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Your "Body Dysmorphia". Let's hear it!
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El Testicle
Goat that feeling
My vagina.
White_Lie
Look at Moi, I'm a Kunce
There's nothing physically wrong with it, you just need to clean the sand out of it.
El Testicle
Goat that feeling
I might need a good fisting.
El Testicle
Goat that feeling
I love my belleh... Well, I've grown to accept it.
Post up a sock pic for [MENTION=9034]kaz[/MENTION]; she'd be a pretty good judge of where your at.
I bet your just being hard on yrself
Nah most of my fat hangs around the belly. Might get a Dexa scan done, can't argue with the numbers.I love my belleh... Well, I've grown to accept it.
Post up a sock pic for [MENTION=9034]kaz[/MENTION]; she'd be a pretty good judge of where your at.
I bet your just being hard on yrself
El Testicle
Goat that feeling
You heard the lady mate
Jungnaut
YOLO Kunce
Funny you mention this, as I thought the same thing myself this morning before I went to the gym today. I was halfway through changing and I thought 'fuck I look like a skinny dweeb!'. Then I rock up to the gym and wonder why everyone is a disaster famine relief victim, with their spaghetti arms, thigh gaps, and bony shoulders - and this is just the men. When I am at a family/friend gathering I get told I am going overboard, I should stop being so bulky and eating like a 'fat bastard'. Nevertheless in my eyes I have a loooong way to go before I reach my strength goals. Therefore I have no idea what 'normal' body size looks like anymore. I don't have a beer gut though, beer is not for me.
Yoloswagscope
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My big powerliftin' ass!
RyanF
Member
Rather than being insecure about a body part, or thinking I'm too fat/thin etc., I'm self-conscious about my posture, gait and body language. If I'm not doing anything with my hands, I don't know what to do with them, and I'm very self-conscious about having these two limbs sticking out of my body that I'm awkwardly trying to look like I'm casually not thinking about :S I end up having my hands clasped together, in my pockets, or arms crossed a lot of the time, because just hanging by my side feels unnatural. I like having food or a drink in my hands when socialising, so that I can stop fretting over what my hands are/n't doing.
I used to have pretty severe body image issues, which in all seriousness probably would have met the diagnostic criteria for body dysmorphic disorder if I saw a pscyhologist. I was constantly bullied for being skinny as a child (normal people don't do that to me anymore, but lifters have a tendency to still be right diks; to this day, if anyone in the gym makes a jab at me for being <100kg, depending on my mood in the moment it takes either a firm grasp on the doctrine of grace, or just a desire to avoid negative social/legal repercussions, not to turn around and weaponise the nearest weight), which, among other factors, taught me to look for everything wrong in the mirror. It turns out that when you ask the mirror what's wrong with you, the mirror doesn't hold back -- if you're looking for something wrong with your body, you will find it, so it's quite irrelevant how "good" you look if you're looking for whatever isn't "good." When I was a teenager and started weight training, I got visible results quite quickly. Because I was so skinny starting out, even tiny amounts of muscle were a significant difference. I went from about 45kg to 58kg in 12 months (in hindsight, that's dramatic; the whole "gain 1lb/wk" crap pushed by the interwebz makes 10-15kg in a year sound pathetic when it's actually right on track), and I got a lot of positive comments from that. Had I been looking for the positive, my self-esteem would have been through the roof, or at least better than before. But I wasn't looking for the positive, I was looking for things to fix. And as I got more focused on strength training and bodybuilding in general, the result was to become hypercritical of everything that differentiated me from some ideal. Rather than becoming more confident with my body, my body confidence decreased. The stronger I got, the weaker I felt; the more defined my muscles got, the fatter I felt; the bigger my muscles got, the more painful it became that they weren't "big enough."
It took about 6 months of forced leave from the gym for me to break that cycle so that I could exercise and not have that mindset. It took a further 4 years before I could focus training on anything remotely aesthetic in purpose without it rapidly becoming a slippery slope into that mindset.
