I usually put my shakes in old 600ml coke or pepsi bottles simply because it’s handy, and all I ever hear is… “Man, I think your coke’s off…” Me, “Hahaha! You know something, I’ve never heard that one before…”
Good call, Jeremy. I know that when I tell others that I want to compete as a bodybuilder down the road, they ask why I would possibly want to look like “that.” I can’t only assume that they have the common stereotypes of the Mr. Olympia entrants in their minds. They don’t seem to make the correlation that I wouldn’t look like “that” unless I was genetically superhuman and on the juice. Even those guys only look like “that” a few weeks out of the year. The rest of the time, they’re 40-50 lbs. heavier, and look more like Santa Claus than a bodybuilder. The only time I might even come close to looking like “that” (albeit on a smaller scale) is around contests or in my dreams. Nonetheless, the stereotype remains in spite of the fact that you point these things out to them. And, eventually, you get sick of repeating yourself and just say, “Yeah, I wanna look like that.” Meanwhile, with their beer bellies hanging over their belts so far that they can’t even see their twig and berries (let alone touch their toes), you just want to ask, “You want to look like that?”
i think it’s simply a matter of priorities. some people put more of their energy into other things. those that do work out see it as something to do that at the very least promotes a positive outcome. it’s not necessarily that they lack what it takes to get it done.
personally i have no ambition or desire to grow and maintain the best looking lawn on my block, but the pudgeball of a guy next door has taken his lawn to another level entirely. he is the t-man of lawn care and prolly wonders why people don’t take more pride in how manicured their lawns are. he obviously knows what it means to invest enormous amounts time and energy into something he views as worthwhile. he is in a position where his physique has very little to do with his ability to reach his life’s “utopia”, so it receives much less attention. oddly enough he views the condition of his lawn as a more accurate reflection of himself than he does his own physique.
i see more value in taking care of one’s mind and body than i do in creating the world’s most beautifully trimmed lawn, but to each his own i suppose. kevo
well…my achellies? heel for training is diet, plain and simple.
when i overspend on good food (student) i make great progress in the gym in terms of strength and size, then the power/phone bills come and the food gets less and my results stagnate.
working out for me is the fun easy part, its making myself go to bed early/cook that meal etc etc thats hard for me
Might be kind of off-topic, but I succeed because I train for me - to look good in the mirror and to my wife, and to be able to live life to it’s fullest. At 45 I hang with people in their 20’s because the guys my age have bad joints, or big guts, or bad hearts. I can run up the stairs without puffing, sprint 40 yards about as fast as I did 20 years ago, workout for an hour with no problem. It’s all been worth every bead of sweat, every minute of work, because the quality of my life would just be unbearable without being able to do all I want to do.