BigJax21’s BodyBlog

Yeah soo all you hear about when your in the weightroom is form this form that, hey your not doing it right, stop dude thats wrong.  Do us all a favor, if you are just starting out, have talked to someone about weightlifting and think you have a good idea, then see someone who is experienced and decide you should tell them they are doing it wrong… well you need to shut the **** up.  Theres reasons for overloading and giving up a lil bit of form for some mass gains.

A good example would be today is my leg day, I have done squats two different ways, sumo squats as we used to call em in my old powerlifting group, and standard.  I do both of these below parallel.  I can honestly say I get the lowest out of any of the people I see in the gym at my university.

Now when I see someone else doing twice the weight and only going down an eighth of the way I am (you know the lil knee bend that means you can do 550),  I dont say anything, I might smile a lil bit as he brags to everyone in the gym that he has the strongest legs, but I dont get onto him.

On the other side of that, When I am doing my low squats, and some guy who claims he can squat 525 tells me I shouldnt squat like that because Im going to break my legs I get angry.  Luckily after I finished working out and completed all my sets he jumped on the rack.  Put on 315 with a bench underneath him.  Took it off, sat down, and then he and the guy spotting him couldnt get it up, I had to help.  Thats the guy who can do 525 and thinks I dont know what im doing.

If your that guy, please, shut the **** up, actually, better yet, just dont talk to me, i dont like you, i dont want to know you, yes I look better than you, no your not stronger, go talk to someone else.

Jax

New years resolutions.  Hooray.  Kind of a way of saying, Hey, I havent done a damn thing about the way im out of shape, I should start now because the last number in the year changed by +1.  This is the worst time of the year for someone who is serious about weightlifting.  This is the time when everybody comes in, every out of shape patsy who thinks they can change.  If I had to guess the percentage of these people that continue to lift after the first month Id say about 3%.  Thats because about three percent arent in there because its a new year, 3% are in there because they actually decided to change.  Of course this number has a percent error of +- 3%.  More likely minus.  Those of us who dedicate ourselves to the gym, get annoyed, and laugh about it, the usual comments, "That guy isnt going to make it 2 weeks."  So on and so forth.

I may come off as a narcasistic *******, but the truth is I love it when someone drums it into their soul that they need to make a change and are willing to make the sacrifices necessary.  I just dont believe in doing it for a calendar year.

If you hope to change, take the steps towards that gate, but to get there you have to cross through a sea of doubt, over a mountain of pain, passing all temptation, never letting the sully tones of those caught up in these obsticales pull you from your course, pulling every grain of your being to the very thing it hates, to see those gates, with your dedication, and pass into a different mindset, into your change.

So if your reading this and you look at my pictures you will see that I go from less defined in the winter to slimmer and ripped in the summer.  Well summer is over for me, and I have already started packing the muscle back on.  I hate the feeling i get over the summer of being small.  Although my friends reassure me I am still huge I feel tiny.  I will be posting pics soon of me now as I have started to lose definition but gain size back and strength.  Before you know it Ill be back to being called a meat head, and girls asking if they can punch me in the stomach.  Which i never understood.  Yes i have abs, but no it doesnt feel good when you punch them as hard as you can no matter how weak you are. 

Well its the middle of the summer, and if you read my previous posts you know that I am out of school and trying to stay motivated.  I have been hitting it pretty hard, but not the best I could.  My body is tired, my veins are busting, and my brain is trying to nap.  I have enough money to afford food again, so my weight has gone back up and Im approaching 200 again.  Sometimes you just gotta stay in there.  Its not easy, when you could just take an hour and a half nap instead of going to the weightroom pushing weight and maybe running.  But we all have it in us, thats why your reading this.  Thats why Im writing this.  Because we are more than your average human, we are above all expectations.  Our friends don’t understand why we go to the weightroom 5 days a week, why we drink so much water, why we try to not eat greased out food, why sometimes we just have to go to bed so we can be worth something tomorrow.  It’s always going to be a struggle.  If it wasn’t than it wouldnt be worth it.  This is why I have people ask me every day "how do i look like you?" and I laugh and say "never quit".  Few understand, some try, most quit.  So hang in there guys, go today, tomorrow, every day cept your rest days, stay continuous, prove to yourself what you really are.  I guarantee you’ll feel like you accomplished something and you’ll get high off that feeling.  Go get em…

Wow, so its been a long time since I last wrote a blog.  For anyone who has read my other blogs I got caught up in the end of school and trying to get an internship for the summer.  I’ve been busting my ass and have lost a lot of weight due to lack of food because of lack of money.  It hurts being someone who truly cares about their diet and knowing you can only afford Top Raemen noodles for every meal.

Although I have been busy I have still found the time for the weightroom.  Even though I am in there I would consider my efforts lackluster to be kind.  There is a light at the end of the tunnel though.  I am finally out of school for the summer and dont have to think about my double major in engineering again until the fall.  I have time to work now so my paychecks are increasing and I just made a move to another department in best buy that we all know so well.  Picture this, a big guy who lifts all the time, people call him nicknames like superman, rambo, and G.I.  This guy goes from working in the warehouse and moving televisions to working at Geek Squad and working on peoples computers.  Ha now thats a transition.

Back to the weights though, I decided I need to really dedicate myself again, I never miss a day, but what I mean is get myself motivated.  I went through and revamped my lifting music.  I got my protein shakes in order.  And I started tanning so when i looked at myself in the mirror I wouldnt go blind.

I hit the weightroom last night around 11pm and had one of the better back workouts of my life.  The motivation for a great body is always there.  Even when you have achieved a good look you can never be satisfied.  I am always hungry, always craving, and always left wanting.  I am the omega, with emphasis on mega.

I write this to let you guys know not to give in when you have lost that spark.  Cuz believe me, when you lift 5 times a week for about 8 years, your going to have the spark dimm a little bit.  Its going to flicker.  Your going to think you just need to go in there and maintain what you have. You can’t though, because if your like me there is something inside.  Something yearning for a better you, something that fights to preserve the very thing you love and hate… pain.  You will feel yourself throwing gas on the fire and lighting up a whole new flame.  Now get your ass in there and train, quit ****in around with all this "maintaining and i like where im at" bullshit and make something of yourself.  Cuz if your not trying to become something more.  you are something less.