You either have a purpose, or you don’t. You either approach that bar like you’re damn well going to lift that weight, or you sidle up to it like you’ll …
Snatching: The Answer to Everything in Life
Your kid wants help on his math homework? Forget that. Teach him to snatch instead.
Revelations
All men reveal themselves. Given enough time and enough trials, there is no heart that can verily be cloaked from the light of awareness. Every dark heart, every mean deed …
Beyond Broken
We find our sanctuaries: places that help us to heal, to put ourselves back together, to make us stronger, to grow scars over the wounds. For some of us, that place is the gym.
Even The Clouds Are Below Me
Nobody can put the blues inside me. Nope. Not happening. These are the days when I say to the world: “Take your anger, your bitterness, your grumpy ill mood and …
Feel The Weight
The cold steel, the hard sole of your lifting shoes, the way your body reacts to the stress of the weight, the way the burden settles onto you and presses down but, still, you hold steady. Listen to the bounce of the bumpers against the floor. See the chalk particles drift through the air.
Getting Called Out
She stood there and gave me a staredown that would make a mugger give back a purse.