I watched this video with Arnold Schwarzenegger today where he shared some of his thoughts on working out.
And there’s one thing that really resonated with me:
You can watch the entire interview (it’s well worth it) or just skip forward to the section where he talks about this at 7 minutes 30 seconds into the video.
Arnold:
I think that the biggest mistake is that you go to the gym, and you go through the motions. But you don’t really have your mind inside the muscle.
And later:
And also you have to feel it. The key thing is that you visualize it, but you have to feel the muscles. That’s the key thing because then they grow.