SteelWeaver
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I was flying high on my bike this morning, feeling my legs pump, feeling the cool fresh breeze, the world clean after yesterday's typhoon, and thinking ...
By the end of this year, I will have spent more than 8 months of the year dieting. There's this huge tunnel vision thing that happens on a comp. diet - you just can't focus on anything else to much of an extent.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing or an indifferent thing? I feel I've learnt so much about where my limits AREN'T, and my over-riding feeling is that I've grown as a person in terms of my knowledge about myself, confidence, etc. But I also wonder if training and dieting so hard, and focussing so small, doesn't take one AWAY from oneself as well. When I train, I only think about the muscle pumping, contracting, releasing, resisting. The next move, the next rep, the weight, the SENSATION. When I ride I don't think a whole lot - it's so much more the SENSATION.
Are bodybuilders sensation addicts? Do you have a philosophy? Do you consider the socio-cultural ramifications of the way you make your body? How do you see yourself within the broader spectrum of society - both as a woman and as a bodybuilder?
Is it just how we FEEL and how we LOOK????
By the end of this year, I will have spent more than 8 months of the year dieting. There's this huge tunnel vision thing that happens on a comp. diet - you just can't focus on anything else to much of an extent.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing or an indifferent thing? I feel I've learnt so much about where my limits AREN'T, and my over-riding feeling is that I've grown as a person in terms of my knowledge about myself, confidence, etc. But I also wonder if training and dieting so hard, and focussing so small, doesn't take one AWAY from oneself as well. When I train, I only think about the muscle pumping, contracting, releasing, resisting. The next move, the next rep, the weight, the SENSATION. When I ride I don't think a whole lot - it's so much more the SENSATION.
Are bodybuilders sensation addicts? Do you have a philosophy? Do you consider the socio-cultural ramifications of the way you make your body? How do you see yourself within the broader spectrum of society - both as a woman and as a bodybuilder?
Is it just how we FEEL and how we LOOK????