The weights are for building yourself up, not tearing yourself down.
You’re going too far if you’re snapping shit like that Viking did with his mast back in the day.
I’m not saying to not push, to not test yourself…I’m trying to hammer out a philosophical point here.
It’s insanity to push a barbell to the point you break down. Frankly, you should have seen it coming a long while prior.
The gym shouldn’t be so important to you that you’re willing to break yourself over it, especially when you consider the plain fact that more people have been strong without gyms than strong with gyms.
The gym is a simply a subpar substitute for something missing from our lives in the modern world…and no giant squat or big arms will truly replace it.
Ego.
We’re not conquering all that much physically training, at least not at the intensities you, me, everyone is truly training at the large majority of the time.
Lifting weights is a very easy and simple thing.
It’s not hard to lift more, longer, better.
You don’t need a billion helping hands in the form of dieticians, trainers, partners, air conditioning, calibrated plates, machines, and so on and so forth. In fact you’re better off with less.
Ahh, back to the original point.
Weights are for building you up.
When they are tearing you down, be it physically or mentally, you need to get introspective and reevaluate. Find out where you went off course.
The best days were truly those at the beginning, full of wonder and hope, where you were in it for all the right reasons.
Where location didn’t matter, where what equipment you did or didn’t have didn’t matter, when it was pure. No dues, sometimes locked out of the weight room, when those around you were as paint on a canvas that you hardly noticed.
Maybe I’m quitting the gym, maybe not. However I know this, I’m never done training.
-J