I Can. I Will. End of Story — Success Advice From Phil Heath

Recalling his time as an amateur bodybuilder, Seven-time Mr. Olympia, Phil Heath says of bodybuilding; “I’d be in there dying. Looking at those pictures on the wall of Schwarzenegger, Coleman, and I would just tell myself, ‘One more set, one more rep. Just give it everything you got, so you can put yourself in the best position to win.’”

“Bodybuilding taught me how to be strong mentally, physically, and emotionally,” he says. “It taught me how to train hard when no one’s in the room, when you’re having a bad day, through death, through hardship, through anything that can go wrong.”

Phil believes that winning is habitual. He believes that If you care about your success more than anyone else in the room, it is a matter of certainty that you will succeed at some point in time.

“It’s a marathon, not a sprint;” he says. “A measurement of a man is when he gets knocked down, not when he’s winning.

So I lost a few times, and always remembered to just keep on going and be the hardest worker in the room.”

Whenever people tell you you can’t, you should pay them no mind and just focus on your goal. The journey is with yourself.

You cannot fault a man on a mission, you leave that man alone, his results will speak for themselves.

“Sometimes while you’re in there training you stare into the mirror and ask yourself, ‘Do you give it your all today?’ ‘Do you have another rep?’”

“You find yourself asking, ‘Can I go to workout today when I’m pissed off because I’m about to get fired, or something bad happened, or lost my girlfriend, or whatever it is?’ You ask yourself, “Do you have the guts to go after it when no one is watching, no one’s patting you on the back, and no one is liking your stuff on social media?”

“If you’ve got the guts to go after it,” he says, “Do it.”

“I challenge each and every one of you to step in that batter’s box and take a damn swing. Just take a swing!” he says.”

Phil has won the Mr Olympia competition every year from 2011 to 2017.

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