OMG! I need to tell you all what happen this morning! Ok well as most of you know I woke up early this morning and talked myself into going to the gym. It’s been several months since I’ve been in the gym that early but I wanted to use my time wisely so I went. When I go to the gym I normally dress modest. Sometimes when I want to show off my hard work I’ll wear a tank top and boy shorts but that only happens once a month. Today is leg’s day so I made sure I had on some comfortable shorts and a short sleeve white shirt with a black halter top underneath. I walked into the gym around 7:30AM and it was like a new world. During the late mornings and noon time the pit usually have one or two guys in there lifting free weights but this morning it was full of big muscle heads. LOL!!!! Seriously, everyone lifting in the pit was HUGE! Muscles everywhere. I was in pure heaven. Now that Brian comes at a different time I’ve been lifting by myself for the last 3 weeks. I missed his motivation but low and behold I got the motivation I needed when I looked in the cardio section.
**background information**
Back in April the trainer I had (named John) would brag about this girl name Shelia who lost over 100 pounds and lifts heavy weights. Whenever I complained about not having a female bodybuilder to model after in this gym he would point to this chick and say “You should ask her to be your role model”. When he pointed her out to me I gave her body a full visual inspection. There wasn’t much about her that I was impressed with. She had a little definition in her arms and shoulders but that was about it. Her legs weren’t formed and she a several layers of fat over her stomach. I looked at her, frowned and said. “Are you kidding me? Why would I have her as a role model when I’ll have more muscles than her in 4 months?”
Of course John thought that was a very arrogant thing for me to say and maybe it was but it was the truth. If I’m gonna have a role model she has to be a woman who has muscle definition from her shoulders down to her calves and it would take me at least 5 - 7 years to reach her body image not 4 months. Anywho, Shelia is very good friends with John so it wasn’t a surprise to learn that John told her what I said. The next day Shelia approached me in the pit pissed off and without introducing herself she begins to give me her physical history for the past 5 years.
“You know I use to be obese and in 2003 I was 125 pounds over weight. I lost the weight in a year and in 2005 I got my personal trainer certification. Last year in 2006 I walked in a 23 mile marathon…….blah blah blah blahl blah…………….blah blah!”
So before she reached 2007 I interrupted her and said “And what the hell does this have to do with me?”
“John told me that you said that you would get a better body than me in 4 months. I’m here to tell you that you’re delusional.”
I gave her a wicked smile looked her up and down from head to toe and said “Watch me! Now be gone cuz I’m busy”.
She left mumbling some words under her breath while I finished my sets. For two month after that we would see each other in passing at the gym but wouldn’t speak to each other. She would walk around the gym wearing her tank tops showing off her soft defined arms. My arms weren’t defined at the time so the guys who lift free weights would look upon her as if she was Linda Murray or something. But for the last two months I didn’t see her around the gym anymore. She usually comes in the afternoons but for two month I didn’t see her at all. I assumed she was flaky and stopped coming to the gym all together.
BOY WAS I WRONG!
This morning when I looked in the cardio section guess who I saw on the elliptical machine? Yup! Sheila. I turned around quickly so she couldn’t see me smiling. I was so excited to see her and I realized that she changed schedules. Instead of coming in the afternoon, homegirl was coming early in the morning. So I went to the smith machine and started my squats. After that I started my hack squats. When I finished my hack squats she strolled in the pit with her famous white tank top. I stood up off the bench I was resting on and looked at her in disbelief! SHE LOOKED THE SAME AS WHEN I SAW HER IN APRIL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apparently she’s the HBIC in the pit during the mornings (head b*tch in charge) and all the guys thought her body was hard. I was a little sweaty from the hack squats and it was time to do lunges but my ego wanted to show off first. I looked in the mirror and thought to myself “Do it! Do it! Take off this big azz shirt and show these people you mean business. Come on girl! You told her you would have a better body than hers in 4 months. Dammit it’s 4 months so show her what you got!” COME ON SHOW HER WHAT YOU GOT!!!!”
So without giving it a second thought I listened to my ego and took off my white T shirt exposing my upper body underneath my black halter top. Suddenly all eyes were on me including Shelia’s. Now the humble part of me would have grabbed the weight bar, put it on my shoulders and started to my lunges but noooooooooooo! What did I do? Well I walked right up to Shelia, stood beside her, looked into the mirror in front of us and said “See! I told you! Four months. That’s all I needed was fooooooooooour months”.
I gave her a wink and walked away to do my lunges. When I looked back into the pit she was gone. It looked like she had no interest in continuing her workout. LOL!!!!!!
Now I want to explain something before some of you jump to conclusion. I want you all to know that I don’t think my body is all that and I definitely don’t think I can meet the standards of a true female body builder right now. In due time I will but as of right now I’m still average and I have a lot further to go. This is the south and the gym I attend is all black. If anybody ever been to the south they will see for themselves that the people here love greasy fried foods more than working out. I’m not exaggerating but 80% of the members in my gym are overweight and that’s considered the norm here in the south. So it’s easy for me to walk up to a girl who considered to be the buffest chick in the gym and say “I’ll build better muscle than you in four months” and actually do it. Could I do or say something like that to the buffest girl in LA Fitness? No! Gold Gym? HELL NO! But in my gym it’s easy to say and do this because all the professional female bodybuilders left to join other gyms. It’s obvious that I have an ego but I’m also realistic in who I can out do and who I can’t out do in muscle definition. She was one of the few I knew I could beat and I did just what I said I would.
**places the HBIC crown on her head**
I felt so good about what happened that I really worked my legs hard! I worked them so hard that I had to take a 3 hour nap when I got home.
If I wake up early again tomorrow I’ll go in there again during the same time. Tomorrow is back and arms. Maybe this time I’ll wear a tank top instead of a big T-Shirt. It all depends upon my ego.
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LOL!!!
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