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Priorities and dedication<br />

HOW TO GET A GRIP ON YOUR LIFE…<br />

23.12 Having control, as each of us does, over the form, development and strength<br />

of our bodies is a marvelous power. ink about it for a few moments. But<br />

are you really making the most of it?<br />

23.13 You need to give your training a very high priority in your life. Make the<br />

time for your workouts. Switch off the TV and get to sleep in good time. Be<br />

stubborn about ensuring you recuperate adequately. Make time to prepare<br />

good meals often enough to meet your nutritional needs. Give your body<br />

the chance to restore itself. Find time to do your stretching. Exercise the<br />

discipline to stay clear of things that will undermine your progress. Develop<br />

the fortitude to ignore the negative matters and people that get in the way of<br />

your training and your life in general.<br />

23.14 Many if not most people believe they can tolerate rule breaking as far as<br />

health and training precepts are concerned. In your teens and twenties it<br />

may appear that you can get away with the corner cutting. But just wait<br />

a few years—then what you apparently could get away with will seriously<br />

mar your progress in muscle and might, and start to play havoc with your<br />

health.<br />

23.15 While a few people can manage on less sleep than the typical person, they<br />

are few and far between. And most of those who think they need relatively<br />

little sleep are kidding themselves. ey need their eight or more hours of<br />

sleep each night when in hard training, in order to make their fastest progress.<br />

Do not short change yourself on sleep.<br />

23.16 Your training should be your number one leisure time activity if you are to<br />

realize your full potential. Or it has to be your sole leisure time activity if you<br />

get very little time to yourself. It is that demanding.<br />

23.17 Of course the practical constraints of real life—e.g., sickness and heavy<br />

demands of work and family—have a tempering effect on even the most<br />

determined commitment to a training regimen. e more those demands<br />

obstruct your application, the poorer will be your progress in muscle and<br />

might.<br />

23.18 No matter how rough your life gets, so long as you are truly disciplined you<br />

can nearly always find time for a very abbreviated training program, and fix<br />

things so that you get your feeds on time (some of them from pre-prepared<br />

liquid food stored in a flask), and get your full quota of sleep most nights.<br />

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