Conan Or The Camel?

Greetings Friends,

Today let’s talk about how you approach a problem. How every young budding physical culturist has at some point seen their mandatory viewings of the Conan movies. I mean no matter what kind of lifter or athlete you are they don’t even let you in the gym unless you can answer the secret password Conan trivia questions.

I jest. Even though I actually do like the Conan movies. There is a scene in the first one in which the “Governator,” is riding through a town with some of his accompanying bad hombres and whilst parting the crowds he passes a camel which promptly spits on him. In true Barbarian fashion he simply punches the camel in the side of the head and it then staggers and falls to the ground. What in the world does this have to do with real-life application and problem solving?

Simply this: Every difficult situation in life you’ll either approach from a position of strength looking to overwhelm the challenge or a position of weakness hoping to just survive it and spitting when you get the chance.

How successfully you deal with these problems and what kind of life you have is directly tied to the attitude you approach them with. Defeatist, hope-I-get-through-it attitude will produce exactly the equal results to the power of its attitude. Gratefulness, strength, and looking to knock the challenge out of the park, will also produce exactly commiserate results.

Which one are you?


By the way, if you want to build the real physical power to knock out the literal or proverbial spitting camels in your life you should get Super Strength & Endurance for Martial Arts.

You might also want to check out our Odd Object Lifting Series, because you never know when you might need to toss that problem or camel on your shoulder, carry it outside the gates of your city and dump it like the rest of the challenges you might face. Always standing as the stronger, unconquerable, powerhouse that you can be.