Is it pathetic…
and a little hypocritical that I get so pumped after reading the ads and website from Animal Pak? I like to consider myself a pretty cerebral guy - when people tell me that they hate baseball, I kind of smirk in a "that’s because you can’t understand the psychology and you can’t keep an attention span longer than….hey, I’m still talking to you" kind of way. And I know that we ALL love Henry Rollins’ "The Iron;" in fact, I’ve given several copies to some of my students. But, I really, really love reading the online "journals" on Animal Pak’s website. Now, I get a lot of encouragement and celebrations of manhood here - guys like Lift247 and NinjaBill remind me that it’s perfectly o.k. to be hardcore and that it’s perfectly fine that I lift to Mudvayne, Static X and Fear Factory. Plus, guys that blog here aren’t trying to sell me something. I do find, though, that it’s starting to affect my own personal journaling - I find myself writing things like "Monday, March 17. My girl asks me to stay home this morning but the b- just doesn’t get it. She is not my number one priority right now. She can’t fuel the pump that I need just to get through another piece of s- day. She can’t fuel my brain with the fire that it takes to realize that I am better than any other pathetic piece of meat on this God-forsaken planet, where there are no heroes except the ones you create in your head and, of course, me. She doesn’t even realize that I don’t think about her all f-in’ day, that it’s just the steel, the pump, the protein, the creatine, the blood, the sweat - but no tears because I ain’t no pansy."
By the way, "my girl," which I would never call her that because she neither belongs to me nor is she a "girl," is not a b- and, this morning, it was her that helped me stay for a 45 minute cardio session after lifting. And I never have a "piece of s- day," there are plenty of heroes, and I am kind of a pansy. It does feel good to be a bada$$ once in a while, though.
March 17, 2008 at 10:40 am
Definitely not pathetic nor hypocritical to me!
Whatever inspires you, inspires you! LOL! FUNNY blog!! HAHA!!
March 18, 2008 at 11:19 am
HAAAA!! I pretend to be one quite often
It doesn’t suit me well, but it’s fun (ok, funny to those who know me) to try.
My little competition with Diane has me doing the daily synopsis thing. I have so many other things that I think I should blog, but I just never get around to it.
March 18, 2008 at 8:02 pm
You’ve set a deadline for yourself, and will need the best attitude possible, and support from home to reach it. I’m sure your wife is loving, and your head is in the right place. Keep moving forwards. Good luck reaching those goals. You are the hero for many an 8th grader.
March 19, 2008 at 9:19 am
Lmao…omg that was funny!! I’m thinking your girl probably gets you that extra cardio you need…therefore….you need worship her like a goddess!! lmao. O.k. or at least stay in bed with her once in awhile and have some REAL good cardio!! lol
March 19, 2008 at 10:00 am
LOL at ‘celebrations of manhood’… but hey, if it motivates you, nothing wrong with reading the Animal Pak stuff!
And baseball… who can get bored of baseball?? So many cute butts to gawk at!!
March 28, 2008 at 8:15 am
Right on man. Use that fuel to fight through your workouts man. The battle is in the gym not at the homefront. Trust me, those battles can’t be won.
My wife, maybe like yours, wouldn’t understand the mental state that we need to be in to be successful with our workouts. So go ahead and feed that beast and rage within. Crank up the volume, get angry, let that inner beast rage, get down with the sickness, and pound it out man. Now that’s what I’m talking about.