I used to have pretty severe body image issues, which in all seriousness probably would have met the diagnostic criteria for body dysmorphic disorder if I saw a pscyhologist. I was constantly bullied for being skinny as a child (normal people don't do that to me anymore, but lifters have a tendency to still be right diks; to this day, if anyone in the gym makes a jab at me for being <100kg, depending on my mood in the moment it takes either a firm grasp on the doctrine of grace, or just a desire to avoid negative social/legal repercussions, not to turn around and weaponise the nearest weight), which, among other factors, taught me to look for everything wrong in the mirror. It turns out that when you ask the mirror what's wrong with you, the mirror doesn't hold back -- if you're looking for something wrong with your body, you will find it, so it's quite irrelevant how "good" you look if you're looking for whatever isn't "good." When I was a teenager and started weight training, I got visible results quite quickly. Because I was so skinny starting out, even tiny amounts of muscle were a significant difference. I went from about 45kg to 58kg in 12 months (in hindsight, that's dramatic; the whole "gain 1lb/wk" crap pushed by the interwebz makes 10-15kg in a year sound pathetic when it's actually right on track), and I got a lot of positive comments from that. Had I been looking for the positive, my self-esteem would have been through the roof, or at least better than before. But I wasn't looking for the positive, I was looking for things to fix. And as I got more focused on strength training and bodybuilding in general, the result was to become hypercritical of everything that differentiated me from some ideal. Rather than becoming more confident with my body, my body confidence decreased. The stronger I got, the weaker I felt; the more defined my muscles got, the fatter I felt; the bigger my muscles got, the more painful it became that they weren't "big enough."
It took about 6 months of forced leave from the gym for me to break that cycle so that I could exercise and not have that mindset. It took a further 4 years before I could focus training on anything remotely aesthetic in purpose without it rapidly becoming a slippery slope into that mindset.
RyanF
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This sounds about right. Only amongst powerlifters and internet lifters is 170kg weak on anything. I hang out in strength gyms and feel like an insignificant nobody; I come to these forums and am overtly told I'm not allowed an opinion on anything strength-related because I'm not strong enough (I have a gold medal in powerlifting (and that's literally the least meaningful factor of my knowledge and understanding of strength training), but evidently that's not relevant); then I go to the gym at uni and warm up with the maxes of guys who are much more muscular than myself. I think we get caught up so much in obsessing over lifting stupidly heavy weights that we lose touch with reality.Don't Power lifters suffer from strength dysmorphia?
Squats 170 kg then punches himself in the junk backstage cos he thinks he's a feeble kunce.....
Yes and no.
If you can't get yourself to decently heavy weights your advise is probably going to be pretty shit for people wanting to lift heavy themselves.
Don't judge heavy weights or good training by what happens at your average gym. Most take way too much gear and lift like teenage girls.
Then you have guys online giving out advise to natural lifters when they couldn't even get an 80kg bench before injecting themselves. Fucking lol.
I do the same thing man. Sometimes it's ok but as soon as I notice my hands are flapping in the breeze I start thinking about what to do with them.
I also don't look people in the eye when they speak, I read their lips. I assume this started when I was a child with ear issues making me lip read to help with hearing. When I try looking someone in the eye it feels like I'm staring them down. I'm not sure if people notice the difference between me looking at their eyes or their mouth.
Goosey
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Interesting.
Two blokes start off together, one looks like a cross between Bean and a spider monkey , dead lifts 100kg one rep on his first attempt
Second looks like a leviathan and pulls 200 with relative ease.
3 months later after both working out hard, skinny pulls 200 and big boy pulls 250 who's the strongest?
Two blokes start off together, one looks like a cross between Bean and a spider monkey , dead lifts 100kg one rep on his first attempt
Second looks like a leviathan and pulls 200 with relative ease.
3 months later after both working out hard, skinny pulls 200 and big boy pulls 250 who's the strongest?
