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Sack up and do it.
Busy at the gym tonight - I was sharing a bench/rack just about the entire evening. I was spotting a guy who was benching my 1 rep max for reps - but our attitudes were way different going into the exercise.
He would say something like this: “I’m going to try, TRY for 6, maybe 8 reps. I’ll probably need help on the last couple though, ok?”
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If that’s your attitude going into anything, wouldn’t failure be acceptable? Set your standards low and you’ll never fail at anything. Perfect. Set phasers to “mediocre” and go have a lukewarm bath because you’re probably overtrained if you lift for more than 3 hours a week.
If you suck, stop. Make enemies with that bar/road/dumbbell, grab it by the throat, and lift/pull/press/run it until you feel like stopping. Then go for a couple more reps, just to show it who’s boss, and come back the next day to murder it again.
