Live For Strength

Die for Toughness

– The Road to Being Mighty – 

By Jarell Lindsey of 

http://www.muscularstrengthsystem.com/

By Paul "Batman" O'Brien 

B.A., N.C.E.H.S., Dip. Acu., Cert Clin. IMed., Dip. Adv. OBB, Dip. CHM, Pn1, PN-SSR, PN-NCA, M.AFPA., M.C.Th.A.

The following guest article is written by one of most ardent isometric trainees. A man that has lived the Isometric-Training Lifestyle and built a staggeringly impressive physique and the real world strength to match it. 

Here Jarell shares some of his thoughts and philosophies on strength...

Jarell Lindsey after using 7 Seconds to A Perfect Body - www.perfect-body.me

"You want to embrace death to become tough, yet walk the life of strength to become mighty".

Following the various training programs and systems on the planet today, you can achieve a ridiculous amount or strength, muscle, whatever you desire. With the right focus and discipline, you can take twelve weeks and become like a completely new person with the strength fit to render sturdy pieces of iron into pretzels. All of these programs can give you a strength on a level that's probably unfamiliar to you, but none of these programs will make you tough. 

The people of societies past had to face many struggles that, as a people, we are largely unfamiliar with today.

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Slaves faced the prospect of forever serving a master, enduring beatings, and working in terrible conditions while probably being permanently separated from their families.

Immigrants worked in entirely unsafe conditions, for long hours in order to feed starving families under racist, sexist, and selfish workplace environments.

Sick days meant a day's wages, and people couldn't afford that. Excavating in coal mines without protective equipment was the norm. Work days dragged and went on well beyond the average 9-5. Physically, this kind of work may have extensively weakened the people subject to such social environments, labor, and otherwise. However, it truly made the survivors tough. 

Suffering does a lot to a people. They often band together to end it, which is often why military commanders may be angrily disrespectful to a new regiment to give them a common enemy. Individually, such suffering has the effect of making the sufferer often quite mad. If you come across a great problem or a huge cause of despair, and you see no way out, you may go rather crazy. But if you are able to persevere and survive, for whatever reason, you learn to become much more durable as a person, even if you can't squat 900 lbs. 

Strength is a communal way of life. The lifestyle of strength is an amicable one, and it's filled with competition, camaraderie, and progress. It is also very relative; your strength in comparison to a powerlifter in comparison to a gymnast in comparison to a bear is going to differ in relative level. Your goal will often be objective, basing your own strength on those before and around you. 

But the way to true might, a combination of strength and toughness, is a way of death. Now, this doesn't mean that being mighty kills you; contrarily, it empowers you beyond belief. But to be tough, you have to take a walk with death, and that is a personal journey. You also don't have to seek out suffering situations to advance yourself. But acknowledge your brief existence on the planet. You can be the strongest person in the world and be extinguished like a candle.

My father was one of the strongest men I would come to know. From a ghetto to a war to a husband and father, he faced innumerable hardships throughout his life. He faced all of these challenges standing with confidence until Agent Orange and some strokes and heart attacks forced him off his feet. He was quite strong for his size, but not the legendary strength you might imagine. But his toughness, his ability to work through situations of various evils and surviving, was bar none. It may not be long that I become stronger than my father in various aspects, but becoming as tough as he who faced death so often he knew it's middle name will take much longer. 

Warriors lived their lives prepared for death at any moment. They set their affairs in order for their families and went to battle, knowing that they could very well not return. When you have no fear of death, yet recognize that it could come to you at a moment's notice, you may learn to face all of your life's joys and struggles confidently, creating a toughness within you unmatched by your peers. 

Your strength training journey will be filled with many challenges, but not as many as the challenges that pervade your life. Your journey to toughness will be in death; your journey to strength will be in life. When you can walk both journeys at the same time, confidently, you will become one of the mighty.  

- Jarell Lindsey

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You can check out more of Jarell's writing, training advice and more over on his site - http://www.muscularstrengthsystem.com/


I highly recommend you do. Jarell is one of our own, a man who started like many of you in Isometrics, carved his incredible physique and strength and now uses that strength to carve and forge his own path in the fitness industry.  





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