Pain as a stimulus to growth, movement… and a necessary component to pleasure.
The good pain of weight lifting
What I’ve discovered:
The greatest joy of body building and weight lifting is this— the good pain involved with it!
For example, the good pain of growth you feel the next day (delayed onset muscle soreness). Or even in sexual pleasure — sexual abstinence for a long time THEN sex is more pleasurable than sex everyday.
The joy of gains and progress
If I could swallow a pill and suddenly look like Ronnie Coleman, it would have no joy for me. Why? The pain, difficulty and challenge of becoming buff and muscular is what is interesting and fun to me. And to me, perception of progress is the most enjoyable!
Pain as a signal for the body to start growing or moving?
