positivepower’s BodyBlog

I noticed that all my negative posts get way more views and comments than my positive posts.   Now I see why the nightly news is nothing but bad stories, why the tabloids do everything they can to capture celebrities doing bad things, and why the celebrities seem to go out of their way to do bad things…because they all know that’s what sells!  It’s pretty sad that people just aren’t nearly as interested in good stories or good deeds.  I guess it’s human nature to want to see a train wreck or someone doing something bad so we can feel better about ourselves and our own situation.  I think people much prefer negativity so they can either jump in on the complain train or be the hero and offer advice or comfort.  People just don’t want to hear about someone doing better than them or being a better person than them.  It’s kinda sad but it’s reality I guess.  I’ll take a positive spin on it and be thankful I recognize this human flaw because with recognizing it I can steer clear of it and hopefully overcome this natural tendency.  I hope anyone who reads this will too!

Well right now I’m feeling extremely discouraged about continuing to pursue bodybuilding as well as life in general.  I always try to maintain a positive attitude (hence my screenname) but my entire life I’ve had EXTREMELY bad luck to the point where its been a joke to everyone who’s known me throughout my entire life (even without me mentioning my bad luck because I don’t like to admit it and even try to deny it because I really don’t want things to keep happening).  Well honestly, the joke is BEYOND old at this point.  I really try to be a good person and try to always think positive but my life just continues to be one disaster after another.  So what am I talking about?

Well I JUST sent in my very last car payment the other day and bragged about it to a friend who joked "knowing your luck you’ll get in another car accident right after sending it in".   Sure enough, last night coming home from the gym, a guy T-boned my car!

Now of course with my luck its never just one thing.  You see earlier in the day, I got back my blood test results that showed despite the last 4 months of no drinking, eating healthy, and lifting almost every single day, my numbers are STILL screwed up.  Boy that really encourages me to keep eating bland food and busting my ass in the gym! 

Well I guess I could still keep lifting to keep a nice body for the girl I’m seeing….oh wait…she’s cheating on me!  Ok so I don’t have proof of that last one but she’s been extremely shady and all my intuition from my previous relationships tells me she’s screwing around with another guy.  I’ve been giving her the benefit of the doubt and ignoring a lot of things but it’s pretty obvious at this point.  Yah anyway, I guess I should get back to work before I get my pink slip, which will probably happen by the end of the day.

What is it with some guys at the gym who are so arrogant to just take the machine or bench you’re using and TELL you they NEED to jump in, rather than ASKING you if you MIND if they work in with you?   Not only that, but they tell you like its a secondary thought AFTER they already jump in and like they’re doing you a favor by making you aware that they need the bench much more than you.  "Oh I’m so sorry I was in your way your highness!’  This has happened to me several times now, including last night, and 2 out of the 3 times this has happened was from a guy who was no bigger than me and looked to be younger than me, but apparently they see themselves as the Incredible Hulk.  Not being a pushover, I’ve always let these guys know my displeasure with their rudeness but this shouldn’t even happen.  The one time I actually got into a yelling match with one idiot who came up out of nowhere and started yelling at me to get off "his" machine and that I must not know who he is.  Uhhh no sir, actually I do know who you are….you’re the King of the *******s!  This kind of blatant disrespect and rudeness makes me want to get so huge that no guy would even dare enter a 5ft buffer space around me when I’m working out, let alone steal my damn equipment.  So for all you cocky bastards out there, thank you for encouraging me to want to keep lifting!

Is it just me or does everyone in their contest poses, especially the women, look like they’re about to do the Robot dance?

I’ve been on here about a week or two now and after a lot of time browsing and making new friends I have to say that the 40’s club is really representing!  I’m kinda surprised to see that a lot of the hottest bods on here are women and men in their 40s and a lot of them have kids, side businesses, and all sorts of things going on to take up their time.  This really encourages me that if they can have all those responsibilities and look that amazing being 15 yrs older than me, then I really have no excuse not to keep workin hard and improving my body.  So for all you in your 40s (or even 50s) with bodies of a very in shape 20 yr old, kudos to you and thanks for the inspiration!

