Storytime: >at Uni gym >on the treadmill >have only been working out for 7 days - 1 week exactly >personal best up to this point is 3.5 miles in 28 minutes >qt girl gets on the machine next to me >can clearly see each other in peripheral vision >for a few seconds a time, she occasionally turns her head in my direction and looks at me >don't want to stop running before she does >end up pushing myself to 5 miles in 35 minutes - crushing my personal best in both pace and distance
Ok Veeky Forums, two questions.
How much of that was just additional motivation from wanting to impress a cute girl, opposed to previous workouts paying off with an increase to my stamina?
she was not impressed by your cardio but the power of "girls are watching" is not to be underestimated. hahaha fucking cardio.
Zachary Perry
was both, but mostly motivation.
a lot of conditioning is neurological. Just convincing your brain that you could go longer and harder.
Rather than listen to your brain tell you to stop because you've "had enough", you were distracted and/or motivated by the dumb slut you fooled yourself into thinking was looking at you in your peripheral.
Dominic Jones
This is why I love running popular routes on weekends. The qt mire is a tremendous driving force. I'll be damned if I'm going to be walking when a qt runs by me.
Kevin Butler
>haha fucking cardio What's so funny? Only joke I see is you, probably some big liftfag freak, thinking cardio is a joke.
Fact: cardio is all exercise all the time. There are no breaks. It's just you and your own body and mind against the clock.
Fact: if you lift for an hour, you only have you hand on the weight for 15 minutes, a measely quarter of the time, while everything else is posturing trying to look cool and trying to catch your breath because you can't walk a flight of stairs without feeling exhausted
Low reps and low reps makes you a fucking bitch
Body weight muscular endurance is even more impressive
Michael Diaz
She kept looking over because of your loud mouthbreathing.
Nicholas Bailey
I love cardio because you can do better every single session without exception. You can push as hard as you're mentally able and fuck what your body thinks.
Jayden Miller
>have only been working out for 7 days - 1 week exactly >end up pushing myself to 5 miles in 35 minutes