As I stated here recently I’m not lifting at the moment. I haven’t in about 2.5 months. I am focusing on losing bodyfat and its working, I’m down to 16.4% now. I’m eating less, not drinking booze, and doing cardio. I’m seeing results, but as most of you know, fat loss while a great goal, outright sucks. You’re always hungry. You’re not getting a pump and your general mood is shitty most of the time. Sure, a sacrifice to be made to reach a goal, but one can dig through the articles on this site to see why the whole core of this site was to get joocy.
That said, I decided to test out the new program I’m working on. I did it this week, each day having 18 different lifts. It was hard, I am much weaker than I was and it really kicked my ass physically. Then I remembered something WB and I would talk about all the time; the mental gains you get. Countless mornings we’d we lifting, shooting the shit on the gram and we’d say some shit like “Who knew moving 27000lbs of iron total would be the best part of your day?”
My mood was so much better this week inside and outside of the gym. I felt accomplished. I felt like me again. The old meme of when you start lifting is the day you are forever small is true. Once you start this shit, you can stop, you can be a lazy fuck, but it eats away at you. Wasting time is probably the worst thing we can do. I remember reading in one of Arnold’s books when he was training for the Olympia that he was speaking to an older guy who was killing it in the gym still. Long story short, Arnold asked him why he trained so hard if he wasn’t going to compete to which the guy replied “I still compete, just now I compete with that” and pointed to a clock on the wall.
What I’m trying to get at here is that making yourself jacked is one piece of the puzzle. I am working hard at the moment, and I’m making progress, but being a cardio junkie is not for me. I cant be that guy who just runs of the treadmill every day. If that’s your bag, then do you, but I personally get a mental high from lifting. I can recall countless nights before starting the WB season where I was so hyped I couldnt sleep. This shit is such a part of me, and I hope you fuckers feel the same. I cant speak for all of you, but I know things are different now. I’m not going to waste anymore time and I hope all of you join in when we start lifting again in Sept. The physical and mental gains we’re going to accomplish are going to be insane.