#matt kroc

[zomcon]

Pre and post workout today. I watched #Transformer and was so inspired by Janae Marie Kroc. Her mental, emotional and physical strength really motivated me to push myself and actually add weights.

After cutting out two antidepressants, I went through a couple months of muscle loss. The withdrawals from the medications made it so that I was insanely nauseous and wasn’t able to eat anything whatsoever. I lost about 25 pounds just changing these meds around. I gave my body the rest I felt like it needed, and wanted to start really slowly so I didn’t try too much at once and hurt myself. Well that was a few months ago and I haven’t really added any weight to what I’ve been doing.

Until today. I added another 40 lbs to the barbell and went for it. And I did it. I was able to squat my ending weight from before the antidepressant switch. This change also made me surpass squatting my body weight. I’m about 118 or 119 pounds and squatted 135. It may not seem like much to most, but it meant a lot to me. Being able to push yourself a little farther and succeed, it’s a really good feeling.

There are a lot of days that don’t go as well. I’ll have a hard time even putting up my warm-up weights. Where I don’t have hardly any energy. And I get down on myself and feel like I failed.

I will fail plenty. Everyone fails. And after I fail, I will learn what needs to be done to overcome my obstacle. I will work harder and I will also be patient with myself. All I can do is work on myself every day and, it’s a hard idea to wrap my head around- not trying to perfect something. No one is perfect. I need to remind myself of all of this. And remind myself that I am still worthy of love, even on days that I fail.

Thanks for reading.

*Also really do recommend watching the documentary Transformer on Netflix.

[blueyesblackminds]

Adversity Makes Us Stronger | T Nation

Like it or not, the truth is that successful people just work harder than less successful people. So drop the excuses, stop blaming others, and get to work. Here’s some motivation.

[kulturismoblog-blog]

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[amariahpage]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNykRfLyZPY)

[slambarskillprs]

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[500fairytales]

Atmosphere is huge but you are largely responsible for creating your own.

Matt Kroc

[e-dumpling]

Responsibility, Hard Work, and Success

Responsibility, Hard Work, and Success by Matt Kroc You must assume all responsibility for everything that's happened or has failed to happen to you. Once you adopt this as a philosophy for governing your life, you become empowered. You see that you and you alone decide your future through the choices you make. This philosophy is the key to unlocking your potential as by doing so you not only assume responsibility, but also control of everything in your life. Successful people choose to learn from adversity and allow it to make them stronger, while weaker people use adversity as a crutch to blame their failures on. Yes, bad things may happen to you that appear to be beyond your control (developing testicular cancer was one such occurrence for me) and you may not always be able to control those instances. But you can always control how you react to them. You can see them as learning experiences and opportunities to grow into something better, or you can use them as excuses that will ultimately hold you back from reaching your true potential and lead you down a path to mediocrity or worse. Believing that my choices directly affect the quality of my life has allowed me to fight through much adversity. As a child, I was surrounded by drinking and drug use and could've easily gone down that path, but I also had many goals. From a very young age I knew that these negative things that surrounded me would only prevent me from achieving what I really wanted. I made a conscious decision, a choice, to avoid them. I also grew up poor, in an area that was rife with poverty, and was led to believe that wealthy people were somehow privileged and that their success was due to some inherent advantages that I didn't have access to. Yet as I matured, I noticed that the harder a person worked, the more successful they were, and usually, successful people just worked harder than less successful people. This relationship between hard work and success not only applied to economics, but also athletics and scholastics. The Greatest Success Factor There are many other factors that play into success, but I believe the single most important factor is hard work. There's no disputing that hard work is a choice that anyone can make, but hard work is difficult. Many would rather make excuses or blame others instead of simply admitting that their lives are substandard because they've chosen the path of least resistance. Every time you overcome something difficult it makes the next challenge that much easier. - Matt Kroc