Lift heavy because you can. Because there is no halfway. There are no maybes, no gray areas when it comes to lifting heavy and being strong. You either do or you don’t. You are or you aren’t.
You either get the weight up or you don’t. You succeed or you fail.
Stepping up to a bar full of big heavy plates is a test. Are you focused? Are you determined?
Have you put in the hard work? Are you making progress, moving forward?
So much in the rest of our lives is uncertain. Indefinite. There is no measuring stick for a life well-lived. So we must test ourselves. Test our skills, our strength. Test whether we measure up to that bar full of big heavy plates.
We lift heavy because we can be better. We can be stronger. Because we cannot know our own strength until we try its limits.
