Posing is such an underrated form of exercise!

I remember my first competition, I was totally unprepared for this..
I was up there in the line-up & I kept getting called out repeatedly for comparisons.
I remember hitting pose after pose, fiercely tensing every muscle in my entire body repeatedly, so pumped with adrenalin that I had no idea of the oxygen dept that the total body muscle flexing to the absolute max was having on me!

When I returned to the line-up after those many repeated comparisons that I was not expecting there would be so many, I stood back in the line-up (relaxed pose) but in bodybuilding relaxed means flexing every muscle in your body while standing there trying to look confident & relaxed while projecting the image of a champion to the judges & crowed, then WAMM!


The oxygen dept from the posing suddenly caught up with me, like how you get puffed out after a sprint race not during it.
I had to take in these huge enormous deep breaths while trying to look composed

I felt like I might actually pass out there on stage!

I was breathing so hard that it was actually scary!

Of course my breathing eventually caught up with me, but it took minutes while standing there 'relaxed'



while trying to look composed the whole time!
It was a lesson learnt that no amount of training or cardio could have prepared me for this 'posing' (incredibly hard exercise!) Session!
Big bro

with those Rdl's, I can see the movement plane in action where you are engaging only the muscles that you want to work against lifting the weight in your chosen plane of movement, perfectly adjusted to engage the muscles that you want to work only.
This is the mind to muscle connection & not the mind to weight connection & it's actually as you know yourself big bro, the difference between the goal of lifting a weight from A to B at all costs, as opposed to working the muscles against the weight as a tool to work the muscle as hard as possible using every controlling mechanism available both physical & mental.