My buddy had been showing me some Larry Wheels pressing shit on Instagram.
I really couldn’t care less. I don’t give a damn about spectating anymore, haven’t for a while.
“Yeah it’s crazy, but realize there’s at least another at that level not online, no spotlight at all.”
He agreed with me, and I’ve been finding this is the case much more frequently the last 6 months or so.
Prior it was damn near impossible to get agreement from lifters on that, as if everyone lifts/lives by the camera.
The bodybuilding gym was cool, very few phones came out. Higher level, and barely Instagramming.
There were chicks fitness modeling that you wouldn’t even know had Instas as they rarely shot for them.
There’s something very wrong thinking the highest levels can be found online.
I stand by the statement that for every freak you find on the internet…there’s at least another, but probably more, that you’ll never hear of.
Out there is a guy swinging sledges all the livelong day who’d make the world forget about Halfthor.
Some midwesterner occasionally squats and benches the world records for sets of 3-5 in his shed alone for a laugh once he’s got home from his shift at the factory.
A potential hall of fame running back is right now drinking moonshine in a Nigerian shantytown.
I could go on.
A lot of potential and talent is in the shadows. It’ll never be “discovered” be it because of shyness, lack of access, not caring the slightest, etc.
It’s vanity and narcissism to think everyone has an online presence.
There’s a whole real world out there.
Are you in it, or do you only know the digital?