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    • Lifting and thinking nasty thoughts...

    Posts: 45
    edited January 10 in Fitness and Exercise
    I find lifting weights kinda boring/tough at times, so I was estatic when I came across two research studies a couple weeks ago. The first claims that if you swore while enduring pain, you could lift heavier stuff and the second concluded that you could lift heavier if you were thinking about doing harm to someone/something. I decided if I did both, I would get double benefit!

    So I've been thinking and saying some nasty thoughts while lifting. Not along the lines of "little bunny Fu Fu, hopping through the forest, scooping up the fieldmice, and bopping them on the head" (I work out at home, no gym bunnies to deal with). My fantasies run more to the old schoolyard taunt -
    "I'M GONNA RIP YOUR HEAD OFF AN SPIT DOWN THE HOLE!!!"

    One problem though, I'm finding that I have residual aggression to get rid of after my workout. So my question is if I act out some of my thoughts, can I sue the researchers for publishing their work? :laugh:

    oh, yeah, I'm new here and looking for some friends....you know, for support and motivation...:flowerforyou:

    Sources
    Richard Stephens et al., "Swearing as a response to pain," NeuroReport, 2009, 20, 1056-1060
    Kurt Gray, "Moral transformation: Good and evil turn the weak into the mighty," Social Psychological & Personality Science, 2010, 1(3), 253-258

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    • Posts: 2
      Sounds bogus. Motivation should be in the fact that you just want to move the weight and improve yourself. Set some goals, work hard to get gains, achieve goals, reassess what you want, do it again.
    • Posts: 1,414 Member
      If you have left over agression, you didn;t work out hard enough. Stop slackin'
    • Posts: 2,390 Member
      I miss football so much...legalized *kitten* whooping.
    • Posts: 20
      I think its worth a shot. jk
    • Posts: 3,924 Member
      When I pick up my deadlifts, or do my benches, I do it with my middle finger extended.
    • Posts: 1,615 Member
      Well, now I understand why I used to enjoy lifting so much back when.
    • Posts: 1,004 Member
      I say a very rude word under my breathe every time I complete a set of squats.
    • Posts: 61,406 Member
      Do some cardio after you lift. I read something on the internet that says cardio shrinks your testicles
    • Posts: 1,897 Member
      Do some cardio after you lift. I read something on the internet that says cardio shrinks your testicles
      Yea, you "read" it somewhere.
    • Posts: 1,414 Member
      Do some cardio after you lift. I read something on the internet that says cardio shrinks your testicles

      Cause it's for girls!
    • Posts: 45
      Thanks! I'll get right to that...
    • Posts: 3,958 Member
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      Cause it's for girls!

      oh no you DIDNT.





      Also,I think about various things while lifting...whatever gets it done...I dont find it boring at all
    • Posts: 3,346 Member
      I listen to Pantera. Usually good for another rep or two. \m/
    • Posts: 2,186 Member
      I just think about what my *kitten* is gonna look like in June and there is not stopping me.
    • Posts: 41,865 Member
      I was thinking that this thread was going to be about something completely different.
    • Posts: 3,779 Member
      you can put any action you do on an everyday basis and add "and thinking nasty thoughts" and you have my life.
    • Posts: 3,927 Member
      Please leave Bunny Fu-Fu out of this. He gets me through my gym's strict anti-cursing policy.
    • Posts: 1,968 Member
      I was thinking that this thread was going to be about something completely different.

      ^^

      Dirty minds FTW!
    • Posts: 248 Member
      I was thinking that this thread was going to be about something completely different.

      Me too, disappointed again!

      But I do have a foul mouth at the gym and swear at the weights when I am struggling on my last couple of reps. I also repeatedly tell myself, you lift like a BOY! now lift it you... {insert several expletives}
    • Posts: 2,544 Member
      I was thinking that this thread was going to be about something completely different.



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      Sexy beast!
    • Posts: 45
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      Me too, disappointed again!

      But I do have a foul mouth at the gym and swear at the weights when I am struggling on my last couple of reps. I also repeatedly tell myself, you lift like a BOY! now lift it you... {insert several expletives}

      Sorry to mislead you....
      I might be using your "you lift like a BOY!" in the future - might offend the hubby though
    • Posts: 2,275 Member
      I usually curse at the end of my sets. Helps me get through the last few reps.
    • Posts: 45
      Please leave Bunny Fu-Fu out of this. He gets me through my gym's strict anti-cursing policy.

      Wow - an anti-cursing policy - glad I lift at home!

      Bunny Fu Fu has his uses though, like when I'm doing random intervals while running - gonna catch me some feildmice and bop them!
    • Posts: 45
      you can put any action you do on an everyday basis and add "and thinking nasty thoughts" and you have my life.

      might not be sending you a FR...
    • Posts: 281 Member
      I miss football so much...legalized *kitten* whooping.

      The good ol' days. I was a linebacker and the league wide receivers were pretty mouthy. Don't chu come across the middle!
    • Posts: 6,474 Member
      hmm, thought this was sex related....
    • Posts: 1,414 Member
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      oh no you DIDNT.





      Also,I think about various things while lifting...whatever gets it done...I dont find it boring at all

      Did I mention lifting is for boys only? All you girls are gonna get all gross bulky and lose your boobs. Like, overnight.
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      Sexy beast!

      Bumping the pic because it should be on evry page of this thread. If and when I start lifting I'll think of this :laugh: Might not have desired effect...
    • Posts: 78 Member
      :noway: *backs out of thread slowly* Wrong room.. :laugh:
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