Comparison and motivation.....

[Lord_Suston]

While training today I had a moment of insight. My friend earlier that day called and asked what I was doing and I said training, which for me is intense boxing and weightlifting. He workouts as well but he asked if I would be ever happy, and compared to the average man he said I would outlift, outfight, and outdrink them. Then he went on to say that compared to an average lifter I was much stronger pound for pound....

Then it hit me while working out with my roomate, Why Compare yourself to an average person??? Being a little better than average isn't what I am going for??? Why compare yourself to the median to make yourself feel better??? I don't want to be on the upper side of the curve, I want more.... I guess when it all comes down to is my comparison to myself and whether I really pushed myself to the limits.

I know I am ranting but does anyone else feel this way???

 

[b fold the truth]

I hate not being the best...

B True

 

[Legion Kreinak]

Hmm

So, you mean you didn't fulfill what you expected of yourself? If that's what you mean, that's how I feel sometimes. I feel like I really COULD'VE pushed myself the extra mile during my workouts. Usually I feel like that if I have alot of energy left, so then I just go running at the track for like two hours. Usually that's at like 1:00 AM since I don't sleep much.

 

[Thaibox]

Chances are, if you're on this board you think this way. Otherwise we'd be browsing porn sites and eating Doritos. We live in a different world than the average schmuck. We therefore compare ourselves and our acheivements to those that live here. And, there's some impressive feats to shoot for.

People ask me this sort of thing all the time bro. In my opinion, I'm still small and have a lot of hard work ahead of me, but "normal people" say I'm big and strong as hell. Well, the guy on the squat rack next to me doubled my poundage today, so NO I'm not strong as hell.

"Dude, you're getting huge!" coming from my 140 lb friend doesn't mean shit to me.
"Dude, you're getting huge!" coming from my 5'10" 310lb 8%bf friend would mean a lot because he's part of our world and understands.

When someone lifts more than me, I whine in my head and get pissed at myself. When I fought, if I was beat, I would dwell on it for days, weeks even trying to figure out what I did wrong and why. Knowing someone was better than me sucked hard.

You're part of the world of overacheivers, be proud of it.