Pack Mentality

Hey, welcome back. Today I'm just going to say a few things about like minded individuals. Some, maybe even most of you are used to working out by yourselves. I'm the same way. When I first started personal training full time, I was required to stay at the gym a certain number of hours a day. Like a shift, almost like a real job....Yeah, pretty weird huh. Never the less, me being the progressive guy that I was, I decided to take that opportunity to try and construct the best physique that my genetic structure could handle, and document that process so that it could be duplicated simply by following the blue prints that I was laying out. Ha! Naw, at the time I was simply playing around on my lunch break, I did however, map out my workouts prier to blastoff, just to make sure I was hitting all the areas that I wanted to tune up. That helped my learn how to build programs, now it takes seconds, and often evolves on the fly. But I would workout by myself. I recorded my sets and reps, and although it was considerable weight I was moving, I may have limited my self by not using a spotter for about fifteen months. I recently over the past six months acquired a couple of workout partners. I say acquired because, I don't know how it really happens, sort of like, we work in a couple of sets and its like what time we doing this tomorrow. Now, for me the positives out weight the negatives of having a workout partner. For some, a negative is that is, should something pop up, and the have to go at it alone, they get spoiled by leeching off of someone Else's motivation and its hard for them to manufacture there own spark. You never want to loose that. The only negative for me is pace, sometimes I hit a groove, and I can bounce from exercise to exercise and blast non stop for forty minutes. Then again that is for the smaller body parts and just when I'm doing detain stuff. The big iron, it helps physiological, to have that support when you grab the scary weight, and to stretch yourself to achieve your ultimate potential, you simply must brave the scary weight, but, pay attention this is the important part, there's no sense in getting severely jacked up doing so. One workout partner is optimum, two is the max, any more and it just slows things down way too much. Power lifting, might be a different story. You can also gain motivation from them, when people are having mindless conversations about nothing, you guy and gals can talk about your goals, you can bounce ideas off of each other, some people reminisce about when they were in the best shape of there lives, and what shape there willing to accept this go round. The most important part is when you make that commitment to a friend to embark on that journey, for that span of time it actually is a commitment, and sadly alot of people will honor a commitment they make to another person before a commitment they make to their self. who knows the physiology behind it? Use it though, partner up, pick a path and climb. When ever your dawg needs a hand reach out, or simply bark it out with him.