Josh F

Male

Clackamas, Oregon, United States

N.A.S.M. Personal Trainer

Jan, 2001

There is no other feeling like finishing a nine-mile run in the summer, floating in the pool on a hot day, and feeling my quadriceps and calves tingle as the current from the jets gently massages them. The last two hours may have caused my muscular and cardiovascular system great anguish, but now I have my satisfaction. My neuromuscular system goes into a vegetative state of sweet recovery. It’s not only the feeling of accomplishment that suffices, but it is the feeling of the pump. When taxing a muscle through tension, contracting, and retracting over a prolonged period, the bodies natural response is sending blood and glycogen to nourish it. When the blood and glycogen intrude a muscle, the muscle swells and at this state can temporarily grow around one and quarter of its original size. People in the gym call this the pump. It’s great to finish a leg workout and look in the mirror, checking out my quads, glazed with shining sweat, pumped up and bulging because of all of the blood flow. I see muscle separation from all four parts of the quad, striated, and a few blood vessels pushed to the surface near the skin because of the massive swell. I shake them around a few times and marvel at the shear mass in vain. Most personal trainers sell most their training to girls with fat loss goals. Oddly enough, when I sell training, it’s mainly men that buy; their intents are to get swole like me. It’s not knowledge that sells personal training. It’s me being me, a ****ing walking, living, human anatomy chart. Four years ago, I started bodybuilding. Often times I would design a workout program solely around the pump up factor, not the results factor. I would strategically work biceps immediately following the triceps. This is called super-setting. Working the bi and the tri in sequence will cause outrageous pumps. The result of super-setting is a spectacular sensation, sometimes causing my skin to itch because of how far it has stretched. I’m so into the pump that when I have a client interested in mass, I always advise them to take a pre-work out shake before the workout session. Usually they contain ingredients that jack you up, such as creatine, adding water to the muscle, arginine, adding more blood flow to the muscle, or beta-alinine, causing carnisine levels to rocket. One time while training a male client three weeks into the program and half way through a workout, he said with a big smile, “damb my biceps itch.” I remained collected but inside I was jumping up and down just knowing that someone had experiences the pump that I knew so well. He’ll now be hooked like me. I live for the pump.

I get bigger when I want. I get smaller when I want.

If you can't eat, you'll always be a fairy.