The Ultimate Muscle-Building Mindset

SUCCESS IN ANY bodybuilding attempt can only be measured by your results, which are greatly enhanced by having a muscle-building mindset.

It is a sad reality of bodybuilding that many men and/or women have an inclination to be motive-driven. If you observe workout times in the gym, you'll observe this in action. Members will exercise at one piece of equipment and then another, having no clear objective in mind for their workout time.

Just 'showing up' for a workout is a poor, short-term goal at best ... and if a hardgainer is not watchful, this type of mindset will sabotage his or her success at the gym.

Just because you're skinny today doesn't mean you'll be that way forever ... or maybe it does if your thoughts aren't powered for ultimate goal accomplishment.

IF YOU HAVE WORKED HARD at the gym and it is now time to rest, realize that your exercise routine for the day is not finished without programming your muscle-building mindset for success.

The most excellent way to maintain your mindset in the correct state of focus for muscle-building success is to use the time right before dozing off to sleep for imagery exercises, or visualization.

Rather than re-living a tedious play-by-play of your day, thinking of what you should have done or could have done - how frustrated you may be at your apparent slow progress - or how you'd like to look like Vince Del Monte when you wake up, right before sleep is prime time to exercise your gray matter for success.

Right before sleep is the most important time of your day because without the mental exercises of visualizing you as lean, buff, muscular and fit those desired results will be much slower to see.

So stop thinking about your still-scrawny appearance in the mirror, because by such thought patterns, you are dousing the fires of your inner power to facilitate change in the direction you really want it to go.

At bedtime, rather than negative thoughts that lead you to dosing off tiredly, consciously reinforce and motivate yourself for your success in the gym by imagining yourself in peak condition - with rippling muscles spread over your world-class, buff body. Are you getting the picture, yet?

Visualize your desired outcome ... see yourself as how you want to be and not how you may be at this moment in time. This exercise will do wonders for your muscle-building progress because you are programming yourself for that outcome.

TRY THIS: When you close your eyes at night, picture yourself in the gym, in front of a full-length mirror, enjoying the sense of pride you feel at having accomplished your goal. You are lean, buff, muscled and absolutely fit! This mental exercise right before sleep can help you create that very outcome.

If you can imagine yourself as having achieved the ideal body you want, there will be no leftover "buts" in your mind that you can arrive at that goal. Visualizing those bulging biceps, that massively, muscled frame with rippled 6-pack abs can produce a positive, subconscious force that will propel you towards muscle mass success.