LIFE LESSONS
What Weightlifting Taught Me About Work and Life
These lessons go to eleven
“The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.” — Henry Rollins
I discovered weightlifting and powerlifting reasonably late in life. The initial gains were fun, and it was exciting to find out what my body could do.
However, that never lasts. Soon, the plateaus, pain, and suffering crept in. It would have been easy to quit when the injuries of torn muscles and broken bones tempted me to stay in bed every morning.
