Have you ever worked out? I mean at a gym? If you have and more importantly with a certain amount of passion and expectation than I am sure you'll understand the feelings I am going to share with you over the next few lines.
Working out or Body Building or Weight training, (it really doesn't matter what you name it) is an addiction. It is a kind of intoxication, because it truly has the ability to give you a high. The kind of high that I doubt even the strongest of alcohol could match. To see your body transform into a toned, muscular specimen under the constant tension of pulling, lifting and pumping iron is an incredible feeling. As sweat drips through every pore of the body, as blood rushes through every vein and adrenaline fuels every nerve with strength and raw untamed energy, the bodybuilder experiences absolute bliss. In that moment, as you view your body in the mirror and admire every little swell of the muscle, there's only you and your body and everything else becomes insignificant.
Working out or Body Building or Weight training, (it really doesn't matter what you name it) is an addiction. It is a kind of intoxication, because it truly has the ability to give you a high. The kind of high that I doubt even the strongest of alcohol could match. To see your body transform into a toned, muscular specimen under the constant tension of pulling, lifting and pumping iron is an incredible feeling. As sweat drips through every pore of the body, as blood rushes through every vein and adrenaline fuels every nerve with strength and raw untamed energy, the bodybuilder experiences absolute bliss. In that moment, as you view your body in the mirror and admire every little swell of the muscle, there's only you and your body and everything else becomes insignificant.
Sadly however, nothing lasts forever, certainly not bliss. The old saying of what goes up must come down, comes true to haunt the bodybuilder. Because, the orgasmic high of bulging, pumped up muscles is very soon replaced by the depressing sight of the same rock hard tissues turning soft and limp. This happens when the swollen muscles relax and return to their shy, timid self. This fall from the high of pumping iron is every bodybuilder's tragedy and the sole reason that keeps him/her honest day in and day out. It keeps them gorging on those high protein diets and gulping down scoops of expensive protein powder. The bodybuilder goes through the pain, the sweat and the struggle every day only to experience that feeling again. Eventually, he finds that this is no more about body building or staying in shape rather this is his life and he must commit to it-mind, body and soul- to maintain it and perhaps more importantly never to lose it.
This then is the vicious cycle of Working Out. You work hard, you get a high, then you lose it and then must work even harder to get more of it. The moment you stop, you fall.
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