hephaestion2014's blog
2022-04-28
Some are born great, some have greatness thrust upon them.
Some are born to enjoy the gym, others have to be thrusted into one and have a friend stand in front of the exit.
I like the gym in theory I like lifting heavy things, I kinda do that for a living. They just never really feel like my places.
I'm not dissing the gym or the people who use them. I'd love to be a muscle bear.
But then I'd also like to br 6'7" with red hair and different coloured eyes
It just felt as a space not really my place. Hard to explain but it felt like as a kid when all the cool kids would gather around the football, or when men at parties discuss the roads that they have taken to get there and engine stuff
Maybe a Pure Gym might be the gateway gym; It has treadmills; rather than a weight lifting focused gym.
So don't be too scared fellow wrestlers, I'm not the hench uber heel muscle bear just yet.
I'll just be watching the tiktok experts lying in my bed listening to Nick Cave till I wake up magically a James Smith lookalike
BamaJDon41 (10 )
4/29/2022 12:36 AMI totally get what you're saying. Just entering a gym where you know most of the guys in there have been lifting for years and you're so far behind the curve that you'll stick out like a weak and sore thumb. I recall when going alone to a large mall or a store being so self-conscious. But I found I could just turn off my awareness of the hundreds of other people and stop caring what they might be thinking.
hephaestion2014 (52)
4/29/2022 9:14 PM(In reply to this)
That is true. It didn't feel like a beginners place. Hopefully next gym, I won't feel like an intruder.
Or maybe just get a weight set for the house.
Squashlad (255)
5/02/2022 10:57 AM"Gateway gym"! 😆👍 Love it.
Happy to stand in front of the exit for you. And if you don't like it, you'll just have to wrestle me out of the way.... 😋
hephaestion2014 (52)
5/02/2022 7:31 PM(In reply to this)
Thanks mate.
I'll happily wrestle you out of the way! 💪😜
matworker (101 )
5/16/2022 4:17 PMI think I understand what you're saying.
A number of years ago I went to a gym in London with a couple of bodybuilders. It was clearly a gym for BIG men.
I managed to do some stuff, but when I tried to lift weights, I couldn't even lift light ones that I could easily lift at home.
Something in my brain blocked me while in the company of the much bigger men.
I'm not sure if I was intimidated or distracted ;-)
Love the thought of sqashlad standing at the exit and you wrestling him out the way... It would be a great workout lol
hephaestion2014 (52)
5/17/2022 7:41 PM(In reply to this)
I could probably have lifted the bar there.
Haha! I'm sure it would be a sight, Squashlad could maybe do with your help. I'd be -that- determined 🤣
matworker (101 )
5/18/2022 2:30 PM(In reply to this)
I'll help Squashlad!!!!
You shall not pass!!! lol