How to make the perfect goal

7 tips from the top scorer Pedro Bautista those never will fail to you.

By ChulucanasGym
Photos by Roberto Saavedra / La República.

pedro Bautista is the most admired and followed soccer player because  he's one of the 2017 season's top goal scorers in the Peruvian Second Division. But, how does he do it? It's not only about having very good muscular reflexes in the legs, or having them well-developed too. There are more playing factors.

That's why  we looked for this Lima-nativeParachique's Defensor La Bocana (Sechura, Peru)forward, who just turned 30 years old, who's 5 feet 9,7 inches, who's 163,1 pounds, and who's recently signed in Nueva Cajamarca, Peru's Unión Comercio first division soccer team, to share us his sport secrets and advising us about. Are you ready? Take note, apply it in your life.

1. enjoy the training:
It's true when Pedro  is preparing for his next match, there are some achieves and tasks to be gotten, those got to be gotten. But if he creates a stressing, agressive environment, the most probable is he feels the training as un uncomfortable duty instead of a nice duty. "It's important working joyful," he affirms. "Things get better that way."

Pedro never forgets the camaraderie  into a collective sport, like soccer, is crucial if he wants to get the best results. "I enhjoy with my team mates everyday, , trying to be a family," he says.

  
2 Care yourself:
what all sportman shows in public has to be muchly with decisions he takes privately, and for Pedro Bautista they start from two key decisions: "eating healthy, sleeping on time."

Regarding the first, he ever watches his diet to be correctly balanced according to the sport activity he does, or that he needs to correct for reaching the excellence.

The second is something that people uncare often: sleeping all the hours you need to sleep replaces energy and activates progressively the mechanisms for your body to assimilate what you eat, what you work out. If you keep awake overnight, don't wait for prime results. Remember it's suggested 8-10 hours of deep sleeping to reset you up and getting ready for the next day.

3. Think of the one you love much to:
It seems to be a vain romantic advice but it works  actually, and it works better than any booster. Thinking and get inspired of  the person you love much activates a set of hormones inside your body, like serotonines, those will keep you ever good-humored, and higly motivated  to give your best when you work out, or when you start to play on the field, or when you compete on the stage, or show up what you are made of.

It's better to be focused on the everlasting affection, not short. In Pedro's case, that inspiring love is his son's: "The greatest motivation is my baby and it's who leads me to be a better pro everyday."

And remember - there's ever somebody loving you and loving you good. Give yourself the time to meet that person, to enjoy, to learn sharing the quality of every moment, and to turn that energy in your own motivation.

4. Don't believe you're perfect:
A sin we all use to commit is arrogance, more if you're a sportsman, much more if you're a successful sportsman.

Look! One thing is having self-steeme, another one is boasting. The first one ever means I have pretty clear the concept that I have about myself independently what the others think about me. The second one ever means overacting  my possitive qualities as much as I'm not humble to recognize I also have a bad or awful side either (what I have anyway).

"Everyone never ends  to learn in lifetime and I'm ever ready to learn everyday from my partners or coaches," Pedro repeats.

Ever remember that balance in your life is important, especially when it's about self-ranking and self-demanding.

5. Make a goal  is passing straight to the net:
This tip is 100%  created originally by Pedro and consists in figuring out that the net  of the goalkeeping is another of your team mates who you have to pass the ball straight anyway.

Pedro says he uses it as a psychological self-motivation and it ever works him for scoring a goal (did we mention he's one of the best goal scorers of his league?). "Thinking that way I take out the stress when I stay facing the goalkeeping," he trusts us. "Everything's much easy."

Indeed, poor opposite goalkeeper... but, the soccer is so, isn't it?

6. Stay ripping your body after the workout session:
If you're a top-profile sportsman and your physical assets seem to be in full capability, ever remember not all is perfect because human beings are not totally perfect. Pedro knows it very well: "I try to strenghten  [my body] giving it an extra, and beef up what I lack."

So, once your usual workout session ends, don't miss to give some additional minutes to verify and correct those parts or performance that is below the expected.

Of course, don't fall in vigorexia neither. Talk to your trainer or coach about and define  what to do right there where it's really necessary.

