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2005/01/31, 11:43 AM
Eating
“Normals” eat when they are hungry. They eat whatever tastes good and/or is readily available. They often have a latte for breakfast, fast food for lunch and a traditional dinner. Many consider twinkies an essential food group. They are as lost at the supermarket as a powerlifter at a flower show. They consider a single daily generic multivitamin as proper supplementation. For the Normals, fad diets are a favorite pastime.
Bodybuilders plan and prepare food days ahead of time. Food is their fuel, their lifeblood… A simple means to a glorious end. They are riddled with guilt when they consume anything detrimental to their physiques. They look with scorn and disgust (and maybe a little envy) at the Normals scoffing down junk food like its going out of style. They eat three times for every one meal a normal person consumes. They eagerly anticipate trips to the supermarket and the supplement wholesaler. Bodybuilders handle pills and stir powders like a pharmacist and they shake enough protein to get a mean case of carpel tunnel syndrome.
Training
The Normals go to a spa to work out. Bodybuilders go to the gym to train. Normals talk in a clueless manner about losing weight, water depriving themselves into a twenty pound lighter version of themselves. They take aerobics, pilates and yoga. They spin and step and lift rubber-coated weights lying on giant inflated balls. Their outfits are color coordinated. Normals go to the gym to meet chicks and socialize and to most importantly see and be seen.
Bodybuilders see the gym as even more than a building with four walls-it is their battlefield. It is the place where they “train” in a similar mind set as that of a soldier. They lift heavy, archaic looking iron weights. They beat themselves into a pulp day in and day out, not simply to achieve a particular goal but just for the sake of surviving in order to return the next day for more. They are not to be spoken to when a training session has begun and if looked at are only to be gazed upon with awe from an advisable distance.
Recovery
The Normals sleep only when they are tired. Sleep to them is an unfortunate result of burning the candle at both ends. They drink a few on odd weeknights, party hard on Fridays and lose their minds on Saturdays. They drink as a hobby, filling free time with equal parts debauchery and dissipation. They fit in sleep and rest only when necessary to sustain life function.
Bodybuilders prioritize rest and recovery. Getting the necessary sleep is essential to the continuity of gains and is thus taken very seriously. Naps are fit in to the schedule whenever life permits. The daily gym warfare often leaves a bodybuilder battered and weary, seeking silence and respite. Partying is a rarity as is drinking-both of which cause the reemergence of the guilty conscience's ugly head and the eventual halt of progress. The bodybuilder does not lead a sheltered life, but realizes that the more his routine resembles that of a Normal, the more likely the same will soon be said about his physique.
As you can see, there is nothing normal about the bodybuilding lifestyle. Even down to the daily routine of his day, the bodybuilder is nothing less than exceptional; a study in focus, planning, discipline, adherence to a strategy and good old fashioned hard work. The bodybuilder has and will continue to benefit each day from the lessons learned along this solemn path. He is to be emulated by all those who seek to improve their lives and make more of themselves. He is the role model for dreamers. The bodybuilder gets the job done everyday and then demands more of himself the next. He constantly plans and pushes and in the end he prospers…
... And there ain't nothing normal about that.
(taken from AnimalPak.com)
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Michael
100% AMMONIA SNORTIN, ANGER MANAGEMENT CLASS FAILING, BIG IRON LOVIN, FACE SLAPPIN, HEAVY METAL LISTENIN, CHALK CLOUD MAKIN, GUM BLEEDIN, SCABBY-SHINNED, LEATHER PALMED, BLOOD-SHOT EYED, KNEE WRAP WEARIN, RIP IT UP OFF THE FLOOR, DO OR DIE TRYIN, FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION, BAR BENDIN POWERLIFTER. You got a problem with that?
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2005/01/31, 12:25 PM
I like it! Nice post.
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If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything....
bb1fit@freetrainers.com
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2005/01/31, 02:57 PM
Our Rev has returned. Thank you for the good post.
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Still trying to find out how to do the Hollywood Free Press.
Ivan
carivan@freetrainers.com
Montreal Canada
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2005/01/31, 03:04 PM
I like the post! I'm not sure where I fit, but I'm working on the BB side :)
It reminds me of the last few times of going to the gym - it seems there are always these groups of girls (and sometimes a couple fellows) that like to lay across (not use) the equipment in groves and laugh and chat and gossip, louder and louder the banter gets until I nearly go up and tell them it isn't romper room here. I take my time at the gym seriously, but when you can't get at the equipment because people are there to socialize it is discouraging. I once had to tap the owner on the shoulder as he and his buddies were talking football and no lifting for twenty minutes whatsoever and ask him to kindly move. For the life of me, though, I can't figure out why I feel stupid having to ask them to move, sometimes even just walking around or working a machine for the 10th time so I don't have to ask and they will just eventually use the machine or leave. It ties up the gym and I hardly have time the way it is and hate to waste any. Use it or move it, I guess! :) Sorry, just had to vent, I'm probably complaining because I don't have any friends to bull around with, lol!!
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Veda
MISERY IS OPTIONAL
***When you are up to your ears in trouble, try using the part that is not submerged.
***The difference between a dream and a goal is a plan.
HAVE A GREAT DAY!
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2005/01/31, 04:16 PM
Good post Rev8ball...A little reminder of why we do what we do...Thanks!
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2005/02/01, 08:20 AM
Gr8 post
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2005/02/03, 08:08 AM
Thank you Rev, this post has helped me keep my sanity.
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I agree with everything that Asimmer says.
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2005/02/10, 08:22 AM
I love those ads in magazines...nice post
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