That is a lot of weight. Those are some monster numbers. People are going to be pissed off.
Believe me when I tell you how far away MS feels for me. I am an “athlete” with low endurance and no way to rest during a set. My hamstrings are so tight that I can’t consistently lockout and every single day I have to work on it just to see the smallest (and I mean SMALLEST) improvement. Sometimes I think this sport really may not be for me. To be honest, I may have already quit if it wasn’t for the critics. I try to teach people to think of it as 100 sets of 1 rep but that is not my monster. No rest means one great big set. 1 set, 100 reps, 150 reps, 200 reps. It’s like a mountain of weight and numbers. I have to find some trail to get to the top. For now, my trail is straight at it and upward!
You have to find a way. If this is what you really want you cannot be discouraged. These numbers are monsters, and they are formidable but not unattainable. I know it comes easier to some people than others but they are not the ones I want at the base of the mountain looking up and heading out with me. I want the ones that have been turned away because their arms are short or their hips are low, or they cry, or their bellies get in the way. I want the lifters that want it more. Those are the shitkickers! You can keep your former NCAA Division I athlete, I want the guy she dumped in college. You can keep your quarterback, I’ll take the one he never knew existed. These are my people, these are the people who will break these numbers against their wills.
I understand the idea of feeding the sport. I know that we all want the sport to grow but I have to ask, what good is it if it doesn’t mean anything? In my opinion it should be hard. It should be almost impossible, I know it is to me. I don’t think that everyone who gets into a sport should be guaranteed success on it’s highest level. That needs to be earned with a combination of talent, work, and will. Champions sacrifice everything, we know this. At the same time, there is no shame in competing just to compete. Way more people run marathons than win marathons.
I know that my goal just got harder. It means that I will have to go places I never knew I had to go to make it, I’m cool with that.
I love my girls. They are a crazy bunch but I have absolute faith in every one of them.
I don’t know (obviously) every KB lifter in the country but off the top of my head I can think of 3 women who can hit the new MS rank by the end of the year. They are the great ones and we all know who they are. Only 3? Do we even have 3 male MS’ in the states?
We are all late starters. We are trained mostly through certification weekends and online programming. Some of us have coaches but mostly we learn second hand, more obstacles, more monsters.
Well, This is what we do with monsters round here:
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