Return of the #sixpack! #abs #amateurbodybuilding #bodybuilding #precontest #progress #fitblr #fitness #strengthblr #cardio #diet (at swole island)
First day on the job as a #fitness coach! ACCE Health Awareness Day, Here I come!
Prepping for a workshop on fitness and nutrition with the kids over @ New lens. Today team fitness officially becomes a non profit goal achievement program focused on the health and fitness of at-risk youth!
At 155 lbs, you’re not ripped, you’re just a skinny dude with abs. You can’t cut what you don’t have.
— Someone long ago that urged me to stop getting so caught up in being “ripped” and actually having muscle before I worry about how lean I am. (via
valhallatraining)
I can see where you’re coming from but at the root I think there’s something being missed here. I see all the reasons why it would be intimidating to enter a weight room, but, I also see a feed full of motivational slogans centered on overcoming adversity. Champions didn’t reach their heights by backing down from a challenge! If the weightroom is intimidating, then I say “Good!” Thats just a REALLY REALLY tiny hurdle to jump when compared to squatting 500lbs or breaking that plateau in Body Fat % and I see it, as long as it’s not to the extent of outright exclusion, as a good exercise in mental strength…
weightsnscales:
exerciseisajourney:
A response to a question asked to a blog a follow (weightsandscales.tumblr.com) to someone who felt awkward that she feels guys always stare at her when she goes to the “weightroom”. Weightrooms have always been intimidating to women. I’ve spent a good portion of my life in them, and have observed…
I 100% support this. This is a great way to look at it. Unfortunately females do feel intimidated and although a guy looking at them is innocent, it’s a female’s own insecurities getting in the way. Please read this and keep it in mind :)
