lardass,

Couldn't agree more. That's the single most important thing I took away from my sessions with Anthony.

Intensity.

You think you've been pushing yourself, and within 30 minutes your frame of reference for what hard work actually is, is completely changed.

This kind of intensity has to be experienced to be properly understood.

I had read about it, and thought, "Yeah, yeah, I know, push myself until the weight stops moving yada, yada, yada, don't bore me with all that!"

Then when I'd been through the workout, I remember that my first thoughts afterward were how my previous levels of intensity were laughable in comparison, probably about 4 or 5 out of 10, (having just experienced 8 or 9).

If you take anything away from your experience take away the link between intensity and form.

*How hard the set was.

*How far you got after you thought you were done.

*How maintaining good form, whilst pushing (or pulling) hard, takes conscious mental effort.

*How breathing and focus help massively in continuing that set.

*Basically, intensity is, not totally, but mostly, mental.

Your body is capable of that level of performance almost any time you train. It's whether you mentally fire yourself up for it that makes the difference.

If you have a bit of a slack training session intensity-wise, it's not because you had a broken leg, a sprained ankle or the flu (because you wouldn't be training in the first place!) It's probably because, mentally, you were somewhere else.

Again, you've actually been through it all now so hopefully it should make some sense.

Good luck!