In this article we will be looking at a critical factor when it comes to gaining weight. While other factors like eating enough calories, working out at the gym, taking in enough proteins, etc are all vitally important, there is an even more important factor for successful muscular weight gain. And that my friend is your mentality. What does that mean? Well, it simply means the mind set you have when it comes to gaining weight.
While it is true that skinny guys who want to bulk up may feel that they will only feel better or more confident if they had that extra mass, it is very important that they see in their own mind that they already are so. Huh? What does that mean?
Allow me to elaborate. Lets say you are going to break a piece of thick wood with a karate chop. You've never done it and you don't know if you could. You might have prepared for it by training with easier materials. How do you make sure that you are able to break that piece of wood? Simple. You see it in your minds eye that you have already done so.
There is no difference between a vivid imagination and an actually real world experience for your mind. It just reacts the same and stimulates the necessary conditions in your body to perform that function. So what I'm saying is that you should visualize your body already muscular and bulked up. You already are beaming with confidence and strength.
Repeat this mental movie in your head until it becomes real and tangible to you. This is not some silly mind game and it works. Studies have shown athletes who did these kind of mind exercises actually fared better than those who didn't (given that their skill levels were all similar).
As a side-effect, it also gathers all your mental energy and allows you to focus and keep your eye on your bulking up goal. Many people fail in gaining weight not because they didn't know what to do. On the contrary, they knew exactly what to do. What happened was that they did not really believe that they could do it and just tried their plan. Well you could guess the ending " all of them without exception gave up half-way. So don't let that happen to you. Take the time to play around with this mental exercise and get your mind and body really fired up for your weight gain goal.
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