The Big Muscle Boss

Lacking sufficient self-motivation at the gym, one has a tendency to stay within one's comfort zone. You know, not push too hard, make your muscles hurt too much, not do too many reps or sets. Especially if you're a slightly fat, overweight bear like me. Especially if ordinary Fitness Classes 5 times or so a week just seem to sap whatever energy one has, leaving little left for serious weight-training activity.

So that's why I hired a Muscle Boss Personal Trainer to force me to get back into free weights and do more sets and reps than my body wants to. Cuz I need that external motivation, I need a Drill Sergeant barking orders at me, I need disciplinary action. (Hell, I need ANY sort of action these days...) So, I've decided to let a Certified Fitness Trainer tell me what to do, how to do it, how many times to do it and when I can stop doing it. Cuz me - and my muscles need to be bossed around sometimes, ya know?

How To Train A Muscle Bear

As you can see in the above photo, Muscle Bears often require rigorous training and discipline - forced to bend over and perform unspeakable acts repeatedly - until they collapse into a grunting, hairy, muscular mass of sweaty exhaustion.

I actually know of the two men in the MuscleBear training photo. The Bear (who shall remain nameless) -  and his Personal Trainer 'Ted The Torturer' who's G-Force Fitness class I attend attend at Palm Springs World Gym 3 times a week. He makes me do unspeakable things with dumbbells over and over again until I'm a sweaty, hairy mass of grunting muscular exhaustion too. But there are no photos of that because I am still ten pounds overweight - and lack sufficient large muscle-mass development to be worth photographing... at this time.