Did lifting change your mentality?

I've always been fairly confident and outgoing - but always very humble and considerate. The gym hasn't changed that - it's just made me feel better about myself. It's probably enhanced my confidence, and whilst I do get a little embarrassed by compliments, it's also nice to receive them. However the main thing lifting had done was enhance my ability at sports. Now that I no longer play them, it just helps me feel more supple, mobile and generally able to live my day to day life more easily, i.e. being able to hold my balance, move things, pick things up with more ease and less effort.
 
Like most others, it's definitely given me a confidence boost over the years I'm sure. Although, my confidence developed massively through my early 20's, training must've given that a helping hand.

As above ^ I do get shy when it comes to compliments, I don't quite know how to react in the situation so it's generally an awkward exchange but I usually brush it off and flip it around so that I'm the one complimenting...charmer eh!

One bad side to the change in mentality has definitely got to be the sizing others up and forever striving to be bigger and stronger than everyone else. At least for me, anyway. It's almost obsessive, purely in the sense that it annoys me when I'm not where I want to be.
 
Suarez7 said:
I see this quite often people who've started lifting seriously saying it has made them a much stronger person mentally as well as physically. Has it given you a more positive outlook on life? I've seen people go as far as to say it has completely turned their life around taking them from socially awkward, forever alone bedroom dwellers to confident, alpha, poon smashers.
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well all women are looking at me wherever i go, so **** yeah
 
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