It begins even before I start to lift any weight. As the arginine causes nitric oxide to begin dilating my blood vessels and the creatine and amino acids I ingest beforehand start to make it's way into saturating the muscle cells, my core body temperature rises; it begins.
Between shutting my car door and walking the 3 or so sets of stairs to my haven of hell, all I can think of is how much pain I will be in and how much I will enjoy every second of it. The door closes behind me after the distinguished beep of my card swiping across the scanner. People naturally stare at whom has entered but I am not fazed as a quick click of my ipod sends rumbles of drum and bass to my ears, my silence.
No time is wasted, but the 5 or so minutes of moderate incline walking to warm up seems to pass by in an instant. A quick piss and I am already in front of myself, holding the weights to start my first set.
Here we go.
Rep after rep, set after set, exercise after exercise; and I'm only at front lifts. The drop sets on the beginning militaries absolutely wrecked and thoughts of completing this session begin to dim. The pain becomes unbearable by the second set of lifts but knowing that success only lies in reps past failure, I push on. 11, 12, one more, are the last things recovered from the previous set and it's time to finish. The twelve sets of militaries, and front lifts with varying grips prepare me for the second half of deltoids exercises. If this was pain, I didn't want to imagine what would come next.
A superset of lateral lifts and rack shrugs was about to put me on my arse. As the fuckwits behind me are laughing and throwing medicine balls are each other, my vision is tunneled; I'm surprised I actually noticed them. The set gets heavy and as I hesitate to go heavier for the next set, it still gets done. The third set sends me into hyperventilation but the torture is nearly over. It's a drop set on the last weight on the stack, and rack shrugs to failure. It's over, well, it's downhill from now anyway.
The bar militaries and reverse delt flies go by undisturbed and without too much drama. The slight pump in the biceps from the laterals end the weights on cable curls and off to the treadmill to warm down. I restart my playlist and it begins again. With lactic acid still present there's still lasting pain until 10 or so minutes have passed. A moderate incline walk on 5 speed saturates my already wet shirt and the halo of heat and stench which radiates from me makes me think what other people think and how much I didn't care. To get by every minute, I occupy my mind with quotes of those whom have succeeded. I think of how they got there and how I will make my own way there. 35 minutes later and my session is over.
Standing cold and clotheless in a freezing shower, I only think of what I can do better next time. 'I'll vary my grip for an extra set of lifts and increase my cardio another 5 minutes next session'. With a protein shake in hand- extra dextrose for nutrient delivery, I walk down the 3 sets of stairs after a distinguished beep of the door closing behind me and sit down in my car after closing it.
This is my life now. Am I obsessed; probably, but success stems from obsession
I will succeed.