7. Live happy doing what you love to do:
Yeah, it looks like a manthra, and actually it is. Nobody reaches the excellence on the field... if dislikes to do what does! In other words, imagine to do the things you don't like to do - would not be a long, slow suicide?

"I'm very happy because I work in that I love, what's playing soccer," Pedro remembers.  "All the people doing the things they love to have a good performance in what they do," he adds.

Remember that it's not the same accomplishing a uncomforting duty for you than acomplishing a kindly, satisfaying duty for you. Nobody won't tell you how to make a difference if you  don't know yourself, don't be exigent to yourself,  don't test yourself, don't be conscius about the talent you've got.

And when is the best moment to start? Well, right now!

Who do you wanna look like?

They're on the magazines or the web, on your mind, or just on your mirror - what's better?

By ChulucanasGym

When you begin to train into a discipline, as bodybuilding or fitness to have an example, is unavoidable we look for a reflex or a referent turning in our sport achievement's goal.

"I'd look like..." is an usual answer among rookies, who usually become researching the life of those referents in many cases, as much as they turn that wish for real.

Is this a possitive attitude? It depends, so let's analyse the three possible scenarios about referents: models, archetypes or self-lovers.

The models, by definition, are all referents who became to achieve as much as their names and images are strongly linked and placed into the discipline we practice. Many times, they are part of a fashion vogue, so the model who was the masses idolatry 40 years ago probably has been replaced by a another one as each decade or each time range has passed on.

The possitive: As assummed as a mentor, someone which good example is good to imitate in other words.
The negative: Believing that everything working for that one will work for me too, when the first we have to have in mind is any organism is similar to another one, even having a strong genetic influence.

The archetypes are the possitive ideas we have about someone or something, adding a set of specific or very specific characteristics about we consider as perfect. They don't ask about a brand necessarily but our own aknowledgement and what is reflected in designing our own idealization.  Said another way, it's like having a model with a body but without a face in special, a name in particular neither.  It's not a "I'd like to be..." but "I want to be...". In some cases, archetypers could look like some Dr. Frankenstein taking an arm here, a leg there, a torso beyond,  so conceiving the human body as a set of exchangeable pieces in extreme.

The possitive: There's not an obsession to follow someone punctual but it becomes an addition of everything for creating someone quite different, inexistent, but turning into our best goal.
The negative: our archetype exceeding so much our expectations that turns into an unreachable obsession as much as it creates a guilt or frustration feeling.

The self-lovers don't see anybody else, think of an ideal neither, only go ahead as much as they can  and their actual achievement is their partial or final goal, indeed. It's hard to assure if this is  a symptom of much vanity, much self-esteem, or a rare hybrid of both, but they are not paying attention  about anyone nor anything as a referent.  They are their own model and archetype as well.

The possitive: It's possible they're more realistic when setting a goal not falling into the obsessive compulsion of being like somebody else.
The negative: They could fall easily into conformism as much as they don't set goals neither, only training for what comes on.

The advice for trainers and trainees is having the time to talk personally about their each one's sport tasks. The trainer must be much careful about not creating a profile who gets easily obsessed, frustrated, guilty or comformist. The trainee has to have in mind that training  must have two aspects: discipline and amusement. If your sport activity is another  cause of stress, then it is not becoming a healthy lifestyle.

Learning about myself knowing what my advantages and limitations are, knowing  to work them in my favor could be the starting point for everything. Then, choosing a model, designing an archetype or being a self-lover will be a very personal decision based upon reason instead of emotion.

It’s time to set you up goals now

You already got engaged to the training, everything suggests you don’t want to leave it – what it comes up next?

 

Did the big ones of the bodybuilding & fitness begin being big? Not, they didn’t, definetely. Although there’s no general rule, the most probable is they have begun like wondering, that they have became fond of it when they saw the first results furtherly, and that has made him enthusiastic for going to climb more and more.

 

Maybe someones decided to go upgrade, they started to compete professionally achieving local, then national, then international titles. At this point, it’s important to say such as achievement were not a gambling result but a strategic planning which steps were accomplished little by little. That’s called achieving goals.

