Have you ever switched up your weight to push your muscles to grow? You've been workin with the 70 lb dumbbells and every workout still feels just as hard. You know you're ready for more but you just don't feel like pushing any harder. Then one day, you wake up to train and find out someone else has monopolized your 70's. You ain't gonna stop just because you don't have the weight you are accustomed to so you have no choice now but to upgrade. Yep...it's time for the 80's. You pick them shits up and you can feel the difference. The heavy, the hard...and shit you dig it all. Feels like a new high. Your reps drop by just two to four so as not to injure yourself but you are now in "challenge mode". Days pass and you can feel the difference in you arms, your chest and back. Your legs are satiated in beautiful soreness and your fuckin joints are creaking. All growing pains before you start seeing the fruits of your new level. One day, for shits and giggles you find those old 70's sittin on the floor. You pick them up out of curiosity and shit, they feel so fuckin light you wonder how this amount of weight could have ever been considered a challenge. You smile because you know better...
All it took to get you from there to here is at the forefront of your mind while you bask in your new level. Is this weight training...or life? I submit to you that this is indeed both as they work the same way to make us stronger. There are pivotal moments in our lives that should have broken us but instead had us rising to the occasion. These trials by fire that take us to new levels that have us bearing unanticipated extra weight. I went through such a trial just days ago and tonight I can tell you that all that once held me with pressure holds me still, but with less grip felt on my end. All that looked almost impossible is now seen as more than probable. Things that troubled me before no longer have the same power and all that I loved before has actually increased in tenderness. It's as though all I love is so beautiful and tender that I must take care not to break them in any way. I know I can't explain it right accept to say that I cannot see how they can be any more beautiful than how I see them now. I am just watching and gauging what I feel in the aftermath of what I went through and it's interesting. There is no trying anymore when all that's left is to "do". My mind is at ease in it's plans to step forward. Plans that seemed daunting at first inception are now seen as the normal progression towards the inevitable. All without fear, trepidation or overthought.
So what just happened? I was presented with a stress level I really didn't think I was prepared for only to find myself easily acclimated to the task. Having now adapted, it has now made all the old stress levels chicken feed....
Pain first...adaption later...
~Moses Apollo
All it took to get you from there to here is at the forefront of your mind while you bask in your new level. Is this weight training...or life? I submit to you that this is indeed both as they work the same way to make us stronger. There are pivotal moments in our lives that should have broken us but instead had us rising to the occasion. These trials by fire that take us to new levels that have us bearing unanticipated extra weight. I went through such a trial just days ago and tonight I can tell you that all that once held me with pressure holds me still, but with less grip felt on my end. All that looked almost impossible is now seen as more than probable. Things that troubled me before no longer have the same power and all that I loved before has actually increased in tenderness. It's as though all I love is so beautiful and tender that I must take care not to break them in any way. I know I can't explain it right accept to say that I cannot see how they can be any more beautiful than how I see them now. I am just watching and gauging what I feel in the aftermath of what I went through and it's interesting. There is no trying anymore when all that's left is to "do". My mind is at ease in it's plans to step forward. Plans that seemed daunting at first inception are now seen as the normal progression towards the inevitable. All without fear, trepidation or overthought.
So what just happened? I was presented with a stress level I really didn't think I was prepared for only to find myself easily acclimated to the task. Having now adapted, it has now made all the old stress levels chicken feed....
Pain first...adaption later...
~Moses Apollo
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