After receiving many compliments throughout the day on my Tmuscle shirt (red), I wore it in the gym and had one of the best days lifting I’ve had in years. All of the females kept checkin me out and I felt like was like I was under a microscope (which was fine by me).
When I saw the dude next to me had another Team shirt on, I felt obligated to bury him right there. That was all I was really focusing on b/c he was about 20-30 lbs bigger than me and I’m 3 months out of surgery (labrum). I wasn’t sure if it was possible.
Anyway, I crushed em and I’m still amazed the amount of weight I moved. I had Anaconda flowing through me, but I credit the shirt for the W.
I was so happy I skipped the shower and wore it home drenched in sweat.
Honestly, as weird as it might sound, I always hit higher rep ranges when people are watching or I know that there are hot girls looking over my way. It functions as a weird form of motivation for me.
Lot of truth to the psychological effects of our surroundings on our athletic performance. As silly as it sounds, your training attire will have an effect. I’m certainly not the ‘look at me!’ type, but when I’m training and I can see the muscles all engorged with veins popping in the mirror, I dig a little deeper, usually trying to push myself further away from the herd.
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
Lot of truth to the psychological effects of our surroundings on our athletic performance. As silly as it sounds, your training attire will have an effect. I’m certainly not the ‘look at me!’ type, but when I’m training and I can see the muscles all engorged with veins popping in the mirror, I dig a little deeper, usually trying to push myself further away from the herd.
My clothing definitely affects my performance. When I’m doing an arm day I have to wear a wifebeater, for some reason if I’m wearing a tshirt and don’t see my bi’s and tri’s “working” it just doesn’t feel like I’m hitting em hard enough. But throw a tank top on and I get all motivated watching the veins bulge and my arms flexing covered in sweat, I begin to push myself harder.
The weird thing is on squat days I prefer to wear a loose T or sweater. For some reason I feel like for legs I just need to focus on the lift and PUSH! Take all the mirrors and Bullshit away and leave me alone to my squat rack.
[quote]milktruck wrote:
I love that this is in the Sups ad Nutrition forum[/quote]
Specifically, a supplement is defined as a component that is added to complete a task, make up for a deficiency, or extend or strengthen the whole, thus clothing and apparel clearly qualifies in the case of lifting and strength training. The fact that one can experience a mental boost from his or her appearance (as defined by their clothing) only further underscores this point.
[quote]Htowner wrote:
I demand an apparel forum where muscly men can talk about their shoe collections, tight shirts, and exotic underwear…[/quote]
On the tight shirts point, I also demand a thread over the outrage that Baby Gap refuses to let me try on clothes and often gives me weird looks when I ask. They are very ageist there, please boycott Baby Gap for your tight shirt shopping.
[quote]milktruck wrote:
I love that this is in the Sups ad Nutrition forum[/quote]
Specifically, a supplement is defined as a component that is added to complete a task, make up for a deficiency, or extend or strengthen the whole, thus clothing and apparel clearly qualifies in the case of lifting and strength training. The fact that one can experience a mental boost from his or her appearance (as defined by their clothing) only further underscores this point.[/quote]
Yeah, I mean its pretty cool that this is implied in this thread. I think the internet made my comment come off as more condescending than it should have. But now I sound like a bckpedaling vag…
