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This intervention has to deal with trying to increase my total weight and number of repetitions for weight lifting. The main problem I have been having, mostly with my bench press, has to do with being stuck at one weight at times and not being able to increase the maximum lift or get any more reps out of the workout. I have tried to "shock my system" by increasing the weights to a weight that I could only do one or two times. I have also tried building up my endurance through using less weight for more reps at times. No matter which I have tried, I always seem to get stuck at one point or another.
The reason that I chose this form of intervention was because I have tried to talk to many people …show more content…

Since then, I have lifted for more recreational purposes, but I still seem to find myself in the same situations usually two or three times a year. It occurs in the area of bench-pressing, but as I stated earlier, it has happened with s a few shoulder workouts also, which is most likely due to an injury I sustained a few years ago. Being able to eliminate these negative thoughts should positively affect the final results.
Aspirations: Through doing this investigation, I wanted to test if one's psychological state of mind had anything to do with the type of workout they have. By using positive imagery and setting short-term goals for every workout, I was curious to see if it would drive me to lift more weight or do more repetitions. According to articles I have read, those steps will have an impact on my results. Dr. Jonathan F. Katz of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center states, "There's more to lifting weights than physically preparing your body, you have to gear yourself up emotionally and psychologically."

Mentally, the way I went about using imagery was by trying to picture myself doing each lift prior to actually doing it. Sports Psychologist Michael Sachs says that he "encourages people to use all five senses…see things, hear what's going on, smell, taste the sweat, feel the bar…" I would sit on the bench for

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