Bodies of Inspiration!
I’m getting frustrated, overwhelmed and inspired all at once!
For the past few days, I’ve been navigating this BB.com and have been going all over the board. For every post, every profile I clicked, I’ve been directed to MORE jaw-dropping photos. I just turn green with envy and I look at myself in the mirror and think, GACK! WHY CAN’T I HAVE THOSE HUGE GUNS? BARNDOOR BACK? BROAD CHEST? ETC?!?!?
I’m so hungry for those muscles that I could eat Hola Bola’s shoulder cap, StillHungry’s big gun, SteveP78’s lean abs or any of those guys who I added to my list just to get at THEIR MUSCLES! Fortunately for them, I’m not some protein-starved, crazy-ass werewolf about to hunt them down to gnaw on a muscled thigh. (Although this would be a great script for CSI:Miami!)
I have to tell you, I am EXTREMELY impatient with time and / or progress. I once took an oil painting class in college and the teacher constantly told me, "Quit fighting with the canvas! You MUST take your time with the oils." I just wanted to get my paintings done in a hurry and I didn’t have time to wait for the oils to dry to stroke another layer of paint! All through the semester, I "muddied" my Picassos until one day the teach told me that if I don’t quit fighting, she’ll flunk me. So I had to paint with patience. I was practically beside myself but stroke after stroke, I laid the painting down on canvas until it came out "awesome"! I think she was more impressed by my patience than my painting because I thought it was terrible. Heck, nobody wanted it even if I PAID somebody to take it.
It’s the same with bodybuilding. I’d workout like crazy and then criticize myself impatiently. "You workout those arms for an hour and yet I don’t see anything! Look at these guys for Gawd’s sake! They can flick your fish-stick arms with their muscled pinkies." (Yes, I do talk like a cruel muther-f to my sorry-ass-inner-skinny-dweeb or good-fer-nothing-inner-fat-ass depending on my state of mind / body).
Now I know I just got back into the game after a 3-year hiatus since Katrina hit NOLA and I shouldn’t be a sudden overnight sensation after 4 months, expecting to rank right up there with the big boys. As KINGmosayebi said to me in a threaded post when I complained about my lack of progress, "Stay consistent like this guy (gettinghuge5). You’ve only been at it 4 months." I am aware that gettinghuge5 has been at it for 2 years but the thing is, I’m looking at his progress in 4 pics!! Skinny, okay, built, SHAZAM! That’s all done in 4 words!! (Man, if bodybuilding could be like that, we’d all be squeezing the skinny-ninnies off the planet.)
So really, I need to be realistic and look at the gaps between those four pics to see where he’s coming from and I should do the same. PATIENCE, PATIENCE, PATIENCE!
That’s my new mantra in my quest to a STUPENDOUS body. Patience is now my new virtue in which I shall exercise daily. I shall work out patiently. I shall drink protein shakes patiently. I shall progress patiently and bestow gentle criticisms to thyself. Hell, I’ll even let some gym idiot exercise his mouth on his cell phone while holding up the pec deck and I’ll patiently exercise some other bodypart that would eventually clock him later.
Therefore, I will let patience test me and my muscles and I should be rewarded sometime next week!