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My Goals
1. Find a job
2. Make my own money
3. Paint a picture
4. Write a song ½
5. Go sky-diving
6. Go snowboarding
7. Go water skiing
8. See snow
9. Finish primary school
10. Finish high school
11. Make it to Otago University
12. Travel
13. Go to Africa
14. Reach 100 goals
15. Reach 200 goals
16. Reach 300 goals
17. Go to university
18. write and manage a blog
19. Graduate from university
20. Write a book
21. To worry less
22. To not worry at all
23. Get a black belt 2nd Dan
24. Read the top 100 books of all time
25. Watch the top 100 movies of all time
26. Name a star
27. Sort 5 kilos of M & M's into colours and then give it to someone for a gift
28. Fold 1000 paper stars
29. Fold 1000 paper cranes
30. See a comet
31. See a meteor shower
32. Save a persons life
33. Cheat death
34. Be independent
35. Become a radiotherapist
36. Become a doctor
37. Watch a world cup rugby match (Aus vs NZ)
38. Have a beer with every single mate of mine
39. Inspire someone
40. Get to the 100 kg mark
41. Get to the 90 kg mark
42. Get toned
43. Ride a hot air balloon
44. Fly a plane
45. Own a house
46. Own a car
47. Know who I am
48. Stop wasting time
49. Have a BBQ with all my mates
50. Sing to someone I care about 2x
51. Tell someone how I feel about them
52. Bungee jump
53. Hang-glide
54. Own a coffee shop
55. Own a place for friends to just hang out
56. Tell her I like her
57. Watch the sunrise
58. Watch the sunset
59. Drink absinthe
60. Stargaze and know what I'm talking about
61. Have a picture taken with the Eiffel tower
62. Play the guitar
63. Stop dad from smoking
64. Knowing that all my friends are successful
65. Knowing that my family is successful
66. Seeing mum and dad retire happily
67. Pay off mum and dads debts
68. Pay off mum and dads house
69. Send the mortgage paid certificate to them by post
70. Seeing little sister graduate from high-school
71. Seeing little sister graduate from university
72. Getting university degrees
73. Buy dad a big boat
74. Being able to sing and play the guitar at the same time
75. Get back into Taekwondo
76. Live without television for a week
77. Live without television for 2 weeks
78. Going up to mount Cootha with all my mates and having dinner
79. Going up to mount Cootha and yelling I love you
80. Take at least one photo of everything that makes me me.
81. Touch a python
82. Make a website
83. Do something I will be remembered for
84. Play the piano
85. To live life
86. Being able to sleep through my alarm clock
87. Being able to wake up on time without the need of my
alarm clock
88. To be loved
89. To love someone so much that everyday would be like the first day I met them.
90. See a green fairy
91. Sleep earlier
92. Go to France
93. Watch Amelie
94. Walk the streets of Montmatre
95. Get so pissed that I can't remember anything from the night before
96. Shout mate's dinner at some fancy restaurant
97. Shout mate's dinner KFC
98. See parents proud of me
99. Assist a child in need
100. Watch Amelie with Justine
101. Talk more
102. Smile more
103. Be less miserable
104. Stop swearing
105. Build charity housing for the needing
106. Less going onto MSN
107. Less using the computer
108. Enter a billiard pool competition
109. Make own charity
110. Go to a concert
111. Make people happy
112. Play in the rain
113. Make a coffee for someone and them saying it's the best they have ever had
114. Cook a meal for someone
115. Be more forgiving
116. Plant trees
117. Learn to say I love you in 100 languages
118. Ask the words will you marry me
119. Loving someone who loves me back
120. Stay in contact with all high school mates
121. Scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef
122. Get FAT tattooed
123. Be more different
124. Send a postcard
125. Have an 8 hour phone conversation
126. Throw a snowball
127. Get married and stay married
128. See 20
129. See 30
130. See 40
131. See 50
132. See 60
133. Touch someone
134. Mosh
135. Survive schoolies
136. Showing someone I care
137. Eat a kilo of anything in one go
138. Chug down a gallon of milk with 3 friends
139. Talk to a stranger
140. Get lost in a hedge maze
141. Learn to cook
142. Send an e-mail to everyone I care about
143. Survive a whole day without talking
144. Do the 40 hour famine
145. Write a letter to everyone I care about
146. Being able to drive
147. Donate blood
148. Participate in a bone marrow transplant
149. Give a kidney to someone I care about
150. Walk through a cemetery at night ½
151. Shitting pants with a bunch of mates
152. Go camping
153. Go on a road trip
154. Get Abs
155. Go sights seeing in New Zealand
156. Make a million bucks
157. Give a million bucks
158. Invent something useful
159. Eat an award winning pie
160. Get a henna tattoo
161. Shave my head
162. Shave my head for leukemia
163. Have a group photo with everyone in it
164. Finish a bottle of vodka
165. Have more wins than loses in yahoo pool
166. Finish The Da Vinchi Code
167. See the museums of France
168. Write and publish a poem
169. Go to skirmish
170. Go Ice-skating
171. Send a postcard
172. Get a degree in business management
173. Go to guitar classes
174. Go to photography classes
175. Grow a plant
176. Learn sign language
177. Being able to google something I made or something related to me
178. Knit a scarf for someone
179. Being able to dunk
180. Get drunk
181. Get a photo framed
182. Win an award
183. Light fireworks
184. Watch fireworks with the people I care about
185. Being able to sing a song in Spanish/ Latin
186. Taking bean sprouts out of the machine in 3 scoops
187. Taking bean sprouts out of the machine in 2 scoops
188. Catching a 5 kilo fish
189. Learning how to fly fish
190. Getting Boat license
