Things I Love about Lifting

[Curiosity]

This is meant to just be an open-ended question for those of us who both love muscle and are working to build our own. Just come here and list whatever it is you love about working out and all the things that go along with it. What do you love about lifting?

Top of my list right now is a good (cold) post-workout shower. Feeling the water hit my hot, fatigued muscles and wash the sweat away = heaven.

[ashland]

I love that I'm challenging myself each week, and each week I'm meeting those challenges. Whether it's a couple more reps or a heavier weight, I'm always improving.

Second to that, I love the pump. That feeling where your muscles are so swollen you can feel the skin stretching when you move. When you find your mobility is a bit limited by that swole. Yeah, that's a great feeling.

I also love how the veins on my forearms pop out when I'm lifting. Sometimes it's the little things like that!

[Mdlftr]

I love that I'm challenging myself, especially when I don't feel like it, or when I'd rather be doing almost anything else. I love feeling my muscles pump up, especially when I've started to "hit the groove" on push ups, or bench, and I can feel my targeted muscle working, stretching, pumping up.

A few hours afterwards, when I'm fatigued, and I'm winding down after having a muscle-growth friendly meal of protein, I smile to myself at how I'm going to be bigger and stronger!

Seeing the actual growth a few days later is great also!



Mdfltr

[Marty27]

I love that I can affect my physical appearance in a positive way to change and improve..."customize"...how my body is shaped more to my liking.

I love that improved musculature garners respect from people simply by just being there without having to perform, entertain, or amuse.

I love that it helps compensate, at least partially, for other more unhealthy lifestyle habits.

[schwermarko]

I love the blissful singleness of purpose in a 1rm attempt.

I love the gape I see on others faces when they find out what I lift, eat, or weigh.

I love the after meet meal-- where me and everyone around me has tested themseves-- nothing tastes better than the food in valhalla!