Iron or Insanity

Appeared August 11, 2006

I’ve had the pleasure of dealing with many of the top-level strength people of the world. Even though popular culture would portray them as dumb, (i.e. “All muscular people are less intelligent,” a popular comedic ploy given by weaklings), when you actually speak to them they’re quite intelligent. Even though it may not be physics-professor-style intelligence, most people who lead the curve of any activity have their own type of brilliance and the ability to give an effort that’s frightening to the average person. Popular culture would also say that lifting hundreds of pounds or doing anything that is out of the ordinary as far as achievement and effort is insane. I say popular culture is insane. It’s insane NOT to chase the physical vitality that you could have. It’s insane not to throw yourself whole-heartedly into your accomplishments. It’s insane to be tossed about by the whim of ill-informed culture. To refuse to seek strength, health, endurance and a level of being alive that is only possible through hard training. A level of mental, spiritual and physical connectivity that is only possible when your effort outweighs the ability of a single side of your nature. That your entire being must be unified to win against yourself. Without these you live a half life. Satisfying only one side of what could be a much more well rounded and powerful human being.

Refuse the bonds of mediocrity both in your effort and in your life. To say that you cannot be intellectual, spiritual, socially intelligent and physically powerful is to limit what mankind is supposed to be. It’s to move backward in the advancement of humanity and in your personal growth as well. Go beyond what you are right now. Go beyond what someone else tells you you could or should be. Choose your own definition of greatness and your path to get there. Greatness too is only achieved through an effort that goes beyond what’s possible from a single side of your nature. It is use of the whole man. When you have traveled to a place that brings out your whole man then you can become great.

You know your own mind, your own spirit and your own body. You know where you need work. You know that you can give the effort to unify all three and become more than you are