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6/19/2006 8:16:11 PM - Dave Tate
cardio (The Egg)
3o minutes on the big guy big wheel
The Egg
I have always tried to use the lessons "Under the Bar" to teach many of the same lessons in life. Many of these lessons we miss and forget about. It is not that we do not know them we just get caught up in all the other stuff.
last week after having my bodyweight stuck for more than 6 weeks (dropping Kcals by close to 1000 per day, plus adding in cardio) I relearned a very valuable lesson.
There was NO reason why my weight should not have dropped. Since day one my Kcals have dropped from 10,000 all the way to 3500. My weight dropped during the first phases from 297 to 270 and then held on regardless of what we tried to do with my diet. I even changed my training program twice. The one thing I forgot to change was my internal belief systems.
You may think this is some crazy made up crap but it is what it is. My weight got stuck exactly where knew it would when the process started. My bodyfat also stopped right where I knew it would get tuff. My internal beliefs were set to stop at 270 and was never changed. This was because while I knew where I wanted to go (8%) I lost sight of what was going on right in front of me.
After six weeks of this BS I changed how I thought about the weight ( I convinced myself that this was a mental game and changed the way I began thinking about it). Today I weighed in at 264. I do not see this as a 6 pound drop over the past 6 days but a 6 pound drop over the past 6 weeks.
I just heard a great story about an egg. If you look at a fertile egg and watch it over time you will not see anything happen. This goes on day in and day out. You expect to see something, anything, but nothing changes. Then one day the egg begins to shake and a chic pops out. While the egg sat idle things were changing under the surface. We all spend too much time looking at the outside of the egg when we should stop and think about what is going on inside.
We all get frustrated with lack of progress, slow strength gains, injuries, and the 100 other things that never come as fast as we like. Many times busting out of these slumps does not take external changes (special exercises, new diet parameters, supplements, programs, money) but how you are internally programed.
What internal beliefs do you need to change?
I would still like to know how they get the Omega 3 in these eggs I am eating each morning.
Okay, enough about eggs. I am working on the Bicep Blitz Bonanza routine. This will go along with the Forearm Blitz and the Colossal Calve program in helping your to develop strength and size worthy of internet guru status.

, Dave Tate
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