share, quit after such a short period of time because they get into the notion that bodybuilding is too expensive as you can only do it with drugs and loads of supplements. Because many in the gym confirm that this is the case they either go on the drug path or quit. If they were to look a little into themselves they would see that there are other paths open to them and it starts of with being confident that such paths will bring the results they desire.

LOOK. YOU CAN GROW AND GROW DAMN BIG WITHOUT ANY SUPPLEMENTS OR GEAR OR ANY OTHER PHARMACEUTICAL AIDS. IF YOU ARE BEING TOLD OTHERWISE THEN ASK YOURSELVES WHY- ARE YOU READING AN ADVERT FOR SOMETHING OR AN ARTICLE PROMOTING SOMETHING? IS THE PERSON SELLING ANYTHING TO YOU? IS THE PERSON TRYING TO PUT YOU DOWN TO MAKE THEMSELVES FEEL BETTER? 

BODYBUILDING IS NOT MYSTICAL AND ANYONE WITH THE RIGHT KNOWLEDGE CAN ACQUIRE GAINS THAT THE TEXT BOOKS SAY YOU SIMPLY CANNOT GET DRUG FREE AND WHAT SOME BOOKS SAY YOU CANNOT EVEN GAIN ON DRUGS. SO ARM YOURSELF WITH THE KNOWLEDGE NEEDED TO GROW AND THEN FOLLOW IT WITH CONFIDENCE THAT WHAT YOU ARE DOING PRODUCES THE GOODS. THEN YOU WILL NOT BE LIMITING YOUR POTENTIAL SUCCESS BY LACK OF CONFIDENCE BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE THE RIGHT KNOWLEDGE YOU WILL BE CONFIDENT IN THE END RESULT. KNOWLEDGE IS THE NEW GENETICS. IT IS NO LONGER WHO HAS THE BEST GENETICS BUT WHO HAS THE MOST KNOWLEDGE.

Re-read that statement and absorb it- you can grow without drugs and supplements. There are methods to get massive rapidly, muscle does not have to grow slowly as we have found out, so don't give up.

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