Envy

[clavelle]

Note to self: don't comment about the machines in the gym again.

Holy crap!!! What I have just read over the last 30 mins...WOW....I did not think a thread could get this far off of the subject, lol, this one should have been called "issues with life and how unfair it is".

I just have to go on the record and say that all girls that go to the gym period impress the shit out of me, and the ones who are here in these walls...you guys impress me even more! You will always get shit about going to the iron side of the gym, and guys will be guys when it comes to the jokes we make. But how you handle it and how you handle issues like this is what makes you come out on top.

Point being, we all have are hang ups in life...this thread was started by a guy who was looking at another guy and saying man I wish I could get those kind of results and turned into a disscusion about woman and the clothes they wear at the gym.

Back to my two cents about the original issue, bro I hope by now you have changed your routine and built a solid core from SL program, from your logs you lived at the gym. But if you are that commited then give SL program the repect it deserves and give it a try and you will be better then your friend in the long run.

Sorry, I couldn't pass on this thread...I had to keep poking the dead dog to see if it was really dead.

Christian

[TakeFive]

I see these guys with ripped arms and "chesticles" and *USED TO* feel a bit of envy. I'm 47 years old, 5'11, 170lbs (want a real shock? I was 135 lbs until age 23!) and struggle to bench 170 lbs.

So what keeps the envy in check? On almost any day I can walk over to the pull-up bar and do 3 sets of 10 to 12 pull-ups. Complete pull-ups - from a dead hang to chin entirely over the bar, not the partial range pulls you see a lot of guys doing.

So while I plug away at the 5x5 program and make slow but consistent progress, I feel good about what I can do well and am satisfied with merely making progress on every thing else.