Aug 17, 2009
How Gym and Gaining Muscle Improves Your Life
This is a guest post by Adrian of 36 Pounds
Gaining muscle is not about who has biggest biceps, lifts most weight, has the biggest chest or looks the best in the mirror. While you will definitely look and feel better as well as stronger, there is more to this!
1. More Self-Confidence
Gaining muscle and therefore looking better improves your self-confidence. Why? Because you’ll be happy with yourself when you can look at the mirror and see a great body. And when you’re happy with how you look, you feel better, can do bigger things and approach more girls. And, of course, having muscle does attract more women.
What’s more, you get stronger and feel safer in the streets. People look at you differently and you have a better chance of defending yourself if necessary.
2. More Respect
People respect you more when you aren’t a skinny-ass weakling with a body of a chick. Being very skinny or very fat makes you invisible to others. You might be the nice guy, the good friend, but never the sexy man (on a lot of cases however, there are skinny guys who manage to be great with women despite their physique or lack of).
3. More Mental Toughness
Your will and mental toughness improves dramatically if you push yourself and don’t wuss out. Let’s say you are squatting with some big weights. You’ve done 4 repetitions and it’s starts to get very tough and it looks like you can’t do one more repetition. There is that whiny voice in your head that starts saying: Don’t do it anymore, just rack it up!
However, you CAN do another repetition; you must do it! Push yourself to the limit! Do one more rep even if it burns a lot! And every time you do this, you are a little step closer to having am uch stronger will and mental toughness.
4. Teaches You to Set Goals
Men need to set goals. They need something to aim for! Without it we’re doomed. Like ships without steering, they’ll hit some rocks, sink and drown. Without goals, a man is weak and can NOT attract ladies (why? Because he has to live life bigger than oneself and have things more important than women!) And how do Gyms help?
Well, you have to set goals when training too. From setting your big goal (the weight you want to be at, the visual picture in your mind how you’d like to look), to setting small workout goals (to squat 200lbs for 5 sets and 5 repetitions for example).
And once you do reach your end goal, once you achieve that great looking, strong and healthy beach body you want, you’ll feel like you can achieve everything you want! It’s that powerful!
Hopefully, you guys enjoyed the post! I am a huge believer in improving your life through lifting weights and getting the body of your dreams. I’ve set out to prove it myself and to help other guys do it (my actual goal is to help 1000 skinny guys get Strong, Healthy, Great Looking Beach Body).
If you need help and advice on gaining muscle, visit Adrian’s blog at 36 Pounds!
I have a passion for body building, but not for competition purposes but for the very reason you have stated above.
It makes me feel good about myself and I look good with fitting dresses.
Lifting weights doesn’t mean you must compete. It’s a passion for me too.
Cheers
Agreed, body building isn’t so much of a competition for me as it’s a hobby that I enjoy doing.
Plus, everybody wants to look good
True, that is biggest motivator for most people probably. It’s just not always enough…
Oh most definitely not! I also just want to get strong. I dont want the biggest biceps or the tonest abs, I just want to be hardcore strong!
Every man should be as strong as he can! I think so…
So true Adrian, thanks for the post!
Alex Kay, thanx! You have a great blog
Coming from the vantage point of someone who was once fat and is now quite fit and muscular, I will let you in on the unfortunate circumstance that you will attract more women, but you will more than likely detract from the quality of person you are attracting. When a woman looks at me now, the majority see an attractive body, but also apply the stigma of lesser intelligence (“meathead” would be a good term for the stereotype). I may have shallow, attractive women fondling my arms, and the confidence that I gained from my physical transformation is a boon, but I am essentially in the same place from an emotional stand point as I was when I was over weight. Women notice me, but don’t bother with me because they think I’m stupid (I’m not by the way, 3.9 GPA at the best University in Canada). Solutions?
This comment is a couple months too late for its purpose. It is directed at Cameron.
I have the impression that you over-analyze your social experiences. You seem to be more introverted then extroverted.
This is important: it is impossible to know what someone is thinking. You must ask them. It is in your own mind that you think you are a “meathead”. You must believe in your own mind what you truly are. When you think someone is judging you, you are actually judging yourself on one of your insecurities.
Randomly walk up to someone and ask them what they think of you. These will all be judgments. They do not know you until they know you.
Solution: be happy, be positive. Humans live in their own heads. If you aren’t talking, you are thinking; so think less and talk more!
Remember, never judge yourself and never assume you know what others are thinking.
To others, you are:
-what you look like
-what you sound like
-what you feel like
-what you smell like
-what you taste like
-how they remember you
-what they have heard about you
YOU ARE A HUMAN, GO GET THE GIRL YOU WANT AND BE HAPPY BEFORE YOU DIE!
Enjoy these sporadic thoughts.
Cheers,
Tom