#push weights

[freetheshit-outofyou]

Ok, I've got a gym story from today. I have gotten over the gym rats with the cameras and camera crews, I have gotten over the ass hats who are running 40 minuets sets over 4 different benches like I'm using their gym. But today was a new one. I'm 27 minutes into a 45 minute run. I've got my music going I'm in the groove and doing my own thing. That's when this dude comes up and motions for me to take out an ear bud. When I do, this Doo-Doo Dunderhead says "Hey, do you want to hit some steel with me?" Ok, I fully admit I got a bit indignant in my reply. I said "Did you really just come over to the other side of the gym to pick up a spotter, and a guy you don't know running was the best you could come up with?" He was like "BRO!", why do these fucking guys sprinkle "bro" in things like I would add "fuck", anyway? He was like "Bro, you don't have to come at me so harsh. I just wanted to see of you wanted to try something harder than running." I did lose my shit at this point. I said "BRO, you don't know me and you sure as hell don't know what I think is hard. I see you here every day laying up 300+ pounds constantly, I fully admit I can no longer put up that kind of weight." He laughed and said "Yeah, anyone could see that Bro." I said "But since you wanted to interrupt my run for a spotter I'll tell you what..." Of course gym staff have gathered around now because I was heated and louder than I meant to be. "You do 45 minutes on this machine at a simple 8:30 pace, I'm doing 7:30 by the way, and you can I can push plates until I give up." Of course he scoffed, "Dude I have not run in years, I just like to press the weights and feel like a man." I said "Funny thing about being a man, I never had to prove myself to anyone but me to be one." To that he left and all the muscle head gym staff and their chicken legs followed him back over to the free weights. I learned in my 20's (I'm 54 now.) that you can go to far in either direction, building muscle mass for the sake of bulk and doing cardio excessively. At one point I was running 50 to 70 miles a week, I was pumping Iron at the same time. Man I was fit as shit, and I had no other life. You have to find balance, and you can't find it by trying to push others into your camp.

[kathaynesart]

Draxum's rude af kids are making their way through the @tmntaucompetition

Friendly warning: don't mess with Dad.

[paddlescuddlesbubblesgurgles]

Good girls eat so much they can’t get up.

[housecow]

wanna be transparent with y’all… this is where i’m sitting at today, after being sick for a while :((

weight is always easier to gain back but fuckkkkk 😭😭

[ouchytummy]

Feels like somethings inside of me… it hurts so bad

[captain-astors]

Sometimes when I'm feeling tired I'll just go wild with one brush making blobs and the smudge tool. I like how it comes out looking very painterly.

[theminecraftbee]

i think one of my favorite things about uma musume is that, despite being a game about sports and top athletes who are also idols, it is basically always the "correct" option when you're given an event in-game that lets you to tell your horse to take a break. tell them to be healthy. don't let them do extra training. if they want to splurge on a treat, you should give them that treat, because while occasionally there are negative consequences to eating too much at once they're rare enough that the reward is worth it.

from a game design perspective this is because energy is precious, so anything that restores energy so you don't have to rest/have better training odds is basically always the correct option in an event, and eating or taking a break normally restores energy, right. but i like that in-universe this means that "your horse girl is overtraining" is basically always treated as Bad, as opposed to giving in to the sports anime trope of "doing extra practice makes you better" or "not eating while also expending lots of calories is a good idea". no! overtraining hurts you for minimal reward! when you can apparently run at 60 MPH, you SHOULD eat a bunch of energy-dense food, actually! injuring yourself by pushing yourself at low energy can end your career, actually! take a break and eat cake, you will need the rest to beat the arima kinen in the coming days.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I want it back / I drag its dead weight forward.

[daily-basil]

Trying stuff out

[trippy-bunny]

fighting this eating disorder today. i Am Making Food. i am Eating Lunch. i am not gross and gluttonous for eating lunch.

[mintaikkcorpse]

I've stopped seeking out yaoi, as no matter what I fucking do, it always finds me. I feel like I'm just destined to always find and enjoy yaoi art at this point.

[fakebatmanfan]

Friendly reminder that just because Jervis is small, he isn't weak by any means.

[prettyboykatsuki-moved]

you cum on olivers cock because he’s fucking you so good and he laughs in between a moan and pats your pussy and tells you to be easy on him since he wants this to last, okay?

[starry-bi-sky]

yall ever think Shen Yuan went through like, internet withdrawal after being transmigrated into Shen Qingqiu? Like, he's canonically a NEET shut-in who did nothing but spend his time online, you can't tell me that for the first week or first few weeks of being SQQ he wasn't twitchy.

Like, reaching instinctively to his pockets for a phone that wasn't there, having an obsessive itch in the back of his mind that he should check and see if X or Y novel or webcomic has updated -- only to realize he can't anymore and being irritated by it. Wanting to go and see if there's new posts about this or that, but again realizing that he can't.

When he's bored or uncomfortable or just feels like wanting to escape he tries to go for his phone to distract himself, but oops! Not there anymore, and now he has to find a new and different way to distract himself from his feelings. And going through system notifications, quests, etc only does so much.

And there's that Tetris Effect too. SQQ makes a mistake while writing and instinctively goes to backspace on it except hey-ho that's not a keyboard and now he just dipped his pinkie into a bottle of ink or on a still-drying letter.

With him scrambling to fix his reputation and learn how to be a peak lord, I think his abrupt cold-turkey from all things internet would just be another straw on the camel's back that he promptly Ignores until it goes away on its own after he acclimates to his new surroundings.

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo getting hit with a truth curse but instead of forcing him to admit to super sad or worrying things it’s things like “it was me who broke the remote” “I saw Mikey prank Donnie and helped hide it because it’s way funnier if he didn’t know who it was” “I rip my clothes to look more like Raph’s because he’s really cool” “my stripes aren’t even red they’re pink!”

[burningcheese-merchant]

I think

Didn't Jack's reasoning develop Daddy Issus in him ??

You mean his extreme perfectionism? It contributes to it, yeah. Kind of a chicken and egg scenario tbh, hard to say which came first. Did Jack's fear of disappointing his father predate his perfectionism, and ultimately lay the foundation of its existence? Or was he born believing he always needs to be more than he is, and that impostor syndrome ended up creeping into his thoughts and feelings regarding his father? Who can say? He's not doing himself any favors regardless. In this situation, Jack is his own worst enemy. His feelings of inadequacy are like a perpetual motion machine. Always devising and "fulfilling" its own prophecies

If they would just sit down and talk to each other man-to-man, it would make a big difference. But Burning Spice hasn't been any good at talking to people in a long time (no matter how much better he's gotten as a person, there are just some things you lose that you'll never get back. Not after living a life like that), and Jack, well-intentioned little martyr that he is, never likes to talk about his problems. He buries them deep and focuses on doing right by others instead, all the time and forever. It's not healthy. It would hit a lot closer to home if his father sat him down, looked him in the face and told him he doesn't always need to put himself last, and he doesn't need to be afraid of not being good enough, because he is. He always has been.