Makes sense. The interesting thing is that the philosophical description of the event seems to coincide with the biological one in this case.
I broke my foot a few years ago when I walked into a dumbbell in the dark. It was keeping a door from blowing shut in the summertime and I hit it as I was getting up in the morning. I did it fairly gently, I don’t remember agonizing at all. Showered and got ready for work, then the next I noticed of it was itching and discomfort in the car driving the 45 minutes to work. A couple of hours later, it HURT, and when I looked found a foot that looked like yours, though a little more bruising up the two middle toes. Anyway, didn’t do anything about it because there’s nothing to be done about toes, then weeks later went to the doctor when it was still hurting and messing with my runs. Broken foot.
Sorry whatever it is (VOODOO) happened to you!
I’m going with… Broken blood vessel. Knots up, burns like hell, then sore for a couple of days.
But I don’t watch too tv shows. So it could be flesh eating bacteria.
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You got heel stomped by a ghost chick.
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But therein lies a valuable message! If you don’t want everyone to know, don’t tell anyone.
That being said, you were barely a teen and bro-fives > repercussions at that age so I understand.
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It still took me a while after that to learn that lesson haha.
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It took a while to learn it, but it’s clear as day, like the first time I ever woke up with an Earth-shattering hangover and immediately realized if I never drank again I could avoid it forever. I drank again. It happened again.
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Spokesperson: Lamar Odom
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It was the same for me but with pot. Took me three years to cut it off once and for all. I was ending up feeling bad more often than it’d end well.
But still, we tend to forget certain feelings as time goes on. The short term “I’m never doing this again” usually only lasts as long as you can remember how bad something feels.
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One of my classes, economics, the lecturer kept telling us not to worry about the end of year exam as he was going to look after us.
It gets to the last lecture and it’s exam revision. He tell us to be sure we can do all these questions. He then proceeds to go through the solution of each one, step by step.
In my mind, I am thinking that we’re going to get questions close to what is presented here.
Well, I was right and by close I mean exactly the same. It was an open book exam as well, so if you just brought that last week’s lecture and the notes you jotted down, you had the exam and answers with you in the exam.
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For this story, I choose to interpret dumbbell not as a residence training tool but as a descriptor of a person.
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Or Wilson’s
I ate an entire bag of grapes last night… never again…
On the bright side, deadlifts this morning felt amazing! I think the carbs helped
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Further proof that we’re paying for the piece of paper instead of actually learning.
I confess that every time I read something like this, or say it myself, I always stop for a second to think about how we gym goers are the only ones who could ever give birth to such oxymorons…
Like, how can someone keep a straight face while saying that an exercise FELT GOOD? We all know training feels everything but good. What a bunch of weirdos…
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I’ve been saying training feels awful for quite a while now, haha. I agree: you folks have issues.
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To be clear, I didn’t feel so great about 30min later 
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Haha well, I actually always feel better 30 minutes after I’m done rather than while I’m doing the sets… After you’re done, you’re exhausted but at least you know you don’t have more to do
I mean, I will confess that on the rare occasion deadlifts don’t feel horrible, just unpleasant. They never feel good though, I never finish a set and think, hey, I think I’ll keep going because this feels awesome.
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Maybe this is the theory of relativity at work. If you think of your last set of dead lifts vs your last true amrap set of dead lifts then maybe they do feel great. But compare them to a cold beer whilst grilling a t bone on the BBQ and they are all fkn awful !!
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