You my friend are far stronger than you believe. It’s within
your DNA to have great strength whether it’s physical, mental, emotional or
spiritual but yet you can have all of those if you apply to your goals and
admiration. Strength is not always being tough and macho or one upping anyone,
real strength comes from your attitude and your character as a human being.
Being physically strong has its benefits but it’s the strength of your loving
soul that endures more and grows.
When you
progress in your training whether for fitness, health, strongman, lecturer or
whatever you choose to do, do it at your own pace. People assume when you start
a fitness progress it’s push and push as hard as you can when in reality that
can get them more set up for injury than to get fit. I understand the feeling
of wanting to push someone to do their best but yet you need to let go of that
ego trip and be giving and sharing info. Basics are key to training and they
lay the foundation but if you’re going to push it, do it when you’re good and
ready and at your own level. We all have different bodies, progression levels
and strengths/weaknesses, if we were to create the strength we want, it takes
time, patience and the will to build from the ground up.
A key note
to strength is the value of it. There are a lot of strong men and women in the
world but very few know its value and shares compassion and wisdom to how to
use that strength. There’s a scene in Captain America: The First Avenger where
the doc is sitting with then a small, weak and skinny Steve Rogers and says “A
strong man who has known power all his, may lose respect for that power, but a
weak man knows the value of strength and that’s compassion.” It’s a very
powerful scene and it’s true, if you want to become strong, you must understand
the value for which you have built on it.
It’s a lot
of fun being strong and fit but it’s more important to use it wisely. I do like
to show off every now and then for fun not because of one-upping anybody or
make them feel weak, I do it to show how far I've come in my life because in my
early years, I was weak, I was feeling like I was unworthy and didn't
understand how to do it. I didn't grow up in poverty or anything like that but
I was skinny because of what I was taking as a child and once I went off it as
a pre-teen I shot up like a cannon with a few years but I became fat and hardly
any muscle to call worthy. Ever since I was 18 years old, I made it my mission
to become strong with positive and natural intentions. Enough of my bullshit
but you get the idea. Becoming strong is a test of your character, where do you
go from a certain point? When you develop strength in ways some people either
admire or envy, you still make it a habit to use it for something that is
bigger than yourself. You become a greater human being with heart and
compassion for others. That’s the real fun part.
