It's official, I'm obsessed with this damn hammer and I'm not ashamed to admit that. It's fun as hell and brings me a sense of joy when I make videos with it. This app I've been using as a background is fun to use too which you've seen from a recent article when it comes to pictures, the only thing that sucks is making the hammer work into the picture since this app only uses bodies.
It's a learning process but it's a great experience. I want to find more of my creative side and see where it goes. It gets me excited and makes me think of things I normally don't think about and sharing it. This is purely out of enjoyment. When I get like this, it puts me in a genuine state of mind that I can pursue anything and whether I fail or succeed, I gave it a chance cause there's that great Wayne Gretzky quote "You Miss 100% Of The Shots You Don't Take."
The hammer itself in reality is just a tool like anything else but with an imagination and the ability to put in the work, you can make something of yourself beyond what we think is possible. When you slam it onto a tire, yes there's an object there but in your mind, the tire doesn't exist; it's smashing your fears, your doubts, your anxieties and your goals into an oblivion. You are destroying things that wear on you and using a productive output to create something better.
Strength & Power starts in the mind and that's what I want these pictures and videos to represent. It's igniting a fire in your soul and burst into flames of passion. Soar with vigor, intent and shatter walls with a vengeance. I'm going to be honest here; in reality, I'm not a big fan of fire, been burned a time or two when I was a kid and always felt weird around fire pits so maybe in a twisted way, these pictures are slowly helping me get over my Pyrophobia. It may not make sense to people and it doesn't completely make sense to me yet, but it could be little baby steps to being better around fire.
Metallica has been one of those bands I loved listening to during my high school years and to this day, I still listen to some of their best songs. My personal favorite is Until It Sleeps with the Orchestra that plays beside them from their 1999 S&M Concert in San Francisco. The vocals from James Hetfield & Jason Newsted, the blast of the lyrics and just the power in that song is so well done. I listened to it over and over again many times back in the day and used it as a warm up song when I use to go to the gym from '03-'05. It never gets old and when I learned I can use a sample of it for a video, I jumped on it. I'm doing Burpees on this one and it just felt right to do. I only did 30 seconds of Burpees but for me it worked and brought a love of metal and training that is just awesome.
The other video I made is with the hammer and doing a more explosive movement doing 10 reps each side and Metallica's Fade To Black is playing. It's something I had an idea for and went with it. Like I said, it's an experience learning how to set up videos with pictures. I love being creative and finding things that expand my horizons because I've never done anything like this before. This is only the beginning and have no damn clue where it's going to go.
2 comments:
Good job. I can't help wonder about the neighbors who don't know you're exercising...they probably think you're a nut with the hammer and tire. :)
LOL, some actually think it's really cool. When I did the burpees, there was literally no one around. It's a nice neighborhood and nobody bothers anybody. My neighbors are actually very nice people, one neighbor's wife was cheering me on one day when I was training with the new hammer on the tire. I showed it to them and they thought it was really cool, they were from San Francisco.
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