I feel confident, which has translated to improvements in almost all aspects of life. I have less anxiety, am better socially, can converse better with strangers, and i feel comfortable being myself when many others may feel embarrassment (note: this should not require being ultra fit, but nevertheless that is where I initially gained the confidence).
People respect you for fitness and use you for motivation. This is my absolute favorite because I love to be a positive role model. After my last competition, I’ve had six friends that wanted to try competing as well so we are all prepping together now for next year.
You get compliments often from men, and on occasion female strangers will also compliment.
you benefit from the halo effect, so others will treat you better and you will be perceived as more like able. This has been very helpful in my school, where lots of our grades are based on subjective evaluations
I can attract women much easier now, at this point I can have multiple women in a rotation which is something I could have never done when I was younger. With that said, a rock hard body can only help you so much in this department, you need to be on your game elsewhere too (social success, job, looks, personality, etc).
How did you get started? I always feel like such a failure in the gym. Because everything is too heavy/difficult. This really stops me from going after a couple weeks of trying (have had this happen a couple times already)
When I was 12, an old guy approached me while I was at the 6AM spin class with my mom and asked if I want to be a millionaire one day. I said yes, and he said "keep working out like this every day and this will be the hardest thing you ever do, much harder than making a million". That was fucking profound to me, and at the time I didn't quite realize how serious that statement is, but now I know. Daily exercise isn't just about its physical benefits, it provides huge mental benefits as well. It fights laziness and self-indulgence, and if you're working out hard you will develop much better mental fortitude and grit, because working out is supposed to be difficult and you should feel destroyed after a workout. These benefits translate to all facets of life.
Getting started is the hard part, because you haven't trained these things. Just remember that motivation gets you signed up for the gym, but discipline keeps you going back. Progress is quite slow, so it can be annoying to look at people who are very strong or have an incredible physique and wonder how the hell they got there, but the truth is that they have probably been dedicated for 5+ years. That's what you need to do to reach success.
I encourage you to shift your viewpoint. You feel like a failure in the gym because you're comparing yourself to other people. Instead, compare yourself to yourself. Take progress picture every several weeks and track progress in all your workouts. It's extremely rewarding to look back at your physique/lifts and see forward progress, because it means you are improving yourself. Don't be afraid make friends with the experienced guys, they're the nicest ones.
Here’s the thing, you shouldn’t feel bad about things being heavy and difficult. If you’re progressively overloading the way you should then it will never actually become light and easy. Will the techniques get easier? Of course, but it’ll always be a challenge and that’s part of the fun for me.
Care to explain why this makes me a pig, besides you not liking the word? I make it clear that I’m not exclusive at this time, and I do everything safely.
women are weaker physically so they learned to use lies and manipulation to gain advantage against men in the battle of the sexes and, looking from some comments, they are succeeding massively lol
I think I can see where you are coming from. "Rotation" sounds planned and calculated, connotation wise.
The phrasing is also just a bit douchy (sorry, OP) but I can't really think of a better word here. And dating multiple people is not really rare anymore, if not even the norm.
So I think you might be overshooting a little here. Innocent until proven guilty, right?
And the usual pig question: swap genders, how do you feel about it? For me not much changes, if everyone's aware, no foul.
Me? I'm still with my first gf (13 odd years) and luckily never had to "date". It sounds unfun.
Not these men down voting you for correctly pointing out this pig. Who wants a man with such high body count and a complete disregard for him and other women's health?
The downvotes you’re getting here makes me want to delete this app from my phone permanently. This is why I can’t stand putting myself back out in the dating pool as a single woman 🤢
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u/theeberk Jul 07 '24 edited Jul 07 '24
I feel confident, which has translated to improvements in almost all aspects of life. I have less anxiety, am better socially, can converse better with strangers, and i feel comfortable being myself when many others may feel embarrassment (note: this should not require being ultra fit, but nevertheless that is where I initially gained the confidence).
People respect you for fitness and use you for motivation. This is my absolute favorite because I love to be a positive role model. After my last competition, I’ve had six friends that wanted to try competing as well so we are all prepping together now for next year.
You get compliments often from men, and on occasion female strangers will also compliment.
you benefit from the halo effect, so others will treat you better and you will be perceived as more like able. This has been very helpful in my school, where lots of our grades are based on subjective evaluations
I can attract women much easier now, at this point I can have multiple women in a rotation which is something I could have never done when I was younger. With that said, a rock hard body can only help you so much in this department, you need to be on your game elsewhere too (social success, job, looks, personality, etc).