In my last post, I spoke about 5 pounds. Today, I’m going to talk about the maximal weight you can move. Better than that, how much you can hold if you let other people keep adding weight to the bar.
Let's use a Yoke Walk as an example. If it was just you and the implement, you can pick it up and walk pretty easily. As you get stronger, you can carry more weight on your back and keep moving forward, albeit slower. When it’s your weight that you loaded, you can always get it up and make a step. This is you controlling what you can control.
What if there were others loading weight to the yoke after you stood? Let’s say 10 pounds. Another step, 20 pounds, another step, 5 pounds. Different people, different times, all adding weight to the yoke. At some point, you'd have to stop. It becomes too much weight to step forward with.
Yet, more weight keeps getting loaded. 5, 10.15, 45, 100 pounds. You hit a point when you can’t even hold it anymore, so you drop the yoke, fall to your knees gasping for air, feeling you're not strong enough to carry the weight. Hell, you're not even strong enough to hold the weight. This is you trying to control what you can’t control.
You want to know how to become strong(er)?
Drop the weight others loaded on you!
It not your weight - it’s theirs!
Stop letting other people load their weight on you!
Become too busy trying to control and build your own strength?
Think back to that yoke that put you to your knees, take off 50 pounds of the weight that’s not yours; I bet you stand up. Take off another 50 that belongs to someone else; I bet you get a step or two. Take off 50 pounds that asshole from 5 years ago put on; I bet you get more steps and they start to become faster. Take off 50 more pounds that don’t belong to you each step, and you will soon find that you are way strong(er) than you ever thought you were.
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