Don't skip leg day

As I left the gym this morning, the eastern sky was the colors of a bomb pop and there was some planet (mckitterick would've known which one) was a blazing pinpoint in the darkest part of the blue. Gorgeous.

Yes, I was able to wake up in time to go to the gym again this morning. WOO HOO! Once again, I was the only person in the weight room except for the guys whom I've named (perhaps unfairly) The Douchebros. They're not spectacularly awful, and now that they've seen me doing actual Olympic Lifting on a regular basis I don't get the snickers and eyerolls they gave me when I first encountered them. On Tuesday one of them came over to help me remove a stuck spring clamp from a barbell. Wow, do I hate those spring clamps. I'm seriously considering buying my own set of Lock-Jaw Collars to bring with me to Robinson. But anyway, the Douchebros. They talk really loud and play the radio so I have to turn my MP3 player up pretty loud to drown them out. And all they do is upper body stuff, so they've got those body shapes that I find comical--super developed shoulders and arms (nearly no neck) and skinny legs with pretty much zero definition. I mean, I know it's hard for some guys to build leg muscles, but y'all aren't even trying. Not judging people's bodies is a big thing for me, now, but I'm not yet to the point where I don't judge other things, and the guys who lift only upper body stuff are as ripe for my derision as the guys who get on the Nautilus machines (always men, it is always men doing these things), make the weight super heavy and then do teensy little movements where they move the weight like three inches and think they're really building those muscles.



BTW, there's some fun stuff in the image results for "upper body weight meme."

"Skipping Leg Day" even shows up on Know Your Meme.

Awesome.

Aaaaaaaaaand I just remembered that I was supposed to do the summer course descriptions as well as the fall ones by noon, so BYE.

Heads-up

Tomorrow I'm going to repost the Body Image post that I put up last week in a format appropriate for sharing/re-blogging here and on Tumblr. I removed the link to the "What's Your Ethnicity" creep's FB convo (because of Real Names) and re-wrote some of the language so people who aren't familiar with my ongoing health issues won't be confused. I left in the cussing.

Feel free to share it if you like.

Also? Holy crap, my other post for today got 64 notes. Enough that they don't all display and you have to click to expand the threads.

THANK YOU ALL for being here and having conversations with me.