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All this talk of uniting the PL and BB boards... maybe not a bad idea... they do have one thing in common....
I was talking with some buddies about why one PL lifts XXX why another lifts YYY....
It occured to me that the factors that dictate success apply to both BB and PL....
The people who are at the top are there because of perseverance and their constant quest to get better...
The #1and #2 things people forget about when they evaluate why they can or can't lift what someone else does, or why they are not as big as someone else are:
1-time under the bar; and
2-what you did with that time
Everyone brings up drugs, genetics, gear, resources, etc etc, but really it comes down to those two things... Everyone that is at the top of the game has spent YEARS under the bar... and done EVERYTHING it takes to get better, and learning everything they could, EVERY chance they have...
Arnold, Chuck V, EVERYONE.... sure they might have started out pretty good to begin with, but they were not content to stop there.... they took it farther than everyone else did... or would... or could
I have had dudes ask me how to get a bigger bench at the gym - my response? "throw another plate on the bar....and repeat....now go at it for 10-15 years...."
Either you have the will to make it happen and stick with it, or you don't. I would say 99% of the people out there fail because they don't try HARD enough, don't LEARN enough, and they don't struggle LONG enough.
In the iron game, there is NOTHING, not drugs, not gear, NOT ANYTHING that will ever take the place of persistance and the resolve to constantly struggle for improvement.
my 2c
I was talking with some buddies about why one PL lifts XXX why another lifts YYY....
It occured to me that the factors that dictate success apply to both BB and PL....
The people who are at the top are there because of perseverance and their constant quest to get better...
The #1and #2 things people forget about when they evaluate why they can or can't lift what someone else does, or why they are not as big as someone else are:
1-time under the bar; and
2-what you did with that time
Everyone brings up drugs, genetics, gear, resources, etc etc, but really it comes down to those two things... Everyone that is at the top of the game has spent YEARS under the bar... and done EVERYTHING it takes to get better, and learning everything they could, EVERY chance they have...
Arnold, Chuck V, EVERYONE.... sure they might have started out pretty good to begin with, but they were not content to stop there.... they took it farther than everyone else did... or would... or could
I have had dudes ask me how to get a bigger bench at the gym - my response? "throw another plate on the bar....and repeat....now go at it for 10-15 years...."
Either you have the will to make it happen and stick with it, or you don't. I would say 99% of the people out there fail because they don't try HARD enough, don't LEARN enough, and they don't struggle LONG enough.
In the iron game, there is NOTHING, not drugs, not gear, NOT ANYTHING that will ever take the place of persistance and the resolve to constantly struggle for improvement.
my 2c
