Tearing down and building up and training 3/24/11

There is a lot in this world geared to tear you down. In today's society the heroes are empty. The models airbrushed and computer enhanced. Society's reality is based on illusions and illusions can't carry the weight of real humanism. What is tangible cannot be support by what is intangible. In your life you are asked to make sacrifices. You do harm to yourself. That is payment, the equivalent exchange, to assume the role or position you where meant for. The danger isn't in the harming yourself. The danger is the continued harming yourself to fit a mold that does not really exist. In that, there is only tearing down, there is no period of being built back up. Mythology is subjective; however, it is subjective for the sole purpose of being subjective. You and you alone are often the judge of your accomplishments. If you assume the role of Hercules you align your Heroic destiny with a being that contains a body of stories but with whom who you represent that character is subjective and you are judged on your efforts and merits. No one expects you to actually become Hercules and you are not judged for being such; however, you assume the role of a celebrity you have made a step into folly. These are empty myths, with that you are supposed to assume but have no substance to contain you and there is a whole market waiting to accept you money to tranquilize your anxieties, in fact, this hollow dream is set up for the benefit of the market. Tear you down, tear you down and then build you up with sedatives, false comforts that leave you weak and never let you build into a pillar of physical and mental health and emotional stability. In a world full of applications to tear you down, now, is the time to build yourself up with what cannot be taken from you nor can the weight of the false world crush you underneath its poisonous influence. Not only do you gain muscular strength by abiding in what is real, and by living life and not just assuming the "look" of been there-done that, you are gaining spiritual weight and merit and the phantom intelligences constructed from glitz-glamour, smoke and mirrors will run from you and dissipate screaming in the sunlight of your un-censorable truth.

Your training needs to be the same. You hurt yourself with weights and strain. You injure yourself with iron and steel. But their injury gives you the room you need to learn how to heal. It is the anabolic found in the rest and refection of your efforts that forms the muscle and laden the bone density that in your catabolic exercise you crack and tear away and make space for yourself to improve.

The Balance of Mars and Jupiter influences found on the path called "strength". The Wisdom of the ancients realized and applied.

When you train you are shaping yourself into the mold of your dreams, what you could be and in reality what you should be. Your highest potential is always looking to be discovered and as long as you are attaining to what is YOUR highest potential then you will always be contained in the reality of your most tangible of truths.

Training 3/24/11

40kg Kettlebell one hand cleans and press, 15 each hand with the goal of 20.

Front Pull with 3 Red cables (180lbs) 6 pulls with the goal of 20.

Iron Limb/Hercules hold 35lbs, 10 seconds each hand with a goal of 1 minute.

Iron Limb/L-Seat 42 seconds with a goal of 1 minute.

Ivanko Super Gripper 11/9 setting 6 reps with a goal of 10.