What a great workout I had today...

[alwaysgrowing]

All i can say is lifting can be cathartic. Today was the best workout I had in a while, and all because I am angry with myself right now. A few years ago, I was always angry and constantly lost my temper. But for the last two years, I have learned to control my temper. This past Friday, my inner demons got the best of me and I lost control for the first time since my partying days. NOt a good time. this led to emotional shit eating on saturday (insert your joke here) and a wasted day yesterday when the only time I left my bed was to finish a paper due today.

This morning I still felt like shit. NOt myself at all. finally dragged myself to the gym, and what a workout. I added 5 pounds per dumbbell for my lateral raises and still banged out more reps than I usually do. Ten pounds more on my shrugs, and 10 per pound on my shoulder presses. Add in some angry cardio, and I am finally beginning to fell normal again.

[alwaysgrowing]

I was like this when my father passed...I saw a shrink for almost 2yrs twice a week...What I learned was to channel that anger into something possitive...I still do that today when I get angry...I tend to knick pick people apart and I hate it...

I don't knick pick as much as I hate everyone. I avoid contact as much as possible. the gym allows an outlet for my frustrations. Probably not the healthiest thing, but it works for me

[Bouncer]

no doubt, the gym is therapy.

i would be in some real trouble if i hadnt joined a gym in when i was in high school. gym saved me.

[alwaysgrowing]

The only time I am happy, is while I write or am in the gym. Everything during the day leads to those two things.

[Mr I]

When I was a kid my parents had split and dad died shortly after, I was surrounded by violence and the gym was absolutely my saviour, add to that I was and to a point still am quite obsessive by nature. The alternative was going out with mates getting drunk and pilled up, whereas the gym was the perfect antidote where when I'd finish my workouts I had no energy to care about anything else that night, if I'd have been doing what my mates were I think I'd have finished up in a mess.