"It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong
man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit
belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by
dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short
again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end
the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while
daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who
know neither victory nor defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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Warm-up B


3 rounds for time of:

225#/135# Backsquat, 15 reps
135#/95# Front Squat, 15 reps
95#/65# Overhead Squat, 15 reps

post times and weights used to comments.



Pyros Dimas- A Weightlifting Legend

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Gold minded athletes

Sometimes we succeed...and more often we fail, fail, and fail again. It is the one who overcomes failure the most who will eventually succeed the best in the end. This was Dimas' last lift in the Olympics, he retired after this lift (the symbol of leaving his shoes on the platform). It was a fail, however, it is how he dealt with that kind of failure his entire life that got him to where he was that day on that platform. Dimas has learned to learn from every lift, he will learn from this one as well.

During that last attempted lift Dimas was Tied with 4 other athletes at that point. Some people criticize Dimas for not lifting a more manageable weight that would have got him at least to the podium on his final kick at the can. However,  Dimas, like all other gold medal athletes have a very "tunnel visioned" approach to situations like this: GOLD. These athletes are like bulls rushing full tilt towards a target, ready to crush it, instead of seeing red, they see gold. What do you see when failure is staring you in the eyes?
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 10, 2010 at 3:10 PM

    36:34...I see the bar staring at me :-), but just beyond failure I can see the gold.

    Completely appreciate and understand that quote after years of competitive sports, Ill die doing for sure.

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  2. Bombino_16September 10, 2010 at 3:39 PM

    19:55

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  3. KevinSeptember 10, 2010 at 4:33 PM

    16:44

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