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i can not claim this as my own, but this is one of the best things i have ever read about bodybuilding.
This lifestyle of ours provides shelter from the storm. Stress, problems with relationships or family, lack of cash flow, career issues… Life can ****ing beat the living shit out of you if you let it. But no matter what shit sandwich you get served, it is no doubt a blessing to have the structure and comfort of routine that bodybuilding provides. Eat, train, sleep when you can… Wake up and do that shit all over again. When all else fails there is the gym, a place of solace and refuge. Like a Tibetan monk escaping to a remote mountain cave to meditate and be at one with nature, we can go to the gym with a chip on our shoulder, go to the squat rack and throw down, punish our quads for the inequities of the world and leave it all on the gym floor… Like a spiritual and physical cleansing all at once. Plus, we are able to make a positive investment in ourselves, our goals and our future, even during our low times. Moments when others choose to walk a path of self-destruction, we build and grow and flourish. Bodybuilding is steady and solid. It is hard and unyielding like the cast iron of a 45 lb. plate. Times change and trends come and go. Interest rates rise and the Dow Jones plummets. But the gym is always there. A 100 lb. will always be 100 lb. And I like that.
