How to Lift Forever - Beast Over Burden - #551

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🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We discuss how to lift forever. This is a mindset and approach to become and remain a lifelong lifter.

How to Lift Forever: Why It Matters

Lifting for quality of life is a habit that can last for years and decade. We hope you lift as long as you can.

We've discussed the benefits of strength and voluntary hardship, and how accumulating hard sets and building muscle contributes to health and longevity.

This is why it matters. You can't lift in your 20s and expect to benefit in your 50s and 60s. You need to build and maintain a habit that stays with you through your many phases of life, including the valleys.

How to Lift Forever: Attributes

Niki really see a tripartite time division with lifters who lift for the long haul and how they think about and approach the past, present, and future.

Lifters who maintain the habit over years and decades plan ahead. They think about how they will train this week, month, year, and even five years. They invest time and money into their training.

Looking whether there is a gym close by your travel location, for example, or incorporating hotel gym workouts or even bodyweight workouts helps maintain the habit.

Looking at the past means being able to appreciate the past and be proud of the work and progress you've put in. The past, however, really becomes most important in terms of how it manifests and informs how you think about the present.

You have to be okay with being where you are at. It doesn't mean you are happy with it or you don't have a goal to improve, but you do not beat yourself up.

How to Lift Forever: A Mental Model

Thinking about the past and the present may be the most critical element. You find yourself where you are. You have a goal for the future. You understand you have made past decisions that have brought you to your present situation.

A question Niki asks is "What got me to this moment I'm not liking?"

You may find you're okay with your decisions. For example, after a vacation, you might be a bit more bloated with clothes fitting more tightly.

Did you enjoy the vacation? How important was the vacation? You might find you don't regret your decisions.

If you do regret your decisions, think about how you can adjust travel arrangements in the future so history does not repeat itself.

Don't beat yourself up or find yourself falling into dividing your expectations and reality.

Then, visualize your future. Think about where you want to be at a certain point of time (e.g. at the end of the year). Decide what actions will move you to that point and then execute.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Barbell Logic.
0:04.7	The podcast where we talk about what it means to experience strength.
0:08.3	And how you can use simple, hard and effective strategies in training and nutrition to improve your life.
0:15.0	It starts with meeting you where you are right now and finding lasting solutions.
0:20.0	Welcome to the show. Hey everybody welcome to
0:35.3	welcome to Barbelogic Beast Over Burden. I missed you all last week. I'm your
0:39.2	host Mickey Sims with me is your co-host Andrew Jackson.
0:43.0	Good afternoon.
0:45.0	All right, how is your training going?
0:49.0	Give us some juicy updates.
0:51.0	Training's going good.
0:52.0	I'm back into squatting at PR weights, I think 2 by 2 at 210 last Friday, which was pretty sure that's a lifetime PR. 464 or something like that.
1:09.1	Most fun this week I added clean and jerk back in and was able to get up to 308, 140
1:17.3	kilos and missed 315 a couple times and that's a huge breakthrough because my back has been holding me back from certain positions.
1:26.7	I've power cleaned every now and again, but getting down to the bottom of the clean is not felt good on my low back.
1:34.3	So yeah, it's a big catch.
1:35.6	Nice to be able to push that a little bit.
1:37.8	Yeah, so I'm just having fun with training bench is up in PR territory pretty much every week both rep PRs and
1:48.8	volume PRs so I'm having fun gosh fun. Fun phase. It is.
1:53.7	That's neat to get into that zone again. I know some people and even like we've talked
1:57.6	before when we've been like going through injuries and stuff was just like well
2:00.3	I guess we'll never pay R again.
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