The Id Ego and training

I don't know about you but how many times have you gone to the gym and seen some guy that spends about one decade or two one the bench. You start doing other things to try to work around this individual but it just doesn't seem to matter. He has to take ten hours of rest between his sets and go to some fast food joint and eat a greasy burger between each one. But its alright this keeps his strength up. You know it takes a lot of calories and rest to bench press 200 lbs. If only Joe blow the couch potato could get his ducks in a row he would realize that their is more to training than just how much ya bench. Welcome to the world of the man trapped in his own ego and it is killing his training routine. When you go about developing your training regiment you must build one based in logic and not off your ego. It's like the old skit on Saturday night live "how much ya bench" funny stuff and yes sad but true. A bunch of guys sitting around with little skinny chicken legs talking about how much they bench all day hmmmm that doesn't sound familiar. Your ego will ruin you in the gym it will destroy your routine and make you look like a fool. If you are constantly trying to compare yourself to weaker or less developed people then you have missed the point. The true challenge is against that guy that is string back at you in the mirror in the morning. I do not wake up trying to be the next whoever every day I simply work on improving myself. I am not saying that being inspired by someone is not alright. But you can only be yourself and not anybody else when you really look at it. So leave your ego where it belongs it can help you in certain arenas but harm you in others.