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31 May 2021, 12:16 am

Salad - PLEASE love your body more, take gentler care of it, you can't really get any replacement parts for less than the cost of a house.



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31 May 2021, 12:20 am

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Salad - PLEASE love your body more, take gentler care of it, you can't really get any replacement parts for less than the cost of a house.


From 2017 to even 2020, I was taking it easy with rehabilitation and reduced training.

This attempted record I set today was the culmination of years of preparation.

Trust me I dont intend to attempt records like that every day with my body the way it is; however I plan to attempt them intermittently after I deemed it safe and doable like I did today

Training hard doesnt mean I cant train smart. However likewise, training smart doesnt mean I cant go hard


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31 May 2021, 12:23 am

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I say this as nicely as possible, but I think working out with a broken arm is dangerous.


you're talking to a David Goggins fan, the same David Goggins who ran 100 miles with a broken knee in 18 hours. With only 2 days prep. As his 1st marathon ever in his life.

BTW for the record I didnt use my broken arm while working out. I'm determined, but not stupid. I used my unbroken arm while lifting and thats the arm I used to pull off my weightlifting record today.

Frankly, running with a broken knee is stupid. You’re damaging your body for....a goal? People can do what they want but that’s just winning the Darwin awards.

I know you didn’t use you broken up, but still working out obsessively with an injury like that can only cause more issues. Especially if something else happened and you have one arm you can use.


You say what David Goggins did is stupid, but tell me, if he succeeded and billions around the world hail him as a success and an icon of inspiration, did he really fail? The only award he's won so far is the billion gold medals from marathons he ran even while injured, which has inspired people like me recovering from my own injuries that I dont have to be chained by life circumstances that are unfavorable

even my workouts I do it smart. sure today I attempted a record, but that was only 1 time since 2017 after years of building up for this moment. I dont try to hit records every day, which would be stupid, but attempting a record with an unbroken arm after years of building up for this moment, sure its stupid from one POV, but its still legendary from another

Also remember this: name to me a legend and I promise you there is something in their biography that would earn your derision and insult of "winning a Darwin Award". The thing is none of them won any awards but the awards they won in life through greatness they pursued even at the cost of being called crazy.

You want examples?

David Goggins is only the most extreme case.

Sylvester Stallone trained so hard for Rocky 4 he had to do headstands to keep the blood reaching his head or else he would have been hospitalized

Every UFC fighter considering how common injuries are in the ring and training before matches

Oda Eicheiro, the creator of "One Piece" who has been hospitalized multiple times for lack of sleep working on his Manga which has become an international bestseller and the most sold manga in HISTORY

Movie star and legend Dwayne the Rock Johnson

And so many more people I cant even name a fraction of them. If to you these people would win a Darwin Award, know that none of them did but are killing it in life


You sound very manic and maybe should have listened to those EMTs.

I’m done with this thread, since you clearly think punishing the body to obtain goals is a good thing. Reminder than you commented on my Berserk post where the author literally died from stress. Yeah, he contributed so much to a genre, but the stress also contributed to his death. We lost so much. If you think that’s a good thing to literally stress the body to the point it death, seek help.


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31 May 2021, 12:41 am

honeytoast wrote:
salad wrote:
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salad wrote:
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I say this as nicely as possible, but I think working out with a broken arm is dangerous.


you're talking to a David Goggins fan, the same David Goggins who ran 100 miles with a broken knee in 18 hours. With only 2 days prep. As his 1st marathon ever in his life.

BTW for the record I didnt use my broken arm while working out. I'm determined, but not stupid. I used my unbroken arm while lifting and thats the arm I used to pull off my weightlifting record today.

Frankly, running with a broken knee is stupid. You’re damaging your body for....a goal? People can do what they want but that’s just winning the Darwin awards.

I know you didn’t use you broken up, but still working out obsessively with an injury like that can only cause more issues. Especially if something else happened and you have one arm you can use.


You say what David Goggins did is stupid, but tell me, if he succeeded and billions around the world hail him as a success and an icon of inspiration, did he really fail? The only award he's won so far is the billion gold medals from marathons he ran even while injured, which has inspired people like me recovering from my own injuries that I dont have to be chained by life circumstances that are unfavorable

even my workouts I do it smart. sure today I attempted a record, but that was only 1 time since 2017 after years of building up for this moment. I dont try to hit records every day, which would be stupid, but attempting a record with an unbroken arm after years of building up for this moment, sure its stupid from one POV, but its still legendary from another

Also remember this: name to me a legend and I promise you there is something in their biography that would earn your derision and insult of "winning a Darwin Award". The thing is none of them won any awards but the awards they won in life through greatness they pursued even at the cost of being called crazy.

