You don’t have 22 different bars but only one pair of shoes.
You haven’t fallen backwards and ripped the toilet off the floor getting ready for a shit when your legs have given way after squat day
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People in a commercial gym don’t stare at you when you lift
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You haven’t made quite a few regrettable decisions after hard workouts
You haven’t spilled enough blood and uttered enough blasphemy that you were just one pentagram shy from summoning a demon during a workout.
Your username isn’t T3hPwnisher or Alpha.
from a set of max rep deadlifts a year ago. I ended up doing 90kgx12. Blood started running down my leg 4 reps in. I’ll never forget to cut my nails again…
I broke my big toe once and the hospital gave me an air boot that I was told to wear anytime I would be on my feet. I always took it off for squat and deadlift day and thought to myself if I just put all my weight onto my heel I’ll be fine. The toe never healed properly for some reason
You haven’t held in your pee on a max set because if you stop to go pee, you’ll leak energy and break your focus from walking to the bathroom and back to your set up.
You’re not using the time between sets to shadow box.
You haven’t won a shadowboxing match by knockout.