Strength

This week I have felt stronger at the gym than I have in a number of months.  My intensity and focus feels better as well. I attribute it to a few things.

First off I mentioned how I have been forcing myself to eat more.  For so many years when I was hovering between the 185-190 pound range I always talked about how ideally I would like to drop 5 or so pounds to get closer to 180lbs.  Now I have the opposite issue, I am trying to gain 5 or 6lbs to get back to 180, it’s kind of bizarre.  The additional calories could be helping fuel my workouts.

Second, this week I started wearing my air pods to the gym.  Yes the same air pods that went through the washer and dryer in California.  Playing the Linkin Park channel while working out does something that feels akin to rotating the intensity dial a couple clicks.  When my buddy Rich and I used to have our bench press workouts in the basement of my Wernersville townhouse back in the 90’s it was always with a CD of hard driving, angry music.  There is a reason for it.

Finally, I have been feeling a little bit of that fire that is fueled by emotion.  Back in the early 2010’s I had a lot of that fuel.  It’s hard to describe but it is very powerful when harnessed correctly.  There is definitely some of that flowing through me nowadays and I plan to put it to good use.  It’s the type of scenario where I feel like I am waiting for someone to tell me I can’t do something and then proving them wrong, again and again and again. Depending what sort of tangent you have to me in your life it can be a good or bad thing.