Protein Farts and DOMs... Things No One Warns You About The Life Of A Gym Rat
The life of a gym rat is not what you expected...
The Pain
Seriously, you have no comprehension of pain until you’ve dropped something you have to pick up after leg day. Or trying to get something off a high shelf when you’ve set a new personal best with military presses.
What’ll definitely surprise you is how much you’ll come to love that ache deep in your muscles telling you you kicked ass.
Protein Farts
When you sort out your macros you’re probably going to end up eating over 100g of protein everyday, and up to half of that can come from protein shakes. Stay away from the people you love – Protein farts are toxic beyond toxic. You will struggle to believe your body can really produce something that nasty. Don’t forget to look after your fibre intake too- if you don’t, it won’t take you long to figure out why you should.
You’ll Discover Muscles You Never Even Knew You Had
How much thought have you given to your lats lately? Your traps? Your quads? If you’re just starting to work out you’ve probably only thought about biceps and abs but give it a while, you’ll have a day just for targeting your back and you’ll be looking over your shoulder in the mirror to check out you lat spread.
You’ll Start Checking Out People Who Are In Good Shape... A Lot.
Once you start to understand how much work goes into those sculpted bodies, you’ll probably get caught checking them out. The guy with the full horse shoe triceps and the giant traps. The girl with the killer abs and the gravity defying glutes. If you’re in the gym, they’ll know you’re admiring their hard work.
You’ll Never Feel Like You’re Done
You’re in the best shape of your life, but now you know just how good a body can look, you’ll always be striving for something more. Doesn’t mean you’ll never be happy or proud, but you’ll always be pushing yourself to do better. You’ll also want to slap people who say ‘But why do you go to the gym, your already in great shape’.
Your News Feed Becomes Non Stop Fitness.
You’re following 50 nutrition pages, 100 body building groups and you’ve lost count of how many incredible athletes you check out every day. Theres a constant parade of motivational quotes, defined abs and protein powder recipes that you’ll definitely get off your ass and go work out.
You’ll Start To Correct People... All The Time
Whether its nutritional contents, ridiculous health myths, someone’s terrible form or a heated debate on iifym vs eating clean, you’ll definitely have an opinion, and if someone disagrees, you’ll probably feel obligated to enlighten them. It fine on occasion, but when your friend tell you to shut up, do it.