Body Building Dreams Should Never Fade
Let us take a walk down memory lane and seek reconnaissance with your true potential. When you started training, after considering and deciding that body building was the thing for you, you must have had some dreams that motivated you. Those dreams may have been nurtured over time even before you decided to take on body building training and they therefore prompted you to start the training eventually.
You might actually have not spelt the dreams in black and white but there was that image of the ideal physique that you wanted to build. Some muscles you admired, or actually, you might have been interested in competitive body building, where the ultimate title was and perhaps still is, your ambition. Remember how those dreams fired you up in the beginning days of your training, how you looked forward to training, how you could not wait to become that ideal physique you had envisioned.
The fact that you are still in t eh game means that your beginner days were well tended to and that your motivation, determination and progress, withered the initial handles of a body building program. Congratulations are due for that. And as the program progressed, it is almost certain that your approach to body building, your attitude, your priorities and definitely your enthusiasm changed bit by bit and you finally acquired a totally different perspective. In this, it might have been positive modification or negative. But the act that you are reading this means you become better that when you first begun, not worse.
Now, there is a danger though, whether or not the program has been successful to date, and that is the loss of those initial dreams. When body building has bee incorporated in the order of things, become part and parcel of daily life, infiltrates into the lifestyle and becomes a norm, there is a danger that you will become complacent. Many body builders in the intermediate and advanced levels of body building training usually loose out on the dreams they had and begin training just for the sake of it.
That is dangerous because of two things. Just like a vehicle can not go far without goals, so too can you not progress to higher levels of training if you are devoid of goals. It is the goals that rejuvenate the venture when things get too slow, it is the goals that keep you thrilled with training, goals that drain boredom out of the dieting and workouts, goals that give you a reason to intensify training and take advancing steps progressively as the program unfolds. It is goals the define the future you would want to inherit, goals that validate our daily training engagements and gives impetuous to every session of training and every meal. It is goals that draw us to the line, upon which gains will be bestowed. Without goals, body building is just but a shell of activities that are meant to achieve nothing.
So as you now remember those beginning days and see the difference, evaluate what goals you had, goals that introduced you into training and reactivate them today. That is the only way you can maintain growth and progress. Never ever, let those dreams fade a way.
Dane Fletcher is the world’s most prolific bodybuilding and fitness expert and is currently the executive editor for BodybuildingToday.com. If you are looking for more bodybuilding tips or information on weight training, or supplementation, please visit www.BodybuildingToday.com, the bodybuilding and fitness authority site with hundreds of articles available FREE to help you meet your goals.