Fitness

This is an excerpt from Henry Rollin's "The Iron"


"I prefer to work out alone.

It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me. Learning about what you're made of is always time well spent, and I have found no better teacher. The Iron had taught me how to live. Life is capable of driving you out of your mind. The way it all comes down these days, it's some kind of miracle if you're not insane. People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole.

I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to their suburban homes. They stress out constantly, they lose sleep, they eat badly. And they behave badly. Their egos run wild; they become motivated by that which will eventually give them a massive stroke. They need the Iron Mind.

Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.

The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you're a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds."

I have spent a great deal of my young life depressed out of my mind. This quote captures better than I can the ability of the gym to not merely treat the symptoms of depression, but to destroy it entirely.

I have found that the only way for me to progress in physical training is to have your mind training along with it. Nobody ever set a true personal record in the gym without envisioning it in their mind first. Fitness is as much mental as it is physical. Always learn more and more about what you are capable, surprise yourself daily if possible.

My simple rules to Gym success:

1. Have a goal.

2. Have a plan to reach that goal.

3. Followyour plan to exactness to reach the goal.

4. Adapt, Improvise, Overcome when needed.

Current Goal Physique's:

Your true goal physique should be a better version of you, that said, these are basically just guys I admire.

I dont know if my path will lead toward the shreddedness of Curtis, or the Aesthetic of Zyzz, or the true perfection of Zane. But I will always try to meet these goals best I can naturally. 

Aaron Curtis

"Zyzz"

Frank Zane