Does anyone here body build and experience this? I’m now on sarms and I have gotten big in a short amount of time but it feels never good enough. I measure my arms several times a day and constantly check mirrors.
I’ve been lifting for a little while and I can say I have my days where I feel small AF. I really have to remind myself of the progress I’ve made or else I get depressed or mad at myself. I thinks it’s because part of our brain sees the difference but another part still sees us as we’ve seen ourselves before because that’s what we were used to.
I have a pic of myself when I started so I can look at and be objective about the gains I’ve made. Makes me appreciate my progress and the work I’ve put in so far to get where I’m at now. I do the mirror check too haha especially after a workout in the locker room nude or in underwear.
Another thing that helps is seeing someone you haven’t seen in a while and unsolicited tell you how much mass you’ve put on. Def bumps your ego up a bit and oddly helps me put it into perspective.
A watched pot never boils so I would only measure once a month. Hope this helps bro!
I feel you on the ego boost @dante33 lol. Never done a cycle here but when you start seeing changes AND then when others see it, you def wanna push yourself more. It’s like seeing a whole new person in the mirror.I went back to gym as soon as they opened back in September '20. I gained about 15 pounds in that time and began loosing some of the Covid-quarantine-fat.
Then I felt like "yeah I wanna go further". I started a cycle 2 weeks ago and man... I began checking myself in every mirror or surface reflective enough. I go to the gym, train and obsess over my rep count, weight I lift and wether my clothes are tigher already.
Plus, the comments. Dudes and girls checking me out in the gym or in the street. Its pure, unadulterated ego boost. Confidence through the roof.
Back when I was young, an uncle ran a gym. One of the trainers once told me that many guys start saying they "just wanna be healthy" and that definitely "don't wanna get jacked", but once they see the changes, litle by little they obsess over it and want more and more.
My coach (he's an ex-pro-bodybuilder btw) also warned me that at the end of the cycle I'm gona want more. That anabolics are addictive by proxy, as unlike other drugs they don't make you "forget" or "escape" or "feel good". The addictive part is the feedback you receive and give yourself.
This sounds more like simple obsessive compulsive behavior and unrealistic expectations. As @Scarletbegonia mentioned, body dysmorphia is more like feeling you’re in a different body than you actually are. That’s something I’ve struggled with for a long time. I used to be 300+ pounds and even down at 185 I still felt like I was in a 300 pound body. It’s been over ten years and I still have days where I feel like I’m inside that 300 pound body. Mostly, I understand that I am not that person anymore... but on dark days I have to remind myself that people are gawking at me because I have a green Mohawk and I’m a woman who’s 200 pounds of muscle... but it takes actually convincing myself sometimes that they’re not gawking at me because I’m fat.Does anyone here body build and experience this? I’m now on sarms and I have gotten big in a short amount of time but it feels never good enough. I measure my arms several times a day and constantly check mirrors.
Happened to me once. Dude couldn't stop fondling my pecs and arms and moaning like an omega in heat as I f'd him. When it comes to ego boost, that's as good as gets!Once I was naked, he couldn’t stop touching my chest and arms and kept saying how big I was and asking me to flex while I pounded him.
This sounds more like simple obsessive compulsive behavior and unrealistic expectations. As @Scarletbegonia mentioned, body dysmorphia is more like feeling you’re in a different body than you actually are. That’s something I’ve struggled with for a long time. I used to be 300+ pounds and even down at 185 I still felt like I was in a 300 pound body. It’s been over ten years and I still have days where I feel like I’m inside that 300 pound body. Mostly, I understand that I am not that person anymore... but on dark days I have to remind myself that people are gawking at me because I have a green Mohawk and I’m a woman who’s 200 pounds of muscle... but it takes actually convincing myself sometimes that they’re not gawking at me because I’m fat.
In answer to your question though... yeah, dude. We almost all feel like that. That’s part of the sickness that is being a bodybuilder lol Part of it just that we see our bodies every day so they’re much less impressive to us than they are to other people. As you push yourself harder in the gym and you get bigger and better, your baseline for “impressive” gets pushed too. When I started I just wanted to have nice legs. Next I just wanted people to be able to tell that I lift... even a little. Then I started joking with people that I was trying to look like GI Jane (but she’s a little too bulky), then I changed my mind and decided that wasn’t too bulky but just where I’d love to be... and then I was like “eeehhhh maybe a little bigger... I mean... I am 5’9” Now I’m well beyond that body type and people constantly make comments about my muscle... and as I’m cutting I’m like “damn I need to bring my arms up... and my glutes... and I’d like some more size on my quads”. Lol this shit never ends. You’re definitely not alone.
I’ve mostly managed to avoid the bootygains mania... but at this point it doesn’t even match the rest of my muscularity so... lol *eye roll*laughing along with
“damn I need to bring my arms up... and my glutes... and I’d like some more size on my quads”.
I’m merely trying to be fit, no greater expectation, just power my skinny ass down the trail.
And I still think, yanno, I should push that glute medius...it’s kind of flat. (Like pancake flat)
not that I expect the OP to acknowledge two lowly women.....
I’ve mostly managed to avoid the bootygains mania... but at this point it doesn’t even match the rest of my muscularity so... lol *eye roll*
fiiiiine. Fine! I’ll risk looking like an insta-ho. Blah lol
Same I gained 5 pounds of muscle in only one month and lost 2% of body fat but like you said it’s ever enough I hope to get to you 8 or 9% and keep 190lbsDoes anyone here body build and experience this? I’m now on sarms and I have gotten big in a short amount of time but it feels never good enough. I measure my arms several times a day and constantly check mirrors.