BigJax21’s BodyBlog

Hey guys, its been awhile since my last post, but ive just been working my ass off, my bad.

So Id like to talk about something that keeps coming up in my life.  At work, not the gym, I have a manager, a middle aged man, probably about 40 or so who is just getting back into weightlifting and a healthy lifestyle.   His physique is nothing to look at, probably pushing a good 230 at about 6 foot 3.  Arms if I had to guess 13-14, decent belly, no muscle in his build at all.  Now this is nothing, I dont care how big you are or your build, if you are concerned about your health and you are doing something about it, my hat comes off to you, you have my respect.

The thing about this guys is every time he comes up to me at work (while im lifting some televisions or moving fridges) he wants to talk about what to do in the weightroom.  This is annoying, he comes to me telling me I should be taking this vitamin, or lifting with this regiment.  He had the balls to tell me as I was leaving the store late "Your one of those guys in the weightroom who clanks the weights and moves it without control".  This almost made me cuss my manager out, he has never seen me lift, he has no idea what I do in the weightroom, he has no right to assume anything about the way I handle myself in there.  If my routine was to everyday carry a small chicken to the top of a hill and hit it with a bat, and thats how I got how big I am, then the hell if thats not right, because im big, because im strong and cut when im not bulking, he is small, and weak, he might struggle lifting paper.  I hate people that think they know the secret to weightlifting, this just pisses me off.  Every person has there own routine that works for them, because every body is different.

The truth of the matter is, there is no flashy amazing secret to getting big, or becoming strong.  No one likes to hear this, but the truth of the matter is that the only secret to becoming big, is hard work, hard work, and hard work.  Working through pain, and just doing it, not having a special machine on t.v. that chuck norris uses so he can roundkick people.  Dont ever tell someone how they should lift, I dont care what they are doing, if they have a physique that makes you look like a ragdoll, they must know something, they must be working there ass off.  Let them be, and get your ass in the weightroom and quit talking about it.

Jax

So this semester is starting to wind down, which means the exact opposite when you really think about it.  Teachers are starting to move faster through material, and tests are coming every week.  Assignments, Programs, Exams, Projects, Reports, everything and anything that you could possibly imagine is starting to be due.  Every student knows it, and a lot of students stress out about it.  What can I do?  How can I get through this?  This is impossible!  You might feel like this from time to time, I know I do.  Especially working a job on the side to pay for tuition and bills, life can became, well for lack of a better word, complicated.  Tonight I am studying for an exam I have in the morning, I decided to take a break to make it back to the blog cuz I havent made it on here in a while.  For those of you who follow along you might find a common theme, yeah, busy.  The point of all this isnt to just vent, but also to let other know that they arent the only ones out there stressed by a busy schedule.  Even though I am amazingly busy I still find a way to get into the weightroom and get a good workout in.  My weightroom partner is a student also, he sometimes can not make it at the same time as me, but we still go, do the same workout, then meet when we can to get back on track.  You can not let stress get you down, and beat you up.  I mean this is why we lift, we lift because we like a challenge, stress is trying to stop you.  We lift because we like the pain, the feeling of being alive, the feeling of being human, I get up in the morning and I look at my roomates and I know that what they are is not equal to me, they are lazy, I am a machine, school cannot cage this animal, work cannot contain this beast, stress cannot tame this lion.  I work hard, I earn what I am, I am no God, but I am no human, I am more then most, and less then no one.  Huge ego?  No, huge heart, while some sleep, we throw our bodies into a torture chamber, we are all that is true, we are all that is right, we work hard, We fight hard.

Stress?  Ha, What stress?