THE MINDSET OF A CHAMPION – Arnold Schwarzenegger (Motivational Video)
when I used to do seminars on how to
become a champion I would always ask
people why do you want to be a champion
or what do you want to accomplish choir
your training and they will get up and
you will say well I want to train
because I think that if I get muscular
and you know I feel like I’m getting the
kind of definition then that maybe can
enter a bodybuilding competition as it
sit down as if you think this way you’re
gonna be a loser
you’re never gonna make it because
there’s no maybe you got to get up and
say I want to be a champion and I do
whatever it takes
amount of hours it takes the powers in
the dissident the visualization looking
at training footage looking at
motivational posters reading this week
whatever it takes I will do that’s the
answer when the government you can
detect right away those that are going
to be shaky and that will fall behind
and they will not go all the way and
those are the very hungry and dead
hungry you have to develop because you
have to create a goal for yourself
whatever that may be a short-term goal
and the long-term goal you gotta go
after that if you do not see and if you
do not believe it who else will
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experiencing pain in your muscles and
aching and just think of one and go on
and go on and this last two or three or
four repetitions that’s what makes
actually the muscle then grow and that
divides then one from a champion and one
from not being a champion if you can’t
go through this pain period you make it
to be a champion
if you can’t go through forget it and
that’s what most people like isn’t this
heaven – guts – guts to go in and just
say I go through and I don’t care what
happens you know it aches and if I fall
down I have no fear of fainting in a gym
because I know it’s it could happen I
threw up many times while I was working
out but it doesn’t matter because it’s
all worthless everyone has a problem
with time but the day is 24 hours and we
sleep 6 now I know there’s some out
there that say oh whoa whoa whoa
I need eight but I say to sleep a little
faster because the bottom line is we
have six hours of sleep 20 files are
available so if 18 hours now available
to your Brooke your family your hobbies
and also to learn something new or to do
something new which could easily be that
you want to learn a new language or that
you want to read and as a new year’s
resolution you have to read a book every
week or where you say I’m gonna go and
reshape my party so you’re gonna go and
take this hour out of your schedule and
say I’m gonna train an hour every day so
this is for most people a huge challenge
but it is totally – well I can tell them
because the kind of things that I did
when I came to this country I mean I
went to school I was working in
construction I was working out my five
hours a day I was taking acting classes
from 8 o’clock at night to 12 midnight I
was doing all of those things
I wanted to make sure that out of the 24
hours of the day that I don’t waste one
single hour those hours were too
precious and so they’ll just want to
tell people don’t give me this thing I
have a difficult time of it the time and
I don’t have time for this none of that
you have time you make the time I this
need of coming to America I mean when I
started learning about America at the
age of 10 because geography lesson and
learned about America and about and so
the first photographs I remember this
photos in the textbook but also super 8
millimeter film footage that they showed
in the classroom you know about the
Golden Gate Bridge Empire State Building
and that the six-lane highways north I
said what am I doing here in Austria
because little roads I want to go with
me and all to be part of the big deal
and so I had always just decided I felt
like that the only way I ever forget the
America because in those days it was in
common that the by yourself a ticket to
no one could afford that so he I had to
kind of accomplish something big that
takes me to America
and then when I read about the skybridge
Park who one missed the universe three
times and then became a star in Hercules
movies and then was in Italy filming and
then in Hollywood filming I felt that
could be the ticket I should become mr.
universe I should become kind of a
second rich party of course no one
really bought into that my parents
thought I was totally insane and but
they just I think that my parents really
thought that there was something
terribly wrong of being dead driven you
know because I would come home at
lunchtime and instead of having lunch
over to 200 sit-ups and they were
lighter would go to the stadium and that
would be lifting weights I will come
home at 10 o’clock at night and there
will be continued lifting weights so it
was like one of the sincerity in the
military I will continue lifting weights
the matter before how the training was
and how tough the basic training was I
would always then lift weights
afterwards I think it’s the most
important thing that we have a very
clear vision of where we go a goal where
do we go because you can have the best
ship in the world you can have the best
cruise liner but if the captain does not
know where to go
that ship will drift around the world
and out there that sea and we’ll never
end up anywhere and this is exactly the
way it is in real life if you don’t have
a core if you don’t have a vision you
just drift around you’re not gonna be
happy this is why it is so important to
have that vision now I created that
vision in Austria because I grew up
after the Second World War
Austria right along with Germany lost
the Second World War and the problem was
that everyone was so depressed because
they lost the war that there was
alcoholism everywhere there was of
course depression there was a terrible
economic situation of his parent of a
starvation and all of those things and
also it was kind of a little place and
narrow I felt kind of I wanted to get
out of there I wanted to escape and I
couldn’t see myself really to work there
in the state of the world kind of
three of the work on the farm although
human do follow my father’s footsteps
and to become a police officer I
couldn’t see that either semantics
that’s what my parents wanted me to do
but that’s not what I saw this was the
vision of my parents but not mine
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you get to work your butt off
if you think that you’re gonna go and
accomplish something really special and
be the best in anything in the world if
you think you can do it without working
you make a big mistake because no matter
what I did if it was bodybuilding or
acting or if it isn’t in the political
arena it always took a lot a lot of work
and he got to put out and you get you
know something like a lot of sacrifices
notice if you’re not willing to work
hard forget about it so this is another
room that is a very important don’t be
afraid to fail because if you’re afraid
to fail then you’re always holding
yourself back because you’re afraid that
if you go all out you may fail well in
weightlifting we learned it very quickly
it’s the only way you could break a
record is if you’re willing to fail
that’s when you put on more weight you
try it sometimes you maybe don’t you
will not be able to lift it we just
happened to me many times but eventually
when you train hard enough you will lift
it so don’t be afraid to fail you I mean
how far can you fall
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