Motivation is the key to bringing any of your physical aspirations to fruition because it's consistency, above anything else, that brings on results. It's always easy in the beginning, but after a while everyone finds the urge to get-up-and-go to the gym waning. For some it's a passing thing - like a cold or the flu - for others, it's their downfall; something they can't escape. It beckons them to the couch like Mohamed to the mountain; the remote gets stuck to their hand, their muscles shrink and their bellies swell... it's not pretty.
A lot of people today wouldn't know a hardcore gym if they
As much as I tried, my eyes could barely open up all the way Monday morning, the edema in my face was pushing them shut. My entire body felt bolted to the mattress and as battered as if a truck had run me over e few hundred times in both forward and reverse. My head hurt, my joints hurt, and all my movements felt absurdly laborious and slow. I had just slept for 12 solid hours yet I felt as weak and as exhausted as I if I had just done the Eco Challenge.
There are two trains of thought concerning close calls and lifting mishaps: The first states that lifting weights, or those who lift them, could do you serious harm every time you hit the gym. Eventually the odds will catch up with you. A distracted training partner, a dropped plate, a loose pin all sound innocent enough, but in the wrong place or at the wrong time, any of them could land you in the ER, or worse. The second train of thought insists the greater your level of experience, the sooner you'll recognize potential trouble and nip it in the bud. The unsettling part is that neither is absolutely true or false.
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