Weight Training Blog

You know you’re getting too big when:

• You flex your bicep and your sleeve rips
• You do a lat spread and the back of your shirt tears
• You have difficulty putting on your own seatbelt
• You can no longer touch your right shoulder with your right hand
• You rip your boxers when you squat
• Finding dress shirts that properly fit you is a challenge because they don’t account for a larger chest and arms
• You can no longer wipe your own ass
• Fitting through door ways requires you to go through side ways
• Getting into and out of your car is not as easy as it used to be
• Your BMI is off the chart because you have so much muscle
• You walk by a bunch of girls and you hear them say “Oh he’s too big”
• You consume about 8000 calories on a light day during bulking season and still find yourself hungry
• Your wardrobe from last year doesn’t fit you anymore
• You need to worry about weight limits on garden furniture
• Your forearms are bigger than most people’s upper arms
• You can count in multiples of 45 like normal people can count in multiples of 10
• You can’t reach into places where normal people can put their arm in
• You don’t need to use a jack to fix a flat tire
• Your friends and family always go to you when they need help moving something
• Putting on a winter coat is difficult because you can never quite “catch” the second sleeve
• Tattoos you got when you weren’t as big are now distorted and say something completely different
• You max out most of the equipment in the gym. On your second set
• You need a back scratcher to scratch any part of your back
• You can no longer roll up your sleeves
• The gym owner yells at you for bending bars
• The dumb bell rack needs to be extended by another 10 feet for you
• Your ankles and feet suddenly hurt from the extra weight they now carry
• Your bicep is as big as someone’s quadriceps
• People often wonder if you have a neck connecting your body and head

Here’s some solid advice that I can give you:

If you don’t eat properly leading up to your lifting session, don’t even bother lifting. You’ll just be wasting your own time, and put yourself at risk of getting hurt.

Like an idiot I decided that since my plans changed I would move my leg day one day ahead of schedule and didn’t bother to think of eating ahead of time this way I would have more energy to perform the lifts. Sure enough, I paid the price. I had the worst leg workout in a very long time, and luckily for myself I didn’t sustain an injury because I knew enough not to push it after I realized what was going on.

I’m walking proof that even more seasoned lifters tend to get greedy and try to cut corners, but you can never cheat the weights. You maybe able to cheat on a math test or an economics exam, but no matter what, 300 pounds is 300 pounds and it wants to be on the ground!