The Law of Attraction in Action: One Spartan’s Journey
In life, the saying that we get what we work for, not just what we wish for often turns out to be true. If you say you really want something, you must be willing to work for it, often daily (in some small way, I’m not advocating doing daily workouts 365 days a year because that’s not sustainable), organize a good part of your life around it, make an effort even when it becomes difficult to do so, commit and stick with it even when you don’t feel like it (especially then), and in a way, live for it. Not just for it, but by it! Only then you stand a chance for lady luck to occasionally shine upon you, and only then does the law of attraction occasionally does some things for or instead of you.
You will be able to see the rest of this story, the entire process, and everything required for it (people like to talk about huge sacrifices and working like a dog, but you’ll find out why it doesn’t have to be that way) in a brand new SpartanFit lecture coming to our Facebook page next week. For now, I’ll say just one more thing…
You never know what someone is going through, so if you don’t want to help someone, at least stay polite aka normal, don’t hinder them, and refrain from unnecessary and often foolish comments.
When I was playing handball and going to group gym sessions, I have never been in a circle of people who were laughing at anyone there, making fun of someone for doing something incorrectly or lifting light weights, looking too skinny or too fat. Yes, people are mostly focused on themselves, but truly successful people in all areas of life have the desire and need to help others and share their knowledge. They don’t feed on laughing at others or criticizing them without any particular reason, usually when no one asked them anything, just to make them feel momentarily better and/or more “powerful”. Only insecure people do that. I stopped caring a long time ago about what anyone thinks or says about me, but sometimes I’m still fascinated by the number of those kind of people who get a kick out of belittling others.
Behind me is a process of almost a year that went something like this. August 2022: back injury (seemed temporary). October 2022: severe disc hearniation: L4L5 + L5S1. October-December: a month and a half of physical therapy, with recovery almost twice as fast as the initial estimate. December-February: working on a special program, relatively high volume in terms of the number of sets and repetitions, very low weight or none. Mid-February to mid-June: return to “real” workouts, completed four quality mesocycles with a slightly longer break than planned due to conjunctivitis, without injuries, achieving a personal goal of about four gained kilos (82.6 average in the first month, 86.4kg in the last). Considering the usual summer chaos (lack of sleep, a more hectic schedule, much more relaxed diet), a maintenance phase will soon follow (more on the necessity of this also in the aforementioned lecture). Next fall, for the second time in my life but more experienced and wiser this time around, I will continue bulking, aiming for 90kg if everything goes according to plan.
Original release date: June 17, 2023.