When I was in college, I worked for the athletic dept, all four years. Part of what I used to do was watch the university weight room. You know – check IDs, clean up, give guys a spot…that sorta thing.

Well, as you can imagine, there were a whole host of different little cliques of people that would come in. There were the bodybuilder wannabes, the guys wanting to be super-strong, the dudes that lifted just to lift, the girls who used to come in wearing short shorts and sports bras to get attention from the dudes (too bad they were butt-ugly, though… *shrug*).

There were two dudes that used to come in and train together all the time. Nice enough guys – we all got along well enough. They were a little older than me at the time, and had the whole “Maxim” kinda vibe going.

They cared about how they looked, what kinda cologne was the best, designer-label jeans, hair care products…these dudes were metrosexual before there even was metrosexual.

(Personally, I thought it was all pansy-ass and kinda fairy-like, but like I said, they were cool enough dudes, and that’s all I really cared about. They didn’t try to ‘convert’ me, nor I them.)

One night, one of the dudes comes in to work out by himself, as evidently his buddy had to study or something, so I ended up giving him a spot. Thought it was kinda odd, really, as he was asking for a spot on some seated DB overhead presses…and he was using 45 lbs. DBs.

And this dude was prolly about 6′ tall, and weighed a solid 200 lbs. or so. He had decent muscle size, and a good bone structure. He shoulda been pushing A LOT more weight than that.

Anyway, after a set or two, I ask him if he wants to go up, and he just shook his head. He was concentrating on his workout, which was cool w/me, so I didn’t ask again. I just gave him a spot.

When he was done, he came up to me and we bullshitted for a bit. Not being able to resist myself, I asked him again why he hadn’t used more weight. He coulda easily been putting up 60s or 65s with good form.

He proceeds to go on this diatribe about using constant tension, and always feeling the muscle, and controlled movement, yadda yadda. But the thing that opened my eyes was when he said, “I don’t care how strong I am”.

Uhhhhh….what? Say that again…

He then goes on about how all he wants to do is look good so he can bang hot chicks. There wasn’t any other purpose to his working out than that.

Now, I can respect that and all, but c’mon…you don’t even wanna be able to back up what you look like you can do? And I asked him, b/c he had a decent-enough build, what are you gonna do when somebody sees your physique – essentially “talking the talk” – and then expects you to be able to “walk the walk”?

I don’t remember what he said, but he clearly wasn’t worried.

About two weeks later, I saw him in the weight room again, and he was hitting on one of the sports bra skanks I mentioned earlier. Evidently she were impressed w/his physique, and he was giving her tips on how to squat correctly.

That is, until a buddy of mine – quiet dude, about 5’7″, maybe 165 lbs, and pretty damn strong for his size – asked to “work in” on the squat rack. The metrosexual dude said “sure”…only to watch my buddy walk into the rack, and instead of doing squats, proceed to do a set of pushpresses with the weight the other dude was squatting with.

Ouch.

I had to laugh, and my buddy walked to me just grinning from ear to ear. LMAO. All of a sudden, the girl wasn’t too interested in what ole’ boy had to say anymore.

Moral of the story – I don’t care what your goals are…looking like Tarzan and playing like Jane won’t *ever* get you there. So why even risk it?

Get a proper workout like Body Armor instead, and not only look good…but perform good, too.

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Have a kickass weekend.

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Matt “Wiggy” Wiggins
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