Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

make my own money

had seven cat

From now on if I lost, I would be able to walk away with a big smile because I had done everything I could to prepare

Sports are so physical that it’s easy to overlook the mind’s power, but I’ve seen it demonstrated again and again

After that, I never went to a competition to compete. I went to win

Muscle magazines in English started mentioning me, which was extremely important because I had to become known in England and America to reach my goal

the muscles become very efficient at performing the sequence they expect. The way to wake up the muscle and make it grow again is to jolt it with the message “You will never know what’s coming. It will always be different from what you expect. Today it’s this, tomorrow it’s something else.” One day it’s ultraheavy weights; the next day high reps

He loved my theory of “shocking the muscle,” for instance. It always seemed to me that the biggest obstacle to successful training is that the body adjusts so quickly. Do the same sequence of lifts every day, and even if you keep adding weight, you’ll see your muscle growth slow and then stop

This story crystallized a new vision for me.

You have to build the ultimate physical machine but also the ultimate mind,” he would say