Arnold Says…7/1
July 1, 2008 by Scott Wharton
Filed under Men's Health
In the past month I took on another blog and kind of got off track here at Health And Men. New month, so lets get back on to my previous format and get this ball rolling right again. What better way to do that than get back to the Tuesday Muscle Maintenance feature with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In this “Arnold Says…”, Arnold talks about “The Fear Of Smallness”. Now this entire chapter of The new Encyclopedia Of Modern Bodybuilding goes further in depth about the “Fear Of Smallness”, but I can only give you a small excerpt that will give you a basic idea.
On “The Fear Of Smallness” Arnold Says…
“One psychological block that many bodybuilders face when they attempt Competition Training has to do with their perception of their physical size. Whatever other motive bodybuilders may have for getting into training in the first place, part of it is always the desire to get big and strong. Therefore, anything which makes them feel smaller becomes a threat. That is why many bodybuilders are made very anxious by the effects of Competition Training.”
With that said, Arnold goes into depth about how huge he was when he came to America but lost to a smaller guy in a competition because though he was big, the smaller guy was much more define and over all in better competition form.
Next week we’ll get into Arnold’s elements of competition training.
Block Quote taken from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s New Encyclopedia Of Modern Bodybuilding