You want examples?

David Goggins is only the most extreme case.

Sylvester Stallone trained so hard for Rocky 4 he had to do headstands to keep the blood reaching his head or else he would have been hospitalized

Every UFC fighter considering how common injuries are in the ring and training before matches

Oda Eicheiro, the creator of "One Piece" who has been hospitalized multiple times for lack of sleep working on his Manga which has become an international bestseller and the most sold manga in HISTORY

Movie star and legend Dwayne the Rock Johnson

And so many more people I cant even name a fraction of them. If to you these people would win a Darwin Award, know that none of them did but are killing it in life


You sound very manic and maybe should have listened to those EMTs.

I’m done with this thread, since you clearly think punishing the body to obtain goals is a good thing. Reminder than you commented on my Berserk post where the author literally died from stress. Yeah, he contributed so much to a genre, but the stress also contributed to his death. We lost so much. If you think that’s a good thing to literally stress the body to the point it death, seek help.


If im manic so is every Navy SEAL, professional athlete, and basically everyone in life who accomplished anything big that the ordinary person didnt

Please, keep calling me names, in the end of the day that won't change the fact that I accomplished something amazing and broke barriers others wish they could in my state, let alone any state.

David Goggins said it best:

"I'm not crazy, I'm just not you."


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31 May 2021, 12:47 am

salad wrote:
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Dont worry boss im playing it safe. However I still couldnt help but attempt a new weightlifting record and I broke it and now I feel unfettered!!


Lol, I used to say the same about driving fast. :twisted:


I mean if you plan on joining NASCAR, I think the police won't mind a couple miles over the speed limit or 2 as practice.....


More like WRC, and when your commute home at 3-5 am looked like mine did police weren't the main worry. Especially in the winter. :mrgreen:


If you texted while doing that then you might be as crazy as I am....key word being "might" be


Lol, I didn't even listen to the stereo, I just drove with the gas mashed to the floor.


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31 May 2021, 12:50 am

I used to grow up as a kid and say to myself "man, given the legendary rewards and awesomeness that greatness confers upon those like Kobe Bryant, Muhammad Ali, etc why arent more of the world's population so great when many people have that potential if they only put in the work?" After seeing the comments on this thread it now makes sense. With this generation of over diagnosing everything and anything above the norms its no wonder the majority of society are mediocre. It's as if people never watched a video of Navy SEAL training. In the Navy SEALS during hell week they literally make recruits do death training on only 4 hours of sleep for the entire week, while being forced to suffer water torture under negative temperature water in the cold Pacific Ocean. I'm not even doing anything half or 1/10 as crazy as that. Yet somehow I need to see a doctor and get mental help for breaking a weightlifting record, but the thousands of Americans who join the SEALS and practically killing themselves with actual training that risks actual death, then nah they're mentally normal?

If you say "well of course the SEALS do that, they're preparing for life and death missions" then I say OK, what about the millions of professional athletes who do worse than me?? UFC fighters, boxers who literally beat each other to a pulp and then suffer head injuries, Muhammad Ali suffered Parkinson disease, Bodybuilders like Ronnie Coleman literally are in pain 24/7 from how badly their training broke them, heck name any of the greats in the world today I promise you 100% of them live with injuries as a price to greatness.

But in the eyes of the sheep and losers of society, Ronnie Coleman, Kobe Bryant, Muhammad Ali, Khabib Nurmagamedov, Oda Eicheiro, etc all need to see a psychologist and get help because they ALL have a mental disorder LMAO

Apparently Ronnie Coleman is manic, Muhammad Ali is nuts, Kobe Bryant is crazy, and every athlete needs their own personal therapist and psychologist to coddle them and tell them to be soft and not work so hard, because after all, its "just" greatness.


Overall I dont mind. Having a society that celebrates mediocrity only makes my job so much easier. The less competition, the better I guess for me 8) 8) 8)


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31 May 2021, 8:55 am

There is only one "worlds greatest underdog"

Out of eight billion



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31 May 2021, 9:12 am

If you want to take pride in your accomplishment then don't let anybody diminish it for you. Besides it's now a done deal anyway.


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