What is true potential?
Do you push yourself to your truest potential?
I've met some people in life who seem to 'half-ass' their workouts.
These are the same people who, coincidentally, claim everyone stronger than them is on every supplement in the world, possibly steriods, and also tend to talk as much trash in the gym.
Oh and don't forget the classic, "Well if I didn't injured playing high school sports I would've gone to college on scholarship".
Fat chance.
Every athlete gets injured. As I'm typing this email I've suffered severly ruptured discs in my lower back, tendon issues in the shoulders and elbows like crazy, dislocated shoulders, strained and pulled muscles, structural dysfunctions and more. Heck I even received over 300 stitches on the front of my forehead when I was 17 and even heart problems.
Is that reason to quit?
Is that enough reason to look at colleague friends like Eric Cressey, Brian Grasso and Stephen Cabral who still go on to accomplish great things physically and in career and say they must have some crazy advantage from birth that I didn't.
Heck no.
They prove every day that you are only limited by your own motivation, desire, will-power and knowledge.
Eric is one of the strongest natural lifters I've ever met.
Brian is without doubt one of the most passionate professionals I've ever met.
Stephen is one of the smartest and well spoken fitness professionals I've ever met.
All three are some of the coolest people I've had the fortunate opportunity to converse with.
Having friends like them only lift your game.
All three could have called it quits at anytime the past ten years.
But they didn't.
They did that little extra everyday to further themselves physically and mentally.
So next time you want to tear someone else down for their achievement that happens to be better than yours, take a look in the mirror first, then ask yourself,
"Am I doing ALL that I can to succeed?"
"Can I be better?"
I'm sure you'll with a little guided discovery you'll find you're holding YOURself back from true potential.
Just take some responsibility for your own training and nutrition....and stop blaming every trainer, guru, workout site connected to every forum for your inconsistency...
Rob Belley
