Yo, what’s going on guys?
Troy here with Muscle Tactics.
And I’m showing up here at the top of Hollywood Hills.
Got the Hollywood sign over there if you can see it.
And you got the Hollywood Bowl and concert venue behind me.
Little view of downtown Los Angeles.
And you know being up here in Hollywood Hills, I’m, you know, always reminded of, you know,
the mindset that it takes to really achieve great things in this world.
You know, you drive through here, you see all these mansions.
All these people who’s made, you know, extreme success their reality.
And you know where it starts, it starts in your mind.
So this video is all going to be about mind-fucking your way to lean muscle gains.
I don’t care about what your training technique is, what your diet is.
We’re not going to talk about any of that bullshit in this video.
We’re going to talk about the mindset.
If you guys want incredible results, you have to train your mind.
You have to reprogram how you think.
So we’re going to get into three tricks that are going to mind-fuck your way to non-stop
lean muscle gain.
So trick number one is you have to have a clear-cut goal in mind.
Why are you working out in the first place?
If you’re just going to the gym every day and you’re putting in all this work and
you don’t have that clear-cut goal, and you don’t have like a timestamp of when
you want to achieve that goal.
You know, what’s going to really push on those days when you don’t want to go to
the gym?
So, you know, have a clear-cut goal in mind.
Have a date of when you want to achieve it by.
Say I want to lose, you know, say you want to gain 12 pounds by x date.
You know, write that down.
Look at that goal every day.
Look at that goal on days when you don’t want to train.
And then even more so, why do you want to gain those pounds of, you know, lean muscle
mass.
Maybe it’s for, you know, a spring break cruise.
Maybe it’s, you know, just to look better and attract more girls.
I don’t care how vain or how stupid you think the goal is, it’s all about staying
motivated.
So I don’t care what it is.
What it takes to stay motivated.
Maybe you’re already really fit, and maybe you’re trying to get it to that next level
where you’re competing in, you know, an NPC.
Or you’re trying to get like a fitness modeling job.
So have a clear-cut goal in mind.
It’s going to help you guys train at maximum intensity.
It’s going to help push you guys on those days when you don’t really want to train.
The next little mindset trick is something that I tell myself on days when I’m not
motivated.
And just something that I always remind myself of what it takes to be really successful.
You know if you want to be, you know, I’m assuming that you’re working out because
you want to be somebody.
You know, you want to be an alpha male.
You want to be a man.
You want to be successful.
Men move forward.
Men make things happen.
Men take action.
So by not working out on days that you’re tired, what is that really telling yourself?
That’s telling yourself that, you know, oh, I’m a little bit tired, and you’re
making excuses.
You’re doing what’s easy, but if you want results you’ve got to do what’s hard.
If you keep on doing what’s hard, it suddenly becomes easy.
So you want to get in that mindset of pushing yourself outside your comfort zone every single
day.
You know out here in Hollywood Hills I guarantee you the people who were actually self-made
and the people who made it out here on their own, they push themselves outside their comfort
zone.
They continued even when things were challenging.
Even when things were hard, they just fucking took action.
They moved forward, and they just pushed through those mental and physical barriers.
So I would say working out is a metaphor for all these different things in life that are
hard.
And it’s overcoming these obstacles that help you achieve greatness.
So you really want to take your energy.
It’s like, when you’re working out, I can’t tell you how many days where I’ve
been really low on energy.
I went to the gym.
I had a fantastic work out.
I left that gym.
I felt alive.
I had high energy.
I continued actually to push past that plateau and work another 6 – 7 hours on other things,
business and other aspects of my life.
So it’s like sometimes you’re feeling really low.
Your energy levels are, you know, drained.
You go to the gym.
You get in that great workout.
You get those endorphins pumping.
And all of the sudden you’re taking action all day.
It’s such a great catalyst to all aspects of your life.
It’s like you lift heavy weight.
You have increased testosterone.
You have increased energy levels.
And all of the sudden this testosterone, this energy helps you take more action.
All of the sudden you’re making more money.
All of the sudden you’re attracting more girls.
All of the sudden you have people who want to surround themselves around you.
So it’s kind of like that catalyst.
That abundance of positive things that happen just from working out.
Just from taking action daily.
The third little mindset, and this is so crucial.
This is something that I’ve struggled with in the past.
And a lot of my friends who, you know, are really frustrated with their progress struggle
with.
I see so many younger people who just start working out.
And who go in the gym and they surround themselves with these huge dudes who have been working
out for 5 – 10 years struggle with.
And it’s people, you’re putting too much focus on where you are right now.
It’s not about where you are right now, it’s about where you’re going.
You got to focus on the journey and embrace the journey of all these struggles and kind
of overcoming your physical barriers.
That’s what life is all about.
It’s like nobody, if you’re born rich and ripped.
And you have all these girls or all these things you’d ever want, you’re not going
to appreciate it.
So it’s like everybody has to start somewhere.
You know, I read this quote where, you know, the biggest journeys in the history of mankind
start with just a single footstep.
So it’s really all about just taking action and just try to enjoy the journey.
You know, I have this friend and every single time he goes in the gym he just gets frustrated.
He looks around.
He’ll see some guy who just has a perfect physique.
Who’s jacked.
Who’s probably been busting his ass for ten years.
And he just like gives up.
He’s like I’ll never look like that.
And I’m like, you know what?
You’re right, with that attitude you are never going to look like that.
So you always have to just embrace the journey.
I went through this a lot in high school.
You know, I went to a training academy.
I was around a lot of really good athletes.
And I would see these guys, and I would just be like, I felt like I was so far away.
But, you know, time goes on and you keep on working.
You keep on pushing past mental and physical barriers.
You get a little bit better and all of the sudden you get excited because you reach a
certain plateau.
And all of the sudden you burst through that plateau.
You get a little bit better.
And you keep those gains coming.
It’s all about the mental aspect of how you look at it.
So don’t focus on where you are, focus on where you’re going.
You guys are going to see incredible results over time if you just listen to what I’m
saying.
You do the right things in the weight room.
You do the right things with your diet and your supplementation.
You will see amazing results, just focus on the journey.
Have fun with it because all of the sudden you’re going to get to your end goal and
then you’re going to be like now what.
And it’s not going to be that fun.
So make it really fun and exciting.
Embrace the journey.
Don’t, you know, be frustrated with where you are right now.
Just keep on working hard.
And that’s it guys.
So those are three easy tricks to mind-fuck your way to non-stop muscle gains.
I hope these, you know, really help you guys overcome your plateau.
Overcome those mental demons because I know just from all my days of working out that
working out is so much more mental in my opinion than physical.
It’s all about how you, It’s all about how you look at things.
All about how you reprogram your minds.
That’s it for now guys.