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Injury, weakness, a physical
or mental short comings have been on my mind of late with
various nagging small injuries that are pissing me off. Personally
it’s the little nagging things that get to me and are
the hardest to handle. Small lil injuries or colds that don’t
debilitate you, but just hamper you. Keep you from being able
to train 100% or feel right. Make me piss and moan or stress
more then I should about some little thing.
On the other end, give me something
catastrophic, a blown bicep, a truck running me over, a major
illness and its nothing. There is no questioning or harping
over them, its just GO time. Its time to get it done and prove
this ain’t getting me down, I'll come out the other end
not only as strong but stronger then prior.
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This just got me thinking on this
subject as it relates to the population as a whole. How people of
today deal with personal weakness, stressors, injuries, and life
happenings big and small.
Most people see such as simply a negative.
They try and hide them from others, and from themselves. They stress
over them. Let them get in their heads and limit them from progression,
or trying new things. Even worse they may cry and moan to others
about it. Blaming anyone but themselves. Seeking pity to seemingly
make them feel better or give them an excuse to be in the position
they are, prove to them selves they are weak. I say in my worst
Shakespearian dialect.
Hide not from thine infirmity. Find
delectation in your feeble idiosyncrasy’s. Employ thine as
kindling for extraneous furtherance. Duel. Combat each torpid archetype.
Perpetually crafting quintessence from wretched frailty. Only with
such will thine be in nigher dominion of impeccability.
HA LOL, you got to love a thesaurus
; )
What I am saying again is, do the
opposite. The greatest progress in my training, and life in general,
has come consistently from something negative. A horrible happening,
an injury, or identifying a weakness. I then grasp hold of it, control
it, Make it mines. I don’t dwell on it (long) as something
I must accept, as something that controls me. I Attack it. I control
it. View it as my next hurdle. My next personal battle that stands
between me and my goals. Use it as fuel for the fire. Turn a negative
situation into a position of power.
It’s a constant battle, but an
empowering one.
Allow yourself to
own you.
If anything is the number one reason
for the weakness of the general population today its simply not
having the gumption, or balls, to realize you control you.
It’s OK to smack life in its collective face from time to time.
It’s OK to have opinions. Its OK to show a little aggression
from time to time. We are NOT meant to be pawns and live life 100%
by others wishes. Get a little selfish. Play a little rough. Its
not only OK it’s a positive trait.
It has come to the point people can't
handle even the smallest little bump in the road without having
a break down, expecting pity, help, or flat out giving up. When
you got a problem, 99% chance you created it with your actions or
inactions, so get the hell up and fix it. Don’t bow down and
be its bitch expecting pity or help from society for every little
thing. Don’t simply accept the fact that, “This is the
way it is, what I’m destined to be. The mans getting me down.
I just got dealt bad cards and have to live with it.” Bullshit,
you’re the man. Take some responsibility for your life and
your actions and go get what you want.
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Use life’s
little bumps as fuel for further progression. Realize the
grass is always greener. We all got problems. Deal with yours.
If one has no perceived weakness they have then apparently
reached a state of perfection, no further progression, stagnation.
You might as well
die you have nothing further to live for. Weakness, injury
and Failure is NOT a negative, or an ending. It’s a new
beginning. A chance to get stronger, A new and unique challenge.
Its those whom consistently take on these, as such, and don’t
back down, give up, or piss and moan, about the hurdles life
throws at them that progress on to excellence.
You've got to keep
rolling over those never ending hurdles. Man up and find joy
in the fact aren’t going to end to the fight. Life’s
never going to be all crème filling. Your going to
have to keep chomping through the crust keep that sweet goodness
coming. But if you man up, those bumps will not only be less
frequent but you’ll actually look forward to hike up
them, as well as what’s on the other side.
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About The Author
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Coach Phil Stevens is an accomplished
strength athlete with considerable experience in both powerlifting
and strongman competition. Phil is the 2007 APA World Champion
in the 242-pound class (total). He currently holds the APF
275-pound class raw National bench, squat, deadlift, and total
records. Phil’s marquis lift was his 700-pound raw deadlift,
performed on February 14, 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Phil has been ranked in the
“Top 10” in the deadlift Nationally across all powerlifting
federations, and in addition to his coaching duties at Staley
Training Systems, he also serves as the Arizona State Chair
for the North American Highlander Association, as well as
the founder of Lift For Hope, an annual strength-competition
with proceeds donated to Charity (www.Lift4Hope.org).
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