When you walk into your gym, what do you expect?  You expect them to greet you, take your key chain membership card and scan it, and then wish you a good workout.  That’s how it USED to work at my gym but apparently they couldn’t afford that kind of talent anymore so they replaced all the friendly front desk workers with a few new lazy idiots who are so freakin lazy they put the scanner up on the counter with a sign for you to scan your card yourself while they sit there blabbin away on their cellphone all night.  If this was a once in a while thing or just one of them doing it, it would be annoying enough but it’s ALL the new workers and ALL the time now.  This is ridiculous!  If I was the owner and walked in and saw that shit, I’d fire their lazy asses right on the spot!  Their literally getting paid to sit there and talk on their cellphone all night.  First of all, what the f*** could you be possibly talking about all damn night!  Second of all, you have the easiest freakin job in the world…say "hi", take card and scan it…and you can’t even do that!?  Do the world a favor and kill yourself NOW!

I went indoor rock climbing for the first time today and it was awesome!  I thought I was pretty strong but even on the first climb my arms were shaking and gave out.  It didn’t help that I just did a bicep workout at the gym yesterday so my arms were already sore!  At first I kept falling off the wall after about 2 feet because my arms kept giving out and then my friends told me the trick that you’re supposed to mostly use your legs and just use your arms as a guide.  Once I knew that and got my confidence up from getting to the top on the easy wall, I started doing much better.  It feels great getting to the top but don’t look down if you’re scared of heights!  Some of those walls have the tiniest little nubs that are impossible to get a grip on and have the most extreme angles that I don’t know how anyone could possibly do them unless you have claws and an insane death grip!  After a few hours we were all totally exhaused and I wound up skipping another day at the gym but I think it was worth it and I think it would make a really great off day activity.  A few months of rock climbing and I’d probably be able to rip someone’s nipple straight off with my super death grip!

I had to cut my workout short tonight for the dumbest reason ever.  Because I STUNK!   When I packed my gym bag I saw a shirt already in there and I THOUGHT it was clean but as soon as I took it out of the bag to wear I realized my horrible horrible mistake.  It was wrinkled as hell and stunk so bad.  I decided I wasn’t going to let it keep me from getting a workout in so I threw it on and hoped noone would notice since everyone’s sweatin anyway.  Well I only got about halfway through my workout before I couldn’t take the smell of myself anymore and just felt way too embarassed every time someone walked past that I couldn’t concentrate on my lifts anymore so I had to get out of there.  From this point on, I’ll probably be the smelly guy in the minds of all the regulars that were in there.  Oh well.  I’m showered now and feeling much better.  I’ll have to make it up tomorrow!

Last night I did my first photo shoot and it turned out pretty well but it was a little bit depressing.  I had originally planned on it being a fitness type shoot to show off my new body as I’ve been working out consistently for over 3 months now but after looking at the pics I took myself (that I have posted here) and after the last two weeks of being sick, missing workouts, and eating crap, I knew I was nowhere near ready to do fitness type photos so I just did a couple fashion type photos.  I actually did do a few shirtless photos with the photographer last night and I looked totally washed out and absolutely HORRIBLE.  I couldn’t even get a two pack going let alone a six pack!  I was just all around unprepared as it was my first time getting professional pics done and it was a really busy week for me so I didn’t have much time to pick out clothes or think of poses or anything like that.  Luckily the photographer was pretty good and made it work though, and I learned a lot about the process and how to pose and whatnot so I’ll be much better prepared for next time.  It was also a nice little reward for all the hard work I’ve been putting in thus far and the photographer was telling me he thinks I could be a model and/or actor so that was a nice confidence boost, though he probably says that to just about everyone as he had a talent website to push haha.  I plan on going back in a few months and finally doing those fitness photos.  I think having the goal of taking those photos will keep me on track and motivated because I really want to have good pics to be proud of.  Plus they’re expensive so I don’t want to pay a few hundred dollars for them only to be totally disappointed in how they come out so I’m determined to get my sh*t together and get myself photo ready!