#80: Becoming Limitless

Arnold's Pump Club

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Do you feel like you have limits? If you tell that you Arnold, he'd likely challenge your mindset. On this episode, Arnold shares a story about why limits are a way to make sure you never reach your potential. You'll also learn about a new benefit of stretching that you won't believe, and how to turn bad moments in great opportunities.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Arnold's Pump Club. I want to start today's episode by talking
0:06.4	about limits. I was talking to Adam and Daniel recently while we were working on our daily newsletter.
0:12.4	If you haven't joined the newsletter, I think you'll love it. Plus, we'll be releasing new spots
0:18.8	to my pump app soon and you can only find the invites in the newsletter. Anyway, we were talking
0:24.4	about finding your limit in the whole conversation really bothered me. Once I explained to them why
0:30.4	they said I had to share my thoughts with all of you on the podcast. I absolutely disagree with
0:36.8	the idea that you can ever find your limits. You can find your current limit, but you will never
0:43.1	find your actual limit. I always tell you guys that most of my lessons come from the gym and this
0:50.2	is no exception. So let me explain with the training story. When you start lifting weights,
0:56.2	the bar might be your limit, but you haven't found your limit because the next month
1:01.4	your limit might be the bar with two 10 pound plates. I think you can lift forever and never
1:08.4	find the end of progress. I failed to bench press 500 pounds many times, but that didn't mean my
1:16.1	limit was 495. And I proved that when I finally benched 500 pounds, understanding that limits
1:23.9	are self perceived can change how much you accomplished. For a long time, there was a limit on the
1:29.3	Olympic lift, clean and jerk. For decades, nobody ever lifted 500. But then one of my heroes did it
1:36.7	and you know what happened. Six other lifters did it that year. There was no limit. You've probably
1:43.4	heard the same story about Roger Bannister, the medical student who ran the first four-minute
1:51.2	mile, which was long considered the limit of human speed. Once he did it, it became common.
1:58.7	Someone just had to go out there and prove the limit was fake and then the old limit became the
2:04.3	new normal. Limits are completely made up and all in our heads. You might think your limit right
2:10.8	now is deadlifting 300 pounds or speaking one language or doing five push-ups or running a mile
2:19.8	in 10 minutes or reading one book a month. Whatever you think your limit is, get that idea out of
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