The key to bodybuilding

[Legomeister]

...nicht zu vergessen die donkey calf raises mit den zwei Mädels auf dem Rücken; es gab nur leichte Konzentrationsschwächen

[lupus]

Der Schlüssel aus Arnolds Sicht:

weiterhin gleiches Buch p. 88ff.

It doesn't
do any good to go through training like a blind man, to just go
through the motions. Motions mean nothing. You have to realize
what is happening to you. You have to want results.

Bodybuilders hung on to me like fleas, because they thought if
they did the same exercises I did they would get the same kind
of muscles. But I watched them fall away with absolutely no
results except exhaustion. They weren't mentally prepared for
intensive championship training; they weren't thinking about it.
I knew the secret: Concentrate while you're training. Do not
allow other thoughts to enter your mind.

It became part of my routine that year to start out every day
with total concentration. The way I did it was to play out exactly
what I was going to use, how I was going to pull my muscles,
and how I would feel it. I programmed myself. I saw myself
doing it; I imagined how I would feel it. I was thoroughly, totally
into it mentally. I did not waver at all.

When I went to the gym I got rid of every alien thought in my
mind. I tuned in to my body as though it were a musical instrument
I was about to play. In the dressing room I would start
thinking about training, about every body part, what I was going
to do, how I was going to pump up. I would concentrate on
procedure and results until my everyday problems went floating
away. I knew that if I went in there concerned about bills or girls
and let myself think about those things while doing bench
presses, I'd make only marginal progress. I'd seen guys reading
the newspaper between sets day after day, and they always
looked bad. Some of them had been going through the motions
of training for years, and you couldn't tell that they had ever
picked up a weight. It had been nothing more than some heartless
pantomime.

[kleberson]

Jep, deswegen kann ich immer nur mit dem Kopf schütteln, wenn Leute nichts von Visualisierung und mentaler Vorbereitung auf eine Übung halten.