iwontquit, you succintly summarize my main thesis. This "game" that we are all involved in, is not just a game of numbers--what's printed on plates and dumbbells. We measure them, keep record of them, become enslaved to them at times. But what truly matters is opening our minds to the idea that what we think can shape reality. Much of what we do is precisely that--mental. If we enter the gym with the right frame of mind, then 200 pounds could feel like 150. New intellect? I'm not new. I've just returned. Intellect? Well, you said it, not me.