Yes, isn't that whats life is all about? We all do things to escape! Some meet friends, some work, some train, some get children, some fuck girls ...we need to do something in order to not get stuck in the couch doing nothing, drinking beer watch braindead series and sport.
I was talking about moderate approach to training and routing your energy into something more intellectual. Physical activity does stimulate only a part of the brain responsible for controlling your body. A human brain neurons are dying while we age, but if training takes a big part of your life and energy, then less used parts of the brain will atrophy at faster rate. Basically, at average, if you dedicate your life to moving weights (or any physical training), you'll be qualifed braindead much sooner than your friend who likes to read. There are a lot of living examples in professional sport, just listen how many of them struggle to connect words in an interview and what exactly they are speaking. : )
I think training is a great choice, keep fit, looking great, meet new people etc etc...that's not a bad life!
Maybe it's not a bad life, but it depends on how to look at it. Maybe it's lifetime achievement for someone when BayBGM looks upon him as a new sexual toy to play with.
My point is that looking great and fit doesn't require heavy lifting or many hours in the gym, all you need is to maintain healthy diet and regularity in training.
I only train twice a week in the gym now (do twice a week in another hard sport) and i also only do one set to failure on minimal sets. I do about 17 sets a week. My muscle hasn't dropped i actually look better with less stress on the body overall so i'm holding less fluid retention.
The same goes for me, three 1-hour trainings a week, no heavy weights anymore. Feel myself better than ever and look the same as when I was working out my ass off.
