Beginnings | Mat Fraser: The Making of a Champion - Part 1

I have always liked this phrase "Today I did what others did not want to do, so tomorrow I will be able to do what others cannot do." I have always liked this phrase. Whenever I train alone, I always say that in my mind. I repeat phrases like this in my mind: "I am suffering." "Others are not willing to do these things now. You are the only one here." Then, when competition comes around and you can perform better than others in certain events, you'll think, "Okay, I did what you didn't do yesterday," "so I can do what you couldn't do today." It is simply knowing and believing: "The efforts I have made will now be rewarded." "It may not be me today.

Tomorrow may seem like shit, but it will definitely pay off in the end. What are you doing when no one is watching? My dad is a pairs figure skater and my mom is a single figure skater. As far as I know , my dad just broke up with his

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ner and took a break while he was looking for a new

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ner. One time he was looking at my mom at the skating rink, so he came up to her and said, "My name is Don." "I think you should try pair skating with me." At first he wasn't allowed to do it, but when they finally got permission from his parents, with permission, they started skating together, started dating, and since then they have also become friends. figure skating pairs at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

As far as my competitive mentality is concerned, I believe that the best qualities of each one are inherited from my parents. ". My mother always pays attention to him. The details of the training, the hard practice and the preparation process. My dad is a born performer. He likes to be in front of the public and this has always been his motivation. I only found out later. I once joked that we wanted my dad to start over. When he started working out, I told my mom, "I think as long as he gets back into the routine that he had when he skated," and sticks with his routine, he'll start to enjoy training again." After hearing this, my mom said to me, "Are you kidding me?

Your dad hates training!" She tried her best to drag my dad to training every morning. She said, "If there's no crowd, your dad doesn't have to train!" But on the other hand, my mom is the type to train hard and all that hard work is done without an audience, so luckily, I get the best qualities. of each of them to know when you are in the game. Your performance basically reflects the effort you put in throughout the year. The effort you put in when there is no audience. I'm doing interval rows and squats here alone. No Uno will wave the flag and cheer me on, but at the same time, when I get to regionals, I want to perform in front of the crowd, and when there's a crowd cheering you on, you want to perform hard and that's it.

You probably treat lifting weights as an instant. Save the snatches, wide pulls, and back squats for last. First I'll do some intervals to warm up. I start with them because it's a paced cardio workout and you basically know what to do. So I don't need to think too much right now, I just do some easy speed to warm up my body. Then I'll do some more difficult interval exercises that I need to strain and grit my teeth to endure. After that, the other things are just the number of times and the time. I don't have anything else.

All I need to say is, "I'm going to hit these numbers" and cross it off my agenda. It will be easier to train today. I'm not having a good day today after traveling for so long. I've been traveling the last few days. I slept terrible and my training yesterday also affected my performance. today and I know that's a fact, that's how things are, but I still felt very slow today, right, I mean what I did today. Training is like, "Okay, I know I'm probably not going to be able to do my best, so my goal is not to reach my best speed," but to try to maintain my training volume and, if I'm in good shape.

So I can probably do it in 1:45 or so, but instead, Now I know I might not be able to do it, so try not to interrupt and not drop the bar, that's my goal, so reduce the cycle time and try to keep it up as you go, sometimes the goal will be Not the same Trying to figure out what I can improve or pay attention to I look at my medal from 2015 and I hate that medal because I didn't do it the right way even though I was second in 2015. Second place, "I should be proud of this result. "I am the second strongest man in the world." But every time I look at that medal, I really hate that year because of all the hard work I put into it.

I'm not proud of my efforts. I'm not proud of the shortcuts I took. I actually got the same results in 2014. I had the same ranking in 2014 and 2015, but I had completely different feelings. I was very excited in 2014. I felt like I "won." I got the same result in 2015, but I felt like I "lost." Winning second place is about the effort you put in and your expectations for yourself. So in 2016, I stopped taking shortcuts and started using the right method, and the results reflected that, so as long as I keep training I'll keep trying this way and see what happens.