pumpedup86
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Vanity vs Numbers
What do you want more?
To be able to look in the mirror and see the complete package, a 12 pack, a body which women tremble at the knees when they see you walk into a room.
Or do you lift weights to break Personal bests. The numbers mean more to you then what you look like. You would rather walk into the bar stand next to the "perfect specimen of a male" and listen in to his conversation about how he pounded out 15 reps of 70kg bench press (knowing full well he is at least 80kg), while you snicker to yourself knowing that only 4 hours earlier your 70kg frame pushed out 3 reps of 100kg.
I am all for the blokes who work out for the vanity, hell i too used to train for this exact reason. Until i realized that numbers don't lie, and people do. If you have just pushed a 120kg bench press, forever you will know that until you break it your PB is set at that mark. When you train to look good, people will never tell you that in actual fact, your not perfect at all.
One thing is for sure, I would rather push my body to the limits, push the most weight that I can, then sprint as fast as I can for as long as I can, rather then bicep curl my way to another meaningless and false complement.
What do you want more?
To be able to look in the mirror and see the complete package, a 12 pack, a body which women tremble at the knees when they see you walk into a room.
Or do you lift weights to break Personal bests. The numbers mean more to you then what you look like. You would rather walk into the bar stand next to the "perfect specimen of a male" and listen in to his conversation about how he pounded out 15 reps of 70kg bench press (knowing full well he is at least 80kg), while you snicker to yourself knowing that only 4 hours earlier your 70kg frame pushed out 3 reps of 100kg.
I am all for the blokes who work out for the vanity, hell i too used to train for this exact reason. Until i realized that numbers don't lie, and people do. If you have just pushed a 120kg bench press, forever you will know that until you break it your PB is set at that mark. When you train to look good, people will never tell you that in actual fact, your not perfect at all.
One thing is for sure, I would rather push my body to the limits, push the most weight that I can, then sprint as fast as I can for as long as I can, rather then bicep curl my way to another meaningless and false complement.