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SubjectiveIllusion
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*DISCLAIMER* - Rant
This is only my opinion and I can only go by my own experiences and circumstances.
Sometimes I want to cry (yes, men do cry!). I've made the mistake of taking weightlifting too far and now I'll be paying for it for the rest of my life.
I've done permanent damage to my back and hamstring tendon. I can't bend over to lift more then 20 lbs without my back giving out for days. I cannot run or for that matter go even for a very slow jog. My legs are screwed. Yeah, it sucks, and I'm 25 years, feeling like I'm going on 70. What happens when I'm 50 years old? Forget that question - it scares me. I still don't think its really sunk in that I'll never run or jog again or lift weights that are heavier then a 12 year old could lift. I've always believed that this was just a 'given' thing to be able to do and that the my body would do whatever it could to fix these problems and everythings all okay. Nope, this is reality.
I just didn't know when to stop. I got hung up on the whole 'pride' thing. I took most of my weightlifting habits to the extreme and the body can only take so much for so long. I think of the body as glass. You can get it dirty and wipe it clean, you can stain it, but once you break it, it'll never be the same again, and it seems to me like people only realise this once its happened.
My back hurts as I type now. Why did I do this to myself? All this for pride!!! Pride is an illusion. It only exists in the mind. It won't make you happy at all. Inner truth and love are the way to living a good life, not outward appearances.
Okay - * Dr. Phil has left the building * for all those who skipped by that speech.
I hear people talking about making the most drastic lifestyle changes to incorperate new techniques to becoming more (big, strong, aesthetically pleasing - pick one), and I think that they might not be achieving anything but more misery, but then again, this is only my view of how I felt.
Its kinda like a cycle where your never satisfied and never will be. You'll always wanna be bigger and better but there will eventually come a time when this has to end.
So I say to you "the day you let bodybuilding take away your happiness is the day you should consider giving it up!" because I wish I had someone to tell me to stop when I let things get out of hand.
Thats all.
This is only my opinion and I can only go by my own experiences and circumstances.
Sometimes I want to cry (yes, men do cry!). I've made the mistake of taking weightlifting too far and now I'll be paying for it for the rest of my life.
I've done permanent damage to my back and hamstring tendon. I can't bend over to lift more then 20 lbs without my back giving out for days. I cannot run or for that matter go even for a very slow jog. My legs are screwed. Yeah, it sucks, and I'm 25 years, feeling like I'm going on 70. What happens when I'm 50 years old? Forget that question - it scares me. I still don't think its really sunk in that I'll never run or jog again or lift weights that are heavier then a 12 year old could lift. I've always believed that this was just a 'given' thing to be able to do and that the my body would do whatever it could to fix these problems and everythings all okay. Nope, this is reality.
I just didn't know when to stop. I got hung up on the whole 'pride' thing. I took most of my weightlifting habits to the extreme and the body can only take so much for so long. I think of the body as glass. You can get it dirty and wipe it clean, you can stain it, but once you break it, it'll never be the same again, and it seems to me like people only realise this once its happened.
My back hurts as I type now. Why did I do this to myself? All this for pride!!! Pride is an illusion. It only exists in the mind. It won't make you happy at all. Inner truth and love are the way to living a good life, not outward appearances.
Okay - * Dr. Phil has left the building * for all those who skipped by that speech.
I hear people talking about making the most drastic lifestyle changes to incorperate new techniques to becoming more (big, strong, aesthetically pleasing - pick one), and I think that they might not be achieving anything but more misery, but then again, this is only my view of how I felt.
Its kinda like a cycle where your never satisfied and never will be. You'll always wanna be bigger and better but there will eventually come a time when this has to end.
So I say to you "the day you let bodybuilding take away your happiness is the day you should consider giving it up!" because I wish I had someone to tell me to stop when I let things get out of hand.
Thats all.