191. Finish hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
2. Make my own money
3. Paint a picture
4. Write a song ½
5. Go sky-diving
6. Go snowboarding
7. Go water skiing
8. See snow
9. Finish primary school
10. Finish high school
11. Make it to Otago University
12. Travel
13. Go to Africa
14. Reach 100 goals
15. Reach 200 goals
16. Reach 300 goals
17. Go to university
18. write and manage a blog
19. Graduate from university
20. Write a book
21. To worry less
22. To not worry at all
23. Get a black belt 2nd Dan
24. Read the top 100 books of all time
25. Watch the top 100 movies of all time
26. Name a star
27. Sort 5 kilos of M & M's into colours and then give it to someone for a gift
28. Fold 1000 paper stars
29. Fold 1000 paper cranes
30. See a comet
31. See a meteor shower
32. Save a persons life
33. Cheat death
34. Be independent
35. Become a radiotherapist
36. Become a doctor
37. Watch a world cup rugby match (Aus vs NZ)
38. Have a beer with every single mate of mine
39. Inspire someone
40. Get to the 100 kg mark
41. Get to the 90 kg mark
42. Get toned
43. Ride a hot air balloon
44. Fly a plane
45. Own a house
46. Own a car
47. Know who I am
48. Stop wasting time
49. Have a BBQ with all my mates
50. Sing to someone I care about 2x
51. Tell someone how I feel about them
52. Bungee jump
53. Hang-glide
54. Own a coffee shop
55. Own a place for friends to just hang out
56. Tell her I like her
57. Watch the sunrise
58. Watch the sunset
59. Drink absinthe
60. Stargaze and know what I'm talking about
61. Have a picture taken with the Eiffel tower
62. Play the guitar
63. Stop dad from smoking
64. Knowing that all my friends are successful
65. Knowing that my family is successful
66. Seeing mum and dad retire happily
67. Pay off mum and dads debts
68. Pay off mum and dads house
69. Send the mortgage paid certificate to them by post
70. Seeing little sister graduate from high-school
71. Seeing little sister graduate from university
72. Getting university degrees
73. Buy dad a big boat
74. Being able to sing and play the guitar at the same time
75. Get back into Taekwondo
76. Live without television for a week
77. Live without television for 2 weeks
78. Going up to mount Cootha with all my mates and having dinner
79. Going up to mount Cootha and yelling I love you
80. Take at least one photo of everything that makes me me.
81. Touch a python
82. Make a website
83. Do something I will be remembered for
84. Play the piano
85. To live life
86. Being able to sleep through my alarm clock
87. Being able to wake up on time without the need of my
alarm clock
88. To be loved
89. To love someone so much that everyday would be like the first day I met them.
90. See a green fairy
91. Sleep earlier
92. Go to France
93. Watch Amelie
94. Walk the streets of Montmatre
95. Get so pissed that I can't remember anything from the night before
96. Shout mate's dinner at some fancy restaurant
97. Shout mate's dinner KFC
98. See parents proud of me
99. Assist a child in need
100. Watch Amelie with Justine
101. Talk more
102. Smile more
103. Be less miserable
104. Stop swearing
105. Build charity housing for the needing
106. Less going onto MSN
107. Less using the computer
108. Enter a billiard pool competition
109. Make own charity
110. Go to a concert
111. Make people happy
112. Play in the rain
113. Make a coffee for someone and them saying it's the best they have ever had
114. Cook a meal for someone
115. Be more forgiving
116. Plant trees
117. Learn to say I love you in 100 languages
118. Ask the words will you marry me
119. Loving someone who loves me back
120. Stay in contact with all high school mates
121. Scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef
122. Get FAT tattooed
123. Be more different
124. Send a postcard
125. Have an 8 hour phone conversation
126. Throw a snowball
127. Get married and stay married
128. See 20
129. See 30
130. See 40
131. See 50
132. See 60
133. Touch someone
134. Mosh
135. Survive schoolies
136. Showing someone I care
137. Eat a kilo of anything in one go
138. Chug down a gallon of milk with 3 friends
139. Talk to a stranger
140. Get lost in a hedge maze
141. Learn to cook
142. Send an e-mail to everyone I care about
143. Survive a whole day without talking
144. Do the 40 hour famine
145. Write a letter to everyone I care about
146. Being able to drive
147. Donate blood
148. Participate in a bone marrow transplant
149. Give a kidney to someone I care about
150. Walk through a cemetery at night ½
151. Shitting pants with a bunch of mates
152. Go camping
153. Go on a road trip
154. Get Abs
155. Go sights seeing in New Zealand
156. Make a million bucks
157. Give a million bucks
158. Invent something useful
159. Eat an award winning pie
160. Get a henna tattoo
161. Shave my head
162. Shave my head for leukemia
163. Have a group photo with everyone in it
164. Finish a bottle of vodka
165. Have more wins than loses in yahoo pool
166. Finish The Da Vinchi Code
167. See the museums of France
168. Write and publish a poem
169. Go to skirmish
170. Go Ice-skating
171. Send a postcard
172. Get a degree in business management
173. Go to guitar classes
174. Go to photography classes
175. Grow a plant
176. Learn sign language
177. Being able to google something I made or something related to me
178. Knit a scarf for someone
179. Being able to dunk
180. Get drunk
181. Get a photo framed
182. Win an award
183. Light fireworks
184. Watch fireworks with the people I care about
185. Being able to sing a song in Spanish/ Latin
186. Taking bean sprouts out of the machine in 3 scoops
187. Taking bean sprouts out of the machine in 2 scoops
188. Catching a 5 kilo fish
189. Learning how to fly fish
190. Getting Boat license
191. Finish hitchhikers guide to the galaxy