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Post by The One on Jan 1, 2010 15:27:23 GMT -5
I posted this on my Facebook status...but I wanted to share it here as well. My wife and son bought be a book that I have been skimming: Bruck Lee: The Art of Expressing The Human Body. There is a quote in there by Bruce Lee. I actually want to write the whole paragraph...between a conversation with Bruce and one of his students, Stirling Silliphant: Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We'd run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile [Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-an-a-half minutes per mile]. So this morning he said to me, "We're going to go five." I said, "Bruce, I can't go five. I'm a helluva lot older than you are, and I can't go five." He said, "When we get to three, we'll shift gears and it's only two more and you'll do it." I said, "Okay, hell, I'll go for it." So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and I'm okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out. I'm tired, my heart's pounding, I can't go any more and so I say to him, "Bruce if I run any more," -and we're still running- "if I run any more I'm liable to have a heart attack and die." He said, "Then die." It made me so mad that I went the full five miles. Afterward, I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, you know, "Why did you say that?" He said, "Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level."FU%$ING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by All American Dave on Jan 2, 2010 17:47:18 GMT -5
I posted this on my Facebook status...but I wanted to share it here as well. My wife and son bought be a book that I have been skimming: Bruck Lee: The Art of Expressing The Human Body. There is a quote in there by Bruce Lee. I actually want to write the whole paragraph...between a conversation with Bruce and one of his students, Stirling Silliphant: Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We'd run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile [Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-an-a-half minutes per mile]. So this morning he said to me, "We're going to go five." I said, "Bruce, I can't go five. I'm a helluva lot older than you are, and I can't go five." He said, "When we get to three, we'll shift gears and it's only two more and you'll do it." I said, "Okay, hell, I'll go for it." So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and I'm okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out. I'm tired, my heart's pounding, I can't go any more and so I say to him, "Bruce if I run any more," -and we're still running- "if I run any more I'm liable to have a heart attack and die." He said, "Then die." It made me so mad that I went the full five miles. Afterward, I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, you know, "Why did you say that?" He said, "Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level."FU%$ING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!! I just finished training legs and now I want to go back for more!!!
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Post by bloodstrike75 on Jan 3, 2010 16:53:10 GMT -5
FU%$ING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FU%$ING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!! I just finished training legs and now I want to go back for more!!! Glad you guys liked it! ;D
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Post by parisuk on Jun 25, 2010 18:08:55 GMT -5
That last story was inspirational, about to go do chest and bi's, gonna put the weight through the roof!!!!
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Post by thenaturalone on Mar 17, 2012 17:08:45 GMT -5
Repeat after me- I can achieve anything I set my mind to do, no matter how difficult it is, no matter how much hard work is involved, no matter how long it takes. Yes- I can and I will achieve my goals because I believe with 100% certainty that I can!
-Chad Shaw
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Post by thenaturalone on Mar 28, 2012 18:40:02 GMT -5
REVIEW YOUR GOALS: Success is never accidental. It is the result of having well defined goals, a game plan and bull-dog- like- determination. I own a bull-dog, so I can say from experience that when they are determined to do something, THEY DO IT!
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