 

If you just entered the training, you maybe don’t see it so clear. If you have certain time, you could consider it as a possibility. But if you feel you have reached atop, it’s probable you feel everything begins to become routine, no much expectation. And if you get boring, the most probable is you end to leave it.

 

You need a strategy

The best way to avoid a desertion in short or medium term is set you up goals or progressive and logical arrival points along the time those mean not only physical development but keepers of the wellbeing sensation you have achieved at a first time.

 

If we have an arrival point, we logically have a starting point, and that is your actual status:  what your actual body measures, what the diet you follow is, what your lifestyle is right now, even your health condition. Anyway, basis information upon a plan can be built. The requirement is this data to be the most honest as you can.

 

From this basis information, begin the process to set up progressive goals at short-term, medium-term, and long-term. If you have the enough experience by training, take the all necessary time to think and write this plan. If you don’t have that experience, sit down with your trainer alone, begin to outline all. If you don’t trust in your trainer, we leave you our contact later.

 

But setting up goals is not enough. To reach them, you have to get a set of sequential tasks those take you closer time by time – the training strategy. What routine you will do the first month, what routine you will do the next month, and the next, and so until you reach your goal into a right time.

 

And around the routine to work you out, what diet you must follow up, what things you must adjust in your lifestyle, and what health indicators you must have in mind. It sounds boring, but when somebody begins to know his body better, this turns a fascinating job. See it that way.

 

When you get to your first goal, analize what worked to you and what not, what you must strengthen and what you must correct, take your measures again, check the diet, verify your lifestyle, monitor your life condition. If all this give positive results, award yourself and begin to work for the next goal. If you don’t get it, continue fighting and don’t give up.

 

More practical actions

Although the trainer, if you have one, is the prepared person to guide you in the process, we also advice you have a physical and emotional support that allow you to talk, motivate, not to give up. It can be a training partner, your best friend, a relative, somebody you ever can run to.

 

About this point, as we ever insist, it’s not recommendable to follow the strategy of other person and apply it like it were yours because two organisms, even being the same kin, don’t react the same.

 

Ever do the exercise of seeing yourself in the mirror alone and appreciate these little or big changes you go experiencing and assuming them like your achievements. You by yourself Will go telling us what it feels when passing through that experience. Later, we’ll  leave you the ways to contact us.

 

And, finally, it Will be ever days which we are highly enthusiastic and others we don’t have  motivation to do something. There’s no much problem of the first ones. With the second ones, the challenge precisely consists to overcome the discouragement and begin the training. If you let to defeat by him, even a bit, it will go gaining land little by little and it will go defeating you. And remember – you already got engaged, it’s time to go beyond now.

 

You can send us your questions or comment us your achievement and wondering by writing us on our Twitter account or at our e-mail chulucanasgym@gmail.com

The photographs featured in this entry have been taken from bodybuilder César Quispe’s Facebook account. 

From hobby to local title

How did Mister Sullana 2016 get the triumph?

By ChulucanasGym. Photos by Javier Velasco for El Regional de Piura.

How many years can you take since you decide working out consciousnessly until you get a significant goal? Kevin ericson Cano took nine years since the moment he came into the gymwhen he just was 15.

“Then I was 65 kg, I was too thin,” he remembers. “A friend paid me the class and the trainer said I could be bigger.”

In the beginning, Kevin wasn’t so serious about it, just having it as a hobby. But when he saw how his body muscled, he changed his mind.

“This is my passion today,” he states. “This is what I like.”

- What’s your attitude today?

- Demanding myself more everyday to have my muscles bigger.

- How do you get motivated?

- Training everyday and seeing results, this is a healthy sport because it implies discipline.

Kevin says he consumes supplements as part of his plan, inclusive he sells them for fundraising his training and feeding.

“Supplements give proteins because the diet alone couldn’t supply yet, also the muscles need supplements,” he explains. “Otherwise said, vitamins for recuperation and growing around.”

Today, Kevin is 24 years old, 170 cm height, 85 kg, according to his official record. Coming himself over was not easy - he had his times of doubt but he realised everytime he failed, he had to bring himself up.

