When I am doing absolutely anything other than physically exerting myself, I do not like to sweat. I dislike sweating walking to and from Starbucks in the summer months, I do not like sweating after spending two minutes in the stifling garage looking for a particular tool. I dislike sweat when I’m enjoying myself at a convention taking pictures, walking around and watching people. I even dislike sweating when I’m at a baseball game, which is absolutely ludicrous considering baseball is a sport played in the summertime.
The bottom line is that when it is not time to sweat, I do not like it when my body’s core temperature has risen and it feels the need to secrete some perspiration to cool itself down.
But when it is time to sweat, not only do I not mind sweating, I actually kind of love it.
Sweating is like tangible proof of the effort I’m expending, and let’s myself and everyone who can see me know that I am probably working harder than you are.
Way more often than naught, I am usually the sweatiest guy at my gym when I go. Sure, that might sound a little gross, but the fact of the matter is that, and I’m not just saying it to boast or brag, but I am usually doing way more working out than anyone else is, in a more condensed window of time. The fact that I do cardio at all, is typically where the sweat is mostly generated, whether it’s 35 minutes on the treadmill or a stationary bicycle, I’m always going to be sweating hard afterward.
For reals, I sweat more than Patrick Ewing, or Rocky Balboa. I LITRALLY. Can wring out my shirt in the sink and squeeze out actual fluid from it after my workout. Gross, maybe. Awesomely representative of how hard I’ve worked, definitely.
And then, I hit the weights, and spend vastly less time in between lifts wasting time on my phone or bullshitting and playing grab-ass with all the other princesses at the gym.
Seriously, there’s nobody I’ve seen that does as much of both cardio and weights as I do. If I wanted to not have to shower after my “workout,” I could just do weights like the vast majority of goers do, since developing vanity muscles are the only reason to go for these phonies. But I strive for overall physical conditioning and improvement, even if it means I’m not going to look like an Adonis, and I look like the grossest, sweatiest person at the gym.
