I can say, in all honesty, psyching up means the difference between PR’s and bomb-outs. To psyche myself up, I listen to music before I lift.  I am not talking elevator music; I'm talking about "time to get crazy, violent state of mind" kind of music. I usually prefer to listen to heavy metal or hard rock, but I also listen to “Gangsta Rap” and country singers such as Hank Williams Jr. and David Allan Coe. Listening to music  gets me in the right frame of mind. However, with that said, I sometimes like to train in silence. It really comes down to personal preference and state of mind.

It is a must to visualize yourself completing your attempts days before the meet and between attempts at the actual meet. I think of myself like a time bomb – just ready to explode! I just say to myself, “EXPLODE, EXPLODE, EXPLODE”.  Powerlifting is not slow; it is an explosive sport.
It’s about EXPLOSION. THINK SPEED!!
While thinking all these thoughts and visualizing, I sniff ammonia prior to lifts. My favorite type of ammonia is Nose Tork. I take one last sniff, let out a grunt, and it’s time to have my way with some iron.

EXPLOSION!!

.."Powerlifting is an extreme sport. The mentally weak will have absolutely no success"..