BigJax21’s BodyBlog

So here it is, 4:22 am.  My day has finally slowed down, and im done for monday, even though its tuesday.  Sometimes i think they bog us college students down with too much to do in a few days.  I bust my ass in school, yet I had to stay on campus till 4 am today just to finish the homework due tomorow.  I have a full day tomorow starting at 830am.  Back to back classes till 2:05.  Work from 4:30 - 10:30pm unloading a semi full of all the stuff you see in bestbuy, including big televisions.  I have an exam on wednesday that Im not ready for but need to study for and thats what I will be doing the rest of the night.  When am i going to get to weightlift? I can get up in an hour and half and go to the gym, or I can skip tuesday.  Wow, what a great set of options, haha.

Some of you might be wondering why i write some blogs like this, Its not to complain, or just to vent, although i need to sometimes.  I just want others to know that a lot of us go through the same thing, and if you want it bad enough, you will make it work.  Thats what seperates the great from the lazy.

So its a lazy sunday for me, the first one in a long time.  This is the first time since probably about april that I have not had to work on a saturday or a sunday.  Pretty amazing, got to watch all the football games, the red sox beat cleveland, ect…  While sitting around though I started to feel just plain bad, I need some kind of physical activity.  So we were gonna practice tonight with the flag football team, but the fields were closed.

Wow, what a waste of a day i was thinking.  I ended up reading a lot of articles and buying a few things online.  Just in time I was able to justify being lazy today.  Not only is it sunday, a day of rest supposively, but without proper rest the body never truly gets a chance to recover from a demolishing workout .  I feel better, I can sleep tonight with no regrets, and after being rested go to the weightroom tomorow and tear it up.

Wow, so its almost 12, and I finally have a chance to wind down.  I was up early for an exam in my electrical engineering class, had classes till about 2, weightroom right after, then work from 5 till 10, by the time I took a shower, ate, and cleaned up my place a lil bit, its 12am.  It is very tough to stay motivated in these times, I am not sure sometimes how I get up in the morning and go again.  It is more then just getting up though, it is knowing you are about to face another day, to better yourself, to take a few steps today towards your goal that you have had your mind on.  This is a notion that keeps me going, I have a lot going on in my life right now, but these are all things I use to take steps in the right direction.  I know that God is watching over me and there is no reason for me to give in and give up.  Today I sat down for about 30 min before going to the weightroom and the though crossed my mind "man, it sure feels good to just sit down like my roomate gets to do all the time, just sit here and watch some T.V. (Willy wonka and the chocolate factory, classic) maybe I don’t need to go to the weightroom today, i mean I am going to work today, thats a workout right?" After the haze had settled I realized what i was thinking, I immediately grew sick to my stomach, how could I?  How could I possibly put lazieness ahead of progress?  I jumped up, grabbed my things, and did the damn thing.  An you know what?  looking back now at the end of my day, as i reflect on what happened and what I need to do tomorrow, I am glad I went.  Cuz its in those darkest of times, the times where we doubt ourselves, where we feel like we can not go on, where we want to give up, where a couch and being fat sounds better then the weight room, it is those times, that our true character shines through, and who we really are can be seen.  I am proud of who I am, are you?

Jax

So many of you are probably accomplished bodybuilders/weightlifters ect…Coming into my gym can sometimes be more of a red carpet affair then a hard training session.  Being that I go to school with a lot of the people i run into the weightroom people constantly recognize me.  Although this is cool outside the gym, when I am in the weightroom I am trying to maintain a focus that will bring me to working out the best I can.  I usually go to the gym with headphones and an Ipod just so people know I am not necessarily just headed to the gym for a social chat and some tea, but even then people will come tap me on the shoulder and want to ask me questions about my workout or talk about the football game (which we lost).  It becomes hard to let them know im trying to workout without coming off as a complete ass after it continually happens.  A lot of people come into the weight room and casually do there sets while engaging in conversation and laughing with other, and that’s all well and good, but you just hafta leave me out of it.  When I come to the weightroom I come for a reason, I have a goal, I am not coming to make friends, this is my time, my small window to a better me, my greatest moment in the day.  This is where I get to forget whats going on around me, the stress of the outside world, school, roomates, girls, all of it, i wash it away and I get to work.  So if your one of those people please, I am not mean just lemme do my thing and get at me afterwards, and if your in my shoes, lets just let people know, I don’t care what you do in the weight room, just dont involve me in your nonsense.

Jax

So here I am.  Right now I am inbetween courses and have a 20 min. break.  It’s hard to stay on a healthy diet and motivated to work out when all I do is school work and work for best buy.  Today I will have about an hour inbetween classes and work where I am going to have to rush to the weightroom in hopes of staying on track.  Unfortunately this is not going to be half the workout I would like it to be, but it will be very intense.  My buddies ask me why I still go to the weightroom when I clearly do not have any time in the day for just relaxing.  What can I say, it is a big part of my life and I would rather hit the weights then be caught sitting around the apartment relaxing for an hour inbetween classes or work.

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