Do you ever walk around and feel powerful?

[Peckz]

Some days i cant help but feeling so f*cking powerful. I know I'm not particularly strong in reality but i just feel so frickin great sometimes. All my muscles feel explosive like they are loaded with nitro and i feel like i could crush anything. Its great. I love it.

 

[IronLion]

ummm well....yah

 

[Exodus]

when you work hard and know what your capable of, it makes you grin a little. if your cocky, thats just not cool, but i walk around with the little thought of, "people have no clue what im capable of."........ which is nice, but i know there are people who are so much better than me though. oh well. back to work.

X

 

[Grantsdu]

All the time, well untill I look in the mirror and see how little I still am!!!!

 

[spatts]

Hehehe....as soon as I start feeling that way, someone walks up and outdoes me. Nothing like a reality check.

 

[Lee]

i "feel" powerful all the time. thats just becuase i tower over most kinds in my school. i think out of 2500 kids in my school im like the 5th or 6th tallest, and in the top 50 strongest. im never cocky though, i cant stand cocky people.

 

[TheProject]

It's fun to be around "normal" people, who are impressed by what I weigh, or what I lift, when the topic comes up.

Then I just come back on Elite, and see what kinds of PR's or pictures people are posting, and I know how much work I have yet to do.

 

[Lee]

It's fun to be around "normal" people, who are impressed by what I weigh, or what I lift, when the topic comes up.

Then I just come back on Elite, and see what kinds of PR's or pictures people are posting, and I know how much work I have yet to do.

haha, exactly. people are like "wow you weigh 220!" which isnt even heavy, just that most people my height are scronny and weigh 180. i wanna be 250 and 9% bf though, so im still not even close to impressed with myself.

 

[TheProject]

haha, exactly. people are like "wow you weigh 220!" which isnt even heavy, just that most people my height are scronny and weigh 180. i wanna be 250 and 9% bf though, so im still not even close to impressed with myself.

I was just telling someone the other day that I weigh about 199, and he was impressed.

Like you're saying...it's having personal goals and others to look up to that keep me motivated.

 

[bignate73]

i like the fact that little things in life arent challenging to me. opening and holding a door that i see people nearly fall over to open, moving a table, couch or bed without thinking of how heavy it is, or carrying a ton of groceries home from the store. those things i acknowledge from time to time and witness people struggling with and think how glad i am that i train. i guess im more functional in thought, instead of thinking that i can deadlift more than someone or sit down and stand back up with a bar on my back. (though im proud of those accomplishments as well)

 

[Lee]

yea, i have a really good friend whos my age, 17, and hes been lifting solid since he was 14. well hes 6'2" 235, and he can bench 405, and uses 405 on his pyramid squats for his 3 rep peak. but hes a very cool guy, we talk about lifting a lot and he knows i can get huge, cuz we have the same frame but im 3 inches taller. i just hope i can bench 405 someday

 

[BigBadBootyDaddy29]

Hell yeah, I walk with a swagger, I have confidence in myself and what I am capale of....but I keep myself in check, If I ever got the attitude I was better than anyone because of one thing in life (weight training) and I became disrespectful and cocky I would kick my own ass.

 

[Scotsman]

I shipped some stuff for work the other day. The boxes felt pretty light to me and I kind of tossed them a bit. The guy at the packaging place face turned bright red and I though he would pop when he picked one of them up. That kind of thing always amuses me that people don't get that because I can lift it doesn't mean they can. He and I joked about it a bit before I left.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[b fold the truth]

Sometimes I just feel like I could move the world...and other times I feel like picking up my little dog is a task...lol.

Some people look at me and assume that I am stronger than anyone else in the world and other times people look at me and guess me to weigh about 225 and assume that I am not very strong at all.

B True

 

[gettinlarger]

Sometimes I wonder, when people look at me, if they know I'm a lifter. I wonder if they wonder what kinds of weight I can handle.

I was doin flat DB presses once, and I asked this big dude to spot me. I see this dude pushing heavy shit all the time, so I figured, he knows what he's doing. Anyway, when he saw I had a couple 100 lb. DBs, I saw this look on his face like, "Right, this 170 lb dude is gonna do a set with these ..." After I pushed out my 7th or 8th rep and finished, he was all congratulatory (is that a word?) towards me, like I surprised him. Kinda made me feel good to know this big dude gave me some props.

 

[slinky]

Hmmm. I don't think about it; neither do I wonder about it . Just busy doin' the work. Since there is always someone else who's stronger than I.

 

[JollyRogers]

 

[slobberknocker]

When I walk around naked I feel real powerfull.

 

[Zander1983]

i walk around with the little thought of, "people have no clue what im capable of."........ which is nice, but i know there are people who are so much better than me though.

My feelings exactly.

 

[The Red Dragon]

I need to get A LOT stronger before I can feel that way...such a long way to go.

 

[zeeman66]

I feel just like Spatts.....sometimes ya..then i come on here and read what B Fold lifts and it shoots that theory str8 down the toilet lol.

 

[Hannibal]

I get that "hey I'm kinda strong" feeling every now and then...but I get it out of my system as soon as possible.

 

[Peckz]

I dont usually measure myself against other people and certainly not against strongmen. I'm not talking about feeling superior to the common guy like "look at that puny tiny individual, i one arm press more than he weighs." But rather the general feeling i have in my body. I just feel good. I wouldn't dream of actually saying this out loud to any of my friends as they would kick my ass if i did

Anyway its time for my back and shoulder day! I feel a deadlift PR is on the horizon.