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Mastering The
Power Of Expectation: What You Deeply Expect, You Will BECOME!
By Pete Siegel
A profound law of
bodybuilding, and of life, is “What is expected, tends to be realized.”
Take a moment here and think about what you expect from your workouts. For
example, what do you usually expect when you go to the gym regarding:
• Your performance level?
• Your commitment/passion level?
• Your intensity level?
• Your set/rep completion drive?
• The results your overall workout will provide you in terms of size
progression?
• Strength progression?
• Definition progression?
I, of course, can go on and list 20 more workout related factors. The point
here is that, in a majority of cases, you’ll find your expectation going
into a workout many times translates into experiential fact of life.
Your Personal Expectation Style
So what do you usually tend to expect regarding your set/rep performance and
overall results as you head into a workout? Do you expect the best - or the
worst? Do you expect success and completion - or problems and/or
difficulties? Do you expect proficiency and power - or vacillating focus and
conviction levels? Do you expect a lot of, and from, yourself (expecting a
full degree of commitment and intensity will be generated each set) - or do
you (honestly) hardly expect anything at all?
And here’s an essential point I want you to get — if your expectations are
not strictly positive, success suggestive, and confidence based, they’re
literally keeping you from developing the true degree of mind/blowing
muscularity you, no doubt, actually can!
New Expectations Which Empower You
Have you ever had a workout that was beyond - way beyond - your “normal”
range? Of course you have; you’ve likely experienced this workout dimension
numerous times.
Was this a once in a million thing that just “somehow” happened? Or, was it
power and determination generating through you, that you didn’t even know
you possessed?
I’ll tell you right now, it was the latter -- it always is! And what would
happen if you began to expect through this part of you? What would happen if
your expectations were of peak performance, and sustained intensity for each
of your workouts? Hmmm…interesting, huh!
Go ahead and employ the following, and, as such, revel in your ability to
project positive expectations which incite muscular progress. Before you
begin your workout:
A. Know your full set/rep game plan (what exercises you’ll be
performing, and the number of sets and reps you intend to do for each).
B. Let your eyelids gently close, and vividly imagine yourself
feverishly, purposefully driving the body part you’ll be training to peak
contraction with the first exercise you intend to perform. See, sense and
experience yourself completing all intended reps for this first set of the
exercise you’ll be performing.
C. Now, project yourself toward the end of your workout;
imaginatively stand in front of one of the gym mirrors, and envision your
physique a striking reflection of what you know you’ll produce this workout
through doing every set you perform in the manner you just visualized. (Take
your time here and really envision - and f-e-e-l - your overall expected
workout results.)
D. Richly sense the ability, drive and power within you to make what
you just imagined, your physical fact of life. Then take a long deep breath,
let your eyelids open, and begin your workout. Start expecting this new way
now (the entire A.-D. pre-workout process should take you 20-25 seconds).
And you’ll quickly find your workout performance, and results, will start
conforming to your new, expecting the best tendency.
Remember: expectations are your choice, and your responsibility. Go ahead
now and make them pay you a decided, muscular impacting profit…starting with
your very next set!
About the author:
Author, clinician, and national TV therapist, Pete Siegel is America's
foremost peak performance hypnotherapist. Go ahead now, and review his
highly acclaimed confidence building and Think & Grow BIG Muscle building
programs at Incredible Change
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