I used to always be babysitting children. From infants to pre-teens... the age didn't matter. My favorite thing about watching kids was seeing the ridiculous faces they'd make. It always made me laugh because no two faces were ever the same. My experience lifting has shown up these children when it comes to making crazy faces.
Normally, I'm serious when I lift. Or when others ask me to watch them lift to critique them. However, when you watch someone pop a vein in their forehead while their face is the color purple it's hard to not start laughing on the spot. Sometimes the faces people make are not what you'd expect. The first time I watched my boyfriend squat was at a meet in Grand Rapids. He stepped up to the squat machine for his first attempt and down he went with 400 pounds on his back. The entire bottom part of his face became perfectly square partly from his beard, but mostly from him clenching his jaw so hard. The skin turned a deep red within seconds and his eyes looked like saucers. My mother and I couldn't stop giggling. He didn't have the worst face, though. One man walked up to perform his third attempt at the squat. He was quite short for a guy, but huge none the less. His head was completely bald and shined from the sweat. As he was going down his face and head turned magenta. When he was holding the squat, waiting for the judges to tell him up, his whole head looked like a beat up plum. One long vein was ready to burst on his forehead and I was cringing in my seat. Others, though, kept straight faces like myself. I'm not sure exactly what my crazy face is, but I know it's only a matter of time before I find out. Or see someone in the crowd cracking up at me.
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