What have been your eureka moments?

deadlybuzzman

Over the years that people lift and train every once in a while you realise certain things that help you progress faster or break a plateau.
What have yours been?
Mine:Stopping doing a million sets per session and turning what was supposed to be a size and strength workout into a stamina thing.

Eat more-much much more!

Listen to your body-recoverery is as important as working hard for progress

robodonkey

A negative positive: Smoked 35 a day, woke up on Christmas morning 2005 wondering wtf was bouncing around my lower torso when I coughed.
Turns out I coughed myself a hernia.

Post surgery and 5 years hence, I changed my lifestyle completely.

Cut the smokes that day, and started running/gym as soon as my insides were back where they should have been.

So maybe more of an Epiphany than a Eureka, but in a way that hernia was the best thing to happen to me!

Rovi

Mine was more of an epiphany too:
I re-modelled the bathroom for Christmas 2009, including putting 3/4 length mirrors on two of the walls and another in the shower.
There was now no way of avoiding seeing myself 'au natural', from several angles, simultaneously.

A year and a half later, and I've lost a full third of my bodyweight at that time, and am getting on for being in the best shape of my life.

Remmy

I think it was just after my leaving cert on a diet of coffee and junkfood for a few months when I looked at myself in the mirror I was a combination of skinny and fat.I sorted out my diet started lifting weights and a year and a half later Im now a reasonably lean 205/207 pounds.Id like to be 240 ish in the next few years ideally with my same fitness levels.Im enjoying the process anyway.:D