I am still uncertain why I am so strongly attracted to this image; I constantly tab back to this picture.
Two expressionless, twenty-something Asian men packing heat crouching behind construction equipment, wary of an unseen threat beyond the picture.
There is nothing especially pecial about this, yet I am constantly drawn back to it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a person I’ll always find inspiring, and it’s not exactly because I might want to look like him, haha!
He had incredible self confidence and it never faltered.
It was so strong, it would infect everybody around him - he was basically arrogant! If he ever, ever thought within himself that he might not place or win, he never, ever showed it. You know what? He kept winning. He won and won until HE decided he’d had enough.
I hope everyone can pull a lesson from Arnie!
Remember, even if you don’t feel like the strongest person in the world, the fake it il you make it rule definitely applies here! Before you know it, you’ll be conquering the world too.
xoxo
Went extremely well today.
Deadlift increased from 225-> 250, I’m happy about this since my body proportions blows dick for deadlifts.
Bench Press increased from 170 -> 210, very happy about this.
All in all, Smolov Jr. was fairly amazing for me.
Smolov Jr. for both Bench and Deadlifts measurement results, before and after.
1/2/2012 1/24/2012
BW: 170.2 171.8
Chest- 37 4/8 38 4/8
Shoulder- 45 6/8 47 4/8
Biceps- R- 13 7/8 14 1/8
L- 13 6/8 14
Forearm-R- 11 1/8 11 2/8
Waist- 34 4/8 34 4/8
Dat Ass- 38 39
Thigh- R- 22 7/8 23.5
Calves R- 14 6/8 15
Analysis-
Shoulder measurement is most likely wrong for comparison, I keep getting widely varied measurements for my shoulders every time I measure.
Very surprised my waist didn’t get bigger, considering I was eating like a fat as fatass pig.
Pleased with the chest results. Not to pleased with thighs, may be getting too big.
Rest is solid.
Exact strength gains unknown, but strength gain is definite. Will be able to test in a few days.
Plan for the Short-Term-
Eat at maintainence/bulk for another week, then switch to body recomp with Lean Gains + RPT for 6-8 weeks.
Tell me about dat BBQ sauce.
6 eggs, half a green bell pepper, bbq sauce. Forever bulking.
12, 27, 36, 44, through http://www.fitbunney.com/
12. Mostly satisfied, slightly at unease, slight bit of irritation.
The mostly satisfied comes from having a solid day at the gym.
The slightly at unease comes from talking to me ex about hanging out in the near future, within a week or two. I haven’t seen her since July, after some really nasty drama. However, I think it’d be good for me to hang out with her, and we’re both over the drama. We were really close before as well, so it should be fine. However, I still have a small sense of unease.
The minor irritation comes from feeling uneasy, but that’s to be expected. It is also from how I’m spending my time on my two-week vacation, I’m not as being productive as I like to be, other than my gym endeavors.
27. There is absolutely no one from tumblr that I’d want to date right now, and for that matter, I have extremely little interest in dating in general. I have been on a few dates recently, but was not really feeling the desire to date at all. I just want to call the barbell my girlfriend, haha. <3
36. What’s on my mind constantly? I want a new job. Right now, I’m working three jobs, but I would like to drop my Bank of America job for something new entirely. I really want to find a job overseas as an English teacher, so I really need to finish my TEFL online certification course already. I want a new job in another, new place right now.
44. I like a date where we go out and do something entirely new and fun, like how I recently went on a date to a shooting range. It was my first time at a shooting range, so it was really fun! I crave adventure and fun, and an adventurous date with the perfect girl is great fun.
I applied and got 2 weeks paid vacation from my Bank of America Job, starting from 1/7/11-1/21/11 so I decided to start the year with a double Smolov Jr. routine for both deadlifts and bench press. My idea was to do the first week of Smolov Jr while working, and do the harder second and third weeks on my two week vacation.
I’m eating ALL the things! by eating six eggs a day and half-gallon of milk a day along with all the other things I eat and it’s making me seriously hate food. I just weighed myself in the mid-170’s, which means I’m the highest I’ve been since I was HAES in December ‘10/Jan ‘11, except this time I have a good deal more muscle and less fat.
I hate eating…fuark.
I’ve gained about 10-15 non-fat pounds of muscle in the last 3.5 months, which is pretty sweet, although my lift numbers still make me feel like a bitch ass pussy.
I must become stronger! More aesthetic!
“It was not just that he had terrible style: he also gave the impression that he was deliberately desecrating the very idea of wearing clothes.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
..this is why I hate New Year’s resolutions..
Are you one those people that have the same resolutions every year? Why? Stop talking or writing about doing it and just do it. There’s no better time to start than right now. Not tomorrow, not next week. Today.
Yes, it will be hard. No, it will not always be fun, but damnit you’re starting the process to bettering your life and accomplishing things that are important to you. Stop waiting and start doing.
It’s not an incapacity to cope with day to day living in the modern world. It’s an incapacity to function. At all. If you and your loved ones have been spared, every blessing to you. If depression has taken root in you or your loved ones, every blessing to you, too. No one chooses it. No one deserves it. It runs in families, it ruins families. You cannot imagine what it takes to feign normalcy, to show up to work, to make a dentist appointment, to pay bills, to walk your dog, to return library books on time, to keep enough toilet paper on hand, when you are exerting most of your capacity on trying not to kill yourself. Depression is real. Just because you’ve never had it doesn’t make it imaginary. Compassion is also real. And a depressed person may cling desperately to it until they are out of the woods and they may remember your compassion for the rest of their lives as a force greater than their depression. Have a heart. Judge not lest ye be judged.
As you can see, weightlifting makes me all masculine and bulky! :P /sarcasm
Criss is a true crisspiration. (:
Real fitspiration: taking pictures of myself in the gym without nice hair and make-up, and not clad only in a padded sports bra and boy shorts, and still feeling fierce.
I think my tumblr new year’s resolution will be to quit comparing myself to the stunning yet overly made-up girls that grace my dashboard, and to post more girls like myself. I covet and envy their ability to look so flawless even while exercising, but because I make terrible faces while exhaling doesn’t mean I’m any less worthwhile.
Now.. I just need to remember that. :P
you are such an inspiration! I love this.
Ahmygod, people are reblogging me lifting weights. My day has been made!
Oh look, a real woman lifting weights. And guess what — she doesn’t look manly; she looks awesome, fierce, beautiful, and like an inspiration.
This girl is my new hero!
:O
332 notes?! Day has been made again!
“You could say that young people were desired because they had smooth bodies and excellent reproductive chances, but you’d mostly be missing the point. There was something much sadder in it than that. Something like constant regret, the sense that your whole life was an error, a mistake, that you were desperate to redo.”
—Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
