richieirish’s BodyBlog

just home from a gruelling training session with a former mr. Ireland! shoulders and biceps! he is a pure monster of a man, training with extremely high intensity and very heavy poundages for high reps (10 - 15)! the benefits of this training session were too numerous to list but some of the more important ones were the determination to not only better myself but also someone who is a lot more stronger than me! the knowledge gained from him during the training session and knowing that you every rep is being scrutinised by someone with a much greater knowledge of the sport than me! it think the most important thing i learned from this workout was being left with the feeling i was only as strong and as big as a ten year old boy!! this was such a huge wake-up call to tell me exactly how far i still have to progress! it is such a crazy sport we are in, the bigger and stronger you get, the higher the standard gets and the smaller you feel in comparison! we are climbing such a huge mountain in this sport that as we look below at the countless people we have passed out on our journey we sometimes forget about the ammount of people who have climbed much higher than us and we are in fact still at the foot of this huge mountain!

so dont look down ever again, train like an animal, never miss a meal, be short one ounce of water, loose one hours sleep, or rest on your laurels for even one minute! keep doing this lifestyle religously, day in, day out! make no excuses and continue on this path until your weight training days come to an end! only then look down and see how far you have come on this long journey with countless sacrifices! as you look up at those who are still above you do not be disheartened, for this place on the mountain on which you stand is your summit and you have done everything possible to reach it! if everyone was able to climb this mountain than very few would bother doing so, that is human nature! the mountain on which we are all climbing is only capable of being climbed by a very select few . . . . that is the challenge and the attraction which draws us to it!

so i wish you the best of luck on reaching "your" summit and when you reach it be proud of your achievments, do not make little or dismiss those below you and do not be jealous of those above you for this is a mountain which we have all climbed together!