Small Syndrome!

[bd868484]

No matter how big i get i always feel so small. At 22 250lbs my arms are a puffy 20inches pumped at 6ft but i still feel like they are tiny. Am I the only one like this? I kno i have some type of image problem! had 30inch quads at one time squatted 405 for 23 all natural and then decided my legs were big and stopped working them out for a while so they shrunk up. I feel like i worry about this to stuff way to much but I just cant help it. I think it may be because I use to play pro baseball at one point a couple of years back and because of a bad shoulder i had to quit doing what I love to do and was the best at. Its like I was in the spotlight and use to people looking up to me and admiring me and now I dont have that. So in a way I want to be in the spotlight but not really because I bodybuild because I love it and do it for myself. But just wondering if anyone else has this issue

 

[lilbulldog]

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[vitor]

Get real real ripped you will look bigger, and stronger to the average person... Just mentally know your limits, no use trying to get into the 300lb mark if your just lifting for fun

 

[bd868484]

well im not really lifting for fun Ive got one comp under my belt and want to do more but if I dont feel I look good i wont ever do another no matter how good I look. but yea i do need to get ripped again that does make a difference

 

[b4n30n3]

I hear you. I am up to 235 now at 6' when I used to be 170 and I still feel tiny. I am sure alot of you big guys on here are like "you are still tiny." but my point is I have gained a decent amount and I still feel about the same so yea I gues I got bigorexia too. Back when I was sup 200 my thought was once I hit the 250 mark I would be huge but now I think I will still feel very small at 250 so now I got to aim for like 285. Part of it I think is from looking at pictures of the pros like ronnie all the time and my brain associating what ronnie looks like as normal when normal people would call ronnie a freak.

 

[superman21]

yea i am about 6'3 258 lbs. When i look in the mirror i still think i look tiny. People tell me im huge but thats not what im seeing. your your worst critique. when i get to 280 ill probly think the same thing. haha

 

[doctorwill]

I think it is natural to always want a bit more, whether you are talking about income, job titles, your car, or your size if you are a lifter.

But, you also need to learn to be happy where you are. I haven't sorted it all out myself, but I am aware of it. And as has been pointed out already, there is a syndrome where guys want to get big and buff and don't see that they alread ARE big and buff.

Me, I am 5'8" and 195 and am as ripped as I have ever been (by that I mean I have a 6 pack). Normally, I am the most muscular person at any get together (for my height) and I am 40. You guys are monsters. Not the biggest person on the planet, but in the top one percent. Relax and enjoy.

 

[Girth]

You're 22 as well. The ambition of a 22 year old is outrageous. And I'm guessing you are single. Therefore, you have the time, desire, and right to pour every spare moment into bettering yourself. Once you get a bit older and have other priorities, you'll see that being happy with yourself comes easier.

It also sounds like you aren't happy with the other parts of your life. I know that when all else in life was going bad, I made the best gains. Why, because I focused on that which was the only thing in my life that I had total control of. There are few things in which you and only you, make or break your success. Another reason so many of us love to lift. The black and white of lifting more weight appeals to one, after a day of working with success that comes in all shades of gray.

But it's just human nature to want more. The question is, when does the wanting more outweigh the cost to your health and longevity? Especially when you someday have grandkids that want to sit on your massive quads.

 

[bd868484]

i mean i have a girlfriend that likes the way I look and I dont seem to care I just want to get bigger and better. I attend a big university where I am majoring in exercise and sport science in my 3rd year now and it seems my lifting takes priority over my life not school and work. I am even a certified personal trainer and know alot more then the trainers at the gym I go to but have never trained a soul because I feel that I should look a certain way to train these people and that means being big and ripped and I just dont feel that I am. In my mind it just says, look at me I know what I am doing so listen to what I have to say. When in reality it doesnt really work that way but in my mind it does.