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“Most people are dreamers.  The ones that don’t act on their dream are not doers, their dream becomes just a daydream.  The ones that act on their dream and work every day toward their goal and purpose of the dream are successful people and they make their dream come true! You’ve dreamed of this, you’re working for this, YOU have a plan in action!  You are a champion!”  Elaine Wright Craig – Promoter of the Emerald Cup and Washington Ironman Championships

This is a quote that was tagged on the end of the newest competitor’s newsletter that Elaine put out. She nailed it!  I couldn’t have said it better myself.  We dream, we want, we think, but do we ACT?  There’s a saying in my gym – “Thoughts determine what you want, ACTION determines what you get!”  You can’t just think about competing, you’ve got to act on it.  And once you start acting on it, you’ve got to “Find out what is necessary, and do the necessary well!”

We’re 14 weeks out from the EC and 11 weeks out from the Vancouver.  For all of you first-time competitors, you’re getting ready to enter the lion’s den, the gladiator’s arena, the Octagon!  It’s going to be like getting in a fight with Mike Tyson in his prime.  It’ll be like Tina Turner’s line in “Beyond Thunderdome” – ‘Two men enter, one man leaves’.  At some point during this journey you’ll literally feel like you’re fighting for your life (or sanity…).  If you’re doing everything correctly you’ll feel like death warmed over hot coals.  But like Elaine said, your success comes when you step onstage in front of 1500-3000 people looking better than you’ve ever looked in your entire life!  You ARE Dorothy in The Wizard of OZ.  You ARE Rudy.  You’ve accomplished what few have.  For that you should give yourselves a pat on the back.

For those of you who’ve competed previously and not done well, step up your game!  You have no control over the outcome but you DO have control over your work ethic, your cardio, and your nutrition.  You CAN push yourself harder.  You CAN eat cleaner.  YOU CAN!  Don’t talk about it, don’t think about it, don’t over-analyze it – DO IT!  Let your actions in the gym and your look onstage be your talk.

If you competed before, did you take last or have you ever taken last in a show?  I did.  It sucked.  I didn’t care what family, friends, co-workers, and others said, it sucked, with a capital S-U-C-K-E-D!  That was the one and only time I ever took last.  It will suck for you too.  No one can make you feel better when you come in dead last, especially when you have the opportunity NOW to do something about it.  I had the opportunity to do something but I had the ‘That’s good enough’ mentality back then.  Guess what?  I was wrong.  It wasn’t enough.  I could have done more.  More cardio, more intensity on the weights, better nutrition, but I ‘settled’ for ‘that’s good enough’.  I’ve never settled for that since, and I’m imploring you to not settle for it now.

For those of you who’ve never competed, the same applies to you.  Don’t think that ‘good enough’ is good enough.  I promise you it isn’t.  Push until there’s nothing left.  Push until the tank is empty.  Trust me, you’ll know when that is.  Push until you’ve accomplished what you set out to accomplish before the workout started.  How so?  Easy.  You walk into the gym with a plan-of-action.  You know what you have to do - how many exercises, sets, reps, cardio minutes, etc. that you want…no…NEED to do in advance.  The old days of haphazard training is gone.  Structure and organization is the new wave.  I promise that if you’re a ‘hit-n-miss’ trainee in the gym, you’ll be a ‘close-to-last-place-if-not-last-place competitor.

This is YOUR journey.  Make it happen.  Peace…

The Dr.

David "Dr. Buff" Patterson, MPE, CSCS, CSTS

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