Much of modern training presupposes that it not possible for you to get very strong and dangerous for you to do so. A good deal of money is being profited I suspect, on people’s fears. Fear that if you lift anything even remotely heavy you will harm yourself. That any heavy training will ultimately damage you beyond repair. That 25lb dumbbells are essentially big weights. What a ton of hog wash! And what irresponsibility and downright criminal negligence on the part of folks selling these lies. Even martial artists think if you lift heavy you’ll become muscle bound, not know how to hit harder.
Our life for the major part has become easy. Most peoples top mandatory physical effort for living is getting up off the couch to go to the chiller. Therefore 99% of the people who do train, do so just because it makes them physically more better looking and mixed within those group are some health interested folks. They’re all missing a significant part of the equation and a major point of training. Life is better with strength. You can get fantastically healthy and build endurance, but you won’t have the absolute fierce energy that you could have without strength.
The building of strength, and I am not talking about having the ability to lift something awfully light many times, is natural and critical to human vitality and health. It is both healthy for you and virtually inevitable result of proper training. The only reason people have decried it so is perhaps because they haven’t felt what it feels like to have it. And they discovered a way to profit off the media based fears of others.
Properly done training is both safe and will add to your life. Final vitality is accomplished through the building of health with super strength and endurability, not without it. You are able to say that you are healthy because you’re thin or you maybe look like the common preferred, yet rather effeminate stereotype of what is “in shape.” Maybe you can also ride an exercise bike for more than 15 minutes without coughing up a lung and lift the truly heavy pink dumbbells, the ones no-one else tries the 30′s! You’re fooling yourself, because true red-blooded vitality isn’t achieved without heavy strength.
It adds a depth to your physical reserve and your psychological power that will only be achieved through hard training. Why is it you believe the Eastern disciplines whose first focus was spiritual betterment through meditation spent so much time on hard physical training? Because they understood that they are inseparable. To have one without the second is to be unfinished. To never be well placed to explore the full depth of your own mind and soul as well as to live with real power.
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