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by:  Mario Chompass

No one should buy a book because of its cover, but publishing companies spend millions on its design and print, so it must be worth something. This isn’t going to be a tirade on inner beauty. Everyone knows it’s essential. The next step is outward, physical beauty and health and, in fact, outward physical health – as a result of a career in Bodybuilding – can actually aid you in your pursuit of inner beauty, otherwise known as self-confidence. Self-confidence is one of the most essential characteristics we all need to lead a healthy, happy life and bodybuilding can play a big role. Let’s see how.

Using positive affirmations will go a long way for you. A positive affirmation is your supportive mental dialogue. Confident people use them. Athletes use them and thus Body Builders use them. When you’re lying beneath 500 pounds of weight, you’ve developed a trust in yourself that few others outside the sports arena experience on a regular basis.

The force of your inner voice, is one strong key to use. When you learn how to talk to yourself this way with regard to Bodybuilding, there’s a spillover effect. You start to talk to yourself that way in other trying life situations. (Not the 4 reps part!) It becomes your way of dealing with stressful situations – you lie down, breathe deeply, give yourself reassurance and act. That’s how leaders work.

Some people crack under pressure. They don’t know how to deal with it. Their fragile mental stability caves in at the first sign of resistance. This type of mentality can lead to anti-social and other unhealthy behavioral patterns. Test your ability to deal with adversity. Stack up the weights and see how many you can squeeze out. You can do more than you think – but as you learn to develop the positive affirmation, you’ll trust yourself more and you’ll succeed more.

Another great thing about Bodybuilding is the Goal-Setting factor that is such an integral part of the sport. In Bodybuilding, just as in Business, there is an end product and a plan to create it. The “product” is your body. You have to decide what you want it to look like and then you MUST develop a plan to get there. Everyday, it becomes your job to hit the small benchmarks, the small goals that will eventually lead you to the end product - a well-sculpted structure. Whether the goal is to lift this amount or follow only these nutritional guidelines, the Body Builder must develop the ability to carry a task through to the end or your destined to fail.