“But it only costed me in the beginning, now it’s a lifestyle,” he says.

- What was the hard part?

- The hardest was the diet living in Peruvian Northern. Imagine dismissing to eat tasty food because they don’t supply the nutrients what the body needs, in the other hand, the daily working out, not drinking alcohol, not being awake overnight wwas not difficult to me.

- Do you live expectant of the weighing machine?

- I’m not obsessed about counting calories neither but I do care my regular feeding.

On November 5^th, 2016, nine years of training and caring had their first significant goal: Kevin had been declared Mister Sullana’s absolute champion. The next one will be to participate in Mister Piura, scheduled for March 2017.

“My goal is becoming Mister Peru but I have to invest more in diet and working out more,” he assures.

For the moment, the inmediate is fundraising.

“I get funds by giving classes at Cuerpo en Línea Gym where I’m the trainer, plus the gains by selling supplements.” In that sense, Kevin is in contact to a related firm but the things are not so sure. Actually he estimates he will have to double the investing for the national championship than today’s.

Meanwhile, he tries not to miss discipline in his daily life.

“I wake up at 5in the morning, I work at the gym until 1 in the afternoon, I rest until 3 and get back to work until 10 at night, then I sleep.”

He doesn’t’ lose attitude neither.

“Practicing sports keeps me healthy, makes me happy, because I feel agreed for my results,” he points out.

Post-produced by Sheyla Benavente.

The Importance of Celebrating Achievements Over Time for a Bodybuilder

In the world of bodybuilding, every stage of physical transformation represents a challenge that demands dedication, discipline, and patience. From long hours in the gym to careful nutrition planning, bodybuilders put in a tremendous amount of effort to sculpt their bodies.

 

However, amid this focus on continuous progress, a fundamental aspect of the journey is often overlooked: celebrating achievements along the way.

 

Acknowledging Progress

Bodybuilding isn’t just about the final goal; it’s a journey made up of small victories. Every increase in strength, every visible change in musculature, and every improvement in technique are accomplishments that deserve recognition. Celebrating these milestones is a way to stay motivated and remember that success doesn’t happen overnight but through consistency.

 

Acknowledging personal progress also helps maintain a positive mindset. In a sport as competitive and demanding as bodybuilding, it’s easy to fall into the trap of excessive self-criticism. Valuing the achievements made strengthens self-esteem and provides a more balanced perspective on physical development.

 

Reinforcing Motivation

Motivation is a key factor in the success of any bodybuilder, and celebrating achievements, both big and small, can be a powerful motivational booster. When a goal is celebrated, the brain releases dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with pleasure and reward. This release not only generates a feeling of satisfaction but also encourages continued work toward the next goal.

 

Moreover, these celebrations foster a mindset of continuous progress, where each achievement opens the door to new possibilities and challenges. This helps maintain long-term energy and enthusiasm, essential factors in a sport where perseverance is key.

 

Setting New Goals

Each celebration of an achievement is also an opportunity to reflect on the journey so far and to set new goals. A bodybuilder who takes time to celebrate their achievements is also better prepared to define the next steps in their evolution. This process of reflection and planning is crucial for sustained growth in the sport, allowing each victory to become the foundation for future success.

 

Creating a Healthy Balance

Bodybuilding, like any other high-performance sport, can be mentally and physically demanding. The pressure to constantly improve can create stress, which could affect both mental health and physical performance. Celebrating achievements helps maintain a healthy balance between the ambition to reach new goals and the need to enjoy the present.

 

Taking time to celebrate doesn’t mean stopping progress but rather acknowledging the effort made and enjoying the journey. This balance between hard work and reward is crucial to avoiding burnout and maintaining a positive attitude over time.

 

In summary, celebrating achievements over time is an essential part of a bodybuilder’s journey. It not only reinforces motivation and helps maintain a positive mindset but also provides the necessary balance for sustainable development. By valuing every milestone reached, bodybuilders can keep their momentum, enjoy their accomplishments, and continue moving toward their goals with greater enthusiasm and determination.

 

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