“In the warrior’s code there’s no surrender- Though the body says stop, the spirit cries never!”
Sven Karlson’s “Viking Power” chant makes a pretty intimidating scene, scares the hell out of the belters, bflers, and fitness geeks.
I wear my Renegade Training skully every workout and had imagined Coach Davies “Hey wussy boy, you think you’re man enough to wear that hat, to call yourself a RENEGADE, and you’re laying here sucking wind, with tears running down your cheeks. Tell you what, keep going and you’re in, stop and I kick you in the balls to give you something to cry about.”
But since seeing “The knockaround guys” I imagine myself as Vin Diesel standing toe to with the guy in the bar( the weight is the guy)" “One more”, I say
“one more what” says the bar.
“One more rep to be considered a RENEGADE, and that’s just the beginning. Used to be that’s all I cared about, but somewhere along the way you forget about that and become numb to it. Soon you realize that’s all you are, so how 'bout it are you game, cuz I got plenty more in me.”
My wife on the other hand becomes a sailor, and I figure if she were into WWF she’d kick it and give it a flying knee drop or something. Peace Tmofa
I like to talk shit to the weights. It usually goes a little something like this, “what bitch you want some of me, oh no he didnt, thats your ass motherfucker, just for that Im going to throw your ass around like the bitch you are, you cant hang with me, your a grain of sand and Im a motherfucking rock biatch”
then I lift the weight saying whos your daddy bitch, yeaahh thats right I am.
The whole drive to the gym i think. “i learned at an young age that there are people out there who will hurt you if givin the chance, i’ve devoted my life to preparing to face them.”
I know your not the real Bill Phillips because he does’nt call his people “champions”. He affectionatly refers to them as his little “mobile wallets” or “guys he’d like to bang” nice try though.
Same as Powerlifter - Philippians 4:13 - I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me! Before every set of every workout! In faith, Matt
One of my old stand-bys is Airborne (while lowering the weight) and Ranger (while lifting). Best of Luck.
I growl and bark like a ferocious beast dog from hell!
I start out by sniffing in through my nose a couple times. I’ll usually say something like “Big arms” or “Big chest” depending on what I’m doing. I’ll repeat it a few times, take some deep nasal breaths and go to it.
The majority of comments submitted on this posted thread have offered me a unique first hand insight to the degree of verbal abuse mounted upon the bearers of weights for lifters.
Bruva’s & Sista’s of iron, how can love ourselves if we do not at first…‘Love The Bar’??
I need to take this opportunity to inform you all of the significant negative impact, derogative comments have on these ‘precious metals’ and hopefully encourage us all to exercise a level of respect that will make your time in the gym even more fulfilling.
I close on a note of encouraging you all to:
‘love the bar’, ‘accept the bar’ and always remember to ‘make the bar your friend’…go on, that’s it; we can do it…yeah. See; not that hard is it? Remember: Love will conquer all (Lynold Richie)
If you don’t move that weight it would just sit there doing nothing gaining dust and rust. If not you then who?
holy crap this is one of the funniest threads i have ever read, I almost spit my water out when I read monkeyboy erics…but I usually just throw a bunch of god damnits and mother fuckers in there and get real pissed…
I sometimes say “be the ball, Danny”. You know, from Caddyshack.